Book Review: Twilight
Posted on 24 September 2008 by Lisa Pawlowski
You’re lucky to be reading this. I almost never got this article written. You see, I’ve been worthless the past few days. My house is a pit. I haven’t done hardly any writing. I’m neglecting my husband and kids. I’m barely eating or sleeping, and I can’t be bothered with checking e-mail. Why am I doing this? Do I have an illness? No. My daughter got me addicted to the Twilight series of books and I can’t stop reading until I’m through the entire series.
I realize I’m coming late to a party that, seemingly, everyone has been to. Some of you already know the powerful allure Stephenie Meyer’s vampire romance/thrillers hold over unsuspecting readers. I was aware that the books were out there, I mean, I’d seen the endcap displays at Barnes and Noble and heard the hyperbolic comparisons to other successful series and dismissed them. Anymore, every publisher who prints a sci-fi/fantasy book shouts out blurbs from unheard of critics who claim, “Best thing since Harry Potter.”
The thing is, I’m not really a fantasy/romance-type reader. I like my stories grounded in reality, with a few exceptions. But, just as Bella is hooked on Edward’s smoldering good looks and raw sex appeal, so too am I addicted and need to find out as quickly as possible how the story arc ends.
I’m in the middle of the fourth book and the series has turned from a mostly romance, with a little bit of thriller story to a fantasy thriller with romantic elements. I did read an article where readers were so disappointed in this turn of the story that many went to the bookstore and returned their copies. But think about it, the romance between the characters would be hard to keep up. All stories need conflict. People don’t buy books where nothing happens and everyone gets along. That would be dull.
Popularity: 9% [?]
September 24th, 2008 at 10:46 am
Yep, I’m one of mom’s too! I started reading the series after my 13 year old daughter finally insisted that read Twilight. My kids ate cereal for dinner for an entire week and my husband cringes every time he hears Edward’s name. It’s become an obsession, but on the bright side, my daughter and I finally have something to talk about! Talk of sparkling vampires has become a daily part of life at our house.
September 24th, 2008 at 12:19 pm
Me too. Totally admit it. I’m in love with Edward Cullen.
September 24th, 2008 at 2:47 pm
I’m glad to see I’m not alone. Now I don’t feel so bad.
September 24th, 2008 at 3:04 pm
I honestly wish I could get into this book series. You would think as much as I love a good vampire story I would be all over this one! I’m glad you can though. It seems like it is well written and quite addictive.
September 24th, 2008 at 9:13 pm
I have been wondering what all the hype is about. I hadn’t really heard *what* these books were about until the gossip rags began covering the fact that it was becoming a film.
Now I guess I should check out the books if it comes so highly reccomended.
September 26th, 2008 at 9:00 am
I hadn’t ever heard of this series until I was on Facebook one day and “I Love Edward Cullen” (and the like) buttons were all over. So I had to look up who he was (still never heard of him or Twilight). Then I ran across the book at Sam’s Club and thought “Why not?”. Well… now I know why not! I became obsessed with the series after about 50 pages. I have only about 150 pages left of the 4th one and I have been slowing down because I don’t want it to end! I haven’t read much vampire fiction but I’m sure glad I read this one…
October 27th, 2008 at 11:37 am
We all have something called ACD: Addicted Cullen disorder. We all want our boyfriends to sparkle in the sun, be ice cold, amazingly strong, and as fast of the speed of light. We want to all get called Bella and to have a vampire play us lullaby to help us sleep. We want to have a vampire and werewolf fight over us. We want be as clumsy as we can ever be. We want an amzing docter called Carlisle. We want a a hyper best friend that buys you deisigner clothes and sees the future called Alice. We want her boyfriend to be quite and change our moods when we need it called Jasper. We want our enemy to be amzingly good looking and to yet care for you to be called Rosslie. We want her super strong boyfriend that plays jokes to be called Emmett. We want a perfect caring mother that bakes us amazing cookies to be called Esme. And most of all we want this dazzling handsome, perfect boyfriend to come through our bedroom window at night. We want two families that we get torn apart that are born to hate each other. We want this so badly, to willingly give up our own life for this other dangerous life. And this wonderful amazing book saga is responsible for giving this gift to us all. We mentally or when we die will have our own family whether we are werewolf or vampire. Its called Twilight for all us fans. And our god is Stephiene Meyer. (`)