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It's kind of refreshing though, how Meyer strayed from the typical 'Dracula' and added her own flare to vampires. Something else, try to read The Host by Stephenie Meyer. It's her first published Adult novel, and though she still overuses adjectives, it's surprisingly good. Far better than the Twilight series, in my opinion. It has a wide range of characters and the book is surprisingly philosophical in some points. It starts off slow but when the book picks up, it really picks up.
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You have to take into consideration that Twilight was never something Stephenie meant to publish. The book was something she was supposed to give to her sister but things escalated and now she has a whole series.
But, she still published the whole series. If it was an accident, she should have just left it at that. Very few critics actually liked the book to begin with. If she didn't want to publish it to begin with, she should have just let it die, but, she didn't.
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Twilight's predictable, true, but then again it is a romance novel classified under YA. And guess what? It's chock full of romance.
But, its not a romance. Bella is obsessed with Edward's look. Its a physical attraction she shares with him, not an emotional one. I don't remember a single time in the book where she likes him for his personality. Everything she praises about him is his looks, or his voice, or his breath. Ew. And, she just blindly follows Edward, while he stalks her, and abuses her. And, Bella just abandons everything in life to be with him. I see no romance there. I only see obsession.
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The main thing that makes or breaks it for Twilight is Edward Cullen. If you fall in love with him through the first-person narrative, then you're good for the rest of the books. But if you don't and find him nothing more than an arrogant snob, it'd be hard to last 300+ pages of Bella's devoted love.
Edward isn't the only problem. Bella is too. Everyone adores Bella. If the book is only about Bella and Edwards loveless relationship, then why do so many others just love Bella. Bella is a big Mary sue, and, its the first person narrative that absolutely ruins it, because, its another Mary Sue trait.
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But The Host is better than Twilight in so many ways. I loved it. It's so different from Twilight. Even if you hated Twilight, you should still pick it up! (lol, I'm starting to sound like an advertiser or something >_<)
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I'm starting to see your point, Kitten.........ARGH!
But The Host is better than Twilight in so many ways. I loved it. It's so different from Twilight. Even if you hated Twilight, you should still pick it up! (lol, I'm starting to sound like an advertiser or something >_<)
But The Host is better than Twilight in so many ways. I loved it. It's so different from Twilight. Even if you hated Twilight, you should still pick it up! (lol, I'm starting to sound like an advertiser or something >_<)
*Shrug* I tried, I wasn't into it. I dislike Stephanie Meyer's style for writing to begin with. Its not just Twilight, I don't think she is a good story teller.
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Okay! Totally respect that! So....what other books do you like?
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And BTW, I LOVELOVELOVE your sig and avvie! They're so adorable! ^_^
I like the Darren Shan vampires a ton, and Ann Rice's novels, and, of course, JK! I also love Stephen King and R.L Stine. I love the LOTR saga! :3 Any fiction or Non-fiction book on the Holocaust or WW II. Anything about Egypt.
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But, she still published the whole series. If it was an accident, she should have just left it at that. Very few critics actually liked the book to begin with. If she didn't want to publish it to begin with, she should have just let it die, but, she didn't.
True, but then again, if you were an aspiring writer and you were given an opportunity such as that, it would be a waste to let it go. Yes, she should have just written a different book concerning a different genre and tried to make it the best she could, but given that situation, I don't think better judgment is the first thing you think about. And as for the critics, I remember most of them saying that her writing style was the main flaw in the books. Her descriptions, or lack thereof, were bombarded with adjectives and synonyms that made it look like they were there to lengthen the book, but the thing was, the dark romance the book contained more than made up for it.
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But, its not a romance. Bella is obsessed with Edward's look. Its a physical attraction she shares with him, not an emotional one. I don't remember a single time in the book where she likes him for his personality. Everything she praises about him is his looks, or his voice, or his breath. Ew. And, she just blindly follows Edward, while he stalks her, and abuses her. And, Bella just abandons everything in life to be with him. I see no romance there. I only see obsession.
