The Books
L.J Smith wrote the vampire diaries so I give her a BIG thank you for starting TVD!
Book 1+2 (written in one book)- The Awakening and The Struggle:
L.J Smith wirtes about a young girl named Elena Gilbert. She falls madly in love the mysterious new boy hottie- Stefan Salvatore. Elena goes through a lot of effort to capture Stefans heart but little does she know he has a deadly secret- he is a vampire! Elena starts to discover more things about the vampire world and the vampires in it, she then finds out about Stefans dead girlfriend Katherine who was lover, to both, Stefan and his brother Damon. Damon returns to Fells Church to torment his brother but he becomes interested in Elena, thus, trying to lead her to be his princess of darkness. Elena gets torn between the two brothers and trys to lead Damon off. But who will she choose...?Will Damon eventually manage to lure Elena away from Stefan to be his princess of darkness...?
Book 3+4 (written in one book)- The fury and the dark reunion:
Elena has finally chosen her vampire! But now she is a vampire herself! There are dark forces attacking Fells Church and Elena, Stefan and Damon have to stop them. They eventually enter a crypt and find katherine in there! Who- by the way, is not dead because she faked her death to reunite Stefan and Damon so they will get along- except it makes them hate eachother more :( Anyway Katherine is angry with Stefan and Damon because they threw away her gift and treated it like garbage- her pretending to be dead to reunite them. So she decides to take it out on Elena, she puts Stefan and Damon through hell and then grabs Elena to kill her because Stefan and Damon fell in love with somebody else, which kind of pi**ed her off. Elena acts the hero and throws Katherine into the sunlight, thus, sending her to her death but Elena gets caught in the sunlight and dies too. Another vampire comes and is hurting girls in Fells Church- one of these girls is Vicki. They set out to find the vampire but cannot find one. Stefan has a hunch that there is something wrong with Tyler Smallwood and after research in the library he shockingly discovers that he is a werewolf. Stefan, Bonnie and Meredith concuct a plan to lure Tyler to the graveyard and have him captured. After being threatened continuously he reveals startling information about the killer. They find out Klaus, the vampire who made Katherine a vampire is the killer, and has captured Caroline. The four find out from Meredith's mad grandfather that the only thing that can weaken Klaus is White Ash wood. Klaus makes a deal with Stefan, "Come alone or the girl dies." Bonnie, Meredith and Matt try to persuade Stefan to take some of their blood to make him stronger but he refuses and warns them not to follow. They ignore his threat and follow. They see Stefan with a branch of White Ash wood and Bonnie realizes it's a trap and cries out to Stefan before he gets hurt. There is a fight at the old Francher place deep in the Old Wood. They are losing the fight and Stefan is on the brink of death. Damon appears out of nowhere and proves his loyalty as he stakes Klaus. However, Klaus isn't hurt badly, and he attacks Damon. Bonnie screams for Elena. She appears as a glowing mist along with the spirits of Civil War soldiers that had fought and died in Fell's Church. They charge Klaus and carry him away. The ending is the most surprising yet for Elena's friends as she almosts leaves forever and then is granted other change to come back to life so she comes back on the floor naked and is given some clothes to wear. She comes back not as a normal human, but as a spirit child! Sorry I pratically gave away the whole book but it is complicated to explain giving, only, half of the information.
Book 5 Nightfall- In nightfall Elena is back but not fully human! She is now a spirit child and she and Stefan are together again! But Damon who is always the hunter becomes the hunted, he gets posessd by a kitsune named Shinichi and his sister Misao. They possess him by putting a supernatural bug in him called a Malach and the Malach controls Damon to do bad things. Meanwhile Misao is possessing the girls of Fells Church and they are hurting themselves and scaring people of the town. Elena cannot go back home because everybody thinks she is dead so she has to be careful that nobody sees her. Damon gets angry with Stefan and manages to get him lured to meet him and then Shinichi and Misao take him somewhere, Damon writes a fake letter to Elena in her computer diary telling her that Stefan had left her and had left Damon as her bodyguard. Eventually Elena finds out the truth but she knows about the Malach and isnt angry with Damon so she says she is going to look for Stefan so that he could help them get rid of Shinichi and Misao. Elena gets the Malach out of Damon so Shinichi could no longer take control of Damon whenever he felt like it and Elena and Damon set off to the gateway to the slums to find Stefan, to do this they need to find two parts of a fox key which are in the slums in different places.
