Definitely not the greatest book I have read, but definitely not the worst.
I have seen a lot of hype about this book, both good and bad, and I wanted to see what it was all about. I really don't like to place judgment until I have actually read the thing, and after reading it... I am not going to be jumping on the Twilight Fan-wagon or the Twilight-Hate-Bandwagon any time soon, cause I am too busy for that shit.
The Good:
Classic boy meets girl, but boy turns out to be a vampire. It's a cute, harmless teenage romance, and I felt that it captured the whole "Teen ANGST" thing moderately well. Most of us are, or were, awkward and VERY insecure teenagers in high school, so a lot of us can relate to the overly klutzy Bella, which is a key thing in writing because the author WANTS you to relate to their characters that they are writing about. There is a lot of hype about it being a self insert story, but it's like, no shit sherlock, who HASN'T been there? And what girl doesn't fantasize about a gent who will stick up for her, and protect her, who is confident and all that blah blah romantic stuff? So it's at least crack for teenage girls and a percentage of women on paper. There were a few times I laughed out loud, and squee'd from the cute, and "OH NO'ed" but that's neither here nor there. The book was nice and simple to read, which is a nice change because I hate having to grab the dictionary or thesaurus every 2 seconds, or re-read a passage over and over until my puny brain can understand whats going on. I felt that it was literary popcorn, nothing substantial, but entertaining and fun to munch on.
The Bad (In my opinion):
The world didn't seem real enough for me, it wasn't believable at times. It was kind of
off in some way, maybe because when I write I take the more "Will this happen in real life?" approach, rather than, what happens in Twilight. Some parts of the book seemed like people believed whatever the characters said WAY to easily. Like say, falling out of a window...or say a 23 year old adopting people a few years younger than himself, all the while being a brilliant surgeon? Dude, most people that age are still INTERNING, and at that age? That's taking the fast track...you need a boatload of medical background to even practise, even as a small town doc, if the author would have changed his age to be 30? 35? No problem, would have had me hook line and sinker, but 23? Oh HELL no, it seems too clumsy, and forced that everyone is okay with it, people who are talented surgeons at that age would be all over the news, and a household name, NOT very low profile if you ask me.
And Edward, Edward, Edward, if you are going to rob the cradle, the least you could do is act your age. Mind you, a lot of things he does can be very gentlemanly and somewhat age appropriate...but other things I just have to shake my head.
It's just the whole people not acting the way I felt they should be acting, and I felt a lot of the scenes dragged on for longer than they really should have. And the wording...sometimes felt a little...constipated.
Will I read the rest of the books in the series? Possibly, but I won't buy them. I am not overly thrilled with this book, but not enough so that I waste my precious time, drawing twilight hate fanart to try to rub your opinion into people faces like you run a dogs nose in it's own shit when it poops on the carpet. Oh wait, thats not for lack of time...thats maturity.
People really aught to start growing up. I hate it when people try to force their opinions on others, it's just dirty and wrong. Especially when its something so so trivial.
And hating something because it's popular? Thats it's OWN bandwagon! Hate something because you hate it, like something because you like it. Geeze, I worry about people sometimes.
