I'm not going to sugar coat anything. This book was awful.
Sometimes a book can start out slow and redeem itself by the end. Sometimes a book can have a great beginning but fall flat. This book never took off. I was confused and annoyed by the silliness from the beginning...and it got worse from there.
In the beginning...Elena was floating like a balloon - tied to the back of Stephan's car. And she made out with everyone because, apparently, she wanted to get to know them. I kept picturing her as a drooling, mumbling weirdo...but apparently everyone thought she was hot stuff so I just couldn't wrap my mind around it. Odd.
It got worse. Wings. And not just one set. She had a different set of bedazzled wings for just about anything she could want. Purify Damen? Why not. Fly? Of course. But apparently she left her "get Stephan out of jail" wings at home. Inconvenient to say the least.
Hmm...giant man-trees, talking trees, large gummybear bugs, crazy japanese incestual siblings...what more could you want?
How about an interesting plot? Characters with depth? Writing that didn't make me stop and think, "What the hell is going on?" or "Who is speaking?" or "Why, oh WHY, didn't I just listen to the reviews and leave this book at the bookstore? I want a spoon to gouge my eyeballs out. Or maybe one of Elena's wings could do that for me."
I want me money back. I don't think it's possible that LJ Smith wrote this book. It has to be some sort of false advertising. Right?
Note for the CW writers: Please, for the love of all things good, don't bring any of these crazy things into the TV show's plotline. Please.Get more detail about The Return: Nightfall (Vampire Diaries).
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