Some have a "conscience" and are conflicted about feeding on humans, and they all are super-strong and super-fast, and they all have super-human senses. While Edward is the only member of the Cullen family who is artistic and who can read minds, Rice's vampires have both skills.
Some of her vampires have more special talents on top of that. Overall, Meyer's version of the "vampire" species lines up fairly closely with Rice's, and both leave Count Dracula in the dust. Pun intended. Twilight by Stephenie Meyer. Cite This Page. Logging out….
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I'm being chased! I'm scared! Mar 31, B rated it it was ok Shelves: surprised-i-didn-t-hate-it , love-triangle , 2-stars , losing-my-faith-in-humanity , was-warned-not-to-read-this , snark-bait-ooh-ah-ah , take-your-insta-love-and-leave.
That is all. View all 23 comments. May 24, Kat added it. View all 13 comments. Jun 19, Trin rated it did not like it Shelves: fantasy , american-lit. Let me give you an idea of how much my opinion of this book changed at different stages of reading. When I was about a third of the way through, I was so into it that I immediately put my name on the library reservations list for the sequel, and wishlisted every edition on BookMooch.
Now, having finished, I doubt I'll bother to read any further in the series. The opening is really quite interesting: Bella moves from sunny Arizona to rainy, gloomy Washington State to live with her father her som Let me give you an idea of how much my opinion of this book changed at different stages of reading. The opening is really quite interesting: Bella moves from sunny Arizona to rainy, gloomy Washington State to live with her father her somewhat loopy mom wants to follow her new husband while he's on the road as a minor league ballplayer.
To her surprise, she gains almost instant popularity at her new high school—with the exception of the beautiful Edward Cullen and his siblings, who either ignore her, or in the case of Edward himself, seem to be repulsed by her.
Why does he save her life? What are a bunch of vampires doing impersonating students at a small town high school, anyway? Unfortunately, the answers to all these questions seem to be either nonexistent or extremely lame.
Edward reacts weirdly to Bella because she 1 smells unusually good, and 2 is the only person he's ever met whose mind he cannot read. But, you know, the actual mysterious stuff is apparently not important—instead it's more important that we realize that the Cullens are good vampires, who only eat animals, and who do nice, all-American things like play baseball in the woods. Also, all the weaknesses you've heard vampires have are just myths. Garlic, stakes, even sunlight—no problemo.
Yet Edward would never even consider turning Bella, because that would make her an Evil Thing. Instead, what Edward and Bella apparently CAN do is be very emo and teenage about their twu luv despite Edward actually being over years old , and be threatened by a villain that shows up in the novel's last third just to give it some semblance of an actual plot. Then, once all is well, they go to the prom! And still, none of this answers my number one question: if you were a century-old vampire, why the HELL would you spend your time going to high school in Washington State?
Especially when you're not even trying to bang high school girls. Angel at his most pathetic emo mopiness had more spine. Apr 17, Stephen rated it did not like it Shelves: ya , paranormally-romantical , , fang-bangers , shame-on-you. Your score in Part I should have given you a good idea of how critically you judge vampire fiction, placing you in either "Group A" or "Group B" based on overall points scored.
Group A : A fairly harsh to extremely harsh critic that requires in a vampire story that it be: a well written or at least highly engaging prose; b tightly plotted with a well defined backstory tha Welcome to Part II of the Vampire Compatibility Test VCT.
This group also includes those that are not sure what the word critic means. In this section, we will take a look at the most popular vampire series in publishing history i.
For each of the 4 questions below, select the answer that best describes your personal taste when it comes to vampire fiction. Each answer has a corresponding point value that will be added up at the end of the test. The total number of points will indicate a preference for a certain kind of vampire novel, which can then be used to assist you in selecting the right story for you.
Ugly and reeking of ickyness with deformed monster-like physical appearance and sharp, nasty animal-like teeth and claws. Note: long black tongue like appendages is optional. Yes, I think it would be pretty cool. Close, but no. I think the loneliness, lack of Vitamin D and dietary restrictions outweigh the longevity and the cool, soulful hipness.
