TWILIGHT -YEAH RIGHT!!! o.O
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My hatred towards this book is unbelievably unexplainable. The concept in itself is very refreshing, but I just feel that Stephanie Meyers overdid it. Had Bella not been such a self-hating, pitiful weakling it might have held more interest for me.
Initially Twilight was very interesting. Edward Cullen was the ultimate New Greek God in my life. Their unconventional romance had me all starry eyed. In addition, the sub plots got me addicted to the story. Bella’s immunity to vampires, the Volturi, and a twisted evil tracker wanting to drink her blood was a perfect excuse for a nightlong reading session. I will not deny it; Twilight is one of the few books I would like to read repeatedly. However, I think that is exactly where Mrs. Meyers should have stopped but, no, she went ahead with New Moon.
NEW MOON is a tolerable tale, which takes the life of Bella a step ahead. Even though a quarter of the book is spent on Bella’s wailing and her being stuck inside a black hole, all alone, where Edward left her, you do tend to feel for her. Nevertheless, eventually it starts to grow on you, which is never a good sign. You reach a point when you curse Edward, for had he not left, she would not have become such a fake ‘emo’. This is where the second hero in line, Jacob Black, quite literally saves the whole book at the right time. Where Jacob’s character motivates you to read further, halfway through the book you begin to wonder whatever happened to Edward. That is when Bella feels adventurous and that is where Edward, who is miles away, is lead to believe that Bella committed suicide. Like a true foolish lover, he resolves to die as well….oh what love.
But…but...how can both the lead characters just die right?
So as you may have guessed, it by now, Edward feels guilt for leaving her, Bella cries to no end on his shoulder and it’s a happy ending. Edward and Bella are alive and safe, wrapped in each other’s embrace….yet again.
Only if Mrs. Meyers writing styles had complimented the story line. She went ahead and repeated the things too many times. Edward is beautiful, he has cool marble skin, he is amazing, he is extra ordinary, and he is this he is that…the reader is not dumb that he or she will not realize what you mean to say in the first few attempts! Moreover, I am quite sure there are many more words in English for ‘beautiful’. It is not so much for the plot that gets on your nerves, it is more the way she repeated everything.
The third installment to this series – ECLIPSE is a total crash of all expectations in all possible ways. Right from the beginning one wonders what would happen, seeing that the two had already had their happily ever after. As you dig deeper into the story, you are engulfed in this enormous pool of clichés.
Bella is now made to choose between her vampire lover boy, Edward and her newly recruited werewolf best friend, Jacob. How can one be expected to empathize with the woman when time and again it has been reinforced that she leads a worthless life without Edward…So where does the question of choosing arise then? Far from sympathizing, you feel an immense hate wave for her. After finishing the book, you feel like banging your head on the wall, because you realize that you attained your height of stupidity – Really, you should have read the end rather than wasting our precious days reading that! Eclipse in my view is a tasteless plot less mix of vampires, werewolves, humans, love, lust, jealousy and half a dozen other things…Hey! When did this become High School Musical 4?
After all this, I remained a loyal twilight fan. As much as I disliked Bella or as much as I felt that, she did not deserve Edward or Jacob, but BREAKING DAWN just ended it. It was a disaster waiting to happen. No one in his or her sane mind should read, let alone write such a book! Well I doubt Mrs. Meyers caters to the sane population in any case (one of the very few reasons I like her) but that did not give her a license to write Breaking dawn! We already had a happy ending…what else do you want us to read! Nevertheless, we read it, yes, we read Breaking Dawn, and we read about Edward and Bella’s sex life. I will tell you how exciting that was…almost as exciting as reading my history textbook! The real jaw dropper was when Bella gets pregnant with Edwards child. The sex was bound to lead them somewhere. In addition, if Bella’s whining all through the previous three books was not enough, Edward turns whiny! Do we not deserve a break?
Oh and do not miss the underlying social message there. Never have sex without condoms; you might end up like Bella, knocked up with a vampire’s baby. Ooh what a thrilling experience that ought to be.
A good book has only highs and lows, but with this one, it is JUST lows. So Bella has the baby, she becomes a vampire (Edwards kiss must be interesting), she has the all-cool skill of shielding, everything becomes just fine…and then another fiasco. I was anticipating it almost. Remember the evil vampire who wanted to kill Bella in the first book? Well it’s revenge time for his mate now…oh and the volturi wants to kill the new vampire part human baby and then the werewolves and more vampires, so many names and characters…and oh my god I wonder if she was dumping all these plots on us just to irritate us! Because Eclipse was plot less except for the love triangle, which was unnecessary, and then there is Breaking Dawn, where there are too many plots! It was the biggest disappointment and I recommend that you read this book just to hate it.
