The Vampire Diaries: The Return: Shadow Souls

Dear readers,


I finished reading The Vampire Diaries: The Return: Shadow Souls. Elena came back from the dead....... again. She died as a vampire saving Damon and Stefan from Katherine. 500 years ago, Damon and Stefan loved Katherine and they found out she was a vampire. She changed them but they said that she had to choose one of them. She pretened to die hoping that that would stop them from hating each other. That didn't work and they killed each other and became vampires. 500 years later (now) Katherine came back and was trying to kill them. Elena killed her but Elena died too. When she came back to life, the burst of Power brought 2 kitsune. They are like werewolves except they turn into foxes and they are more powerful. They're names are Shinichi and Missao. They are brother and sister but thay don't act like it (creepy). Damon helped them lock Stefan into Shi no Shi (translated to Death of Death or Gods of Death or The New Death.) He did that because he says he wants Elena to be his Princess of Darkness. Translation: He wants her all to himself. Now Elena, Matt, Mereidith, Bonnie and Damon going to the Dark Dimension to free Stefan with the clues Misao gave them. The Dark Dimension is a horrible place with vampires, demons, and kitsune in charge with alot of human slaves. They meet 3 people who are actually nice and help them: Lady Ulma, Lucen, and Sage. When they free Stefan, they still have one problem: Misao and Shinichi are possessing the town and they are trying to stop it. Elena has another problem: does she belong with Damon or Stefan???

In the book, I had alot of pictures in my head. Here are some of the words L.J. Smith used to describe.

• Possession in the 21st Century??? That was a newspaper headline and it kind of describes how possessed teens (12-18) are acting. It seems really creepy.


• Like Aladin's cave Lady Ulma describes that as how her father's secret jewel cave looked like. I'd love to go there!


• She guessed that this woman, a slave for more than 22 years, must find true freedom difficult to believe in. That kind of shows how hard the human's lives are. All the demons, vampires, and kitsune are in charge. Most of the slave owners don't care about their slaves. Ulma's master was really mean, he killed 5 or 6 of his slaves a year.
  
• She was going clad in tulle and jewelry, perfume & paint, to go see her Stefan To me, that shows how much Elena loves Stefan. Stefan's jail is discucting, has lice,rats and Stefan is half dead and she is going there really fancy and pretty.
  
• We who are so lucky as to be born into the light- who see it every day and never think about it, we are blessed.We could have been born shadow souls who live and die in crimson darkness, never even knowing that somewhere that is something better. Even though the Dark Dimension isn't real, I think L.J. Smith is trying to say how lucky we are to have light annd freedom. That part of Elena's diary shows how grateful she is to be back on Earth instead of the Dark Dimension- where the sun never stops setting (crimson darkness, everything looks redish) and where humans are slaves.

I think the next book is called "Midnight". I think it's the third one of "The Return"

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