Hello! Ok so I’ve been reading books again! It’s been a long time since
I’ve actually read something I wanted to, instead of just something I had to.
And to be honest, I’d almost forgotten what it felt like to be addicted to
books. That feeling you get when you look at the clock and tell yourself “Ok, 30 more
minutes and that’s it.” Only to look back up and realize two hours have gone by.
Or when you get ready for bed and snuggle up with a book intent on finishing
just a single chapter. Only you over did it and realize it’s about to be 1 am,
you’ve already gone through half the book, and you should have been in bed HOURS
ago. Yea...I missed that. LOL!
So, as we all know I’m a big “young adult fiction” lover. More
specifically supernatural stuff. Vampires, Witches, Demons, Magic, Werewolves.
And I’m a sucker for romance. So put those two together and I’m a happy lady.
Now, my goal was to read one or two books a month and then write a “review”
about them. But then I started looking at how everyone else writes reviews, and
realized I can’t do that. So instead, I’m just going to be telling you what I
thought of the books/how they made me feel. But, in not so fancy wording. Ok? So
here goes:
Overview
Elena: the golden girl, the leader,
the one who can have any boy she wants.
Stefan: brooding and mysterious, he seems to be the only
one who can resist Elena, even as he struggles to protect her from the horrors
that haunt his past.
Damon: sexy, dangerous, and driven by an urge for revenge
against Stefan, the brother who betrayed him. Determined to have Elena, he'd
kill to possess her.
Collected here in one volume for the
first time, volumes one and two of The Vampire Diaries, the tale of two vampire
brothers and the beautiful girl torn between
them.
My Review
If you like Twilight, but don’t
like a lot of “emotional” stuff then this book is perfect. We have a very self-centered girl (Elena). A brooding
“I’m-a-monster-that-can’t-be-fixed, but please try” vampire (Stefan). And his douche-bag, “I’m-a-monster-that-can’t-be-fixed, and don’t even think about
trying” brother (Damon). The setting is high school, of course.
The books seem to cover a lot in a
very limited amount of pages. I didn’t feel like I connected at all with any of
the characters (lots covered in a few pages). But the story, even though it’s a bit repeated, was decent. I
found myself on “Team Stefan” throughout the entire book. Elena, on the other hand, annoyed me. I kept asking myself if Stefan and Damon were even “looking” at this
chick or if they were just in love with who she reminded them of? Because
seriously, I would have ditched her a long time ago.
The ending of Volume One was a bit
predictable, but not at the same time. I knew it was something bound to happen,
I just didn’t expect it to be so soon. So that was different. There wasn’t a lot
of “interaction” between the characters. Mostly it was Elena trying to make
herself out to be a victim and a protector all at the same time, with bits and
pieces of vampire “action” thrown in.
Like I said, if you don’t have time
to read four huge novels like the Twilight series these books are perfect. It
definitely has the main character be more of the “selfish” type than I’m
used to but still it was ok. If you watch the TV show, I recommend reading the
books just so you can get the real version of where it originated from but,
don’t expect it to be the same. Even though the main characters were transferred to the screen, that’s as far as it goes with “keeping to the books”.
Rating: ♥ ♥ ♥
That's odd. Just yesterday I watched part of the first episode of the tv show. It was........not my cup of tea. Even though this particular series was written years before Twilight, it just seems like too much of the same thing.High school vampires.....the girl......bleh. But keep these coming! I'm in a book rut and would love to fall in love with a new series....
ReplyDeleteI'm such a supernatural buff! And those books are about as romantic as my life gets. LOL! My husband is so not the "whisper sweet nothings, and get you flowers just because" type. So, I live through the books. Ha!
ReplyDeleteAnd yea, it was pretty similar to Twilight. Or rather, Twilight was very similar to this one. I'm currently on the second volume and it's definitely better than the first one. So, I'm pretty interested to see how the newer books play out.
As for the TV show, I feel like they didn't have a choice but to change it from the books. Otherwise it's be over after the first season. But, I still love it. I will say that the first season of the show I felt was definitely trying too hard, and might have gone a bit "overboard" with the dialogue and plots. I watched a few episodes before we turned our cable off. Then we decided to put it back and I threw myself into the current season. So now, I'm watching it from the beginning (the current season is on hiatus until January) so I can be caught up. It's gotten a lot more...well it has a lot more sexual tension, which I love, but it's also made it to where the viewer is really torn between both of the brothers. Or at least for me it has.
And I promise I won't be reading JUST vampire stuff. I like other books too. These are just the first ones I've gotten my hands on, thanks to my sister-in-law!