Twilight...Love or Hate

I just finished reading the first installment Twilight, a series of books by Stephanie Meyer and I absolutely loved it, not all of it but the majority of it!



Twilight is a love story, make no mistake about it. It’s less a vampire story than it is a romantic morality tale.
Our heroine, Bella, takes us along on her whirlwind romance with the beautiful boyfriend, the oh so perfect vampire, Edward, compared to a statue of a Greek Pagan God, numerous times throughout the book.

I found it to be a bit wordy (wordy meaning how many times darling Edward is compared to a statue of a Greek Pagan God, a little Harlequin Romance novelette), but I loved the story of the vampire wanna be Bella and her love/lust toward Edward.

This is the type of book you might read in just a few sittings, becoming engrossed in its fantastical world and oblivious to your physical surroundings. While not the next great thing in modern literature, it's a fun book to get lost in and comes to an end much too quickly.

By the way, the only thing that really bothered me about Twilight was the "sparkling" I mean really, taking creative liberties now and then are ok, but true vampire lovers (like myself) wholly believe a stake to the heart and sunlight are two ways to kill a vampire certainly, centuries of written vampire stories couldn't be that far off base, could they? What about all those Buffy and Angel episodes?
The first time Bella saw Edward in the sunlight was a bit unreal to me...I really didn't like it.
Then, when Bella asks Edward about killing a vampire he said there was no real way to kill a vampire except to cut them up and burn the remains...well, uh, a stake to the heart maybe (sunlight was out and replaced with sparkling so what is left?)

That doesn't mean that I didn't like the story, its just another way of looking at new and improved, modern vampires!

Twilight is an easy and enjoyable read. This isn't a masterpiece of literary achievement, however. You have to take it for what it is –- a unique and entertaining story.
It sure made me eager to delve into the next novel New Moon.