I have been being told to read these books for awhile, but pushed it off until christmas vacay so that I didn't need to buy them for myself or anything. I read the first two each in one day and then the next two over the next week. I did not fall in love with these books the way that everyone else did. I do understand being sucked in. Stephanie Meyer has the perfect romantic novel timeline set up and her writing makes you feel very strongly for all characters so no matter what is happening you want to read on and see what comes out! To look at the actual storyline though as it went I was mainly annoyed. First you have Bella who falls in love with a vampire. ok that's fine and swell but then when he leaves she falls in love with a werewolf. And then the vampire comes back but by then I myself had fallen for the werewolf so now there is a ton of the book where you're stressed out because you can't decide which one she should go for. And she can't decide. And to top it all off there are many other people trying to kill her!! It's very stressfull, I actually had stomachaches while I was reading.
Finally we hit the fourth book!!! I actually enjoyed the secondhalf of this book. Putting away the fact that she is willing to die herself to let this child live, we finally get to see a strong Bella and Edward and Jake working together for the better. I didn't feel like I was always being told that Bella needs watching or she's bodily sick because Edward is in trouble or grieving because she's hurt Jake through her own actions. They actually stand up and fight!!!! Woohoo and she makes her shield! Which is awesome. Overall I only wish I could have seen the little Renessme because she seemed very sweet.
Oh and I also was frustrated because I could not get the actor guy out of my head whenever I thought of Edward and I do not think he is hot!!!! NO WAY JOSE!
So good, very interesting books to read. You will def be sucked in and I will probably find myself re-reading them somewhere down the line because even though they do irritate me, Meyer has a fabulous writing skill and you are intrigued the whole way through. I mean even Harry Potter annoyed me at times....
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You are far too opinionated when there are two males available to the one chick. I say this, because you got into my head when I was writing Time Out -- and you almost swayed me from keeping my main character who he was! Because you didn't like him!
Which is fine -- I mean, we're all going to be affected by characters in different ways, but Bella's heart was ALWAYS Edwards ... and Jake could never have been who she wanted, no matter what. You must accept this!!
What do you mean you wish you could have seen that horrid named little girl? Nessie!
I did accept it once Jake became happy!!!
And I was having a hard time picturing Renessme so I would have liked to see a hybrid of vampire and human! Very interesting. Plus she seemed sweet. And I did not call her horrid!!!
Loved these....literally ATE them up after much coaxing from Emma to read them at all. She got to say I told you so!
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