Vampire Academy, by Richelle Mead

An update on the old boarding school genre to the era of the supernatural, the girls of Mallory Towers and St Clares might struggle at the Vampire Academy. No midnight feasts or lacrosse games here. Despite its complex vampire politics and frequent violent confrontations, it is still essentially a story of the strong bond between teenage girls. Lissa and Rose have to negotiate peer pressure, snobbery, bullying, boy trouble, oh and murderous relatives. Fans of this series were apparently not keen on the movie version, mainly because of some casting issues, and there is no sign of a movie franchise developing as the books have. This seems a pity, as the books have far more meat than many such, for example the dreary Divergent series.