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jordanthebookwitch's review against another edition
3.0
*emotional spoilers*
I'M GOING TO DIE T-T If I don't naturally, someone kill me, please.
I'M GOING TO DIE T-T If I don't naturally, someone kill me, please.
wolvy's review against another edition
1.0
And the series gets worse and worse and I still have a prequel trilogy and a yet to be released trilogy yuck
deliriousdisquisitions's review against another edition
5.0
i will not read this book..i will not read this book...god no matter what happenes i will NOT read this book!!coz if i even take a little ppek inside i'll get totally sucked in and then i will reach the end where i will surely die of heartache!!i cant read this!!its too damn painfull!!
.........Aaaaaaannnnnnnnddddd I read it -_-
hereswhy i think no i know that dalena should rule:
ok so i agree that stfan and elena were necessary in the first trilogy...he needed to thaw the ice around her and show her the true meaning of love and compassion..and so i know she needed him in the first 3 books...besides damon was being a jerk and kept pulling off the "you are my princess of darkness "crap!!having said that i think damon and elenas character has evloved a lot since then..
elena's not a cold heartless bitch anymore....and damon's learnt the meaning of love and compassion..
its prettey obvious from the last couple of books that damon loves elena from every fiber of his being...for gods sake he got wipped for her!!he eve went with her to save stefan knowing that she will end up with him anyways..he choose her happiness over his..GOD what else does a guy have to do to get someone to love them?
not only this i also believe that damon loves elena for who she is..he loves her fire,her spirit,her passion..he knows shes not wholly an angel..he knows her good and bad and loves her for that..
frankly i dont think stefan sees her like that.he always sees her as a fragile flower...he keeps calling her "lovely little love" for gods sake!!!!!he dosent acknowledge her fire,her streangth,..he still thinks shes fragile and delicate like kathreen.frankly sometimes i really think hes in love with kathreens image more than elena..he still thinks elenas kathreen..he dosent understand she dosent need to be protected.damon lets her test her strenght and weekness..God even a blind person can see they belong together!!
damon should end up with elena.,stefan can be human,and bonnie can be with matt.stefan will move out of the way because he will see that he xant compete with the allcomsuming love damon holds for elena...he will give his blessings..damon will be awed that she will choose someone like him and he will strive to be worthy of her love and he will love her for eternity.and they will all live happily ever after!!the end!!!!
unless some similar ending takes place in the books in the future i will not read this or any of her books again!!
.........Aaaaaaannnnnnnnddddd I read it -_-
hereswhy i think no i know that dalena should rule:
ok so i agree that stfan and elena were necessary in the first trilogy...he needed to thaw the ice around her and show her the true meaning of love and compassion..and so i know she needed him in the first 3 books...besides damon was being a jerk and kept pulling off the "you are my princess of darkness "crap!!having said that i think damon and elenas character has evloved a lot since then..
elena's not a cold heartless bitch anymore....and damon's learnt the meaning of love and compassion..
its prettey obvious from the last couple of books that damon loves elena from every fiber of his being...for gods sake he got wipped for her!!he eve went with her to save stefan knowing that she will end up with him anyways..he choose her happiness over his..GOD what else does a guy have to do to get someone to love them?
not only this i also believe that damon loves elena for who she is..he loves her fire,her spirit,her passion..he knows shes not wholly an angel..he knows her good and bad and loves her for that..
frankly i dont think stefan sees her like that.he always sees her as a fragile flower...he keeps calling her "lovely little love" for gods sake!!!!!he dosent acknowledge her fire,her streangth,..he still thinks shes fragile and delicate like kathreen.frankly sometimes i really think hes in love with kathreens image more than elena..he still thinks elenas kathreen..he dosent understand she dosent need to be protected.damon lets her test her strenght and weekness..God even a blind person can see they belong together!!
damon should end up with elena.,stefan can be human,and bonnie can be with matt.stefan will move out of the way because he will see that he xant compete with the allcomsuming love damon holds for elena...he will give his blessings..damon will be awed that she will choose someone like him and he will strive to be worthy of her love and he will love her for eternity.and they will all live happily ever after!!the end!!!!