Book 6 Shadow Souls- Elena and Damon set off to the gateway to find the keys and get Stefan except on the way there are some obstacles. On the way they meet Bonnie and Meredith who come on their quest to find Stefan. Bonnie, Meredith and Elena have to be slaves of Damon's because that is the only way a human can enter the slums. They meet a slave named Lady Ulma and they manage to free her of her slavery and get her, her home back and the father of her soon-to-be-born child. Damon and Elena managed to find both parts of the fox key but with danger in their path it was hard. They free Stefan and get out of the slums and before they leave a good kitsune (fox spirit) hands Stefan an unusual bouquet of flowers. They get home and Stefan and Elena are reunited! There is a very suprising turn of events when Damon picks up the bouquet of flowers and senses some sort of power inside of it. He sniffs the flowers and starts to turn blue. A vampire called Sage, who they met in the slums, is telling him to breathe, but why would Damon need to breathe he is a vampire...?! Damon changes to a human!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
Midnight
In this book Damon must go back to the dark dimension to find 'a lady of quality' to change him back to a vampire. He plots against the others to take Misao's starball and when he does Bonnie jumps in with him. Meanwhile in Fells church things are drastic, children are eating their pets, scuttling about and Caroline still hasnt given birth to her werewolf babies! Bonnie is left in a brown room whilst Damon wins over Jessalyn's heart, who changes him to a vampire. Elena is in love with both Stefan and Damon, what should she do?! They get the fox keys from Shinichi and Misao that help you travel to different places and travel to the dark dimension, only Stefan and Elena. They find Bonnie and Damon and set off on a quest for the seven kitsune treasures. They want to find the immense starball in one of the doors so they go on the journey with many tasks ahead to reach the seven treasures. Lady Ulma names her child! Meanwhile, is it fells churches last midnight? On their journey Shinichi is killed and Damon faces a tragic incident. Damon saves Bonnie's life, but his own ends because of this. Will Elena get over her lost love? Can they bring him back? Or maybe can he come back on his own.........
The Hunters Trilogy
Will be wrote about sometime in 2013......
Who is L.J. Smith?
Lisa Jane Smith is the author of more than two dozen books for Young Adults, including Night of the Solstice, Heart of Valor, The Vampire Diaries, The Secret Circle, The Forbidden Game, Dark Visions, and the Night World series.
What is The Vampire Diaries?
The Vampire Diaries is a series of Young Adult books written by L.J. Smith. The original four-volume series was published in 1991 and 1992; the first volume of the follow-up trilogy, The Return: Nightfall, was released in February 2009. The original series was re-released in two omnibus editions (The Awakening/The Struggle and The Fury/Dark Reunion) by HarperCollins in 2007. The last book in The Return trilogy is titled Midnight and is due for publication on March 15, 2011.
Book 1+2 (written in one book)- The Awakening and The Struggle:
L.J Smith wirtes about a young girl named Elena Gilbert. She falls madly in love the mysterious new boy hottie- Stefan Salvatore. Elena goes through a lot of effort to capture Stefans heart but little does she know he has a deadly secret- he is a vampire! Elena starts to discover more things about the vampire world and the vampires in it, she then finds out about Stefans dead girlfriend Katherine who was lover, to both, Stefan and his brother Damon. Damon returns to Fells Church to torment his brother but he becomes interested in Elena, thus, trying to lead her to be his princess of darkness. Elena gets torn between the two brothers and trys to lead Damon off. But who will she choose...?Will Damon eventually manage to lure Elena away from Stefan to be his princess of darkness...?
Book 3+4 (written in one book)- The fury and the dark reunion:
Elena has finally chosen her vampire! But now she is a vampire herself! There are dark forces attacking Fells Church and Elena, Stefan and Damon have to stop them. They eventually enter a crypt and find katherine in there! Who- by the way, is not dead because she faked her death to reunite Stefan and Damon so they will get along- except it makes them hate eachother more :( Anyway Katherine is angry with Stefan and Damon because they threw away her gift and treated it like garbage- her pretending to be dead to reunite them. So she decides to take it out on Elena, she puts Stefan and Damon through hell and then grabs Elena to kill her because Stefan and Damon fell in love with somebody else, which kind of pi**ed her off. Elena acts the hero and throws Katherine into the sunlight, thus, sending her to her death but Elena gets caught in the sunlight and dies too. Another vampire comes and is hurting girls in Fells Church- one of these girls is Vicki. They set out to find the vampire but cannot find one. Stefan has a hunch that there is something wrong with Tyler Smallwood and after research in the library he shockingly discovers that he is a werewolf. Stefan, Bonnie and Meredith concuct a plan to lure Tyler to the graveyard and have him captured. After being threatened continuously he reveals startling information about the killer. They find out Klaus, the vampire who made Katherine a vampire is the killer, and has captured Caroline. The four find out from Meredith's mad grandfather that the only thing that can weaken Klaus is White Ash wood. Klaus makes a deal with Stefan, "Come alone or the girl dies." Bonnie, Meredith and Matt try to persuade Stefan to take some of their blood to make him stronger but he refuses and warns them not to follow. They ignore his threat and follow. They see Stefan with a branch of White Ash wood and Bonnie realizes it's a trap and cries out to Stefan before he gets hurt. There is a fight at the old Francher place deep in the Old Wood. They are losing the fight and Stefan is on the brink of death. Damon appears out of nowhere and proves his loyalty as he stakes Klaus. However, Klaus isn't hurt badly, and he attacks Damon. Bonnie screams for Elena. She appears as a glowing mist along with the spirits of Civil War soldiers that had fought and died in Fell's Church. They charge Klaus and carry him away. The ending is the most surprising yet for Elena's friends as she almosts leaves forever and then is granted other change to come back to life so she comes back on the floor naked and is given some clothes to wear. She comes back not as a normal human, but as a spirit child! Sorry I pratically gave away the whole book but it is complicated to explain giving, only, half of the information.