No way, I would rather die than become one of those things. Not only would I rather die but I would personally hogtie my best friends and leave them for the creatures to munch on while I made good my escape.
I would stare at them stunned for several seconds and then bitch slap them hard across the face for asking me such a dumb shit question, screaming that vampires DO NOT sparkle, wear hair gel or play baseball PG for strong sexual situations, strong sexual situations and strong to very strong sexual situations.
R for Adult language, sweet, bloody violence, fright and nudity followed by bimbo deaths. NC to banned in the U. Ignore the 1 star rating above, buy "first printings" of all four of the Twilight books and read them over and over until your eyes bleed.
Best to skip Twilight as it is not likely to be a memorable read for you. View all 94 comments. View all 5 comments. May 25, noelle rated it it was amazing. You guys I KNOW. I KNOW!!!! Call me crazy, but Twilight wasn't that bad. Well, sure, it's bad, but it's not 1-star bad. The sequels were atrocious, sure, but the first book wasn't the worst crap I've ever read.
What I suspect most of us hate about Twilight isn't the book itself, but the legion of rabid, terrifying fangirls. The ones debating on online forums about Team Edward vs. Team Jacob. The ones who will argue that Twilight is the best book ever written. The ones who camp out at Twilight movie premieres 1 month before Call me crazy, but Twilight wasn't that bad. The ones who camp out at Twilight movie premieres 1 month before opening day.
The ones who post YouTube videos of themselves sobbing their heart out when Rpattz and Kstew broke up irl. I hate the fans. I desperately hate the rabid fangirlzzz.
There aren't enough words to describe my loathing of Twitards. The book itself wasn't that bad. I've read far worse before. I will read far worse in the future. I've read books that I wish were paper so that I could fling it across the room during a fit of rage. I've read books with alpha-douches who have made me use curse words that have made a Navy sailor blush.
I've read books where the love interest is as abusive asshole who would think nothing of commenting on his love interest's tits or weight. And these books aren't even new adult. I've read books where the main character is a rampant fellow-girl hater and slut shamer. I've read books where the main character is so fucking dumb it makes my teeth hurts. I've read books where the main character seems to be doing her damnedest to remove herself from the human gene pool and it is only by the grace of deus ex fucking machina that she is saved.
I've read books whose plot makes Game of Thrones seem simple, and not in the "Wow, that's really complex" kind of way as it is "What the actual fuck were you smoking when you wrote this?
So in that sense, Twilight is really not that bad. Sure, Bella is dumb and a Mary Sue, but the worst you can say about her is that she is completely colorless and bland, with the personality of a block of tofu. The worst you can say about Edward is that he's a weirdo stalker who likes really young girls despite his age, but man, watching a girl while she sleeps?
He's been out-creeped by far worse men. So really. I mean it. You may hate Twilight with my blessing, but please don't believe it's the worst example of YA literature out there. Is isn't, by any stretch of the imagination. Jul 02, karen added it Shelves: and-so-this-is-grad-school , death-is-not-the-end , why-yes-i-ya. May 28, V. I'm tired of people ripping this book to pieces and secretely devouring it.
I don't believe you for a second that you didn't enjoy it if you happened to have ratings and long rants about the following books. Accept it! Stephanie Meyer kept you reading her very long books! And you are only complaining about stalking tendencies because YOU know this is fiction. In real life that's creepy. Again in real life I don't want to date a stalker. In a fictional realm some things are necessary to keep the woman a vampire loves alive and the readers turning the pages. Good luck with that!
Let's see how many agents push for your book. Now don't you like junk food? Do you really only eat select cuisine? Admit it! You put crazy stuff in your McDonalds french fries and then claim is the most delicious thing ever! Not every meal has to be a delicattessen and not every read has to become the next War and peace. You just don't read the book. I like twilight and I'm proud I like twilight. Plenty of people wouldn't read or write if it hadn't been for twilight. The publishing industry would have lost money if girls like me hadn't started reading book like twilight.
Millions of women around the world got to love twilight and they're not stupid, they just don't share your taste in books. View all 99 comments. Apr 02, Kai added it Shelves: finished-series , owned. While I truly loved this series once upon a time and still have a soft spot for it, I also want to acknowledge that the love story at its centre is inherently toxic and gets even worse in the later books.
