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The Awakening
Theawakening
Author L.J Smith
Publication date 1991
Published by HarperTeen
Publication Order
Preceded by
None
Followed by
The Struggle

The Awakening is the first book of The Vampire Diaries by L.J Smith.

Summary[]

Stefan and Damon, two vampire brothers, compete for the love of Elena Gilbert, a beautiful high school senior who is searching for excitement.

Plot[]

The first book introduces the reader to Elena Gilbert, a beautiful and popular high school student in the small town of Fells Church, Virginia and her friends Bonnie McCullough, Meredith Sulez, Matt Honeycutt, and Caroline Forbes. Caroline is Elena's old friend and is now her competition. Elena breaks up with her boyfriend, first love and best friend, Matt, who is a football star and quarterback on the high school football team, when school starts. Matt and Elena were described to be the golden couple; he was tall, athletic, blonde and popular, but she felt that there were no sparks or intensity in their relationship, and she felt as if she was always yearning for something more. As their senior year begins, Elena fatefully meets a new foreign student from Italy, Stefan Salvatore, whom she is instantly, indescribably and undeniably drawn to. What Elena doesn't know is Stefan's deepest, darkest centuries old secret; Stefan is a centuries old vampire. He is staying at Mrs. Flower's old remote boarding house. In the beginning, although Stefan is strongly magnetically drawn to her, he holds back, because he feels he will hurt her.

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