Twilight Book Series
I was minding my own business when my Entertainment Weekly (I know, it's trash but I can't help myself when I got it so cheap) came in a few weeks back and was introduced to the Twilight Series. I had heard about the movie coming out in Dec and was happy another vampire flick was coming out but didn't have a big drive to read the books.
After seeing the covers of the books though, I was interested in reading them. Although the covers don't have anything really to do with the books, they interested me and I loved the design of them and though they looked like they might be hiding a good book.
So I read the series and I have to say that it was pretty good. Being older than a teen though so of the banter lost my interest but the overall story concept of a vampire falling in love with a human and everything that in-twined was interesting.
The writing was ok - nothing fancy but it did allow the reader to use their imagination to fill in the gaps in the writing - which if done by design would be have been awesome but I am leaning that it was not done by design.
I finished the final book last night and was pretty happy with how the whole series turned out - yeah there were a lot of WTF are you thinking moments but overall the ending was fitting.
The book is written mostly for the chicks but the guys will dig it too but they might dig Edwards POV more and she’s currently working on Twilight from Edwards POV - which to be honest really interests me more.
YES I kept waiting for the books to step over the line with the love, with the getting it on, with the fights - but then I have to remind myself that it’s a young adult book and although many young adults like to think they are mature and that they are adults - they simply are not. I miss the days when kids were kids, teens were teens, and adults were adults.
In the end - I would say the books are good. Not great, but worth a read especially if you have an active imagination. I prefer more detailed writing most times but these books still held their own and I have to appreciate them for that.
Spoilers ahead
There have been a lot of whiners out there that the last book didn't have a huge fight scene but if they had really paid attention to SM other books they would see that there never has been a real fight scene. There have been fragments of fights, before or afters, from a distance, from a different pov etc but never an actual described to the T fight scene. It’s not something she can write - some people can write fight scenes and SM just decided either to not write them or that she can’t - it’s a difficult thing to successfully write a complex fight, you need to keep track of a lot of people and ideas and she’s a new writer. So I for one, was not surprised that there was no big show down.
But to rip the book apart because it wasn’t what you wanted is pointless - it’s what she wanted. As a writer, she was letting people into her world and whether you liked it or not was up to you. Every book that I have ever read has been written as the author intended and not for the fans - it was take it or leave it.
After seeing the covers of the books though, I was interested in reading them. Although the covers don't have anything really to do with the books, they interested me and I loved the design of them and though they looked like they might be hiding a good book.
So I read the series and I have to say that it was pretty good. Being older than a teen though so of the banter lost my interest but the overall story concept of a vampire falling in love with a human and everything that in-twined was interesting.
The writing was ok - nothing fancy but it did allow the reader to use their imagination to fill in the gaps in the writing - which if done by design would be have been awesome but I am leaning that it was not done by design.
I finished the final book last night and was pretty happy with how the whole series turned out - yeah there were a lot of WTF are you thinking moments but overall the ending was fitting.
The book is written mostly for the chicks but the guys will dig it too but they might dig Edwards POV more and she’s currently working on Twilight from Edwards POV - which to be honest really interests me more.
YES I kept waiting for the books to step over the line with the love, with the getting it on, with the fights - but then I have to remind myself that it’s a young adult book and although many young adults like to think they are mature and that they are adults - they simply are not. I miss the days when kids were kids, teens were teens, and adults were adults.
In the end - I would say the books are good. Not great, but worth a read especially if you have an active imagination. I prefer more detailed writing most times but these books still held their own and I have to appreciate them for that.
Spoilers ahead
There have been a lot of whiners out there that the last book didn't have a huge fight scene but if they had really paid attention to SM other books they would see that there never has been a real fight scene. There have been fragments of fights, before or afters, from a distance, from a different pov etc but never an actual described to the T fight scene. It’s not something she can write - some people can write fight scenes and SM just decided either to not write them or that she can’t - it’s a difficult thing to successfully write a complex fight, you need to keep track of a lot of people and ideas and she’s a new writer. So I for one, was not surprised that there was no big show down.
But to rip the book apart because it wasn’t what you wanted is pointless - it’s what she wanted. As a writer, she was letting people into her world and whether you liked it or not was up to you. Every book that I have ever read has been written as the author intended and not for the fans - it was take it or leave it.