Meyer also stands accused of exploiting Quileute culture, and moreover I'm annoyed about the author's racism, which showed when she blocked the director of the first film from casting anyone who wasn't white for the Cullens. So you know, there's all that. Find more of my books on Instagram While I truly loved this series once upon a time and still have a soft spot for it, I also want to acknowledge that the love story at its centre is inherently toxic and gets even worse in the later books.
Find more of my books on Instagram View all 53 comments. It's just disingenuous as fuck, that they had the gall to brazenly omit Stephenie Meyer from their credit lines, particularly when one or more of them started their careers in paranormal YA on the tail of the Twilight boom. Even this video , which claims to illustrate the history of YA, downplays Twilight's influence on the genre.
YA existed before Twilight , of course, but it baffles me when the YA industry now slaps its hands to its ears and la-la-las over the indisputable truth: YA was a marginalised genre before the Twilight phenomenon. Was it a coincidence that YA paranormal romance exploded upon the rising popularity of Twilight? Fuck Catcher in the Rye. I'm sorry, but I don't make the rules. The basic breakdown is this: I enjoyed this book, and I mean I genuinely enjoyed it, and was invested, until about the halfway mark.
After that, it was impossible for me to ignore the cloying creepiness that perverts a sweet and tender love story into something that, as an adult, is difficult for me to justify.
This inaccuracy stems mostly from the fact that the movies were a farce that in no way capture the spirit of the characters or any of the relationships between them. The truth is that Book Bella and Movie Bella are two starkly different people, and you can fucking fight me on this.
Meyer has weathered a barrage of criticism for her Mormon lifestyle , and this has bled into her storytelling, and to an extent I agree, because heavy-handed morality is an easy way to drop a story down a U-bend. The artery of conflict that threads through each book in the series is opposing ideals within the central relationship, and if we look at these characters as theological models, their connection does boast a bit more nuance: Edward is Mormonism and Bella is modernism, thus their relationship is a wrestle between starkly defined historical values and modern flexibility.
To explore this model, it's worth analysing each character as an individual, not both as a unit we'll get to that later. My impression of Bella is that she's confident in familiar situations and, contrary to common criticism, mostly generated from the appallingly weak and lifeless character in the movies, is not defined by low self-esteem. She also states that her last school was densely populated which, naturally, provides an ease of anonymity.
When people like Jacob and Angela are being sidelined by their friends - ignored during a group conversation - Bella notices this and acknowledges them. It's worth remembering that, in , a "ladylike front" was very much in fashion and not only in religious circles like Meyer's. This "touch my butt and buy me pizza" attitude didn't come into fashion until Tumblr became mainstream, and until the internet popularised the Anna Kendrick brand. You know, this "I'm a gross girl and I wear sweatpants and I like to swear".
That mentality wasn't part of the media hive mind yet. In part, yes. He is geriatric, and this adds an element of unavoidable perversion to his romance with a teenage girl. Be careful, though. The child has no idea.
He looked at me then, his anger abruptly fading. It would be as if she had fallen in love with an alien, or some eldritch beast from a parallel universe. It would require a lot more effort on Meyer's part to explain exactly what it is that makes their relationship hold together, and the politics between them would be more complex, but this would arguably have made for a more cerebral read. Conversely, this is why I struggle to fully get on board with Outlander.
Granted, I've only seen the TV show, but how could Claire and Jamie possibly find anything to talk about that's remotely relevant to either of their lives? He's never seen a bean can and he doesn't know what the telly is.
It's the poor decision to time Edward's birth at the beginning of the 20th century that really hits the nail into the coffin here. While it does comfortably serve the theological dichotomy between Edward and Bella anyone significantly older would probably not be Mormon, as Mormonism wasn't a thing until the early-to-mid s it is a stumbling block for the believability of the romance.
I was concerned that I might have to avenge your murder. He is an old man caged in the body of a teenager, and his family only enables his self-destructive behaviour. And Carlisle, his attacker, is now his sole benefactor, the puppeteer of a collection of ageless marionettes that obey his authority over their household.
