The Vampire Diaries: The Awakening by LJ Smith

Rating: WARTY!

"First in a New York Times bestselling series that inspired the hit TV show The Vampire Diaries!" I'm so glad they corrected me on that. I thought it had spawned the long-running oil tycoon series, Dallas! But there's nothing new here: it's the same cliché and the same trope and the same tedious cookie-cutter characters and vampiric bulshit. "Elena falls for Stefan, the mysterious new guy in school" So, nothign new here. "...but soon discovers that he’s a vampire on the run from his dangerous brother, Damon." Like I said, not a fucking thing new here. No wonder the author's reduced to trying to unload it for two bucks a pop in a discount book flyer. Yawn.