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The Vampire Diaries: The Awakening and the Struggle
by L.J. Smith
I knew when the Vampire Diaries came to TV that it as based on a book series. Generally I try to read books before I watch a TV show/movie, but do to time and other constraints, I decided to check out the television show without reading the books first, in great part due to the casting. I will say that I do really enjoy the television show and I knew that changes had been made from the books to fit the television format, but I decided it was time to check out the books and see where it all started.
The world of young adult literature is vast and full of many wonderful choices. Many of these are of a paranormal/sci fi genre, vampires filling a very large percentage of these books. Each one has a different take on vampire history/lore. All of that is fine, as long as the characters are interesting, the plot is engaging, and the pace of the story moves along.
It took a few pages for me to push the images of the television show out of my mind and just let the book create the characters and let the story flow. Even after doing this, I found these two books to be very lacking. The characters were very 2 dimensional, very predictable, and not all that interesting. I found the story to lag as there was a great deal of filler material. It almost seemed like the author wanted to hit word quote/target number of pages. I think these two books would have been better either as short stories, or one book. I found myself skimming over multiple sections of these two books.
I will probably check out more books in this series over time, as I have down time in my to read pile, but they are not books I am rushing to get the one.
The world of young adult literature is vast and full of many wonderful choices. Many of these are of a paranormal/sci fi genre, vampires filling a very large percentage of these books. Each one has a different take on vampire history/lore. All of that is fine, as long as the characters are interesting, the plot is engaging, and the pace of the story moves along.
It took a few pages for me to push the images of the television show out of my mind and just let the book create the characters and let the story flow. Even after doing this, I found these two books to be very lacking. The characters were very 2 dimensional, very predictable, and not all that interesting. I found the story to lag as there was a great deal of filler material. It almost seemed like the author wanted to hit word quote/target number of pages. I think these two books would have been better either as short stories, or one book. I found myself skimming over multiple sections of these two books.
I will probably check out more books in this series over time, as I have down time in my to read pile, but they are not books I am rushing to get the one.