Outside of the fact that twilight is one of my favorite times of day, I was intrigued by an article in our paper a couple of weeks ago or so mentioning this author and her books. There was something about the fact that one of her books outsold one of the Harry Potter books, which seemed intriguing in itself. I’d never heard of her.
So, I gave the article to College Girl (now graduated.) Then I encouraged her to follow up on her, which we did via the library.
Lo and behold, there is a 4th book in the series coming out this summer, and a movie that will be coming out soon also. Somehow it seems fitting that the actor who plays Edward in the book (and therefore cannot die) played Cedric Diggory in the Harry Potter books (and was sadly killed to the sorrow of the Diggory fans.)
In a matter of days CG had read two of her books and is on tap for the 3rd. She said it took her about 100 pages to get really interested.
I would say it interested me from the beginning, but the beginning is very hard to read due to the author’s style of choppy sentences — a string of incomplete sentences making up a sentence. It slows me down and is aggravating. I didn’t notice it later in the book, perhaps because there is more dialogue.
Basically it is a high school love story between a girl and a high school (albeit older) vampire. Throw in a few Native Americans who warn her (and thereby tell her before Edward tells her himself) a lot of overcast and dreary weather, divorced parents, a vampire tracker and assorted other characters, and you get the basic picture.
If Twilight is about finding true love, and New Moon is about losing true love, then Eclipse is about choosing true love.
Stephanie Meyer
The author defines the difference between vampires who feed on humans and vampires who feed on animals. It is an interesting premise.
What is there about vampires lately? Twilight is not nearly as complex as the Dresden Files. It hasn’t the humor. But I did like it, and I will read the others. I will likely start the second book today.
Have you read any of this series?
Karin
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I’ve read the first 2 and i’m almost done with the 3rd one. i actually did like the first book. and the choppy sentences are okay, i’m assuming it is meyer’s style of writing. but the second book is not as good maybe because edward wasn’t really there but regardless it still entertained me i like the pages where it say only the months…long story. I don’t want to give you spoilers.
Oh good. I have # 2 to start tonight. Edward isn’t there! Oh no…
Let me know when you read #3.
There is some spoiler content in this post.
I agree with Webster12, book 2 is not as good as book 1. I love Edward. But then again I love Angel from Buffy the television series and Jean-Claude and Asher from the Anita Blake book series written by LKH. I like vampires.
Jacob kind of gets on my nerves. He acts like he has a romantic claim (at least in the first 100 pages of book 3, which is as far as I’ve been able to get by stopping by book stores) when he does not and is possessive and antagonistic when he should not be and reminds me quite frankly a bit of Richard the werewolf king in Anita Blake novels.
Jacob seems to be heading down a destructive path and if he would reach out in a proper fashion instead of throwing Bella to Charlie by displaying the motorcycle in the front yard (and other assorted “If I can’t have her, neither shall Edward” moves).
I really really want book 3!
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