It's hard to prove my points since I feel as if you didn't read the books all throughout, but the physical attraction was somehow explained as a predatorial development. Seeing as how vampires were made to feed on human blood, they were designed to attract their prey through their looks, their smell, and even their voice. And yet, that wasn't what made Bella Swan fall for Edward. At first, she was curious. No, it wasn't love at first sight and though his looks were captivating, that didn't make Bella immediately want to spend her life with him. It was his actions and the reasoning behind it. It was how, even though Bella's blood was so tempting, he refused to corner her and prey on her. It was how Edward saved her once, twice, an innumerable number of times with questionable motive. It was how Edward seemed to go to such extremes to keep her safe, and yet at the same time, be the number one cause of danger to her. Those were the things that made Bella fall in love with him. Not because he was amazingly beautiful. Heck, I should say that his apparent physical perfection was causing a insecurity complex in her, making her think that she wasn't good enough for him. That they weren't meant to be.
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Edward isn't the only problem. Bella is too. Everyone adores Bella. If the book is only about Bella and Edwards loveless relationship, then why do so many others just love Bella. Bella is a big Mary sue, and, its the first person narrative that absolutely ruins it, because, its another Mary Sue trait.
How should I explain this... Forks, in the book, is a town with a well-knit community. Everyone knows everyone. If you place something new in said town, the attention immediately goes to that variable. Crude, but the only real reason as to why people pay so much attention to her is because of her novelty. Because she's something new to look at. Strangely enough, things like those really do happen. Not just to Mary-Sues. Well, in the words of Stephenie herself:
Stephenie Meyer : Why do all the guys at Forks High like Bella if she's supposed to be average-looking? Is she pretty or not? wrote:
Some parts of Bella's experiences are modeled after real life (my life, to be exact) in order to ground the fantasy aspects of the story in solid reality. Ironically, many of the details that are one hundred percent reality are the ones that are called into question the most (as illustrated by some of my angry Amazon reviews). In this particular case, I modeled Bella's move to Forks after my real life move from high school to college. (Personal story alert!) I mentioned in my bio that I went to a high school in Scottsdale, AZ, which is Arizona's version of Beverly Hills (picture the high school in the movie Clueless). In high school, I was a mousy, A-track wall-flower. I had a lot of incredible girlfriends, but I wasn't much sought after by the Y chromosomes, if you know what I mean. Then I went to college in Provo, Utah. Let me tell you, my stock went through the roof. See, beauty is a lot more subjective than you might think. In Scottsdale, surrounded by barbies, I was about a five. In Provo, surrounded by normal people, I was more like an eight. I had dates every weekend with lots of really pretty and intelligent boys (some of whose names end up in my books). It was quite confusing at first, because I knew there was nothing different about me. (Side note: don't ever let anyone tell you that high school is supposed to be fun. High school is to be endured. College is fun.)
Back to Bella. Here's a short excerpt from a character study I did recently (I wrote the first chapter of Twilight from Edward's point of view; it turned out really cool, and, eventually, Midnight Sun will be published so that everyone can read it.), which shows Bella's first day a school as seen by Edward's mind-reading perspective. It explains the excitement over her arrival:
Today, all thoughts were consumed with the trivial drama of a new addition to the small student body here. It took so little to work them all up. I'd seen the new face repeated in thought after thought from every angle. Just an ordinary human girl. The excitement over her arrival was tiresomely predictable—like flashing a shiny object at a child. Half the sheep-like males were already imagining themselves in love with her, just because she was something new to look at.
