Book Review: The Awakening (Vampire Diaries)

Wow this book is bad. At first is was somewhat bearable, somewhat interesting, but the story never actually picked up and the characters never really developed.

There is some difference between this and the tv show, which was to be expected, but I didn't think it'd be quite so different. While the show is intense and mysterious, this book is just boring. Nothing happens. We basically listen to Elena whine for 9/10 of the book about how Stefan is ignoring her. I'm sorry, but that's not very interesting.

The characters are completely one-dimensional and unsympathetic. I never really cared what they were up to, which I really should, as the reader of a book. The protagonists were boring and whiny, and the antagonist was so one-dimensionally evil that he didn't even seem real.

This book just reeked of sloppy writing, which I can only attribute to the fact that it was written in the 90's, well before YA became a best-selling genre. It's like the author didn't think readers could follow a well-thought-out plotline or appreciate well-crafted characters.

I'm morbidly curious to see what the next book in the series is like, but I will probably be just as disappointed. We'll see if I decide to pick it up or not to find out. Lol.

I give this book 1 out of 5 stars.

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