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"

Thanks for reading my blog!!!

Dead Girls' Dance (Second book out of The MorganVille Vampires)

Claire Danvers has her own challenges-like being real smart in school that favors beauty over brains, dealing with homicidal girls in her dorm, and above all, finding out that her college town is run by vampires. She has a great roommate, Micheal. (who tends to disappear at sunrise) and a new boyfriend, Shane. (who is also her roommate) Shane's vampire-hunting dad has called in for backup: cycle punks who like the idea of killing just about anything.

Now a fraternity is throwing its annual Dead Girls' Dance and-surprise!-Claire and her equally outcast best friend Eve (which is another on of her roommate) has been invited to this party by a guy Claire ran into at the campus coffee shop. When they find out why, all bad things are going to break lose. Because this time both the living and the dead are coming out, and everybody is starving for blood.

In the book Dead Girls' Dance I am at the part where Eve is going crazy because she wants to go kill Oliver (which is a vampire) to get Shane. They put Shane in a cage that is really small, small enough he cannot stretch out. He is in there because Oliver and Amelie (head vampire) thinks that Shane had something to do with the death of Brandon. (a vampire) When really Shane had nothing to do with it. Micheal has locked Eve in her room because if she is out she will run away to save Shane and risk the chances of dying. And Micheal will not let Eve die. Claire is going to a house that she had accidentally visited before, because that was where Amelie was. Claire is going there to convince Amelie that Shane had nothing to do with the death of Brandon.

Breaking Dawn

I read Breaking Dawn by Stephenie Meyer. What happens is that Edward (who is a vampire) marries Bella (who is not a vampire) and they go on their honeymoon to Isle Esme, which is Esme(Edward's mother)'s island. There Bella eats lots of eggs and she has strange dreams. She starts feeling really sick. Then, she finds out that she's pregnant and her baby is growing really, really fast inside her.







The next part of the book is told from Jacob (werewolf)'s point of view. Jacob visits Bella and finds out her stomach is puirple and bruised. And huge. Bella names her baby Edward Jacob if its a boy and Renesmee (Renee, Bella's mother and Esme together) if its a girl. Then her baby inside her starts breaking her ribs. Jacob suggests to make Bella drink blood because the baby is half Edward too. Bella does and she feels better but the baby obviously gets stronger. Carlisle (Edward's dad) says that vampire babies use their teeth to break open the thing that is holding them in their mother's body, and killing their mom in the process. But Bella loves the baby, and she isn't letting anyone take it out. Two weeks after she finds out she is pregnant, the baby (a girl)breaks its way out of her and would kill her but Edward injects his venom into Bella's heart, saving her and turning her into a vampire at the same time. Jacob imprints on Renesmee at the end because she looks so much like Bella with her brown eyes.












The next part is told from Bella's point of view again. She turns into a vampire and then she meets Renesmee. Renesmee has a gift, like Edward, Jasper, and Alice. Her gift is that she can touch your face and show you her thoughts. Irina spots Renesmee and thinks that she is a Immortal child. Immortal children are illegal because they don't know how to talk yet and they destroy everything. So humans find out about vampires. But Renesmee grows really fast, but not fast enough for Irina to see. Irina goes to the Volturi for them to destroy the Renesmee. Alice sees them coming and she warns everyone about them. All of the Volturi are coming to destroy Renesmee, even Aro, Caius, Marcus, and the wives. The Cullens get witnesses, people to support them, people to witness that Renesmee isn't an immortal child, that she grows really quickly. The Cullens' closest friends, the Denali vampires, they lost a mother because of she created an immortal child. Eleazar has a gift of knowing other people's gifts, and she tells Bella that she has a gift too. She can shield other people's mental attacks. For example, in the Volturi guard Jane can make you feel the worst pain ever inmaginable, but it's an illusion and nothing physical happens to you. Bella can block that. She can also project, which means to push the shield out and protect others. More witnesses come, like Maggie, Benjamin, Tia , Siobhan, Zafrina, Garett, and a bunch of others. After about a month, the Volturi come and they ask for information. They find out that Renesmee isn't an immortal child, that she grows and learns. Since Irina gave false information, they chop her up to pieces and burn her (the only way to kill a vampire) Her sisters, Kate and Tanya try to attack them (the Volturi) . Kate has a gift to shock people when they touch her, so she shocks everyone. Bella gets really mad, and when she gets really mad, her gift really works really well. So she can project her sheild for over 10 meters, which is a lot. Jane and Alec (jane's twin brother who can make people feel nothing) can't attack anyone who's on their side now. Since they are outnumbered (with Zafrina able to make them see illusions) now they quit. They leave (cowardly) and it ends happily ever after. By the way, Bella used to hate name Nessie for Renesmee but now she likes it at the end.


Why does Bella decide to turn into a vampire after she gives birth to Renesmee? There was a risk that Bella wouldn't survive and her heart would stop beating and you can't turn into a vampire if your heart stops because the venom can't travel through. And since Renesmee would have used her teeth to break out of Bella, why didn't Bella get scared and freak out???

I think the part about Jacob was really funny because Edward can hear people's thoughts so that part has really funny things. And Jacob is really funny. He is MUCH better than Edward because.

I felt really anxious when Bella was turing into a vampire because some people don't survive it. and she could have died if her heart stopped. It was weird when Bella was turning into a vampire and the book was very descriptive at that part.

Eclipse

Dear Ms. English and class,



I am reading Eclipse, it is a great book! In the book Eclipse i just read where Bella had come over to Edward's house. Bella has a rule that the Cullen's can only give her hand-me-downs because she does not want Edward to spend money on her because the only thing she wants is Edward. When she sat down on the bed Edward was back in a flash with a crystal glass heart that was his moms before she died. Edward gave it to Bella and she loved it.

Edward wants Bella to marry him before she is turned into a vampire. Bella and Edward got into a fight because she does not want to get married when she is 18 like she is right now. Edward said he will not turn her into one right now because she might not be the same Bella or love him the way she does now. Bella does not want to have a fancy wedding with people so Edward said he would just take her to Vegas to do it.



Bella asked Edward if he had the ring yet and he did. She did not want to see it at first and Edward said OK but then she was begging him to see it. When she saw it, she made sure it was a hand-me-down and it was Edward's mothers wedding ring. The ring was a long oval, set with slanting rows of glittering round stones. The band was gold -- delicate and narrow. The gold made a fragile web around the diamonds. He stood up with her and she breathed " Oh No" he got on one knee and proposed to her, Bella whispered " Yes". They went out to the garage and Alice was angry which seemed odd to everyone. Bella talked to Alice, Alice said she saw a vision of her going to Vegas to get married without her. Bella loved her and she told Alice about the wedding. Alice begged her to let her do the wedding with people. When Bella could not take any more of the pleading she said " Fine."


One of my first reactions was Edward has a bed in his room but does not sleep since he is a vampire and that was a bit odd to me. A question I have is Why doesn't Bella want a real wedding or stuff that was bought for her? I predict that Bella will have a wonderful wedding, and the fight will turn out good. Thank you and I hope you enjoyed my blog!



Sincerely,

J.A.