

Of course, even at her high point, she’s not nearly as clever as she thinks she is and she made some very silly mistakes (going to a deserted graveyard with some very unsavoury boys being the biggest). If she’d kept on this way, she would have been unlikable but, over the course of the book, her confidence is slowly stripped away and she ends the book being outmanoeuvred at every turn and sliding down the pecking order. She starts off haughty, socially savvy, wanting everything just for the sake of having everything and not caring if she has to hurt a few feelings to get it. Unlike other vampire novel girls, though, she is the most popular girl in his class and knows it.

The first of those and our main character is Elena Gilbert, a classic orphaned protagonist in high school. This book is first and foremost the story of two characters’ downward spiral (which can be just as interesting as an upward climb). First published in USA by HarperCollins Publishers Inc in 1991įirst published in UK by Hodder Children’s Books in 2001