unless some similar ending takes place in the books in the future i will not read this or any of her books again!!
ellaray236's review against another edition
adventurous
dark
emotional
tense
medium-paced
- Plot- or character-driven? A mix
- Strong character development? Yes
- Loveable characters? Yes
- Diverse cast of characters? It's complicated
- Flaws of characters a main focus? Yes
4.5
lanaerae's review against another edition
2.0
This arrived on my Kindle the day it came out (March 15, 2011). I was excited though I had been disappointed with this arc, line of the Vampire Diaries, whatever you want to call it... The Return stuff... Still it was the Vampire Diaries and aspects of it were okay here and there. I'd still read them quickly. Give them the benefit of the doubt. I'd hope L.J. Smith would re-find her Vampire Diaries groove.
Nope. It's taken me until today (June 16, 2011) to finish it. That's bad, I never have that issue as I only buy books I think I'll at least like a little. I can't give this line within the series credit any longer. There were fewer and fewer clever aspects. More and more bad, unreadable aspects. There were story lines within it that seemed rushed and all over the place when they should have been slow and carefully explained and others that seemed to have a billion details for no reason as there was absolutely nothing going on.
I do really really hope L.J. Smith finds whatever is broken here before working on her other series. I was anxious to read the next Night World, even with how disappointed I'd been in the last few Vampire Diaries she'd written. After this one... Ugh, I'm way more nervous about that. I can only hope that she had gotten burnt out on this series / was being rushed due to the tv show causing a new interest in these books / something. I know she was "fired" from this series. As much as I hate to say this, being these were her babies, it's the best thing to have happened to them. The Stefan's Diaries series which was written by someone else is so much better - to the point I stopped reading this to read it and several other books before dragging myself back to this one as I felt I HAD to finish it just because I'd bought it and it was the Vampire Diaries.
If you're on the fence about this one - skip it. It will surely be recapped in the next book and that will be written by someone else.
The only reason I can even bring myself to give it the 2 stars is because somehow in this mess there are a few really good 5 star passages... mixed in with a mostly 1 star book. Had those rare sections not been included, this would be a very very rare 1 star for me. As it is 2 stars is rare for me and with how much I love this series I hate doing it. I just can't stretch the credit for L.J. any longer, sorry.
Nope. It's taken me until today (June 16, 2011) to finish it. That's bad, I never have that issue as I only buy books I think I'll at least like a little. I can't give this line within the series credit any longer. There were fewer and fewer clever aspects. More and more bad, unreadable aspects. There were story lines within it that seemed rushed and all over the place when they should have been slow and carefully explained and others that seemed to have a billion details for no reason as there was absolutely nothing going on.
I do really really hope L.J. Smith finds whatever is broken here before working on her other series. I was anxious to read the next Night World, even with how disappointed I'd been in the last few Vampire Diaries she'd written. After this one... Ugh, I'm way more nervous about that. I can only hope that she had gotten burnt out on this series / was being rushed due to the tv show causing a new interest in these books / something. I know she was "fired" from this series. As much as I hate to say this, being these were her babies, it's the best thing to have happened to them. The Stefan's Diaries series which was written by someone else is so much better - to the point I stopped reading this to read it and several other books before dragging myself back to this one as I felt I HAD to finish it just because I'd bought it and it was the Vampire Diaries.
If you're on the fence about this one - skip it. It will surely be recapped in the next book and that will be written by someone else.
The only reason I can even bring myself to give it the 2 stars is because somehow in this mess there are a few really good 5 star passages... mixed in with a mostly 1 star book. Had those rare sections not been included, this would be a very very rare 1 star for me. As it is 2 stars is rare for me and with how much I love this series I hate doing it. I just can't stretch the credit for L.J. any longer, sorry.
juushika's review against another edition
2.0
Across two dimensions, Elena et al. make their final push to save Fell's Church. I picked up this series because of the Jenny Nicholson video about the show, but specifically because of the quote she pulls from the fanwiki about Bonnie and Damon's relationship. I'm delighted that the series lives up to the conflicted, garbled poetry of that synopsis. The relationships are, as ever, a bombastic mess; and there's canonical proto-polyamory in this book. Amazing. Not good, I mean, obviously; and subject always to revision as Smith chases her id-of-the book.
