Twilight
by Stephanie Meyer
I held out on reading this book for a long time. It just sounded so silly. But then my friend Catherine, who has a master's degree in English, runs her own very cool book review site (http://bookclubpresident.blogspot.com/), and is simply a fabulous person, said she liked it. So of course I finally gave in and read it.
When I started reading I was thinking "I can't believe I am reading a book about vampires in high school!" 50 pages later I thought, "I can't believe I am LOVING a book about vampires in high school!" I really did love this book and couldn't put it down. Certainly it is not great literature and Meyer is not exactly a genius of symbolism or a careful crafter of language or anything like that. But the story and characters are great and it is a surprisingly compelling and entertaining book. Even for those of us who like to think we are so far above such things.
Of course I had to immediately rush out and read the sequels. I didn't enjoy book 2, New Moon, quite as much, but I loved book 3, Eclipse. And I can't wait to read the next one. I also love Stephanie Meyer's story on her website about the writing of this book (http://www.stepheniemeyer.com/twilight.html). Very inspirational for us stay-at-home moms with creative aspirations.
All in all, I highly recommend this book and series. As an added perk, the books so far have been very clean and definitely suitable for teen audiences. I love that!
1 comment:
I thought book 2 was annoying too because she tries to get all literary with the Romeo and Juliet thing. Puh-lease. I haven't read the third book because I just couldn't take it anymore, but maybe I will now that you've said it's better. These books are such candy.
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