Is there any way to measure the psychological damage this could cause, or are we seeing it now in this strange, macabre puppet show that is the Cullen clan? Is this an intentional angle? What strikes me most here is that Bella is a victim of the Cullen clan, but so is Edward, and of course Rosalie.
Or do they? It could be the ultimate act of power and control, to stockpile living bodies, to use acts of brutality and violence to manufacture close familial bonds. Carlisle professes not to have given in to his baser instincts, but the truth may be that he did, not by killing but with a cultivated community of psychological torture.
Edward states that Carlisle was lonely, but the problematic element to this is that Carlisle knew why he was lonely - it was because immortality made him that way. His solution to this was to condemn other people to the same fate.
Is James the villain here? Perhaps not. If you enjoyed this, please consider supporting me with the button below so that I can take the time to improve on this format! View all 66 comments. Jun 12, jessica rated it it was amazing.
View all 35 comments. Jul 16, Jessica Edwards rated it it was amazing Shelves: vampires , young-adult. Where do I start with this? I don't know about you, but I was hyped when this book came out. Anything involving Vampires or Wolves I want to read it. I read this again a couple of weeks ago and because I'm going to start reviewing more books even though I'm not very good at it I wanted to review this particular book more than any other book.
Twilight, I love you. I love the series. And the films. I don't know if it's because of the story or what, but this whole series will fore Where do I start with this?
I don't know if it's because of the story or what, but this whole series will forever have a place in my heart, it's just one of those series you have to read.
I could watch the films over and over again, even in the same day. A gripping story line with a love triangle between two completely different beings. Some days I wish I was Bella, because then I'd change who she bloody chooses!
Jacob, Jacob, Jacob, oh how I adore you Bella can keep Edward for all I care, I want the wolf. Just once I'd like to see the second male lead get the girl. View all 22 comments. Nov 01, Sofia rated it it was ok Recommended to Sofia by: Mel. Shelves: a-man-saves-the-day , gary-stu , mary-sue , well-that-was-a-cheap-plot , failed-romance , school-drama , stock-side-characters , too-long , love-geometry , problematic.
Hello, I have a little disclaimer. Someone plagiarized this review and has been posting comments on other people's reviews saying things like, "check out my review of Twilight for laughs.
I believe they are rewriting their review right now after my friends called them out. But honestly, I feel betrayed. I just wanted to let you all know so that if you see someone with a Twilight review Hello, I have a little disclaimer.
I just wanted to let you all know so that if you see someone with a Twilight review that looks exactly like mine Please don't plagiarize! And now, the review. Twilight gets too much hate, most of which stems from the fact that it's geared towards teenage girls, and society as a whole has so much contempt for teenage girls.
Everything they do is wrong. If they like boy bands and selfies and Tik Tok, they're too girly. If they don't, they're trying too hard to be "not like other girls. And yet Twilight becomes the subject of hate. Yes, it's problematic in ways.
Yes, it's not quality literature. But neither is Cinder, whose fans are literally everywhere I look I cannot go a day without finding one. Neither is The Selection, which, despite encouraging insane levels of girl-on-girl hate and misogyny, is widely regarded as a "guilty pleasure. I'm not going to attempt to answer this question, because I'm not an intellectual, but I have a theory.
I believe it's because of how teenage-y it is. It's geared towards teenage girls, which automatically means it's trashy in the eyes of many.
You have the sparkly buff actors, the questionable romantic dialogue, the not like other girls-ness. It's an easy book to hate on. It would be a different matter if the series pretended to be some feminist, deep piece of literature. But it's not and it never claims to be that. It's just a slightly ditzy paranormal romance and wish fulfillment.
However, many individuals still like to mock this book for being the worst YA literature has to offer. These people clearly can't see past their own noses. There is so much garbage out there, unfortunately. Twilight just happens to be the scapegoat. Obviously, the misogynistic undertones don't age all that well, and the writing is so dull, but is it that bad? I rated this 1. I obviously have no love for the series.
