The Awakening (The Vampire Diaries #1)

Title: The Awakening

Author: L.J. Smith

My Rating: 1 star

I only read about 1-2 chapters of this book. And I after searching high and low, reading through thesauruses and pondering for hours, I have come up with the perfect word to describe The Awakening. Eww. I can hear you applauding me so I shall take a virtual bow. Thank you. Thank you. I know, right? Eww, eww, eww.

What do we have here? A vain, self-absorbed and depressed teenager and an ancient, lovesick vampire who devours...wait for it... fluffy, innocent, fluffy, cute, fluffy rabbits. How utterly unforgivable. Humanity Vampire-ity has reached a whole new level of cruelty. Someone call the RSPCA. (Which for those of you not in Australia is, the Royal Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to Animals). I reached the part where Elena the egomaniac is 'insulted' after being ignored by Stefan the sadistic rabbit eater. And then I tried to throw down the book with a disgusted sigh. Unfortunately, I was reading a PDF file of the book on my laptop and was irritated- as you can imagine- that I couldn't fulfil my intention. Alas, I had to contend myself with closing the file with a vehement click of the mouse and cussing a stream of unladylike words. IMPORTANT NOTE: There is no joy like the joy of reading the physical, hard copy of a book. It can be kissed, hugged, cried on, stained and of course, shredded into pieces too :D And because I believe that the last one is sacrilege, I think it should be replaced by the guilty book being thrown from a height of approximately 1.5 meters (not anymore, lest the book should get seriously harmed- which is also sacrilege) and being told in a strict voice "Bad book! BAD BOOK!"

Anyway, after all of this, it was clear that the book was going to be a hideous mixture of lame romance and disturbing dramas of high school. So I swore at the book again and went to read something else.

Yay! 
The End.

P.S. The TV series is much better than the books