Another TV show that I (am a little embarrassed to admit) enjoy.
Elena Gilbert, her aunt, and younger sister have all just returned from a summer in Paris after the tragic death of her parents. On the first day of school she sees the new student, handsome and mysterious Stefan Salvatore, and decides that she will have him.
Elena is the perfect high school girl, pretty, popular, cheerleader, so she cannot understand why Stefan insists on ignoring and avoiding her at every opportunity. None of her usual plans work until she throws herself into serious danger during Prom and Stefan is the one who saves her. After that they become inseparable and Elena learns Stefan’s secret – he’s a vampire.
But this is only part of Stefan’s story. Elena becomes more frightened of, yet drawn to Stefan other secrets are revealed. Including the fact that Elena is an exact copy of Stefan’s first love Katherine, who died tragically and also happened to be the vampire that changed him. There’s also the problem of his brother Damon. Stefan and Damon were both in love with Katherine. She changed them both into vampires, and after her death they tried to kill each other then never spoke again. Problem is, Damon has decided that Elena is good enough of a reason for a family reunion.
This book was fun. It is a lot different from the TV show and I think the show is better. Truthfully, if I didn’t like the show I probably would not have liked the book very much. Elena is really a brat and not very likable at times, but it works because that’s how the author presents her and who she’s supposed to be.
This book is really just a set up for the series so I don’t know how closely or completely differently the show’s storyline is from the other books. The show is kind of stupid but fun at the same time, so that’s all I’m hoping for from this series
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