But really? People need to calm down and give Twilight a break. She has no hobbies well, she occasionally reads Jane Austen, but that doesn't count , half a brain cell, and a bland personality that sometimes abruptly turns into reckless selflessness. We're also introduced to a writing style so unbearably bland and lacking in any sort of lyrical quality whatsoever. This happened. Then this happened. Bella went to the grocery store.
Then she drove home and took a shower. She put on a brown sweater. Then she sat on her bed and listened to metal while thinking about Edward's eyes. At one point, Edward calls Bella "the opposite of ordinary," because that makes sense. Enter Edward Cullen, a mysterious boy who might also be a serial killer in his spare time. Bella is fascinated. Before long, she figures out that he's a vampire. First of all, how does that make any sense? Here's the evidence she has: 1.
Edward is pale. Edward never eats. Edward doesn't like the sun. Edward is beautiful. And somehow she gets from that to Edward's a vampire, what do you know! This is where her single half of a brain cell makes a leap of logic so bizarre it's almost funny.
Possible explanations that actually make sense: 1. Edward spends too much time in front of a computer. Edward burns easily. Edward is anorexic. Edward has food allergies. Edward's parents are supermodels. So many explanations, and yet Bella goes straight to the supernatural. Don't ask me. I have no idea. I was tolerating this until the single most annoying element of all YA novels came in. The love triangle. Only it's not a triangle. It's a hexagon. For this girl with no personality, no hobbies, and no life.
She thinks about him constantly. She visits him every day. She loses what little life she had in the first place. Not only is this clearly unhealthy, it's also kind of creepy.
And I'm not talking about Bella's infatuation. I think you all know where I'm getting here. Edward reveals later on that he stalked Bella home every single night. Even before they were formally introduced. And, on some of those occasions, he broke in through her window to watch her sleep.
If I were Bella, I would call the police and get him hauled off to a nice, cold jail cell. How romantic. Apparently, Bella is totally incompetent and can never take care of herself. So Edward takes this as an excuse to follow her around, even to another city, to "make sure she doesn't hurt herself. I think it's a combination of both factors. So Bella begins to rely on Edward. Obviously, that's not a good thing, because when relationships are unequal like that, they tend to fall apart quickly.
You can't depend on one person for the rest of your life. Edward, who can do literally everything better than a normal person, is at an advantage in this relationship. This is clearly problematic.
Edward is a control freak, and Bella is an incompetent fool who can't take care of herself. The only reason I would ship them together is just to get them out of the picture so Bella doesn't accidentally kill someone by tripping on them. I actually finished this book. All pages of it. Please don't force me to read New Moon, fangirls. I can't take it any longer. It's not romantic.
My review of New Moon My review of Eclipse View all 77 comments. Jun 07, Mary rated it did not like it Recommends it for: no one, not even my most hated enemy!
Shelves: i-d-rather-gouge-my-eyes-out. Twilight is lame and stupid. I think everyone knows that the characters are essentially the ones who make up the book. Bella, our first person, is about as interesting as a rock. Isabella is nothing more than a Mary Sue. Bella Swan? Beautiful Swan? Not very clever. Practically everyone in her new school asks her to the dance, or to the prom. Most readers who like Twilight relate to Bella.
Besides, she is extremely boring, the sort which makes you fall asleep while she talks. I would have liked it if Meyer had given her a little backbone and some brain cells, so she can get out of the stupid situations she puts her stupid self in.
Nobody who grew up in Phoenix would be an idiot enough to wander around empty streets of an unfamiliar city alone. Then again, her idiocy is necessary to give way to her savior, Edward Cullen. Edward is a vampire — oops! And that he has topaz eyes? Insane mood swings, I tell you. Edward is something years old and lives with his vampire family. They are basically good vampires, and they also play baseball in the woods to pass the time. Stakes, garlic, sleeping in coffin although the idea of not sleeping ever was okay — even sunlight!
As for the reason… what is the reason again? Oh, because Bella smells good and Edward is hawt!!!. Seriously, though, the romance between them is forced and trite. I'm not even sure if there's romance at all. There is no development of feelings. Just… BAM!
From there, everything becomes sheer selfishness, and for the nth time, stupidity.
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