Also by L. J. Smith:

Strange Fate, April 2010
Hardcover
Dark Visions: The Strange Power; The Possessed; The Passion, September 2009
Paperback
The Vampire Diaries: The Awakening, September 2009
Paperback
The Vampire Diaries: The Struggle, September 2009
Paperback
Huntress, Black Dawn, Witchlight, April 2009
Paperback
The Vampire Diaries: The Return: Nightfall, February 2009
Hardcover
The Secret Circle: The Captive Part II And The Power, January 2009
Paperback
Dark Angel; The Chosen; Soulmate, November 2008
Paperback
Heart Of Valor, November 2008
Paperback
Passion, September 2008
Paperback
The Secret Circle: The Initiation And The Captive Part I, August 2008
Paperback
Secret Vampire; Daughters Of Darkness; Spellbinder, June 2008
Paperback
The Vampire Diaries: The Fury And Dark Reunion, January 2008
Paperback
The Vampire Diaries: The Awakening And The Struggle, July 2007
Paperback
Vampire Diaries: Dark Reunion, April 1999
Mass Market Paperback

The Vampire Diaries: The Awakening And The Struggle
L. J. Smith

Vampire Diaries 1 & 2

July 2007
On Sale: July 1, 2007
512 pages
ISBN: 006114097X
EAN: 9780061140976
Paperback
$9.99

Young Adult Paranormal

Elena: the golden girl, the leader, the one who can have any boy she wants.

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.

Damon: sexy, dangerous, and driven by an urge for revenge against Stefan, the brother who betrayed him. Determined to have Elena, he'd kill to possess her.

Collected here in one volume for the first time, volumes one and two of The Vampire Diaries, the tale of two vampire brothers and the beautiful girl torn between them.

Comments

11 comments posted.

Re: The Vampire Diaries: The Awakening And The Struggle

Great blog today I enjoyed reading this. Yes I think they would be great to read.
Thanks for being here today,
Penney
penneyw AT sbcglobal DOT net
(Penney Wilfort 11:22am September 12)

I enjoy Charlaine Harris' Sookie Stackhouse series of books and like watching TrueBlood, but the HBO series is not much like Ms. Harris' WONDERFUL books. I have to really keep that in mind whether I'm enjoying one of her books or watching the show.

I'd love to see any or all of Dixie Cash's books made into a series. Think it would be hilarious!
(Kay Martinez 12:25pm September 12)

I was just thinking about this- I don't mind the True Blood series, and that is a first for me as I hate when a movie/tv show deviates from a series I really liked. I also like the No. 1 Ladies Detective Agency series (also on HBO). I missed the Vampire Diaries on tv- good thing for TiVo. I would really like to see how the Janet Evanovich books would translate into tv.
(Sara Edmonds 1:13pm September 12)

I think The Harry Potter books made great movies. Timeline was another book to movie, also good. I've tried to think of some of my favorite romantic movies and not really sure if they started out as books first except Twilight. One of my favorite book series was Clan of the cave bear, the movie did not translate well. I would love to see more time travel movies or T.V. series.
(Theresa Buckholtz 1:58pm September 12)

Like Theresa I also believe the Harry Potter books were made into good movies. I also thought that a great job was done making Pride and prejudice, one of my all time favorite books into a movie. I loved the version starring Colin Firth. Most times I prefer some of my bookS not be made into movies because too many liberties are taken and sometimes it actually has ruined it for me.
(Cherie Japp 4:15pm September 12)

Sara: Thank you for your article.

My favorite recent novel-to-film project? No contest here; it's "The Lord of the Rings" series. Doing justice to the original novels is a tall order; this one does so beautifully.

In one respect, the film series does the impossible and improves on the originals. Tolkien's novels contain almost no romance and pay little attention to female characters. The movies take care of both.

The film version of "The Da Vinci Code" was okay, but it should have been more than that. It didn't send me the way the novel did.

My favorite romantic novel-movie combo is "Somewhere in Time". The film version is considerably better known than the original Richard Matheson novel, "Bid Time Return". However, I give both the highest recommendation. The movie, released back in 1980, is especially poignant nowadays in light of what eventually happened to its leading man, Christopher Reeve.

If I can think up more examples that other Fresh Fiction fans might be familiar with, I'll let you know. Happy blogging!

---Mary Anne Landers
www.facebook.com/maryannelanders
(Mary Anne Landers 8:27pm September 12)

I'm not sure any movie could do
justice to a book I've already read. I
think readers brings so much of
oneself into the reading process that it
is like we personalize a book. With
that said I've enjoyed movies when I've
seen them before reading the book it
was based on. That way there's no
expectation and less disappoint. I
loved the movie Silence of the Lamb
so much I had to read the book, which
was also enjoyable.
(Seung-Ju Ahn 10:44pm September 12)

So many of Nora Roberts books have been made into movies and I think I've read and seen everyone of them. She's a great author. But I would love to see Tina Leonards " Cowboys by the Dozen made into a series. That would be a riot.
(Evelyn Day 11:39am September 13)

Nice blog today, I have two daughters one born in the 70's the other in the 90's. The oldest and I matched similar tastes in literature but other I started out in 1st grade reading with Darren Shan books. Now that she is in high school we have resumed our love for Vamps. We giggled through "How to marry a Vampire Millionaire" and wiped our eyes with the "Twilight" series. So I am no longer the fossil she thought I had become when her birthday present last month was a set of Charlaine Harris' Sookie Stackhouse. The"Vampire Diaries" now is the new bonding discoveries we share and a TV series as VISA says is "priceless".
(Susan Lathen 4:07pm September 13)

I thought they did a decent job with The Notebook and The Harry Potter books. I have to agree with The Lord of the Rings too. Personally the books are always better but once in awhile they get it right.
(Suzette Finks 6:56pm September 13)

yeah for the moms who read and watch stuff with kids, isn't the greatest to share?

I so agree, the books are always better than the movies LOL
(Sara J Reyes 12:06pm September 14)