Well I finally finished Twilight today. W007!

Twilight is the first of the bestselling series which knocked Harry Potter off the charts. This fact, as well as the combination of two of my favorite genres (horror and romance), I decided I would give this young adult prodigy a try.

The book is about a girl who, decides to move to Forks to be with her dad because her mother is off traipsing around the country with her new baseball player boyfriend and the girl doesn't want to ruin her mom's fun. Forks, as it were, is supposed to be a miserable wet little town (which actually exists btw: Forks) that the girl and her mother both hated... with a passion. She goes to school and is immediately the talk of the town. Every guy is after her and every girl wants to be friends with her, but alas, the hottest untaken guy in school, Edward Cullen, suddenly and irrationally hates her guts. But why? And why do we get the strange suspicion the Edward is a vampire? Oh that's on the jacket! Sorry, sorry, my mistake.

Did I like it? Well actually I'm ambivalent. The plot is good. It really does have some solid interesting characters and some real opportunity for these characters interact. We have the structure for quality teen angst, deep superracial conflicts, doomed romance and general gore throughout.

I just wanted more. I know there are two other books and that's definitely not what I mean. What I mean is that I want to have more substance. It's that old adage, "show, don't tell". Often, I would come up to an event or a scene where I was feeling, "Oh... wait we were building up to a something!? Shoot! When did that happen?!" Then there was the leading couple... They had this conversation a lot:

"Hey, stop harassing me."

"I was just protecting you!"

"I don't need you to protect me."

"I should really be protecting you from me. Or yourself, whichever comes first."

"But I don't want you to protect me from you!"

"But I'm EEEEVIL!"

"But I LOOOVE YOU!"

"I love you, too. In spite of myself, I love you, too."

"You aren't going away are you?"

"No."

"Really?

"Really."

"REALLY REALLY?"

"Really!!!!"

"Damn you're hot."

"You're hot, too."

"No I'm not! Not like you! You're perfect!"

"You just don't get how hot you are."

Blah, blah, blah. Okay, we get it... he loves you, he's perfect, you are doomed to be madly in love, now change the subject! ... or just make out... that's what ordinary annoying couples do... right?

"Hiiiiii."

"Hiiiii."

They hold hands...

"Tee-hee"

Face mashing ensues.

So, in conclusion... I don't know if you'll like it. In spite of its little quirks, It was a fun read. I'm really just poking fun. I might actually gear myself up to read the other two, just because I like werewolves and they did entirely too little with them in this book... hehehe.... weeeerrreeewolves.

In other news, this is the CUTEST picture of a CIRCLE I have EVER seen:

Hahaha!
You are so funny! I love the line "face mashing ensues." I will think about that everytime I mash my face ;-) MWAH!
» Rachie (76.25.22.226) on 2007-09-09 12:53:39

Hahaha! You're funny. I love the Twilight series and Edward Cullen. Now that you've pointed it out, I've realised that they're always like this.
» Nuttz on 2007-09-09 06:45:13

haha. ur picture is cute. i really like the drawing. did u use adobe photoshop to colour the pic?

yea... many people like that book. i would read when my friend has all the volumes. hahahaha.
» renaye on 2007-09-09 09:18:05

Remarkably! Thanks!
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