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 Posted: Sat Aug 22, 2009 11:17 am
Before Amelia Atwater Rhodes and Stephanie Meyer... there was LJ Smith...
I started off with LJ Smith's Night of the Solstice which is a modern fantasy where four siblings run into a sorcress named Morgana who is the guardian of the passage between Earth and a place called the Wild World. I read it when I was eleven when my aunt gave me her copy.
A few years later I was handed the Night World Series. The series a bit like Amelia Atwater Rhodes where the series contains Vampires, Shapeshifters and Witches. The series is seemingly seperate stories with a theme though there are mentions of characters and some character crossovers. The series originally ran from 1996-1998, the series leading up to the millennium. The last book was never finished... as far as I know it had something to do with a apartment fire? Well, recently the novels have been reworked and rereleased... I liked the series though there were books I liked better than others. The series starts off with Secret Vampire about a girl named Poppy who is dying and is in love with a vampire... Personally I like Dark Angel and The Chosen better, but as one reveiwer on youtube stated Secret Vampire is the introduction to the biggest reacurring character Ash Redfern.
I have not read any of her other series though Vampire Diaries is becoming a TV series on the CW. I am a bit skeptical. I have not yet read Vampire Diaries because I have been under the impression that is more of a romantic story about a vampire in love and the girl torn between him and his brother. Not really my type of book to be honest. I may still pick it up because of the TV Series. Though I'm about edgy about the TV series too, sure the actor playing the vampire played a wolf shapeshifter in a favorite sci-fi series of mine Wolf Lake... but I think that the look of him and Damon maybe be a bit off and the feeling from the trailer I get is that its trying to hook the Twilight fans and the feel of it as such... ... I put Rhodes and Smith in the same category but not really Meyer... There's a difference in atmosphere.
So thoughts on the upcoming TV series? On LJ Smith and her books?
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Posted: Wed Sep 02, 2009 11:14 pm
I read the first few pages of the first book in the Night World series, and I didn't like her writing style. It's a pity since the plot summary on the back of the book's cover sounded excellent.
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