He’s arrogant, but the fact that the reader can see that there is more to him than his arrogance makes him such a strong-believable-character. He may have once been the villain, but he’s working hard on just trying to be more of an obnoxious jerk than the villain. Damon is such a flawed character, but he also has a good heart. The same goes for the male characters with the exception of Damon. Elena should be the star of the show, but instead she’s this perfect unrealistic person. Thankfully, they are more relatable than the main protagonist is, but they shouldn’t be. That is exactly how one can define them, and it shouldn’t be easy to just put them in boxes because, once again, it puts up this barrier between the reader and the characters, making them just that: characters.
Then there is evil Caroline, naïve Bonnie, followed by know-it-all Meredith. Not only does that come off as cliché, it doesn’t give Elena a chance to connect with the reader, which is contrary to who she was in the beginning of the series, a character with flaws. And on both ends, this sort of characterization is not working.Įlena is basically miss perfect, can do no wrong, an actual angel sent back from heaven to live a happily ever after.
The same people who helped make the original Vampire Diaries a bestseller. It seems like these characters haven’t changed one bit and comes off as Smith is trying to bring in new readers rather than actually keep fans hooked in the series. The is the fifth book in the Vampire Diaries series, the first in the second arc, and the characters, by this point they have gone through so much to evolve…yet, here it seems all that character development was just washed down the drain. Smith‘s bestselling young adult series the Vampire Diaries titled The Return. Published on Februby HarperCollins Publishers Nightfall is the first book in the second arc of L.J. Stefan want’s to keep her safe, but with ancient powers getting their claws into newly reformed Damon, that’s easier said than done. Elena died once before, but now she’s back and with her power, she has attracted many dangerous enemies that are more powerful than anything they’ve ever faced.
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