The Worst Bestsellers discussion

I can't get over the bonkers choice to reprint this book into 2 volumes that include "The Captive Part 1" and "The Captive Part 2" tacked onto other books. Like...you fucked up a perfectly good trilogy, is what! Look at it! It's got anxiety.

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Gotta love how the book ends mid-conversation!

L. J. Smith's books went out of print for a bit. When Twilight came out, Vampire Diaries was brought back into print. I believe the publisher put two books into one volume to make the books look more like Twilight. After Vampire Diaries, they reprinted Secret Circle. Since that is a trilogy it's wild that they did two volumes, but I think they just wanted them to match her other books? New Vampire Diaries books started to come out after the show became popular. L. J. Smith had apparently been hired to write those when they first came out; the concept was owned by the publisher. She wanted the tone of the new books to match the old books and the publisher wanted them to match the tv series. She was fired from writing Vampire Diaries. At some point the newer books say "L. J. Smith's Vampire Diaries" but have a different author.