1/3 Really Good Book, 2/3 Why Does This Exist?
This book has had me at a loss for several years now. I've heard so many negative things about it
that kept me away, yet at the same time, people whose opinions I respect all
say that it was a perfectly fine or even "good" series of books. Two of my friends, fellow authors, actually
love the series highly. So here I've
been all these years, unable to reconcile this conflicting information. How can such smart and highly creative people
love something so bad? I knew even back
then when the Twilight craze was at its peak that I'd be reading the first book
of the series one day to appraise it firsthand.
Here's that review.
Twilight is a mixed bag, that's for sure. After struggling through the first 25% of the
book, I was certain that I would be giving it a 1 star by the end. That feeling stretched on well past the
halfway point of the book. This is
mainly due to the spotlight here being on Edward and Bella's dull, slow, tease
of a relationship if you could even call it that because it was mostly just
Bella being desperate for the attention and affection of male model Edward
Cullen whose appearance she couldn't go more than one paragraph commenting on.
So, we get to the major problem with the book, the two main
characters. Boring Bella, Bland Edward,
and their unappealing romance.
