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[meganbmoore]

No one told me that L. J. Smith's The Forbidden Game series is an Abducted Bride plot.  You're all fired.  Except for those who don't read L. J. Smith.  You are not fired.

That said, is it too much to hope that Jenny's boyfriend dies?  Every time he's even mentioned, I keep wondering if this is what Elena and Matt in Vampire Diaries (TV series-don't know if there even is a Matt in the books) were like when they were dating?  And then I'm 10 times happier she dumped him pre-series.  (TFG actually uses almost some of the exact same lines for Jenny/Tom as TVD does for Elena/Matt, so I may have unjustly hated Tom before he even showed up, though his douchery in his first scene made me feel better about it.)

Also, I just learned that Christopher Pike's The Last Vampire series has been reprinted.  That is the only vampire fiction I think I ever liked before Buffy, and it's probably a large part of why I haven't liked much of it since.

ETA: Pike also wrote Remember Me!  That's one of those books I loved as a teen but couldn't remember who the author was.  I'm pretty sure I also liked the sequels at the time, but from what I remember, that may be different now.  Someone may want to find me a new obsession besides revisiting 90s gothic YA fiction.  Last year, it was Kaori Yuki and Clamp.

ETA 2: TVD TV spoilers in comments of LJ version of post.

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[trouble]

There's a whole cottage-industry (if by "cottage-industry" I mean blog-type) of people who recap the Christopher Pike novels. I've wasted many an evening reading these recaps.

[meganbmoore]

Link?

[trouble]

*sigh* I just lost all of my bookmarks in a freak Chrome accident. But I think this is the blog I was thinking of: http://likepike.blogspot.com/

[wilhelminabenedict]

...she does thoroughly kick his ass? Repeatedly? Julian, not Tom. Heavens, I wish she kicked Tom's ass. His ~manpain~ made me want to spit nails.

Honestly, if I recall correctly Matt was a genuine sweetheart in the books. And besides, Elena is such a total toppy HBIC in the books I don't think the comparison could work.

What bothered you about TVD Elena/Matt?

[meganbmoore]

My most recent complaint is his manhandling Elena into dancing with him over her protests. But, basically (in addition to constantly making sure we know how awful it is to be surrounded by annoying women) he seems to view Elena as his property. I mean, the first thing he says to Elena is pretty much that she's had enough time to mourn her parents and should get back to being his girlfriend now. He seems to view their being apart as a phase she's going through or something.

I don't care for Julian, but he works for me as a part of the narrative, whereas Tom...doesn't. But one of the core aspects of this type of narrative is that the heroine rejects the Other and crushes his ego in the process, then goes on to grow up and be autonymous. It's basically the Labyrinth metanarrative.