The mess and bombast don't translated well outside the romances, and this is poorly paced and full of unbelievable characterization, and I just don't care about the Dark Dimension or the antagonists of this arc (blame that on the awkward Japanophilia). So far, only the first three Vampire Diaries books have actually been worth reading. But the rest are worth hearing in summary. That renders the madness of the plot at least entertaining; and, excised from plot, there's so much potential and intrigue and intensity in the relationships. An "indescribable, electrifying, and magnetic connection." Bonnie is Damon's weak spot, his only tenderness, in an antihero forming one leg of an even messier love triangle-turned-complex-polygon! There's a lot of blood drinking and psychic bonding! Don't you want to read that? I mean, you really shouldn't; but don't you want to?
The mess and bombast don't translated well outside the romances, and this is poorly paced and full of unbelievable characterization, and I just don't care about the Dark Dimension or the antagonists of this arc (blame that on the awkward Japanophilia). So far, only the first three Vampire Diaries books have actually been worth reading. But the rest are worth hearing in summary. That renders the madness of the plot at least entertaining; and, excised from plot, there's so much potential and intrigue and intensity in the relationships. An "indescribable, electrifying, and magnetic connection." Bonnie is Damon's weak spot, his only tenderness, in an antihero forming one leg of an even messier love triangle-turned-complex-polygon! There's a lot of blood drinking and psychic bonding! Don't you want to read that? I mean, you really shouldn't; but don't you want to?
malefica's review against another edition
adventurous
challenging
dark
emotional
mysterious
fast-paced
4.5
lyraggs's review against another edition
3.0
Bien. Son un poco pesados pero los momentos dulces me encantan.
La muerte para muchos y raros acontecimientos pero al final tenemos un final muy cliché.
Stefan ama a Elena de una manera noble y tierna. Damon la ama porque son muy similares, la única mujer que no puede manipular y la pasión que desprenden juntos. Elena los ama a los dos pero la autora no fabrica bien su personalidad porque nos quiere vender a este corazón divido en dos, amoroso que daría todo por ellos pero lo que tenemos es a una hipócrita y muy egoísta persona, Elena es simplemente egoísta y un tanto per**, no se merece a ninguno de los Salvatore.
El libro es entretenido pero aún le falta ese toque que te haga querer releerlo y amarlo.
La muerte para muchos y raros acontecimientos pero al final tenemos un final muy cliché.
Stefan ama a Elena de una manera noble y tierna. Damon la ama porque son muy similares, la única mujer que no puede manipular y la pasión que desprenden juntos. Elena los ama a los dos pero la autora no fabrica bien su personalidad porque nos quiere vender a este corazón divido en dos, amoroso que daría todo por ellos pero lo que tenemos es a una hipócrita y muy egoísta persona, Elena es simplemente egoísta y un tanto per**, no se merece a ninguno de los Salvatore.
El libro es entretenido pero aún le falta ese toque que te haga querer releerlo y amarlo.
sydspages's review against another edition
adventurous
dark
emotional
tense
medium-paced
3.5
Best book in the Return trilogy in my opinion but it is still far from a masterpiece. It wasn’t great but then I found myself needing to know what happened next.
My love for Damon & Bonnie carried me through this book & wish we got more time with both of them. I was pleasantly surprised there were some twists I didn’t see coming, with one or two that I did.
I’ve noticed in the last few books there are random scenes that are inserted that happen but then are never talked about again & we never see the characters again? I just wish there was more thought into the book instead of randomly adding fluff.
My love for Damon & Bonnie carried me through this book & wish we got more time with both of them. I was pleasantly surprised there were some twists I didn’t see coming, with one or two that I did.
I’ve noticed in the last few books there are random scenes that are inserted that happen but then are never talked about again & we never see the characters again? I just wish there was more thought into the book instead of randomly adding fluff.