topsy turvy

Not once ever, did I ever give away a book I just bought on the same week to some little kid because I absolutely was repulsed by it. That book was Twilight. I read it over my vacay in the Philippines and where do I begin?

Before I begin actually, please remember that I love romance stories, I am a girly girl who likes boys and stories where things are sweet, etc, etc, so I thought Twilight would have been the book for me. But it’s totally not!

The beginning was alright. It was kind of interesting getting into the character of Bella and Forks. The interaction at first did seem like a valid perception on high school, but it just started to get lame when every male character in the book wanted to get up Bella by the second or third chapter. Like is this original? No. It’s obviously playing on the popularity of stories like that in anime, where there’s this helplessly cute girl everyone wants to bomchickawowow. From there Bella has NO character development. She’s just the SEXOR chick who’s blood smells good from then on.

And Edward? Ok. No character development either. He’s just cool because he’s a sexy vampire. Like Lestat. Oh shit! We’ve seen this before! If you want an early viewing of something exactly like Edward, rent Queen of the Damned! Original again? NO. And AGAIN, this is SO anime like that he’s saving Bella at every peril she has, he knows exactly what to say at exactly the right time and all the book seems to be after chapter five is describing how godly he is! Like OH! Edward SHINES in the light! OH! Edward has muscles! OH! Edward kisses good! OH! Edward don’t leave me~~!!!

WHY IS THIS BOOK POPULAR? I read it til’ the end to figure out a generation of readers have been interested so much in it for it to become a movie quicker than Harry Potter ever got on that boat. Nothing. I didn’t find anything towards the end except contrite, overused lines, some very directly sexual though this book tries to pass off as girly teen fiction.

In terms of the actual writing, the author doesn’t do a poor job but there’s no complexity behind the work. There’s nothing that makes you think about life, one complex word from the book is “alabaster” and for writing something formulatic and should be a bang on sensation, the sensation still feels like an over done romance. Making a comedy out of this would be very easy. That and the lack of character development.

I know I’m probably going to get flamed for this, but if you disagree PLEASE TELL ME WHY THIS BOOK IS GOOD. I cried during the Notebook, I totally read a Nora Roberts crime-romance book and finished it, I am so damn easy to please when it comes to storylines, so why do I feel no motivation to pick up the next four???

Here, let me sum up Twilight in a PARAGRAPH:

Bella goes to Forks. Every guy she meets wants to boink her, regardless if they start out as friends. Edward plays hard to get and is a jerk to Bella. Bella finds this sexy and falls in love with the jackass. She figures out he’s a vampire. Then they fall in love, have dinner, kiss a lot, every body part of Edward is described and Mike is not happy that Bella is someone else’s squeeze. Then Bella gets stalked by another vampire. She gets tricked by him and gets her ass kicked by him. Edward, once again, saves the day. Bella wants to be a vampire. Edward says no. They still love each other. THE END.