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Side Note–OMG my egg hatched! He’s a little dragon! Click him to help me raise him. He’ll die if you don’t. Do you want that on your shoulders? And yay for the psycho-fastness of Barnes and Noble shipping! My copy of Why We Suck by Dr. Denis Leary arrived today. My lord and savior, I have thee in book form.
USATODAY named Stephenie Meyer author of the year. Why, you ask? Good question. I have no idea. Nor do I have any idea why she would approve such a god horrible picture to be released of her. She had to approve that picture, you know that, right? Was no one able to tell her that only people weighing less than 80 pound can pull off an upshot like that? Eek!
Anyway, I’m trying to figure out what renders Meyer suitable for author of the year, because it certainly isn’t the writing. Not in this case anyway. Yes, she has something that keeps you reading. I don’t know if anyone knows what that something is, but that’s all she has going for her in the writing department. I’ve seen better written prose out of a ten-year-old.
People say she revolutionized the YA market. Nope. Sorry. JK Rowling beat her to it years ago and with much higher quality work. So stop. There’s just no comparing. Harry Potter is something that will be filed into the “classic children’s literature” category 30 years from now while no one will even remember what Twilight was. At least I can severely hope.
Well that was fast. I cracked it on Tuesday and finished it last night. Nice to know I can still read a book at warp speed. Granted it helped that it was as dense as air.
This is one of the most thoroughly superficial books I’ve ever read. I’ve already voiced my concerns about the book up to a certain point so I’ll just go on from there.
By the end of the book both Edward and Bella are as one dimensional as they can be as characters, and I think that’s giving them too much credit. I didn’t care about them in the slightest. I wanted more information on Alice, who had no idea what her human life was like until watching a short video on Bella’s beating. Or Jasper who’s the newest member of their group and has the hardest time controlling his hunger. There’s conflict, there’s unknown, there’s at least a second wall to the makeshift cube. Carlisle, Rosalie and her obvious conflict, Alice and Jasper, were far more interesting than Edward and Bella ever hoped to be.
I’ll give Meyer credit in giving the vampires something new to pine over and some new characteristics. I liked the skin in the sunlight idea even though it was a little too floofy for me. The whole “vegetarian” (in a fish-eating sort of way) concept, while isn’t new, is front and center so points for that even though I’m much more interested in drawing the beast out of Edward instead of watching him pine his way through 3 more books. But that’s just me.
The writing itself was nothing to write home about. Very mediocre and elementary, words in their simplest forms to portray characters in their simplest sketches.
