Header PromotionTwilight by Stephanie Meyer
So yeah. I caved and bought the paperback of Twilight. I'd been waffling for a while in between NEEDING to see what all the fuss about and not wanting to be disappointed. I'd read such widly varying reviews that I was almost tempte just to skip it. However, I was grocery shopping at Wally World Saturday morning and for some reason veered off to the book section. I haven't done in that in ages since I mostly get my books on-line now. Somehow in the twenty minutes I spent browsing the silly book just jumped into my buggy and made itself at home.
I gotta say, I loved it. I read it in one day and I haven't read a book start to finish in one day in a looooong time. And it ain't no sissy sized book, either. But I almost literally could not put it down. I was so engrossed in the story that I just had to finish it.
I was very wary going into it. I'd read some pretty heavy reader reviews on it in the past several weeks. One or two had me thinking that it'd be the kind of book that tended to make dents on my walls. So naturally I searched for evidence of all the things they'd pointed out as reasons why they felt that it was a dangerous novel for young women to read. I can sort of see where they got their ideas from but in all honesty, I think you'd have to be really really nit picky and way too bent on finding fault with it to go as far as they did in their reasonings.
I found Bella to be spunky. Not at all the doormat that some reviewers had painted her. I had all these gnarly visions of her being this terrible wet noodle doormat but she wasn't. She wasn't superwoman but gosh, who is at 17? Me, I WAS the wet noodle doormat. Still am, oftentimes.
Perhaps the relationship between Bella and Edward was a little intense. I can totally see where some would feel that way. I mean, seriously. "I live for you? You are my life?" Um, yeah. Love's grand but if you're living for another person, you got problems. LOL But again, at 17? Yeah. I can see that. And Edward, 90-something year old vampire--yeah. He's intense anyway. You'd have to be having lived that long.
Anyway, I guess what I'm getting at, is if you're able to just enjoy reading and not nit pick? It's a fabulous book.
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My dd#2 (25 yrs. old) bought all 4 books in hardcover. For 4 days she got very little sleep because she couldn't stop reading them. She works at night - 10 pm. to 6:30 am - and she would still be up at 3 in the afternoon reading. When she was done she gave them to dd#3 (17 yrs. old) to read and she also slept very little why she had the books. Luckily it was before school started. Both dd's have reread the series at least twice. Ds now has them (lives in Indianapolis), so I will have to wait until he visits before I can read them. So glad you liked the first one.
Kathy
re: Twilight
Great review! I'm the same way, when I've heard so many things about a particular book...it can really colour the way you read it. I read Twilight before too much of the hype so I was able to avoid that (oddly haven't read the rest of the series yet, but I plan to). I'm glad you enjoyed it despite your trepidation.
And I agree, I found Bella to be quite spunky!