I finally read these three books the first week of Dec. but am just now getting around to my review of them. December gets kind of crazy that way.
Every single girl at the jr. high (or so it seems) is either in the process of reading, waiting for, just finished one or more of these books. It seems to be a favorite topic of discussion. In August and September Twilight, Bella, Edward, Jake seemed to be all that you heard. The series was on the best seller lists, copies at the library were hard to come by and you had to be on a waiting list that was almost as long as a Harry Potter waiting list.
With all of that I was ready to be blown away with a great series. I wasn't. Don't get me wrong, it was a good story though it did follow the formula for this type of story- girl moves to new town, falls in love with the outcast boy, they break up she pines for him, they get back together, face danger and resolve it by the end of the third book.
Stephanie Myers tells a good story, I did get roped into the story and want to know what was going to happen next. And her conversations did not sound written, scripted or stilted, they sounded real. But really, that many people live in a town and have no clue whatsoever that it is populated by vampires and werewolves. Bella is the only one in how many years to figure this out? Are the people in Forks really that stupid?
Twilight- I read it in 2 days. I felt like there was a good story there, but I got so sick of Bella's constant whining. As a friend of mine said, "90 pages of good story and the rest is just stupid teenage angst".
New Moon- I could have totally skipped this book. I found it kind of pointless. Again Bella spends the book either moping around feeling sorry for her self and obsessing over Edward (signs of a destructive and unhealthy relationship, some one intervene please!) or she is bent on destroying herself with Jacob's help. I think this entire book could have been 3-4 chapters in the beginning of Eclipse.
Eclipse- Again with the incessent whining and self sacrificing. Come on- Edward is how many hundreds of years old, but he hasn't learned anything about relationships in that time. Surely he watched a few episodes of Oprah or Dr. Phil somewhere along the line. At least he still has his Victorian standards. And Jacob, please, enough of the feeling sorry for ourselves and the macho I know more than my elders and will save the world all by my self.
In the end, these three books were an ok read, an ok story but didn't live up to their hype for me. And they made me so glad that I am no longer in high school and having to deal with the insecurities and cockiness of that age.
Would I recommend these books. Yes.
Would I say that they are a "must read"? No And I would say, borrow them, don't buy them.
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