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Return: NightfallThe Vampire Diaries

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I didn't like the majority, Especially the foxes Malach. Way to dark for me all the weird things that happed,

Plus point, Damon caring for his Little Red Bird,
And the ending! Whoop can't wait for more Damon/Elena! oh god i cant tell you how bad this book was, it was SO BAD!!i had to keep forcing myself to read it, it was that bad i dont know what smith was thinking she should have stopped writing these books and left it as it was, Elena sacrifced herself for a good cause, there was no point to bringing her back.
Egh just egh the story line was really really shit watch out everyone for contain spoiler EVIL PARACITES that will get into your head and mess you up! oh andf evil foxes/people/things that are brother and sister but act like they are in love with each other say what!!! Yer it gets worse, stefan getting off on Elenas blood which is soo good cause shes got spiritual powers!!! Stupid, stupid book!!!! Pretty good.
It was fun to dive back into this world, If you are this far in the series than you know by now that the books are nothing like the TV series, And going into that knowing that makes the books a lot more fun,

The page count on these jumped out from the first, Almostpages for this one, It seems a bit daunting, but the book was entertaining so it didn't feel that long, There is a lot going on with tons of action and suspense, Some real creepiness this time too, When Elena sacrificed herself to save the two vampire brothers who love herthe handsome, brooding Stefan and the sleek and dangerous Damon, she was consigned to a fate beyond death until a powerful supernatural force pulled her back.
Now Elena is not just human, She has powers and gifts that were bestowed on her in the afterlife, What's more, her blood pulses with an overwhelming and unique force that makes her blood irresistible to any vampire,

I'm not going to sugar coat anything, This book was awful. Now I will agree that sometimes a book can start out slow and redeem itself by the end, Sometimes a book can have a great beginning but fall flat, But this book never took off, I was confused and annoyed by the silliness from the beginning and it got worse from there,

To be honest, I did not finish the book, I read half way and threw it down in disgust, It's a book thats pretending to be a scifi work that uses anime as a reference, Its made up of pages and pages of scenes and conversations that go nowhere, chapters that end in odd places, changes in POV that shift for no discernible reason.


It seems like LJ Smith has been cooped up in the house with every season of Sailor Moon for the pastyears, The villains are kitsune twins, who look like Pokemon and act like Team Rocket, spout stereotypical Japanese words, and seem to generally fail at being anything other than vaguely annoying and really attractive.
Or how about this harsher description: Evil Japanese twins that are incestuous, sadistic, and absolutely ridiculous cartoonish would be accurate,

Then there are suddenly random Japanese families in Fell's Church who, of course, randomly provide clues, I'm suspecting Smith of some cultural racism because these characters border on parodies of Japanese people and folklore, Lastly, Elena's healing and flying powers all have thematic names, which she yells out as she's executing them: “Wings of Purification!” and “Wings of Redemption!" Cue anime music please.


Did I forget to mention the angry sentient trees

from the angry Old Wood that has suddenly appeared in Fell's Church as though it's been there all along And giant invisible insects made of jello that seems to be causing a rash of possessions in Fell's Church

As for this being a more "adult" L.
J. SmithI could not disagree more, Gratuitous violence and sophomoric sexual overtones do not an "adult" novel make, "Adult" indicates a depth and maturity that exists nowhere on these pages, Instead we are forced to endure absurd musings over lingerie while someone is dying, euphemisms for sex that are utterly juvenile, and implications about sexuality that are at best offensive and at worst irresponsible.
All of it is as far removed from the very adult, very subtle themes of the original series as to be absurd, In ”Nightfall The Vampire Diaries: The Return,”, there was no deeper meaning or affect, and I felt like I was watching a little kid curse for the first time and giggle.



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Book Details:

Title Nightfall The Vampire Diaries: The Return,
Author L, J. Smith
ed By Purplycookie I am so saddened by this novel, I have been an avid LJS fan sinceand my favorite series is The Vampire Diaries, I loved the characters and the story, This was a jumble of words that literally made NO sense,
There were concepts that did not hold true to the original series such as the vampire powers and characters were doing things they would never do, Perhaps this should not have been written in Damon's POV, whatsoever, It RUINED him. Ghosty Elena Lovely love love Mutt The hell!

Anyway, I have not finished this book, I will, but I need to set it aside, I can't even read it for a good laugh or snark, It's just SO bad. This book has the pleasure of joining only one other novel on my pickupsetdown shelf, as of the date of this review Well, I doubt any of the plotlines in this installment of the Vampire Diaries series will be making it to the TV show anytime soon.
Because this book was ridiculous,

At the end of the last book, Elena had been turned into a vampire, then killed, then brought back from the dead six months after actually dying.
Now she is some kind of borderline ghost/angel, She doesn't remember how to talk, and she floats, and has healing powers, Everything's great except Caroline is acting very weird and Damon got bit by something in a tree and suddenly all hell breaks loose, Stefan disappears, and trees are attacking people, and girls are either turning into insects or flailing about mostly naked and piercing themselves,

It was all so silly and over the top, Apparently, some random Japanese fox demons named Shinishi and Misao were drawn to Fell's Church because of Elena's weird powers, What, there were no demons who lived geographically closer Elena also annoyed the crap out of me here, First she can't speak so she's all mewling like a kitten, while Stefan is helpless to resist her, Every time he called her "lovely little love" I wanted to barf, I was almost thankful when he was kidnapped off to another dimension, Then suddenly Elena's an angel with all these powers and Wings of Redemption And while Damon was possessed through half the book, I didn't understand how he could be so completely blind to the fact that he was possessed.
He went from evil to maybenotevil so many times I couldn't keep it straight, Matt, Meredith, and Bonnie were the most superfluous characters ever, Bonnie was like their psychic cellphone, And suddenly there's a drink that vampires can conjure up out of the air, in a wine glass no less, that will sate their thirst for blood How convenient.


Probably as a teenager I might have enjoyed the crazy plot twists, and I gave this two because I did feel the need to finish it.
But obviously I will not be reading the rest of the Vampire Diaries: The Return series, .