The and Cruisers Eddie line
Twilight. Quite possibly THE most raved/ranted about book series of the twenty-first century.
A few years ago, my friends got sucked into the grammatically-incorrect world of Twilight, and begged me to read it. So I figured, “Okay. If everyone likes it so much, it must be good.”
BIG MISTAKE.
I, obviously, started out reading the first book. As I read it, I was introduced to a whole cast of unlikeable and undeveloped characters, numerous (and extremely noticeable) grammatical errors, plot holes, and way, WAY too many sensory details. It eventually got to the point where I started counting how many times Stephanie Meyer mentioned Edward’s “perfect marble chest” or “incandescent skin”. I mean, come on. INCANDESCENT?! I mean, sure, the man sparkles, but really. I think mentioning it once would have been enough.
Another thing that bothered me about the series as a whole was that Edward and Bella’s relationship was compared to that of Romeo and Juliet, being a “forbidden love”. However, not once did I notice ANYONE opposing Edward and Bella’s relationship. Nobody but themselves. It really annoyed me how, chapter after chapter, Edward would tell Bella how much he couldn’t live without her, and then tell her that she should leave him. It makes no sense. I mean, c’mon Edward! Make up your mind!
After suffering through Twilight, I decided for some reason to read the second book. Bigger mistake than the first.
Basically, 95% of the book involves Bella being an Emo zombie. That, and her flirting with Jacob and then telling him that she just wants to be friends. That’s it. How I survived book 2, I couldn’t tell ya.
Now, after that, I still hadn’t learned my lesson. So I moved on to book 3.
Truthfully, I can’t tell you much about that, because I only read half before calling it quits and ripping about 20 pages out of the book.
Overall, Twilight was not a good book AT ALL, and is currently blinding 98% of the world’s population with vampire-related sparkles.
Eddie and the Cruisers