Review of Heirs of the Night

I got interested in this series because of the books written by Ulrike Schweikert. Nothing of the original story remained except for the names of the main characters and the vampire families. In the books the heirs of the remaining vampire clans spend a schoolyear in each of the family's home country/ city to learn the specific abilities of each clan, which is changed into a "schools-ship" in the tv series. I'm almost always disappointed when books i like get transferred to another medium but this unfortunately another case, without the books in mind it is just another generic vampire/ dracula story sans the original appeal.