the seedier side of life. What it would be like to live under such circumstances in constant fear of their lives. It deals with werewolf, witch, murder, ghost survival and growing up. These are areas that a pubescent teenager in Mystic fall can easily lose themselves in It forces the reader to realise that in many cases teenagers have no choice in what lifestyles that are born into in this case either becoming Elena turn to vampire or not from the wrong side of the tracks.