Back to Bella. Here's a short excerpt from a character study I did recently (I wrote the first chapter of Twilight from Edward's point of view; it turned out really cool, and, eventually, Midnight Sun will be published so that everyone can read it.), which shows Bella's first day a school as seen by Edward's mind-reading perspective. It explains the excitement over her arrival:
Today, all thoughts were consumed with the trivial drama of a new addition to the small student body here. It took so little to work them all up. I'd seen the new face repeated in thought after thought from every angle. Just an ordinary human girl. The excitement over her arrival was tiresomely predictable—like flashing a shiny object at a child. Half the sheep-like males were already imagining themselves in love with her, just because she was something new to look at.
Try your best to read The Host. I mean... It's a really nice book. If you don't like Stephenie Meyer, just try to imagine she didn't write it xD;
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How should I explain this... Forks, in the book, is a town with a well-knit community. Everyone knows everyone. If you place something new in said town, the attention immediately goes to that variable. Crude, but the only real reason as to why people pay so much attention to her is because of her novelty. Because she's something new to look at. Well, in the words of Stephenie herself:
I see that as just an excuse. No matter where you go, no matter what you do, if your in a new High School, in a new town, your not going to be treated like OMFG O__O WHO IS THAT WONDERFUL PERSON!?!?! She is treated like that no matter WHAT. The part where the rather nerdy kid talks to Bella, everyone around just starts to listen and be amazed. Even the teachers love her. BIG MARY SUE. And, a handful fall for her, half of which, do not matter to the plot at all. I've been in the same scenario. My town is small, and everyone knows everyone. *Shrug* But, I wasn't treated like this new alien, I was relatively ignored. Its just not real teen life. Its not real high school, no matter where you go, that the new kid is treated like a diamond.
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It's hard to prove my points since I feel as if you didn't read the book all throughout, but the physical attraction was somehow explained as a predatorial development. Seeing as how vampires were made to feed on human blood, they were designed to attract their prey through their looks, their smell, and even their voice. And yet, that wasn't what made Bella Swan fall for Edward. At first, she was curious. No, it wasn't love at first sight and though his looks were captivating, that didn't make Bella immediately want to spend her life with him. It was his actions and the reasoning behind it. It was how, even though Bella's blood was so tempting, he refused to corner her and prey on her. It was how Edward saved her once, twice, an innumerable number of times with questionable motive. It was how Edward seemed to go to such extremes to keep her safe, and yet at the same time, be the number one cause of danger to her. Those were the things that made Bella fall in love with him. Not because he was amazingly beautiful. Heck, I should say that his apparent physical perfection was causing a insecurity complex in her, making her think that she wasn't good enough for him. That they weren't meant to be.
I have read the book,thank you. What does it matter if he saved her, or doesn't drink from her. Its still a romance based off of looks. EVERYTHING_BELLA_SAYS_ABOUT_HIM_IS_BASED_OFF_OF_HIS_LOOKS. He is compared to being a god, a statue, an archangel. Yeah, he kept her safe, but, it seems to me, that Bella has this obsession with Beautiful people. =/ I have yet to hear of a relationship like that that has ended up healthy. It is not right, nor normal, for Edward to watch her sleep, for months on end. I read a break down of the book. If the attraction was actual love, and not obsession over looks, there would not be 165+ references to Edwards beauty. That is just a tad bit sad, and over done. We don't need to know about how beautiful he is 24/7. Its just bland.
And, if it was actual love, Bella wouldn't be so pushy to become a vampire so they could be together 'omfg forever.'
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If I didn't like it, I didn't like it. I found it slightly bland. I just didn't like it, and, I don't like Meyer's writing style.
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The Host is the latest novel by Stephanie Meyer (known as the author of Twilight) I finished reading it about a week ago, and man was it good. I liked it better than Twilight!
The genre is kind of like a hybrid of romance and science fiction. Unusual, no?
The story is somewhat in the future. A few years before the beginning of the novel, alien beings called "souls" invaded the Earth. They live by taking over the body and supressing the mind of a different species. They started taking over the bodies of humans to try and save their corrupt society. The story begins when an injured, still-human girl is captured. A soul called "Wanderer" is inserted into her body. Wanderer realizes something soon after taking control of the body: for the first time, the host's mind is resisting. The girl, Melanie, keeps her own secrets and can even speak to Wanderer within their mind.
