Have read one other book in the series. My motivation being a check to see if I feel it worthwhile to get interested in the CW TV Series based on the original books. Unfortunately it appears to be just another in the YA high school romance genre with Vampires thrown in. The similarities to Twilight are endless. It appears to be another opportunity to employ pretty boys and fawning girls to sell cosmetics ads and teenage fashions to a demographic loaded with disposable income.
The love triangle that forms the basis for this story is as old as history. A woman, who will not make up her mind as to which of two suitors she wants to favour turning brother against brother, friend against friend, even nation against nation. Helen of Troy; Lana Lang in Smallville; Tristan and Isolde; Joey Potter, Pacey and Dawson. None of these stories have happy endings. Of course when men do it we call it adultery, bigamy, or in male dominated societies allow multiple wives or harems. Where passion and jealousy are involved rational thought is abandoned.
Book two follows immediately even numbering the chapters sequentially.
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