*chuckles* I just finished Twilight, and I would like to pass on my mother's opinion, who read it before me: "This is a book in which NOTHING HAPPENS for the first half."
I completely agree with her. If I was Meyer's editor, I'd have told her to cut the first couple hundred pages down to ninety or less and remove all references to Edward being beautiful and Bella being totally boring. (There are few things that irritate me more than girls who whine about how UTTERLY DRAB they are when the entire male student body is slavering after them. A little self-confidence is a sexy thing.)
That said, I will admit, I enjoyed the scene in the meadow. It was just about the only scene where she bothered to describe anything about Edward other than how BEAUTIFUL and GODLIKE and PERFECT he was, and I liked the tension of two teenagers from completely different species attempting to get physical without one of them tearing the other's head off. She established some good tension there, despite the incredibly dumb sparklevamp twist, and Edward's almost bad!puppyish behavior was a nice change from the TALL DARK SILENT EMO thing he had going for the rest of the book. And I was intrigued by his vampire dad's backstory.
Sadly, everything pretty much went downhill again from there. Vampire baseball, wtf. And wow, Bella, a video recording? Are we feeling a little dead in the brainbox today or what?
Basically, when a book's pacing is 50% eyeroll-worthy teenaged dithering omgdoitellhimilikehimornot?, 2% interesting danger-laced sexiness, 15% Meet The (Vampire) Parents, and then 23% random Flee For Your Life intrigue that isn't really that cleverly done and involves a villain not even introduced until that final 23%? You're doing it wrong. -_-
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I completely agree with her. If I was Meyer's editor, I'd have told her to cut the first couple hundred pages down to ninety or less and remove all references to Edward being beautiful and Bella being totally boring. (There are few things that irritate me more than girls who whine about how UTTERLY DRAB they are when the entire male student body is slavering after them. A little self-confidence is a sexy thing.)
That said, I will admit, I enjoyed the scene in the meadow. It was just about the only scene where she bothered to describe anything about Edward other than how BEAUTIFUL and GODLIKE and PERFECT he was, and I liked the tension of two teenagers from completely different species attempting to get physical without one of them tearing the other's head off. She established some good tension there, despite the incredibly dumb sparklevamp twist, and Edward's almost bad!puppyish behavior was a nice change from the TALL DARK SILENT EMO thing he had going for the rest of the book. And I was intrigued by his vampire dad's backstory.
Sadly, everything pretty much went downhill again from there. Vampire baseball, wtf. And wow, Bella, a video recording? Are we feeling a little dead in the brainbox today or what?
Basically, when a book's pacing is 50% eyeroll-worthy teenaged dithering omgdoitellhimilikehimornot?, 2% interesting danger-laced sexiness, 15% Meet The (Vampire) Parents, and then 23% random Flee For Your Life intrigue that isn't really that cleverly done and involves a villain not even introduced until that final 23%? You're doing it wrong. -_-