The Vampire Diaries - The Struggle can be read online for free in a number of places. The website www.fanpop.com has a link to enable people to read the entire book online. Another website that has a link to read the book online is www.randomizeme.wordpress.com. The first of the books in the series of The Vampire Diaries, The Awakening is also available to read in its entirety on this website. The Vampire Diaries are a series of novels written by L.J. Smith. The series of books is classed as young adult horror and originally the series was to be a trilogy, although a fourth book in the series was later released. The first of the books, The Awakening was published in 1991. The second, The Struggle, and the third, The Fury, were also published in that year. The popularity of the series convinced L.J. Smith to write a fourth and Dark Reunion was published in 1992. Smith then took a break from writing, before deciding to write more books in the series 15 years later. The Vampire Diaries: The Return: Nightfall was published in 2009, and was followed by Shadow Souls and Midnight, which were published in 2010 and 2011 respectively. There is a third trilogy planned called The Hunters and the three books in this series are to be named Phantom, Moonsong and Eternity. The Vampire Diaries has also been adapted for television and is broadcast on The CW television network. The series stars Nina Doblev, Paul Wesley and Ian Somerhalder in the lead roles. There were 44 episodes broadcasted up to the end of 2010, and a third series is planned for 2011.
