Alright, I know what your all thinking. Is she really going to write another review on Twilight? I know, I know, just about everyone has been writing about the Twilight series, but i really need to get this off my chest, so please bear with me.
Im going to make the summary as short as possible...
Ok, so girl meets vampire, vampire tries to push her away, they fall in love, vampire leaves girl, girl has a mental breakdown, becomes friends with werewolves, go saves vampire, vampire army attacks, vampire proposes, girl and vampire get married, have a little monster child, and then live happily ever after.
Honestly, I never thought this series was going to be any good, but my friends eventually forced me to read it. After i read the first page, I thought that I might even like this book. As I was reading, I came to a line that says ' ... It had been belonged to me since I was born.' My hopes of this book being even a little entertaining immediately fell, but I just couldn't bring myself to put it down. I had to find out if this was just a little editing mistake or if this book was as bad as I thought it was. I turned out to be correct.
Let's start out with the main character Bella. This girl can honestly do nothing for herself. In the series she repeatedly relies on her pack of vampires or werewolves to come to save her. What does this teach young girls? That we can sit back and relax while vampires come to our rescue? Bella also has no feelings towards other people whatsoever. I mean, how many times does she have to break Jacobs heart? And after Edward left her like that, why did she even go save him? He broke her heart and nearly made her go insane, and she takes him back like he went on a little vacation. If someone did that to me I would never talk to them again, much less fall back in love with him like nothing happened. Im pretty convinced that Bella has a death wish. I mean, what's she thinking, hanging out with a bunch of Vampires who want to drink her blood and werewolves who could easily crush her? In my opinion, Bella is one of the most annoying, selfish, and stupid main character that any author has come up with.
Ok, if someone asks me if I'm team Edward or team Jacob again, I'll shoot myself. I never will understand why people are so obsessed with them. I don't find either of them attractive and they both have awful personalities. Edward is a hard rock who as no heart and sparkles. How do people find that attractive? I will never understand why Bella falls in love with him. I mean, if he had a great personality i could see why Bella would want to be with a cold rock with no heart who sparkles, but he doesn't even have that. Throughout the whole series he barely shows emotion, unless Bella is near death. I truly do feel bad for Jacob and the way Bella treated him, but he only hurt himself. Obviously Bella doesn't like him that way, and he only hurt himself by pursuing her.
Stephanie Meyer is one of the worst authors I have ever read. Everything from her choice of words to her storyline disgust me. Her lack of describing her characters is very, very annoying. On page four in Twilight she descibes Bella's mom like this ' My mom looks like me, except with short hair and laugh lines.' I guess that would be an ok description if we actually knew what Bella looks likes. This passage always gets to me. "It rains on this inconsequential town more that any other place in the United States. It was from this tow and its gloomy, omnipresent shade..." We know Stephanie that you know what big words mean, and I'm personally very proud of you, but lets get back to reality. What teenage girl uses that kind of vocabulary? She uses those big words and odd phrases throughout the book in the most inappropriate times. Stephanie doesn't only have a big problem with using big words, but also using too many adjectives. "His skin, white despite the faint flush from yesterday's hunting trip, literally sparkled, like thousands of tiny diamonds were embedded in the surface. He lay perfectly still in the grass,his shirt opened over his sculpted, incandescent chest, his scintillating arms bare. His glistening pale lavender lids were shut, though of course he didn't sleep. A perfect statue, carved in some unknown stone, smooth like marble, glittering like crystal." I get that Edward is absolutley beautiful and perfect, but i highly doubt she needed to use so many words to descibe the looks of one person, or should i say vampire.
All in all, this book pretty much sucks. If you haven't been caught up in the whole Twilight mania, I highly suggest you do not pick up this book, and if you do, brace yourself for the terrible writing that's in store.
I totally agree! Twilight is so overrated. I mean, what kind of vampires sparkle? I think it's an embarrassment that it was even published
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