Book Soundtracks

Vampire Academy Soundtracks

In the book Vampire Academy, the protagonist, Rosemarie Hathaway is a rebel who refuses to do anything she's told. Rose highly dislikes her trainer Dimitri Belikov because she believes he's always unfair, so she does her best to annoy him and break all of his rules. Rose always comes off as a badass who can't be tamed, therefore I chose the song "So What" by Pink to describe her personality. This song represents Rose in the fact that she's a badass who doesn't need anyone, and will refuse to follow any rules.
“Dimitri: "She might be wild and disrespectful, but if she has potential—"
Rose: "Wild and disrespectful? Who the hell are you anyway? Outsourced help?"
Kirova: "Guardian Belikov is the Princess Lisa's guardian now, her sanctioned guardian."
Rose: "You got cheap foreign labor to protect Lisa?” This is how the conversation went when Rose and Dimitri first met.

There is a part on the book where Dimitri tells Rose that they can never be together because they both have to protect Lisa. I decided that the music piece "Clair De Lune" by Claude Debussy would best fit this scene, mainly because both Rose and Dimitri deeply care about each other, and this music piece has a slow, peaceful, and loving tune.
"Dimitri: "You and I will both be Lisa's guardians someday. I need to protect her at all cost. If a pack of Strigoi come, I need to throw my body between them and her."
Rose: "I know that. Of course that's what you have to do." The black sparkles were dancing in front of my eyes again. I was fading out. 
Dimitri: "No. If I let myself love you, I won't throw myself in front of her. I'll throw myself in front of you."" 

The climax of this book was definitely when Vasilisa gets kidnapped by her uncle Victor Dashkov. Lisa unconditionally loved her uncle, he was the only family she had left, besides Rosemarie. Sadly Victor was sick and was determined to die sooner or later. Victor found out that Lisa was a spirit user and decided to kidnap her so she could heal him whenever he wanted her to do so, so he could rule, so he could be king. The song that reminds me of this situation is "Burn It Down" by Linkin Park, this song is connected to the story because it talks about having power and using it for your own gain, it's about being selfish.

Lisa sees people by who they truly are, since she's a spirit user it's quite easy for her to understand everyone. At times Lisa feels like her world is crumbling down because authority nowadays let's her down, and has failed at being fair when it comes to justice. I chose the song "Kings and Queens" by 30 Seconds To Mars because In my opinion this song is about how some people see what happening, but most don't. We've failed as "kings and queens" for being selfish and destructive, we've blown it and now that God has spoken, the end is near, he expected more from us, therefore we'll have to repeat the lessons that we've learned over and over till our "Spirit" learns the right way to life.

Rose feels like she has to be perfect all the time, mostly because Dimitri always tells her that she's childish and needs to learn how to properly act in public because she doesn't only damage her image, but also Lisa's. Another reason why Rose feels this way is because her mom is one of the best guardians out there, so Rose thinks that she has to be like her too, but better. I think that the song "Perfect" by Pink relates to this song the most but in a positive way because Rose eventually does feel like she's enough, but she was always put down by others, including most of her teachers, including Dimitri.