The Vampire Diaries: The Awakening: Book 1

I've watched vampire diaries on TV and have them on dvd and recently I decided to read them. Now the whole book in my opinion is different from the TV programme but I like it. It took me a while to accept the book having watched it on TV but it's a good read just it's a shame that I read the book after I watched it on TV because I already have the TV version in my head when reading the books. But it's all good just a little hard to grasp the book afterwards.

OK. Know this book series is for teenager's, however I just love the series. Just couldn't put it down. It is a easy read, well written. Didn't want to put it down.Elena Gilbert and her friends just want to get through the school year, but things seem to go a bit wrong for them when they meet Stefan Salvatore and his brother Damon. The brothers have a shadowy past which Elena gets tangled up in. For the brothers is the past going to repeat itself.

I also started to watch the tv series before reading the books and have to say that I love both in their own way.I wanted to give the books a go and try not to go into them comparing them to the twilight series as so many people seem to do, for a start these books were written years before twilight came along and both have wonderful qualities and hold up in their own right.I am really glad that I did give them a chance, I am not a teenager by far but still am enjoying these books very much, it might take a little while to warm to the slightly more selfish (and blonde) Elena of the books but as I find with most books where they have been made into either a tv series or a film that the book is far more emotional and definitely more detailed.Give them a chance you won't be disappointed, but I would start reading them with an open mind and no pre-expectations and just enjoy them for the good read that they are.

This book was described as ‘very good’ conditionAs you can see buy the pictures it definitely was not very good, more like poor conditionWould not recommend

The books are NOTHING like the series. Completely different. Meredith does not exist in the TV series, Bonnie is a redhead, Elena a blonde, Caroline's a bitch and Jeremy is a female toddler. Not only are the characters different, but the story of the books are a lot more fantasy-like. HOWEVER I find this to be a great difference because reading the books I still get the great TVD story feel without spoiling the TV series.In other words, if you haven't read this and you like the TV series I encourage you to read this. It's a really great series of books. Fantasy, love and eternal friendship!