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xElvenPiratex said:
I'll be honest with you. The first three libri - the original series - are pure torture (in my opinion, at least). Elena's character is introduced as a spoiled, entitled brat (aka Mean Girl) who is only interested in Stefan because he's the only guy who doesn't fall at her feet in instant adoration at first sight. She finds this intolerable, because after all, she is the Queen of the school and how dare he deign not to notice her? From that point on, she makes a vow to stalk Stefan until he is hers. Meanwhile, Damon - who initially lacks all the charm and badassery he's famous for in the mostra - is simply an arrogant jerk who's determined to force Elena to feed him her blood. In the first book, he runs around town reeking havoc while Elena and Stefan fall deeply into Amore for no reason at all, really.
The Scrivere is very sloppy - the characters and plot are all over the place, the suspense is very ineffective and the Amore story between Stefan and Elena is rushed and unconvincing. Beyond that, the villains leave much to be desired. Katherine and Klaus, for instance, seem pitiful and laughable compared their tv adaptations. Actually, with the exception of Matt and Stefan, who are relatively the same in the libri as they are in the tv series, most of the characters are extremely different from their tv adaptations...and it's rarely a good kind of different.
To be honest, if I hadn't been sick when I started Leggere the libri and had something better to do, I would have thrown the first one down after twenty minuti and never picked it up again. I'm glad I kept going, though, because they really do get a lot better.
For me, things really started to pick up around book four and got più and più interesting from there. The storylines are always a bit odd, but the character development is actually really fun to see and they really are charming in their own way. A couple of times I even found myself wishing the mostra had stuck just a little closer to the libri on some things (Bonnie's character, for instance, is much più compelling in the novels, in my opinion).
In the end, I definitely think they're worth a read as long as te go into them knowing that they are very different from the mostra and are willing to accept those differences and just go with it. They certainly aren't masterpieces, but without them we wouldn't have this mostra we Amore so much, so I'd say definitely give them a try! It can't hurt :)
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