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Reborn Return Vol

Reborn Return Vol


To anyone who's READ the Vampire Diaries Series, can you answer this question?

At the end of Dark Reunion, Elena is "reborn" as a human, but she's still sixteen and she can still talk/walk. However, at the beginning of The Return vol. 1, Stephan is teaching her how to talk/read/write again because she's forgotten. What happened? Did I miss something?

I apologize if I'm wrong, but I believe Elena is eighteen in the Vampire Diaries books, not sixteen. Then again, it's been nearly a year since I tried to read the books, so I could be wrong.

I don't think anyone understand what happened there. She comes back as normal as can be and a week later, she's a child-spirit who has to make out with people in order to recognize them. No plausible explanation ever came forward on how she woke up and lost all the motor skills she came back with. The one we were given was half-baked, at best.

My explanation is that LJ Smith ended Dark Reunion in a way where there weren't any loose ends that would require a sequel. However, when she wrote the Return books ten years later, she needed something to make the book longer, so she came up with child-spirit Elena who lost all of motor skills the morning after she came back. Considering the technology plot hole present throughout Nightfall (there are mentions of Blackberries an other tech nonexistent in 1992, which is when the book takes place), I find it completely possible that LJ just forgot how she ended Dark Reunion.

Personally, I don't consider any of the Return novels canon, even though they are. They reverse much of the character development that happened throughout the first four books, have some people acting just plain out-of-chatacter, and read more like a fan fiction from an eccentric fan than a novel produced by the author herself. They ruin everything the first four novels created and for that, I refuse to call them canon.