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Helsingissä : Otava, 2012
Description
Eighteen-year-old Elena Gilbert's latest battle against the demons that have taken over her hometown of Fell's Church is complicated by the fact that Damon is a mortal since he, his brother Stefan, and Elena returned from the Dark Dimension.
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LibraryThing member quantumbutterfly
What a disappointment..
When we last left our group of friends in Fell's Church, the girls had survived the Dark Dimension, rescued Stefan, and Damon had accidentally taken the humanity meant for Stefan. Kids in the town are still being affected by the kitsune magic, and as we open people are
Now Damon's off to try to become a vampire again, winds up taking Bonnie back to the Dark Dimension. Meredith's past comes to light further,and it turns out there is a lot more she never knew about the attack by Klaus. Elana is still apparently not sure who she loves (like there's any doubt of who she winds up with), Shinichi and Misao are still acting like evil brats but who's pulling the strings? And someone's supposed to die for good...
Then you actually read the book. Which is long, poorly edited, and it seems LJ had yet another surge of new ideas which she wanted to work in to the story as quickly as possible. The entire Return trilogy suffers for it. I had such hopes after Shadow Souls but once again the plot development truly fails. There's no flow, the characters seem to be losing their real spark and drive, and what kind of ending was that? Granted, the death at the end did throw me for a loop and I still don't want to believe it, but LJS went against her word as to what would happen with it. (Not coming back? Not from what I have heard...)
Unfortunately LJS is now going to be off any further Vampire Diaries books, which will definitely keep me from reading the series any more. I feel so let down that things ended like this.
When we last left our group of friends in Fell's Church, the girls had survived the Dark Dimension, rescued Stefan, and Damon had accidentally taken the humanity meant for Stefan. Kids in the town are still being affected by the kitsune magic, and as we open people are
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fleeing right and left. Now Damon's off to try to become a vampire again, winds up taking Bonnie back to the Dark Dimension. Meredith's past comes to light further,and it turns out there is a lot more she never knew about the attack by Klaus. Elana is still apparently not sure who she loves (like there's any doubt of who she winds up with), Shinichi and Misao are still acting like evil brats but who's pulling the strings? And someone's supposed to die for good...
Then you actually read the book. Which is long, poorly edited, and it seems LJ had yet another surge of new ideas which she wanted to work in to the story as quickly as possible. The entire Return trilogy suffers for it. I had such hopes after Shadow Souls but once again the plot development truly fails. There's no flow, the characters seem to be losing their real spark and drive, and what kind of ending was that? Granted, the death at the end did throw me for a loop and I still don't want to believe it, but LJS went against her word as to what would happen with it. (Not coming back? Not from what I have heard...)
Unfortunately LJS is now going to be off any further Vampire Diaries books, which will definitely keep me from reading the series any more. I feel so let down that things ended like this.
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LibraryThing member Lazyreeder
I love The Return series and I did like Midnight. I found it exciting and thrilling. I melt when I read Damon's scenes. I'm probabl not going to read the next vampire diares books because a gost writer in my eyes can't give me a real story. as unusual as some aspects of the return books were, I had
she made this comment n her website about what happened.
“I fought tooth and nail to write those books--I fought until my agent wouldn't support me, when she said I would be sued and she wouldn't fight with me anymore, and I WROTE Phantom. But instead of edits what I got back was a letter to Clare the ghostwriter telling her to completely change my book. I HAD NO CHOICE IN THE MATTER. I was deceived by Alloy and got no support from Harper.”
if I were her i'd be suing THEM!
Give the return books a chance, it's not the authors falt her publishes stabbd her in the bac k and put her books out before they was edited an ready to be out.
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no doubt that in the end it would all come together beautifully but the publisher ruined any chance of tht happinin.i heard they barely even edited her, prlly cuz they were too busy plotting. she made this comment n her website about what happened.
“I fought tooth and nail to write those books--I fought until my agent wouldn't support me, when she said I would be sued and she wouldn't fight with me anymore, and I WROTE Phantom. But instead of edits what I got back was a letter to Clare the ghostwriter telling her to completely change my book. I HAD NO CHOICE IN THE MATTER. I was deceived by Alloy and got no support from Harper.”
if I were her i'd be suing THEM!
Give the return books a chance, it's not the authors falt her publishes stabbd her in the bac k and put her books out before they was edited an ready to be out.
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LibraryThing member luvlylibrarian
Shadow Souls was better. This book kind of felt like a let-down. After all the development of relationship between Elena and Damon in the last novel, it just seems kind of boring to have her go back to Stefan. The fact that Bonnie also cares for Damon is nice, but also needs to be further
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developed. The book was good, but a little bit of let-down. I expected more. Show Less
LibraryThing member pandawnmonium
It's easy for me to see why this has a cult following of sorts. LJ Smith did a nice job in mapping out her characters so the stories could continue without major discrencies. What I would have liked to see is a bit more..violence?
LibraryThing member mzserena
Ahhh this is the Vampire Diaries I know and love! I love the characters and enjoy the story. I hope that it's not the end of the series, but it seemed like it was.If this is the end, it was left open ended and I don't like that. I like my series' tied up in a neat little package.
LibraryThing member sgcastellini
I just hate when a series has these goals: we are going to defeat this person, set everything right, and then everything finally comes together...and then the author throws in some REDICULOUS twist at the end. I accept Laurell K Hamilton for writing 30 books because she has never set a specific
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goal that her characters must attain. There's a different story each book, and the character moves on, she developes, and has new encounters. The characters in Vampire Diaries are so wishy washy and spontaneous, it's annoying. I read 40 or so pages of saying goodbye to a character....we've settled, accepted he/she is going, and then...they are not. Why do that? It's just annoying. Done with the series! Show Less
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Language
Original language
English
Original publication date
2011
Physical description
462 p.; 22 cm
ISBN
9789511258360
Other editions
The Vampire Diaries 7: The Return : Midnight by L J Smith (Paperback)