Twilight – Stephanie Meyer

What happens:

Emo teenage girl moves from dappy mother in sunny place to rainy town in Washington. She thinks she’s different to everyone else, but everyone at school either wants to be her friend or fancies her. She falls over a lot, thinks pale but gorgeous boy in her class hates her, discovers that he’s actually a vampire and avoiding her because she smells delicious and he wants to bite her. Falls improbably in love with vampire, gets chased by other vampire, gets rescued from other vampire, is disappointed when doesn’t get turned into vampire at school prom.

What I liked:

Not much.

What I didn’t like:

This book reads like fan fiction or an adolescent sexual fantasy, and reminded me of being 13, which I did not appreciate. Vampires shouldn’t sparkle, play baseball, or refrain from biting in weird allegory of conservative abstinence programmes. To add insult to injury, it’s poorly edited, with adjectives and adverbs all over the place that feel like indiscriminate use of Microsoft Thesaurus. Twilight would’ve been better if they’d  dispensed with the first 200 or so pages of emo schoolyard crap in a couple of chapters and got straight to the chasing and biting.

Why you might read this on the train:

You’re a teenage girl.

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Posted: February 19th, 2010 | Author: bookworm | Filed under: Rubbish | No Comments »