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3.28 AVERAGE
3.28 AVERAGE
Elena Gilbert is just starting her senior year of high school. She is beautiful, popular, and has everything the way she likes it. Until the new boy Steffan Salvatorre doesn't show even the slightest interest in her. He is strange and mysterious and has a dark past. So Elena decides she will do anything to be with him. As strange attacks and deaths happen in the quaint town Elena comes closer and closer to danger.
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Honestly, the characters felt flat, under-developed, and just not interesting. I wanted to read the book just because it seemed like one of those I should read as not just a reader but a writer. It's a solid book for the supernatural tropes and genre that it is, but only in that sense. Other issues that I mentioned above just drove the book to be bland for me.
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Honestly, the characters felt flat, under-developed, and just not interesting. I wanted to read the book just because it seemed like one of those I should read as not just a reader but a writer. It's a solid book for the supernatural tropes and genre that it is, but only in that sense. Other issues that I mentioned above just drove the book to be bland for me.
medium-paced
Strong character development:
No
Loveable characters:
No
Diverse cast of characters:
No
The show was better
well.... thank god I got this book for free.
I hated every character in this book, they're all petty and pretty much childish. The constant fight between Elena and Caroline was uninteresting and juvenile. Damon/ Stephen were the stereotypes of vampires and the stereotypes of brothers. The fact that Elena falls in love with him in barely two days and agrees to get married in barely two weeks is unsettling. Nobody does that. AND Stephen doesn't give a crap about her, he is still in love with the other girl whatever her name is.
The plot.... is based on two girls fighting for a diary and two boys fighting for a girl. That's how uninteresting the plot is..
And idk if it is because of the translation, but the writing style has nothing particular, nothing stands out and the action is barely interesting.
I hated every character in this book, they're all petty and pretty much childish. The constant fight between Elena and Caroline was uninteresting and juvenile. Damon/ Stephen were the stereotypes of vampires and the stereotypes of brothers. The fact that Elena falls in love with him in barely two days and agrees to get married in barely two weeks is unsettling. Nobody does that. AND Stephen doesn't give a crap about her, he is still in love with the other girl whatever her name is.
The plot.... is based on two girls fighting for a diary and two boys fighting for a girl. That's how uninteresting the plot is..
And idk if it is because of the translation, but the writing style has nothing particular, nothing stands out and the action is barely interesting.
Really good exept for the end. It doesn't really make sense at the end, You dont know what happened to Elena.
Where to even begin...
Admittedly, I came to the series after watching the show on the CW and I am fanatically in love with the show. As with any book turned show/movie, you can expect some differences, but this was night and day. So much so, that I can honestly say only the framework made it to the show.
Beautiful, popular girl meets dark, brooding stranger and upheaval ensues.
The book suffers from more than a few fatal flaws. The characters lack any semblance of depth. Each character falls into a predictable stereotype: Elena, the spoiled, selfish, rich girl; Matt, the sweet and gullible "good guy"; Caroline, bitchy rival to the throne; Stefan, the damaged hero; Bonnie, the sweet and fluffy side-kick. Not a single character has more dimension than a sheet of paper.
There is virtually no plot. Each chapter feels like a series of poorly connected vignettes. The storyline progressed linearly, but there was no cohesive, overarching plot line. The story lacks depth and emotion, the characters are never developed, never given room to become more than caricatures.
If you can't care about the characters and you can't care about the story line, what is the purpose of reading the series? Which is exactly why I'll be staying away from the rest of this series.
Admittedly, I came to the series after watching the show on the CW and I am fanatically in love with the show. As with any book turned show/movie, you can expect some differences, but this was night and day. So much so, that I can honestly say only the framework made it to the show.
Beautiful, popular girl meets dark, brooding stranger and upheaval ensues.
The book suffers from more than a few fatal flaws. The characters lack any semblance of depth. Each character falls into a predictable stereotype: Elena, the spoiled, selfish, rich girl; Matt, the sweet and gullible "good guy"; Caroline, bitchy rival to the throne; Stefan, the damaged hero; Bonnie, the sweet and fluffy side-kick. Not a single character has more dimension than a sheet of paper.
There is virtually no plot. Each chapter feels like a series of poorly connected vignettes. The storyline progressed linearly, but there was no cohesive, overarching plot line. The story lacks depth and emotion, the characters are never developed, never given room to become more than caricatures.
If you can't care about the characters and you can't care about the story line, what is the purpose of reading the series? Which is exactly why I'll be staying away from the rest of this series.
This was a fun and nostalgic read, but the teenage drama was too popularity contest and boy crazy heavy for me to fully enjoy. If I read it as a teen I'm sure I would have given it 5 stars
This book series is the one of the best I have ever read. If you have read twilight you will completely love this book series even more. I actually read Vampire Diaries first and read Twilight to fill in the time between the series cause I had to wait for the next one to come out into stores. Honestly just READ IT!
It's been a long long time since I've read this, but during my vampire phase following Twilight in middle school, I remember reading this and not liking Elena at all. I found (esp. the first book) to be too shallow--too much high school drama. I didn't start getting into the book until the end of the 2nd book and onto the 3rd and 4th.
The television show is one of my guilty pleasures, so I decided I would go back and see how the books influenced it and it was........ a horrible decision honestly??? It was insipid, it was stupid, the pacing and characters were all horrible, there was an insane lack of diversity. It read like a bad fanfiction. I feel like I wasted my time reading it.