Yay!!! People who agree with me!!!!! *Warning: Spoilers! Don't read if you want to read the series and haven't done so yet! Although, I might save you a brain-bleaching!*
Twilight is readable- the first read was actually somewhat enjoyable. Although, I was like "Say what? How juvenile ARE you?" in many, many parts- like the sparkly vampire skin part. I mean, what is THAT?
Not to mention all the parts that I was thinking: "Aaaaaand HERE'S where I'd get a restraining order..." Seriously. Edward watched her sleeping when she didn't know it. Excuse me? Get out of my house, you sick, voyueristic pervert!
Also- the writing style is very simplistic and at times quite annoying. More description and less "his unbelievably gorgeous face" every other sentence would have been nice.
The second book was bearable, but not something I'd like to have to read again. Can anyone get more generic? Guy loves girl, leaves girl to "protect" her, girl goes into serious depression from broken heart, they end up getting back together. Right.
The third book was utterly, incomprehensibly torturous. I battled my way through it only because my dear hubby bought the book for me as a present, but I felt like scrubbing my brain with bleach by the time I got half way through it. So, S. Meyer spends the first TWO books building up how Bella and Edward have this once-in-a-lifetime soulmate-type love thing, and THEN she spends the third book making this really convoluted love triangle between Bella, Edward, and Jacob. I mean, Bella went CATATONIC after Edward left, and now she's thinking she might love someone else?! The girl is not that great. No way these two guys would put up with her manipulative, whiny, BS! Oh, and by the end of the book, Bella realizes she loves Jacob, too. She just loves Edward more.
Don't even get me started on the fourth book. Okay, I'm started. Bella turns into some sex-crazed wierd person that's nothing like the occasionally amusing Bella in Twilight, and I really, really hated her. And Edward needed to grow some kind of spine. Or something. And the squickiest part? To resolve this crazy, unnecessary love-triangle thingie, S. Meyer has Jacob imprint on Bella and Edward's DAUGHTER (who should never have been in there, anyway. Ridiculous). How creepy is that?!?! So, someday when Renesmee (Renesmee. Seriously. Why didn't her editors stop her right there??) is old enough for she and Jacob to have a REAL relationship, how's he going to explain things? "Oh, yeah, honey. Before you were born, I wanted to bang your mom."
Creepy. Icky. Bad. She should've stopped with Twilight. Bella should've been changed and THE END. Okay book. Sorry for the rant, but can you tell I really have a problem with this series being as popular as it is???
The only redeeming quality I can see is that they convinced Robert Patterson to play Edward in the movie. Whooowee! And yes, I went to see it just for him.