Wanderer lives her life regardless of her host's resistance. But she starts to have dreams of a boyfriend and a little brother that she'd never met but eventually begins to love. When they discover a way, Wanderer and Melanie work together to try to find them.
That's just the premise, the beginning. It's REALLY good and I highly reccommend it.
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My topic ended up here. Huh.
Yeah, I merged the two for general Stephanie Meyer stuff. People seemed close to discussing various books anyway.
Hope you don't mind.
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You WILL love it. I haven't met a single person that hasn't.
Guess what? YOU JUST DID.
Meyer is a untalented author. I heard how 'amazing' and 'original' the series was. So, I picked up Twilight at the library. I should have known it was going to be bad just from looking at the cover. Two paled hands holding a bright red apple? Cliche much?
And, I read the first half. We have Bella. (BEAUTIFUL SWAN) who, thinks she isn't pretty. Oh, and she is clumsy too, but, obviously doesn't matter.
As a new person to a new town, she is pretty nervous staring off school. And, of course, everyone is absolutely and madly smitten with this new girl, like she is some alien amazing mystic being.
However, 70% of the book is just Bella obsessing over Edward, trapped in a obsessive relationship. Over how beautiful and talented he is. Perfect skin, hair, eyes, breath,scent,voice. Its a little creepy when she gets a whiff of his minty fresh breath her mouth is literally watering.
But, Edward stalks her. Watches her sleep at night too. Wow. A bit creepy. He keeps telling her how DANGEROUS he is, but, is obviously in love with perfect innocent Bella.
Typically your not supposed to want to kill the two main characters do you? I hated this book. It was insanely overrated. Cliche plot, and Mary Sue main characters.
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Edward is far from perfect. The scenes with him suffering and "in torment" grow rather tiresome and boring. Get over it. If you want Bella so badly, just turn her into a vampire already. I don't see why fangirls obsess over him like he's so amazing. He's truly not.
"Oh Bella, you are the one for me, my darling. You are perfect, amazing, and beautiful. Come to me, my darling, let me kiss upon your lips;" is what Edward's trying to say. He seriously disgusts me sometimes, kissing her everywhere skin is.
In the second book, I nearly jumped for joy when he left Bella, but I can't say that Jacob grew on me. In New Moon, she turns into a selfish young woman who needs Edward to live and to supply her every basic need. I don't exactly care for the teen angst in this sequel, as Bella is undoubtedly the weakest character in the story. The parts with the werewolves was definitely lacking something. In the middle, the story drags on and on.
"Oh Edward, how can I possibly live without you? I will die if you don't return to me;" was initially Bella's message to the readers.
I started the third book, Eclipse, as well, but stopped after the first few chapters.
I'm finished now. =) I apologize to all you Twilighters!
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*raises hand* Me! So much better than Twilight.
I'm glad you agree! :D
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I think they're pretty good, but they ain't no Harry Potter. They can get pretty repetitive and corny at times, but it really isn't that bad.
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Most movies need a plot, of which, Twilight does not have. It just wanders on abusive, obsessive relasonships, and never gets to something good. Especially TWILIGHT, the worse of the three. It just rambles on for 500 pages on Edward's beauty.
So, I can pretty much see the movie will be a big floppy flop among critics.
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As for Meyer, she's not that great of an author. Sure, I read the Twilight books, but I don't read them expecting anything amazing. What I do find irritating, are 12 year old girls who scream about how hot Edward is and have never read a decent book.
The Harry Potter books had some pretty bad ones in there, too. The quality went from high to low, while the quantity went from low to high. Bleh.
