Breaking Dawn?
I've just read a whole bunch of spoilers and stuff for Breaking Dawn (the fourth Twilight book, as pretty much everybody knows) and I have to say that I'm disappointed. I didn't have high hopes for the book to begin with - I find S Meyer's characters to be weak at best, her plot flawed in so many ways, and her imagination to be lax. But I didn't expect Breaking Dawn's plot (I searched it up on wikipedia) to be quite so... horrible.
The plot reads like a third-rate fan fiction. The kind that you'd find in the Most Popular list on Quizilla. Full of scandal and craziness and all that fun stuff, but way off base. First of all, S Meyer basically abandons all conceptions of vampirism as a whole. First, they don't drink human blood. Next, they can go out in the day. Third, they frickin' sparkle Fourth, they can conceive? What? Since when has that been possible? News to me.
Personally, I've been Team Jacob for quite some time now. I read Twilight when in first came out, and it was an okay read for me back then. I was in eighth grade. I didn't know better. But even then, I kind of noticed how flat Bella and Edward were. Was it just me, or did it seem like their relationship was based solely on Bella's attraction to Edward's aesthetics, and Edward's attraction to Bella's blood? They didn't even know each other! They were just together all of a sudden.
And maybe I'm the only one to think this, but their relationship is so unhealthy. In the real world, I'm pretty sure Bella's so-called friends would have brought up the question of why she distanced herself from them so much, when before Edward she was actually pretty social. Once she had Edward, voila, no more friend-time.
Also, I would personally be extremely creeped out by my boyfriend watching me sleep, while simultaneously wanting to drink my blood. Not only would it be weird and uncomfortable, but unsafe to say the least.
Sure, Jacob is a whiny, bratty, kind-of-self-centered kid, but he's a teenage boy! He hasn't had the years and years of finesse of his competition. He has no chance in hell, and never did, even though he's the one who's been there for Bella from the moment she moved to Forks. He's the one who's been reliable, who she vents to. He's the one who doesn't force stupid, unnecessary restrictions on Bella just because he doesn't like what she wants to do.
So, I'm not going to name names, but Breaking Dawn has me pretty much pissed off. Could the woman not have found one original bone in her body to write a fourth book, or had she run out of ideas on Eclipse. Because that's how it seems to me.
Truly, I want to start yelling. I'm working myself into a panic about something as stupid as a book. But, as a writer myself, it makes me angry to see people like Stephenie Meyer, who don't have a creative bone in their bodies, getting published, and becoming extremely successful for books that aren't even consistent. There are so many other, better, examples of Young Adult fiction that more than deserve to be getting the recognition that these half-baked books are receiving. It just makes my blood boil under my skin to know that this is the best people could come up with. It's basically blasphemy of the genre.
And now, because I'm posting this, I'm most likely going to get hate comments out the ying-yang, but I really don't care. I just needed that venting. It was well worth it, if you ask me.
The plot reads like a third-rate fan fiction. The kind that you'd find in the Most Popular list on Quizilla. Full of scandal and craziness and all that fun stuff, but way off base. First of all, S Meyer basically abandons all conceptions of vampirism as a whole. First, they don't drink human blood. Next, they can go out in the day. Third, they frickin' sparkle Fourth, they can conceive? What? Since when has that been possible? News to me.
Personally, I've been Team Jacob for quite some time now. I read Twilight when in first came out, and it was an okay read for me back then. I was in eighth grade. I didn't know better. But even then, I kind of noticed how flat Bella and Edward were. Was it just me, or did it seem like their relationship was based solely on Bella's attraction to Edward's aesthetics, and Edward's attraction to Bella's blood? They didn't even know each other! They were just together all of a sudden.
And maybe I'm the only one to think this, but their relationship is so unhealthy. In the real world, I'm pretty sure Bella's so-called friends would have brought up the question of why she distanced herself from them so much, when before Edward she was actually pretty social. Once she had Edward, voila, no more friend-time.
Also, I would personally be extremely creeped out by my boyfriend watching me sleep, while simultaneously wanting to drink my blood. