Note: I'm doing Twilight first, as I am in the process of reading Feed by Mira Grant. Some people may have seen my opinion on the series on Facebook. That is fine because I am going to post it again ;p. Also I didn't post sooner because I had other things going on. I should be finishing Feed soon so that I can post it by Monday/Tuesday. I will try to get new posts out by then as well. Hope you enjoy even if you don't agree :}.
~Bunny~
Twilight; A book review
My Opinion: I honestly hated the series. I would never consider recommending this series to anyone, even if it were the last books on the planet. Now I enjoy a good vampire book, love story, etc. However these books were on the verge of ridiculousness. I had an extremely hard time trying to read these books. They didn't hold my attention and they truly lacked imagination.
Twilight confuses me. I don't understand how people can identify with characters or get lost in reading. More than half the time I was reading it, I managed to zone off thinking about some other interesting read. I wasn't captured by the words or characters.
Now you may think that I haven't come up with things that are relevant to my opinions/finding. As a matter of fact I have a list, that I am happily going to share with you.
Reasons I HATE Twilight:
1. There is no real plot to the books (which I am sure leads to the movies). It feels like a glorified fan fiction of a vampire love story that turned into wildfire. Wildfire that we still cannot get rid of. Now when I say it doesn't have a real plot, I don't mean lack of plot. If there were no plot at all there would be no book. The plot is entirely thin and predictable. The plot consists of short burst(s) of action between long points of drawn out boredom.
2. Twilight is sexist. Yes, I really mean that. Bella set the feminism movement back quite a bit. She is a very bad influence on impressionable young women. Her reaction to losing her "soul mate" was to fall into a pit of despair. Something which, as women today, doesn't need to happen. Bella shows no interest in being an independent person. She is often relying on Edward to come save her. Women today are quite capable of handling themselves just as well as, if not better than, men.
3. As much as some of you might disagree; Edward isn't romantic. Face it, climbing into someone's room to watch them sleep all night isn't cute. It's scary and shows an unhealthy relationship with the object of affection (Bella in this case). Edward is an emotionally and mentally abusive stalker. There are many examples of this during the book, but so as not to make this excruciatingly lengthy I won't name them all.
4. Meyer has a habit of creating under-developed characters. Everyone has the personality of a bag of rocks. I hear that people can "identify" with characters. However, that is solely because each character is generalized. It would be like giving everyone a bowl of oatmeal at breakfast. Then telling them each one is different because the bowl is a different color. Twilight, just like oatmeal, is completely bland and could use a few kicks of flavor.
5. Meyer has the descriptive ability of a third grader, and that could be an insult to third graders these days. She (figuratively) raped the English language with her misuse of words. repetitive nature and lack of imagination. Even her grammar and spelling need work. She could have easily used a thesaurus to step up the adjectives used to describe characters. Instead it was always the same words over and over again. Meyer could definitely stepped up from one - two syllable words to three or four. At least strive to be impressive with your word usage.
6. I know the books are a work of fiction. However, Meyer could have made attempt to have some historical accuracies. It wouldn't have been that laborious to sort through some history text (Hell use Google!) to make the background of each "vampire" history more rich. I didn't even have to go through any sort of documentation to say "Hey, that wouldn't have happened like that." when it came to their histories.
7. The book as atrocious subtexts. I have mentioned some of these above, but for this purpose I will reiterate. Abuse (mental/emotional), sexism, rape, pedophilia and suicide are just some of them. Most of these are obvious (even for subtext), but rape might be hard for the reader to fathom. Let me awaken your mind's eye with this. After Edward and Bella's marriage, they move to have intercourse for the first time. Bella awakens to bruises on her body, yet no memory on what exactly occurred the night before. This is typically the result of the date-rape drug Rohypnol (roofies). I understand in the book that the sex was consensual, however, any sexually active person should know that this isn't normal sex.
My final diagnosis: Don't waste your time reading this lack of entertainment. If you want something richer in text, creatively and well written than I suggest you go read Anne Rice's books (before she saw the light of "God").
What are your thoughts?
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