Breaking Dawn
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kari_izumiSo, after the epic meltdown following the publication of Breaking Dawn, I find out about the Twilight series. And about how much people either love this book to death or want to wipe their asses with it when they tired of reading it.
I'm about half-way through the last book, and despite the Wacky Hijinx(tm) and Edward and Bella's Mary Sue half-vampire spawn, I'm quite honestly surprised to say this is the most tolerable of the four books for me. Maybe it's because there's actual vampire shit going on or because a third of the book is told from Jacob's point of view (therefore eliminating page time for Bella, which is always a good thing) and there's no high school drama or hoards of people tripping over themselves to tell Bella how super speshul she is, until she actually IS super speshul for out-vampiring everyone with her self-control. Eye-roll inducing, but better that her being petted for just existing.
Honestly, BD isn't all that much worse than the rest of the series. Yeah, imprinting on a newborn baby is beyond gross (and makes no sense, because she's HALF-VAMPIRE, for fuck's sake) but what's equally gross is the concept of having no free will. Bella more or less stays with Edward because she once went catatonic without him.
This series has been agonizingly stupid out the gate, and I'm sure most of you have heard all the wank about this, so I won't go into lenght, but there are so many ways it could have kept the same basic plot and been improved. The Jacob/Bella thing, for example. Seh says she loves him and Edward, but it's so obvious she loves Jacob as a very distant second and even then, like family. Wow, love the suspense there. This wasn't even almost close.
TLDR. I do feel bad for the fans who found the last book to be a kick in the gut. I know what that's like to have a finale that comes out of completely nowhere and tanks everything about the series that you loved.
Either way, I'm glad my friend is big into the vampire genre, so I didn't have to pay a dime to SMeyer or wait two years at the public library for a copy.
I'm about half-way through the last book, and despite the Wacky Hijinx(tm) and Edward and Bella's Mary Sue half-vampire spawn, I'm quite honestly surprised to say this is the most tolerable of the four books for me. Maybe it's because there's actual vampire shit going on or because a third of the book is told from Jacob's point of view (therefore eliminating page time for Bella, which is always a good thing) and there's no high school drama or hoards of people tripping over themselves to tell Bella how super speshul she is, until she actually IS super speshul for out-vampiring everyone with her self-control. Eye-roll inducing, but better that her being petted for just existing.
Honestly, BD isn't all that much worse than the rest of the series. Yeah, imprinting on a newborn baby is beyond gross (and makes no sense, because she's HALF-VAMPIRE, for fuck's sake) but what's equally gross is the concept of having no free will. Bella more or less stays with Edward because she once went catatonic without him.
This series has been agonizingly stupid out the gate, and I'm sure most of you have heard all the wank about this, so I won't go into lenght, but there are so many ways it could have kept the same basic plot and been improved. The Jacob/Bella thing, for example. Seh says she loves him and Edward, but it's so obvious she loves Jacob as a very distant second and even then, like family. Wow, love the suspense there. This wasn't even almost close.
TLDR. I do feel bad for the fans who found the last book to be a kick in the gut. I know what that's like to have a finale that comes out of completely nowhere and tanks everything about the series that you loved.
Either way, I'm glad my friend is big into the vampire genre, so I didn't have to pay a dime to SMeyer or wait two years at the public library for a copy.
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Date: 2009-05-29 05:06 am (UTC)I haven't read any of the books that followed after, but I'm kind of glad I didn't. It's a terrible series, mediocre in plot, and the characters are so superficial and fake that it makes me want to gag on my tongue.
Also, by the way, your icon is love!! That expression is just too hilarious. XD
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Date: 2009-05-30 08:23 am (UTC)Or even having Jacob imprint on Bella, but resist it because she truly loves Edward that much. The Jacob/Bella/Edward angle just does not work as is, because it's sooooooooooo obvious she doesn't love him. It's too bad you missed out on seeing what a self-serving little bitch Bella is where Jacob's concerned, but here's the Cliff Notes version. (http://cleolinda.livejournal.com/603861.html)
Twilight is definitely the weak link in the series. It took me nearly two weeks to finish that book. I've never had to work that hard to finish reading anything in my fucking LIFE. But I figure I shouldn't jump into the bashing without knowing what the hell I was talking about, so there it is...for all the good it did. I've blanked out most of the series already, and I started reading it just two months ago.
Glad you enjoy the icon! I forgot where I got it from, though.