Book 5 Nightfall- In nightfall Elena is back but not fully human! She is now a spirit child and she and Stefan are together again! But Damon who is always the hunter becomes the hunted, he gets posessd by a kitsune named Shinichi and his sister Misao. They possess him by putting a supernatural bug in him called a Malach and the Malach controls Damon to do bad things. Meanwhile Misao is possessing the girls of Fells Church and they are hurting themselves and scaring people of the town. Elena cannot go back home because everybody thinks she is dead so she has to be careful that nobody sees her. Damon gets angry with Stefan and manages to get him lured to meet him and then Shinichi and Misao take him somewhere, Damon writes a fake letter to Elena in her computer diary telling her that Stefan had left her and had left Damon as her bodyguard. Eventually Elena finds out the truth but she knows about the Malach and isnt angry with Damon so she says she is going to look for Stefan so that he could help them get rid of Shinichi and Misao. Elena gets the Malach out of Damon so Shinichi could no longer take control of Damon whenever he felt like it and Elena and Damon set off to the gateway to the slums to find Stefan, to do this they need to find two parts of a fox key which are in the slums in different places.
Book 6 Shadow Souls- Elena and Damon set off to the gateway to find the keys and get Stefan except on the way there are some obstacles. On the way they meet Bonnie and Meredith who come on their quest to find Stefan. Bonnie, Meredith and Elena have to be slaves of Damon's because that is the only way a human can enter the slums. They meet a slave named Lady Ulma and they manage to free her of her slavery and get her, her home back and the father of her soon-to-be-born child. Damon and Elena managed to find both parts of the fox key but with danger in their path it was hard. They free Stefan and get out of the slums and before they leave a good kitsune (fox spirit) hands Stefan an unusual bouquet of flowers. They get home and Stefan and Elena are reunited! There is a very suprising turn of events when Damon picks up the bouquet of flowers and senses some sort of power inside of it. He sniffs the flowers and starts to turn blue. A vampire called Sage, who they met in the slums, is telling him to breathe, but why would Damon need to breathe he is a vampire...?! Damon changes to a human!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
Midnight
In this book Damon must go back to the dark dimension to find 'a lady of quality' to change him back to a vampire. He plots against the others to take Misao's starball and when he does Bonnie jumps in with him. Meanwhile in Fells church things are drastic, children are eating their pets, scuttling about and Caroline still hasnt given birth to her werewolf babies! Bonnie is left in a brown room whilst Damon wins over Jessalyn's heart, who changes him to a vampire. Elena is in love with both Stefan and Damon, what should she do?! They get the fox keys from Shinichi and Misao that help you travel to different places and travel to the dark dimension, only Stefan and Elena. They find Bonnie and Damon and set off on a quest for the seven kitsune treasures. They want to find the immense starball in one of the doors so they go on the journey with many tasks ahead to reach the seven treasures. Lady Ulma names her child! Meanwhile, is it fells churches last midnight? On their journey Shinichi is killed and Damon faces a tragic incident. Damon saves Bonnie's life, but his own ends because of this. Will Elena get over her lost love? Can they bring him back? Or maybe can he come back on his own.........
The Hunters Trilogy
Will be wrote about sometime in 2013......
Who is L.J. Smith?
Lisa Jane Smith is the author of more than two dozen books for Young Adults, including Night of the Solstice, Heart of Valor, The Vampire Diaries, The Secret Circle, The Forbidden Game, Dark Visions, and the Night World series.
What is The Vampire Diaries?
The Vampire Diaries is a series of Young Adult books written by L.J. Smith. The original four-volume series was published in 1991 and 1992; the first volume of the follow-up trilogy, The Return: Nightfall, was released in February 2009. The original series was re-released in two omnibus editions (The Awakening/The Struggle and The Fury/Dark Reunion) by HarperCollins in 2007. The last book in The Return trilogy is titled Midnight and is due for publication on March 15, 2011.