History looks set to repeat itself in The Struggle with the two brothers once again fighting over the same girl – Elena.Įlena is a more engaging character in The Struggle than she first appeared in The Awakening and the book is better reading as a result. They fought over the girl who turned them into vampires, losing her in the process, and each has blamed the other for her death ever since. Damon and Stefan, both vampires since The Renaissance, have hundreds of years of bad feeling between them. The opening pages of The Struggle see Elena realise that Stefan is missing, a victim of foul play at the hands of his brother Damon. For this reason readers will need to read The Vampire Diaries in series order.

As a result The Awakening and The Struggle feel more like one long story rather than two separate novels. The Awakening finished with a cliff hanger ending and The Struggle starts from exactly where that first story left off. Discovering his vampire secret didn’t put her off – neither did the arrival of Damon, Stefan’s evil vampire brother. The Awakening (the first novel in this series) saw Elena decide that she had to have Stefan as her boyfriend at any cost. Written for the Young Adult market the story focuses on Elena, the most beautiful and popular girl in high school, and Stefan the vampire who transfers to her school. The Struggle is the second novel in this popular series. Smith’s Vampire Diaries are clearly going to be around for some time to come.

With a TV show in production and new novels (The Vampire Diaries: The Return) planned for 2009/2010 release L. The current popularity of Stephenie Meyer’s Twilight ensured a reissue of The Vampire Diaries in 2007. Smith first wrote The Vampire Diaries, and gave vampire teen romance to a pre-Twilight generation. It is nearly twenty years ago now that L. The Vampire Diaries, a tale of two vampire brothers and the beautiful girl torn between them. Determined to have Elena, he’d kill to possess her. Stefan: brooding and mysterious, he seems to be the only one who can resist Elena, even as he struggles to protect her from the horrors that haunt his past.ĭamon: sexy, dangerous, and driven by an urge for revenge against Stefan, the brother who betrayed him.

First Published 1991 (this edition 2007) 253 pages Summary (from the book jacket)Įlena: the golden girl, the leader, the one who can have any boy she wants.

The struggle by lj smith