The story takes place at Ellsford University, a quiet yet posh New England college. You're introduced to Dr. Palmer who is conducting a scientific study at Ellsford. Palmer is a very detailed orientated individual that has decided to switch from testing on monkeys to testing on humans.
The only thing is, his field of expertise is AIDS research; he's developing a new vaccine for the disease. With an unsuspecting and trusting source of test subjects his studies go unnoticed at the college.
Vervain for everyone! Stefan gives Elaina enough of the plant to keep everybody vamp-free for the foreseeable future. Later, Elaina and Jeremy order pizza and the delivery guy turns out to be Elaina’s road kill—we’ll call him Hoody (he has a name, but won’t be around long enough to matter). Jeremy searches for his three-fitty to pay the man, inviting him in as he slowly works out the math.
Christine Temetri writes for the Banner, a monthly, evangelical publication. Christine fell into this job after a failed attempt at writing a scathing expose on a cult, which the staff and readers loved. Christine was given her own column about end-of-the-world predictions, appropriately named "End Notes".
Justin Collier is the prince of beer. He has been living the "good" life in L.A. for several years, but something has to give. Justin's Food Network show has paid handsomely for the past three years, but the network has now dropped his show in favor of something new. Now Justin yearns to get back to life before the show.
Oscar Cambell is a model citizen, living in Candor, Florida; a planned community built by his father. With a waiting list of more than a year and a $1 million plus price tag, new people move to Candor, but nobody ever leaves.
The story starts off fast and furious with Hoke, a hard-ass-don't-give-a-crap-for-anyone-else type of guy, raping Jessica. Jessica has had a rough life with her mother committing suicide and drug issues in her past; but this time she won't be accepting of the things around her. Jessica arms herself and returns to Hoke's apartment, kidnapping him with the intent to avenge herself by murdering him.
The ever concerned Stefan, the victim of a jump and dump—over a photo no less—is frantically calling Elaina to make sure she’s ok. As if to thumb her nose at Stefan, Elaina leaves her vervain necklace on top of Katherine’s picture—the only thing she’ll prove is that her neck is not puncture resistant; but I digress.
In the early 90's a series of books by L.J. Smith called the Vampire Diaries were written. Although I never got around to reading them, somewhere in Connecticut Stephenie Meyer was under the covers with a flashlight filing away the info for her future tomes, which would be written off the backs of these before-their-time-pop-culture-gems.
It’s not often that I watch the news, it’s too depressing—especially international news—although the story of the Pope being attacked piqued my interest...
I'm sure like us, you've been seeing USA Today's Top 100 Books of the Decade or New York Times Top Books of 2009. We can't help but wonder, with the millions of books printed each year, a small village would have difficulty reading enough of them to pronounce any of them the best of the year or decade; forget a single person trying to do so.
Committed to keeping you in the know, here are a few more celebrity books...