#BookStart | Review: Twilight Saga

Unfortunately, the language is too simple, the style too shallow and the diction too repetitive. Nonetheless, I couldn’t stop reading because I wanted to know all that there is about Edward, and couldn’t wait to see what would happen between him and Bella. And so, 5 days later, I was done with all four books, and found myself writing this review.
I really appreciate Meyer’s decision not to allow much to happen between Bella and Edward as in straight away, and that is why I couldn’t sleep or function for 5 days.

Reading page after page, just to reach the part where they kiss, or not, was exactly what I was hoping for. I didn’t want them to kiss and get down to business right away. If that would have happened, I would have put the book on the shelf, like so many others, and never have bothered to buy the other 3. 
So this is my problem: whenever Bella and Edward were getting closer physically, I found myself melting down, reading every word very slowly, rereading the lines, turning on Muse’s “Neutron Star Collision” and Florence and the Machine’s “Heavy In Your Arms”, YouTubing the love scenes right in the middle of reading just to get the mental picture right. And it helped so much imagining Pattison as Edward. He is perfect. fullstop. And the most important part was that I didn’t mind the sudden breaking away from the moment, but what did annoy me, greatly, was Bella’s complete childishness and her irritating statements and choice of words whenever Edward would “pull away”. She killed my buzz so many times. It made a big impact on me to the degree that when in Breaking Dawn, after the wedding night, she tells Edward to shut up because he is killing her buzz I found myself smile as if I got my vengeance. I don’t like Bella. 

And I always enjoy love triangle dilemmas, but I kept picturing Jacob as Taylor Lautner and it simply turned me off. Besides his immaturity, I found him utterly annoying and not worthy to compete with Edward. And the way Bella couldn’t decide what she wanted, made me dislike her so much, and think that Edward deserves better. If Jacob’s character was different, was more equal to the grandeur of Edward’s, and the actor in the film was different, it would have worked much better. I find myself wanting Bella to leave Edward and run off to the forest, wolving beside Jacob. But I don’t want Edward to hurt because of this. I found it hard to imagine that in almost a century he didn’t screw around and that he wasn’t interested in any women, but if it is all true, then he is perfect, and he deserves the same. 

But the most frustrating thing was this: reading the first 3 books, and finally getting to the wedding night scene in the last book, where everything starts great (referring to the moonlit ocean scene and not Bella’s oh-so predictable and boring reaction) I had such great expectations that now, finally, Meyer is going to stop teasing me to death, and will give in and give it all. However, all of a sudden, with horrific shock I realise that she skips the whole thing as if it didn’t matter and was not intended to be the highest climax of the saga. That made me cry! And after reading so many forums, I found none who felt like I do. Which mystifies me. This is the reason why I am writing this. I know that in the Breaking Dawn movie, they will show us something, but that isn’t the point. 

But don’t get me wrong, I don’t read trashy novels, and I hate sex scene, be it on film or in a book. I most always find it irrelevant, disgusting and a major turn off, ruining a good story line. But I totally (approved) of it happening in Twilight, because I believe if Bella was a better character, simply by not being this annoying, she and Edward could have taken the place of the way-over-rated Romeo and Juliet, which I do not consider to be iconic whatsoever. Two children, who think they fell in love, but have no time to test their feelings… and then they die, for love.If Romeo met someone new next week, he would have forgotten all about Juliet just like her forgot all about Rosaline.I understand that in Shakespeare’s time it was ok for two children to fall in love and marry, but in this day and age, I just think it is creepy and disgusting to dare and imagine my 14 year old baby brother, who sits on his pc all day and plays games on his playstation 3 all night, can love in that way or make love or die for love. He is a child, and it would be just infatuation, if anything. Back to Twilight, I think that Bella should have been older. I would have believed her plea to loving Edward that much, as in becoming immortal and all that comes with it, more believable. She’s 18, and when I was 18 I was madly in love with one guy, and I would have done it too if he was a vampire, but now, I can’t even remember his last name, and I feel so embarrassed when I remember my utter stupidity and ignorance when I thought that I was old enough to make that decision. If I had married that guy, I would have killed myself, although he was my Edward back then. 

One other thing that I just can’t understand is this: what is up Bella’s ass?! Her whole reaction about Edward’s proposal was too irritating to digest. For me, this is one of the major holes in the novels. She tries to convince me, desperately, that she wants to be with Edward, although at times I feel that what she really wants is to become a vampire. She is aware that the consequences of immortality will be cutting her family and friends off, and live for ever, yet, for some dumbfounding reason she is more concerned with what they will think of her marrying so young? really? really Bella? and besides, is that how much you love your Edward? I felt like slapping her silly so many times and hoping she would eventually feel so ashamed and leave the pages and disappear. 

Twilight? I love it, and I really needed the mood and the dream of a passionate, forbidden and real love ( i am 29, still making stupid decisions, as in I am married to someone I settled for, and realising that I don’t really care about him that much after all, but we have a perfect baby daughter, and so I am determined to stick to this marriage) so I find myself in need of a distraction like this. I hate what Meyer has done to the characters and the plot, but at least she has given me a few things to think about, obsess about and bitch about. So, would i reread the books again? Yes. Would I recommend it to anyone? hahaha, no.