![]() Synopsis for The Vampire Diaries: The Awakening (from Goodreads):Įlena: the golden girl, the leader, the one who can have any boy she wants. Similar Reads: Twilight by Stephanie Meyer (Twilight Saga #1) Would I Recommend this Series to a Friend: No, I’d recommend the TV show first! If you want a sexier, danger-filled vampire romance, watch the TV show instead! Unlike the TV show, it’s cheesy and basic in its delivery. But I can appreciate the fact that I can probably thank this series for spawning all of the “better vampire romances” out there. Simply put: I’ve read better vampire romances. (Which is great because anything that encourages reading is fantastic but I feel like it takes away from the original spirit of the series). I don’t like dragged out things and I feel like these spin-off series are just the by-product of the TV show. And I probably won’t ever pick up the books. I enjoyed the TV series way more than I ever did the books so I never felt the need to pick them up. The TV show is the reason I stopped following the book series. I plan to catch up on Netflix this summer. I LOVED the first two seasons of the show but Season 3 just started to get too complicated for me and with school it was hard to keep up with it all. Some of the basic backbones are there but characters have radically different purposes in each. Things as simple as Elena’s list of friends and family are changed and the TV series definitely has a sexier feel. Sure, the basic ideas are there but things are drastically different. The truth of the matter is that it isn’t anything close to the books. I know a lot of people probably watch the TV or watched it (I stopped after season 3) and want to know how close it is to the books. I remember liking one of Elena’s friends more than I liked Elena. They didn’t seem all that complex to me–even brooding, fighting-against-his-nature Stefan. I also wasn’t annoyed with the love triangle because, to me, it wasn’t truly a love triangle it was more a by-product of what was going on plot-wise.Īs for the characters, they weren’t anything that exciting or unique to me. Elena and Stefan’s romance was super cheesy to me and I think it was a product of it’s time (the first Vampire Diaries novel was published in 1991). I’m not sure how many of you have read old romance novels from the late 80s/90s but they are drastically different from the romance novels you get today. What I didn’t really like about the series was the romance. It wasn’t always happy-go-lucky in this series and I liked that. I like how there is a villain and I like that actual dangerous things happen and sometimes they have disastrous consequences. It makes things creepy and darker than some of the other vampire series out there. Yet Vampire Diariesfeatures your blood drinking, bat-changing vampires who are up to no-good. I know that there is lots of disagreements over how vampires are portrayed in books/popular culture but I’ve never really minded these alterations to what I call “modern vampires”. One thing I really loved about Vampire Diariesis that it is a darker series where evil is always lurking. I had the combined volumes I used for the covers for this post so I really have a hard time differentiating the plot of each book because it just seems like one big story–which is what a series is really–but what I’m trying to say is that it is all one big blur so don’t ask me about individual books! ![]() ![]() I can’t remember if I read these books before or after Twilight I’m pretty sure it was after but definitely before the show first aired. There are a number of spin-offs that I have never read…find out why below… Also, I want to be clear that I am only rating the original 4 Vampire Diaries novels. PLEASE NOTE: First and foremost, I read these books a looooonnnngggg time ago. Genre: Young Adult, Paranormal, Romance, Supernatural, Vampires, Magic, Witches # of Books: 4 (The Awakening, The Struggle, The Fury, Dark Reunion) The Wikipedia page for the series has some interesting statements about how this series and the spin-offs are published. There are a number of spin-off series some written by L.J. Series Review: Is this series worth your time? Does it get better as the novels progress? Or does it get worse? Find out below: ![]()
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