WHEN THE DOOR TO my cell clicked open, the first thought that flitted through my doped-up brain was that Liz had changed her mind and come back. I will keep reading however because I want to see more of Damon (I’m Team Damon all the way) and hopefully I won’t be so annoyed with Elena past the first book.Annoying main female character, good writing, major insta-love, enjoyed the TV show better.

Gotta say I like the TV show better than what I have read so far. There are characters in the book not in the show and vice versa, characters who have totally different personalities and names where changed and mixed around. We get a good history on him and he is a deeper character than Elena and has a better attitude.There was soooo many things that were different between this book and the show, I really wouldn’t know where to start with it. He is very mysterious and wants to protect Elena. There was no relationship development.Stefan on the other hand I actually did like. I understand why Stefan would want Elena, but I don’t know why she wants Stefan other than she feels the need to take whatever she wants. There was no real connection between Elena and Stefan for me. It was unreal how fast the insta-love was. I just didn’t like her very much.And this book was the worst I have read on insta-love.

In the show she is a caring person who puts others before herself, but in the book she was the queen bee at school and manipulated people to get whatever she wanted. It is quite different from the show!Elena was very different between the book and the show. I love the TV series, but I wasn’t in love with the book. I watched the first 3 seasons before I read this book. Find this review and more at On The Shelf!Well, this wasn’t exactly what I was expecting it to be.

Beginnings by Kelley Armstrong