A review by madiganinwonderland
The Vampire Diaries: The Awakening and the Struggle by L.J. Smith

1.0

Holy shit what the fuck is this lol. This is living breathing walking proof I had absolutely no taste as a teen and literally loved everything I read. What the shit is this??
Holy fuck. Elena is just terrible and if she was a guy she'd be labeled a predatory manipulative creep. How is this even ok? She's just awful like that's her whole personality, to be awful.
I can't believe I'm saying this but this is worse than twilight. I literally read this to shit on twilight being like "oh yeah look at all Steph copied from this in her 'dream'" but bro... It's so trash. Omfg. The plot is like nothing. The characters I could fuck less about. I'm literally not even done with the audiobook and I don't wanna finish lol. I'm just done. I was gonna read the whole series but there's no way. Even if the writing got better, Smith has ruined the characters and plot too much already. And I can't bring myself to care enough to waste my time.
Wow just awful. Terrible. Don't read this if you're considering it. Let it die back in the 90s/00s where I should have left it.