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  <read_at>Wed Sep 16 00:00:00 -0700 2009</read_at>
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    <body><![CDATA[his book is told from Bonnie's point of view. The fourth book begins six months after Elena's death, At a surprise birthday party for Meredith, Bonnie and Caroline (along with Vickie and Sue Carson) contact Elena using a Ouija board. Elena warns them there is another evil in town, and that they are ...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/78178989">more...</a>]]></body>
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  <read_at>Sun Nov 30 00:00:00 -0800 2008</read_at>
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    <body><![CDATA[okay, so I finally got some surprising yet long overdue resolve on this one. I am mostly happy in the end of a long 4 book struggle, and I can see where this was a last minute idea of how to generate a 4th book. There are elements pulled together than came from hints laid out previously in other boo...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/38815986">more...</a>]]></body>
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  <read_at>Sun Oct 12 00:00:00 -0700 2008</read_at>
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    <body><![CDATA[Wow. What a stinker. I mean, even for this series. But it must not be too bad, because Twilight has been such a huge success. To bad L.J. Smith tapped the same story out 15 years earlier. I just had to re-read them again after all this time. I had forgotton how much fun trashy goth novels can be!]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[The fourth and final installment of L.J. Smith's <em>Vampire Diaries</em> saga (although I understand that there is a sequel series, <em><a href="http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/3934321.Nightfall_The_Vampire_Diaries_The_Return_1_" title="Nightfall (The Vampire Diaries  The Return, #1) by L.J. Smith">Vampire Diaries: The Return</a></em>), <u>Dark Reunion</u> sees Elena - who sacrificed herself to save Stefan and Damon in <u><a href="http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/1169808.The_Fury_The_Vampire_Diaries_3_" title="The Fury (The Vampire Diaries, #3) by L.J. Smith">The Fury</a></u> - warning her friends of danger from the beyond. What new ho...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/67392603">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[This was just plain terrible.  The rest of the series was far from good - they're teenage romance novels! - but I just can't understand why this was even written.<br/><br/>The third book had a sad but satisfying ending.<br/><br/>Katherine said that she killed Klaus in the last book, but this was...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/67330004">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[This series is ok, but the young adult concessions diluted it for me.  That, and the primary male lead's ongoing, never ending, self hatred and angst over what he is.<br/><br/>His brother, who revels in what he is, is a much more attractive and interesting character.<br/><br/>Also, the sexual el...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/65458972">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[I first read this series when I was twelve or so.  Probably the begining of my love of Vamp-lit.<br/>I didn't realize there was a fourth one until a few years later.  I read it and liked it--how could I not? It was like a sequel to my favorite books...but over all, although I thought it was good, I...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/44329464">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[When I started reading this, I wasnt too sure about it, because I honestly didn't think anything else could happen to the characters of Fell's Church - at least without seeming contrived and forced. But LJ Smith pulled it off, and managed to do it in a way that incorporated previous mythology and ch...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/73837467">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[I'm a little dissapointment of the end of this story. I think it's just a bit too 'pushy' for a having a happy ending like that. Like most people do, I love happy ending too. But I love it better when the ending of a story hit my sense. Like when it came to the part where Elena was back to life from...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/47838235">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[I was extremely confused when I got to the end of the third book in this series and it seemed to wrap up the whole story, but there was still another book after.  <br/><br/>When I read that it was from Bonnie's point of view and that Elena is a ghost, I thought the book was just an excuse to drag ...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/40519033">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[Re-reading this series as an adult, I was a little less enamored of it than I had been as a teen.  But, it was never my favorite <a href="http://www.goodreads.com/author/show/50873.L_J_Smith" title="L.J. Smith">L.J. Smith</a> series, anyway.<br/><br/>I am convinced that, were these characters real and I had to deal with them in my high school, I would have despised our series heroi...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/20194556">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[This book was the worst of the series.  I remember reading it when I was younger and I absolutely hated it!  There is so much that doesn't make sense and that isn't explained in this book.  The whole ending is completely anti-climatic.  The 3rd book in the installment was amazing and heart wrenching...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/40345240">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[The series was fun when I was in Middle School and I admit I still have a fondness for it.  But even as a 13 year old I recognized that this was the weakest of the four and really you should just stop at book 3.  That’s my opinion.  And if you’ve never read the books before thanks to Twilight be...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/50636848">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[Of course I loved this one as well!  There was a secret place in my heart that made me want Damon and Elena to end up together but there was just no denying Stefan and Elena. I always seem to want the bad guy to win haha!  Also, I was disappointed in they way she ended the series, DEFINITELY not the...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/44499744">more...</a>]]></body>
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  <read_at>Tue Mar 03 08:56:07 -0800 2009</read_at>
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    <body><![CDATA[<s><strong>This book</strong> was amazing.I cant describe it. If you like books that keep you on your toes this is one series you cant stay away from. It keeps you wanting to read what happens next and who is going to be the bad guy. The main character is not a vampire but the guy she falls in love with is. But when hi...</s><a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/45552529">more...</a>]]></body>
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      <review id="68276595">
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    <body><![CDATA[Well, I think this one was my favorite of the series so far.  It started off a bit slow but I kind of like the main story line and it certainly had an interesting ending.  I found the Elena-Stefan relationship a bit hard to believe at first but I think as the story's gone on, it become more believab...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/68276595">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[I have to give it a high rating because it was my most favoritest series in 8th grade. Have read it a couple of times since then and it's still fun. Just tore through the first four in a couple of days. <br/>There's a love triangle and all sorts of teen angst. Love it.]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[While I love this series way more than Twilight (face it, Smeyer has <em>nothing</em> on LJ Smith), I have to say I was slightly disappointed in this book.  Of course I've come to learn that it was originally meant as a trilogy and this book is more of a bridge (now) between the first three books and the new...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/29249698">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[The best book of the series.  No Elena, lots of Damon and Bonnie.  a little darker than the first 3 (i should not have read the beginning on Halloween night).  it brought the whole series together, but ended too perfectly.]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[I started it, but it got a little scary within the first couple of chapters and I didn't love the 3rd book, so I decided to not finish it and move on to something else.]]></body>
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