My Overall Thoughts on Jessica's Guide to Dating on The Dark Side

My overall thoughts on Jessica's Guide to Dating on The Dark Side is that it was a brilliantly written novel. It, like the Vampire Diaries, is about everyday teen problems, but it's also about a little bit more than that. It's about culture shock, arranged marriage, and domestic abuse. In these ways the book has connections to the world, but they're are the connections I made to my world. Young love, crushes, competition, and of course fighting with your parents. These are the things that pulled me into the black and white pages, these are the things that made my fingers turn the crisp pages, and these are the things that made this book incredible. Also, the visualization was amazing! It was like I was reading a script to a movie while watching it, but in some way it was better than that. I could imagine the characters the way I wanted for them to look like, the sound of their voices, and everything in between. The scene I imagined the clearest is the chilling scene where Jessica watches as Jake stoops over Lucius, stake in hand, preparing to do the worst. I hear as Jessica screams for him not to do it, to be reasonable.She sees him plunge the wooden tip into Lucius's heart. And then suddenly, Lucius is gone vanished in a pile of ash.
It is said to say that there is to be another book, a sequel, to Jessica's Guide to Dating on the Dark Side. What I think is going to happen is the war between Jessica and Lucius's clans will hit full throttle, but Jessica and Lucius will have a secret love affair, which will lead for Lucius biting Jessica turning her into the vampire princess she is destined to become.
I can't wait for it to come out and when it does, you'll be the first to know.

My Overall Thoughts on The Vampire Diaries

My overall thoughts on the Vampire Diaries series is that it showed everyday teen issues, with a vampire twist on it. That's how I think it connected to my life and the world. Just by showing the everyday teens' issues, trying to coexist with exes, dealing with the ex-best friend turned mean girl, crazy teachers, and dealing with crushes. This is what we students go through everyday. So, I liked how L.J. Smith described those everyday dilemmas. I also loved how you could visualize the situations so easily, such as Damon's cold black eyes burning into Elena's while he threatened to her little sister's life and she stood petrified, struggling whether or not she should take that step to over that threshold into Damon's awaiting arms and feel is fangs plunge anxiously close to her unprotected pulse underneath the skin of her neck.
I predict that in the series to follow there will be more secrets released about Katherine-the one who turned Damon and Stephan into vampires- also I think that Elena will fall more in love with Stephan, but here's the twist. She's also going to start falling in love with Damon. All I know for a definite is that I can't wait to read them and report back.

Why I have chosen this particular genre

The reason why I chose this certain genre to blog about is because I find that it's interesting to read about the thought of normal people living oblivious to the fact there are other races that are only known as horror stories or fairy tales blending into the seams of our fabricated perfected world. It's fascinating to think of it that way isn't it? To realize, that your best friend, the girl you sit next to in math class, isn't who they say they are? To think that there are secrets hidden right in front of your eyes disguised in flesh and bone, but you can't decipher it unless they spill? That's why I chose the genre. The feeling while reading knowing the main character's dark secret while their co-stars walk around unknown to the danger that comes with the ones they call their friends or their love interests.

Jessica's Guide to Dating The Dark Side #4

Welcome back to my blood-thirsty library to discover the fate of Ms. Jessica Packwood and her mysterious suitor Lucius Vladescu. It seems like as the days go on Lucius hasn't pierced through the wall around Jessica's heart...or has he? Unknown to Lucius, Jessica is secretly falling in love with the self-proclaimed vampire prince, but she finds her love and him irrational. As the days progress, the more Jessica falls in love with Lucius, it seems that he is falling out of love with her. That really bites-no pun intended-if you really think about how Jessica is feeling as she realizes as this perfect gentleman was trying to treat her like the princess she is destined to be, she throws it back at him and calls him crazy and a creep. When she finally realizes she is beginning to fall in love with him, he turns around and starts to hang around with the head cheerleader, (the head bitch in Jessica's opinion) Faith Crosse. Can you say a little too late much? As her life goes on, watching as her fiance walks through the hallways of Woodrow Wilson with Faith Crosse on his arms, but the suddenly, neither her or Faith are going to have him. Lucius broke up with Faith, but that is one fatal mistake. When someone breaks up with Faith Crosse, she's going to take her revenge. It seems that Faith decides to turn Lucius into the monster that seems to believe he is. Pretending to be bitten, she screams vampire and her boyfriend-the one she was still going out with while going out with Lucius-Ethan and Frank Dormand-a real jerk whose been taunting Jessica since preschool-decide to end him, permanently. Jessica races to try and save him, but as she steps through the barn door she sees Jake Zinn-her ex-boyfriend-plunge a stake into Lucius's heart.
To find out the future of Jessica Packwood and Lucius Vladescu, read Jessica's Guide To Dating on the Dark Side

