


That aside, I think not having this softer backstory makes Elena’s hard-headedness in the book a little less appealing than we see in the show. And her brother? Well, Jeremy is actually a four-year-old sister named Margaret–aka, not in the book. Elena’s parents died quite a while ago, and her aunt is quite responsible. She still suffers from her mother’s death, and she has an aunt that can’t quite handle all the parenting, so she has to care for her brother. In the series, we have a moderately broken Elena. There’s a physical discrepancy: Elena of the book is stark blonde, and while I have heard that was a reason one of my friends wouldn’t watch the series, it didn’t bother me. The biggest point is that I really like Elena of the series more than in the book. I will say one thing: If you’re a fan of Vampire Diaries, you will not be rereading episodes in these books. The books (so far, as I still have two to go) are good. So not only was I looking into something TV-related, I was going back to someone I had read in the past. Way back in middle school, I actually had read her series about witches: The Secret Circle. So I got my hands on the Vampire Diaries book series. So I decided to do something outright crazy. In the grand winter hiatus (ok, well, the last two weeks), I decided that I needed a Vampire Diaries fix. Well, since The Vampire Diaries is a rerun tonight, why not post something related?
