Amazing book! Easy read, interesting, and suspencfull! Read it! ( )

Elena, a snotty high school senior is a attracted to the new boy Stefan - not knowing he's a vampire - and can't believe that he doesn't give her the time of day. Stefan is tormented about his existence, made more so because his brother Damon celebrates their vampiric lifestyle. Unfortunately, the characters were either flat or annoying and it was hard to care about what happened to them. ( )

Good story line but the characters weren't fleshed out enough. It's a young adult book but seriously......will read the rest tho' ( )

I will admit that I only read this book because of the TV show. I am one of those that will always try out the originating story no matter what. I actually read this on my phone, as part of a new application I downloaded that allowed me to download the book for free. It was my first experience reading a book in an e-format, and it did take me some time to get used to having to scroll down constantly. However, I found myself completely sucked into the story and breezed through the book in what I feel is a record amount of time - complete losses of time while reading.



As with a lot of what I've been reading lately, this isn't going to win any awards. The audience is definitely a teenage one, filled with the misunderstood homecoming queen, the brooding new high school hunk, the mysterious bad boy. It's a quintessential teenage story, but again, I'm not going to hold that against it.



I found that I couldn't scroll down fast enough. There really was something compelling about the animosity between Damon and Stefan. Ms. Smith kept me wanting to read more, only because I was impatient to find out who triumphs in this battle. She takes the word "cliffhanger" to an entire new level and could definitely give Suzanne Collins a run for her money on abrupt endings. It is a very effective plot device that had me downloading the next book immediately upon finishing the previous one.



The first two books in the Vampire Diaries series were light reads but extremely enjoyable. It's already taken so many different twists and turns that it is not your typical teenage vampire drama. I find myself waffling between the good vampire and the bad vampire, which only keeps me engaged. I would recommend this to any vampire lovers out there and can't wait to finish the series. ( )

oh my God. I thought Edward Cullin was my least favorite vampire. there is nothing worse than teen angst and vampire guilt combined. So your no longer human, get over it ( )