Sentence Starter

I think that the relationship between Lucius and Jessica is interesting because it's so complex . At first Jessica finds Lucius as nothing more than a creepy new exchange student who is just going to be a plain out creep. As the story progresses, Jessica is shocked by the re-earthing of her past-a vampire princess betrothed to a vampire prince, which is Lucius-which leads to Lucius's motivations are accelerated ten-fold. Jessica is hesitant to believe in Lucius's radical claims of living in "vampiredom"as a vampire prince of the Vladescu clan. She finds it irrational for someone to be a creature from the horror films-the movies monsters-but she realizes something when the story continues on. She actually likes Lucius, but is it to late for her? This is a complex and dark relationship that will either blossom or wither under the bright aura of the pact that seals their fates together

Jessica's Guide to Dating on the Dark Side #3

I am back with an even juicer story line! Apparently, Mommy and Daddy Packwood have been keeping a secret from Jessica. Apparently her Romanian stalker is actually...her fiance! Jessica's past is revealed to her in one night. She is Antanasia Dragomir, a vampire princess who was betrothed at birth to the prince of the Vladescu clan, which leads us back to Lucius. He has made it clear that he will do whatever it takes to win the heart of a stubborn Pennsylvanian-raised girl's heart to turn her into what her destiny has made her. A vampire. But there is only one way to turn our darling main character into a vampire. Lucius has to bite her. Yes, you read it right, isn't that romantic? Well Lucius thinks it is. Here check out this dialogue between him and Jess.
"So why exactly can't I do it if I'm supposedly such a big-time vampire?' Sooner or later, I would confound him with logic. But Lucius shot right back, "Women have to be bitten first. I need to bite you. It's a great privilege for a man to be his betrothed's first bite." pg. 90

Want more? Stay tuned to see what this librarian has to say!

Jessica's Guide to Dating on the Dark Side #2

I'm back with a plot line that has thickened, the volume written in with more details and the writings begin with that mysterious man who was left behind Jessica's rumbling bus, saying her name. "Antanasia..." His name is Lucius Vladescu, an "exchange student" from the mysterious country of Romania. Jessica seems to at first not really take a second glance at the Romanian native, but all she had to do was cut through the tension. The tension between skin and blood veins that is. As the blood seep from a paper cut, she sees from the corner of her eye, Lucius staring at it and...licking his lips. That puts him at a 10 on the weirdness scale for Jess, but what she doesn't realize is that there is a reason for Mr. Vladescu's unnerving attention. As she rides home from school in her Mom's beat-up van, she sees him again at her mother's work-she works at a college- sitting on the stone wall. She tells her mother the whole story from him standing under the beech tree in a black cloak and boots to the licking of his lower lip as her paper cut started to bleed. Her mother doesn't react she had planned. She parks the car and walks up to her Romanian (and incredibly hot) stalker. Want more? Stay close by and keep on reading my posts.

Jessica's Guide to Dating on The Dark Side

I have moved away from the Vampire Diaries for the time being and I'm reading a book called Jessica's Guide to Dating on The Dark Side. So far it is about a senior of Woodrow Wilson High School, Jessica Packwood, who has an eco-friendly crazed father and a mother who studies rituals, such as throwing virgins into volcanoes and animal sacrifices. Now wouldn't that be interesting? To say 'Hey mom how was work?' and you get this in a reply. 'Oh the usual just discovering how in some cults they cut their tongues out to sacrifice.' Creepy, huh? Anyway, Jessica is just standing at her bus stop-even though she's a senior her dad still won't buy her car to save the environment-she sees a strange man under the beech tree. She sees he's coming closer and closer until finally the bus pulls up. While she quickly gets to the swinging doors, she hears her name, her old name that she known as back in Romania before she was adopted. "Antanasia..."it was the tall, dark, and mysterious guy, but now he was watching as the bus left him behind. Want more? Wait until the next time.

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Vampire Diaries: The Struggle 4#

I'm back with the ending of the book I've been making you bite your nails over. Damon drinks Elena's blood, but here's something no one saw coming, Damon makes Elena drink his blood! The Founder's Day parade comes and Elena still doesn't have her diary, instead she sees Caroline walk up to the podium and opens her speech by saying that she was not reading of Fell's Church of the past, but of the present. Elena watches in horror as Caroline begins to pull out her diary, but then something's not right. She sees it's green. Her diary is blue. It's Caroline's diary! She sees the shock strike Caroline's eyes and quiet mummers roll across the assembly. Later that day, Elena is chased by Damon to Wickery Bridge racing to the cemetery, but something goes fatally wrong. Elena loses control of the car and crashes the car under the bridge, but does she live or die? Well, you'll have to read the book to find out.

Vampire Diaries: The Struggle #3

I think I've left you (whoever checks blogs) biting your nails for long enough. We left off with finding whether Elena will agree to Damon's request; her diary for her blood. Elena refuses at first, but when her Aunt Judith's fiance invites Damon into the house-if you invite a vampire over the threshold he can enter your house whenever they wish- Elena is petrified. There's a catch. Elena's bedroom is part of the old house so when tries to enter her room, he can't. That doesn't stop him. When he realizes what is the problem, he turns to head for her younger sister, Margret's room. She has no choice, but to step over the one barrier between her and the awaiting fangs of Damon.