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The Twilight movie will (hopefully) involve quite a bit of the last part of the book. It will also have do cut down on Bella's thoughts. Yay <3
As for Meyer, she's not that great of an author. Sure, I read the Twilight books, but I don't read them expecting anything amazing. What I do find irritating, are 12 year old girls who scream about how hot Edward is and have never read a decent book.
The Harry Potter books had some pretty bad ones in there, too. The quality went from high to low, while the quantity went from low to high. Bleh.
As for Meyer, she's not that great of an author. Sure, I read the Twilight books, but I don't read them expecting anything amazing. What I do find irritating, are 12 year old girls who scream about how hot Edward is and have never read a decent book.
The Harry Potter books had some pretty bad ones in there, too. The quality went from high to low, while the quantity went from low to high. Bleh.
Harry Potter also had a better author, and a better storyline. Rowling had boxes of notes of storylines of the books and her characters. She works hard on every book.
Meyer takes pride in putting no effort into her books. She is proud she spends 3 or 4 months on a book.
J.K is in a whole different universe than Meyer.
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Harry Potter also had a better author, and a better storyline. Rowling had boxes of notes of storylines of the books and her characters. She works hard on every book.
Meyer takes pride in putting no effort into her books. She is proud she spends 3 or 4 months on a book.
J.K is in a whole different universe than Meyer.
Meyer takes pride in putting no effort into her books. She is proud she spends 3 or 4 months on a book.
J.K is in a whole different universe than Meyer.
I never said that they were in the same universe, as you've put it. If you can provide some reason as to why you compared the two as if I said that, it would be great. They can both still be bad, though. Unless that is completely impossible.
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The Harry Potter books had some pretty bad ones in there, too. The quality went from high to low, while the quantity went from low to high. Bleh.
I disagree. The last book was the best in the series, even better than the first one, IMO
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The Harry Potter books had some pretty bad ones in there, too. The quality went from high to low, while the quantity went from low to high. Bleh.
I disagree. The last book was the best in the series, even better than the first one, IMO
Hmm yeah it was quite the opposite for me. I loved the first three books, but I really felt that as she expanded them, the books weren't as interesting (With the 4th one being an exception, I found that one interesting). When I was reading the 7th book, I realized that I hardly remembered anything from the 6th book. I don't even have the urge to re-read the 5th-7th books, while I would probably re-read the 1st-4th books, even though I've read them multiple times. Everyone has a different perspective, though.
As for the Twilight series, I read them anyways. Whenever I know people who want to read them, I warn them that the writing style isn't that great (Mostly because I have a lot of friends who actually care about how well a book is written). Occasionally, I have some friends who honestly don't care how well an author writes (It breaks my heart).
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I also dislike the rabid fangirls that Stephenie Meyer attracts. God. Shit, there was this one point in April or something, where there was Edward Cullen 'graffiti' on the floor and such. The hell? Those stupid girls didn't have half a mind to even use proper spray paint. They used sunscreen and hairspray. WTF.
Anyways, I think sometime I will finish New Moon. I dunno, I have a lot of books I want to finish. 8D
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Ok, at first my cousin was obsessing over it and telling me it was a romance novel and how good it was. Now, I abhore romance (for the most part) and I'm more of a mystery/fantasy/scifi type of person (I'm reading a HUGE Sherlock Holmes book at the moment and I'm happy as a clam). I kept telling her I'd read it eventually, but I was kinda like, "...eh, whatever." Then, surprise! She freakin bought the book for my birthday. *facepalm* I acted happy of course, cuz she got me alot of stuff and all, but inside I was like, "shoooooot I have no choice now." Mmkay, so fast-forward to me finishing the book and here's what I think:
Surprisingly, when I read the book, it wasn't the kind that I'm like "OH GOD CAN I PUT IT DOWN NOW?!" Most of the time, I'd finish the situation Bella's in before I stop reading cuz it was a bit captivating for me. HOWEVER (pheer mah big text :K) first of all, like I said, I reaaally hate most romance books so this was no different: I kinda skimmed over the romantic parts (like, half the book O.o) because I found Bella's obsession over him really creepy. Does she do ANYTHING besides think of him? I'm hoping my parents never read this book. I mean, if they saw Bella's character, they'd probably think I have nothing else to do with my time except stare in awe at some random guy's beauty (though I do occasionally stare at Zack in Crisis Core but I believe that's different XD).
