Vampire Diaries

Just finished the Return: Nightfall and have to wait a month of so for the next book to come out.
So far: I"ve got to say the series isn't my favorite. It's not the worst but betting it are:

Anita Blake series
Vampire academy
House of night
Evernight
The immortals


Spoilers included here!


If Elena, Stefan and Damon are the three main characters then I don't think Elena should have essentially gone missing from a whole novel, only for Stefan to then go missing for almost a whole other novel too! What's next? Damon is missing from the next book? And it's written in a combination of Elena's perspective and third person until she dies and then Bonnie takes over the narrating. Then the fifth book is written as the concurrent stories/p.o.v's of all the characters (not Stefan - he's missing). The whole series was really good until Elena died - died, as in vampire then died not coming back and certainly not as a spirit child! wtf? So book four without Elena didn't feel right or like it flowed with the first three and then book five was more than twice the length of the rest so it felt drawn out and jagged between two many different peoples p.o.v's.

I'll still read the next two books in the series because as much as some things started to annoy me (more about the writing style than the story itself) I want Elena and Damon together but then I don't want Stefan to be shafted.
So next up I think I will read The Blue Bloods by Melissa De La Cruz