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The Vampire Diaries: The Awakening | 
| Author: L. J. Smith
Publisher: HarperTeen
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Media: Paperback
Edition: Rev Mti
Reading Level: Young Adult
Pages: 272
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ISBN: 0061963860
EAN: 9780061963865
ASIN: 0061963860
Publication Date: September 1, 2009
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A deadly love triangle Elena: beautiful and popular, the girl who can have any guy she wants. Stefan: brooding and mysterious, desperately trying to resist his desire for Elena . . . for her own good. Damon: sexy, dangerous, and driven by an urge for revenge against Stefan, the brother who betrayed him. Elena finds herself drawn to both brothers . . . who will she choose?
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 The Vampire Diaries March 19, 2010
Mildred S. Yip (Brooklyn, New York, USA)
I am enjoying the TV series and would love to read the books, but can someone list the books in order? Haven't been successful in finding the list in order so that I can purchase accordingly and follow along. . . Thanks.
top notch vampire novel for teens! March 11, 2010
J. Thomas (USA)
Originally posted on [...]
High school can be a pain. If you're a vampire, it sucks. If you're a girl whose in love with said vampire... well, it can be the pits. But then again, if life were easy, what would a high school kid have to complain about?
Sound like your life? A little? Then you need to read The Vampire Diaries: The Awakening.
I know, I know. This story is on the television. It is, but I have to tell you, reading the book is much better than just watching it. Many stories lose something when they go from the written page to the small screen. This is one of those stories.
Elena has a lot of dimension beyond being a pretty high school senior. She's smart, but she's also nosy. I liked her adventurous spirit, although at first, I wasn't real thrilled with her almost callous approach to her boyfriend. But then again, who is totally nice all the time when dealing with a pest? High school kids can identify with her actions.
Stefan and Damon are a great tag team in that both are handsome, damned, and enigmatic. You want to see Stefan get with Elena. The struggle to overcome evil and desire is interesting, but a little adult for some 'tween readers. Still, there is the expected drama of high school... the bullies, the drama queens, and then the paranormal happenings around them.
You feel like you're in the story with them and watching them grow is like watching your friends come of age. Once you read this book, you'll want the second and third installments, it's that good.
If you like vampires and the strife of the teen years, then you need to read The Vampire Diaries: The Awakening. You don't regret it. I give this book 4 suns.
 The Awakening Vampire Dairies March 10, 2010
Debora Y. Schafer (Australia)
I loved this book, it is better than the TV series although I love that as well. There is alot more happening in the book, you almost wish you were there in it. I love the way Stephan is a stronger vampire in this book and he is using humans for blood, in the TV series he never does that.
I would love to see the books over here in Australia......
 Reading with Tequila January 30, 2010
Jennifer Sicurella (New Jersey, USA)
1 out of 1 found this review helpful
The Awakening is your average vampire novel. Everything was heating up nicely and it looked like the book was going to be some thing to get excited about. Elena is self-centered. Stephen is a tortured soul. Damon is sadistic. Put the three of them together and watch the fireworks. Just when you got to what should have been the climax of the story, the book abruptly stopped. There was nothing more, the book just ended.
I get that The Awakening is the first book in the series and that the ending is supposed to entice the reader to pick up the next book. Unfortunately, that's not what happened here. The book is incomplete. It's as thought the last couple of pages were torn out. It ended with the promise of action instead of any form of resolution or conclusion. I don't expect a series to tie up all the lose ends in every book, but I do expect a complete story.
What there was of the story was good. It felt as though things were really going to get exciting. They still may, later in the series. The Awakening is only worthwhile to read if you are willing to commit to the next book, if not the entire series. I was already planning on reading the series, start to finish, but I'm afraid all of the books are going to have the same problem. The book was good, not great. A book can't be great without an ending.
Awesome January 10, 2010
B. Lundin (USA)
I have read this book first couple of chapters. It is alot different than the series on tv. It is interesting.
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