Also, at first I thought this was only me and my nitpicky self, but I found that she pretty much has a dictionary next to her while she's writing the book. Honestly, it makes me feel stupid since I know all the words she puts in there and it feels as if she's trying to teach little kids new vocabulary words by repeating them several times throughout the book.
I hated Bella's character overall and I found it really hard to relate to her, especially with everyone suddenly accepting her as a new girl and idolizing her =/ like previous posters said, she's a Mary Sue character and I hated how she was such a damsel in distress. I would shout at the book sometimes, saying things like, "SERIOUSLY, HOW STUPID ARE YOU?! DON'T YOU KNOW WHAT DANGER IS WHEN IT BITES YOU IN THE BUTT? I DON'T CARE HOW MUCH YOU OBSESS OVER THE DUDE, GET OVER IT!!!".... or something like that o.o
wheeeeeeeeee for typing alot
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@ RazeTora: I'll pray for you
btw, I saw some 30-second teaser trailer for the Twilight movie, and I'm sorry, but man this movie's gonna suck.... that is all *woosh*
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Frankly, I'm sick of the hype that this series gets where it is neither warranted or deserved.
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RazeTora wrote:
Lolita_Kitten wrote:
Meyer takes pride in putting no effort into her books. She is proud she spends 3 or 4 months on a book.
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AND VIOLA, A LITERARY MASTERPIECE FOR THE AGES!
I'D LIEK TO THANK THE ACADEMY, AND EVERY TWELVE YEAR OLD GIRL IN THE WORLD :3
Oh, God, my friends are dragging me to the midnight release party on Friday.
AND WE'RE LEAVING IN THE AFTERNOON.
SO I'LL BE TRAPPED IN BARNES AND NOBLES WITH THESE MOSTLY INSANE FANS.
ALL.
NIGHT.
LONG.
Wish me luck.
You make me laugh so hard! D:
I'd kill my friends if they even ask me to go with them. I wouldn't live the night.
I feel sorry for you. ;^;
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no not like that
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"Other books disappoint me now that I've read Twilight"
"I am in love with Edward Cullen"
"The boys in my life are not like Edward!"
"Go read Twilight, you'll love it!"
"It's the best book I've EVER read!"
"Sigh, I wish I was Bella"
"I want Bella and Edward to have sex in Breaking Dawn"
So, I read it. And hated it! Bella Swan (Hello, worst name pun I've come across so far!) and her adorable clumsiness ("I find myself ugly, oh, all the boys in class are madly in love with me but I don't notice. Whoops, I can't hold a racket without hitting my admirer in the face with it.") made me want to puke. Also, Edward and his perfect eyebrows annoyed me. It would've been okay if there'd been a couple pages describing his flawless looks - but come on! Everytime he shows up (which is like..all the time), we get to know his fresh minty breath better and learn about him struggling with his feelings. Oh, poor boy.
I read New Moon too. At first, I liked Jacob. Then all the werewolf angst started and I put the book away for about a week. There was no action in the action scenes and Bella's depressions annoyed me too. Creepy.
I have yet to read Eclipse. The Host doesn't really interest me but I guess I'll pick it up anyway. If the writing is even a tad better than Twilight! D:
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Re: TWILIGHT!!!!!!
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shojogirl wrote:
I know! That's why I'm so excited. The guy who plays Edward is totally smexi!
No he's not. I'll always think 'Gawsh, you died in HP4 HAHAHA'.
I think I might read this book :D
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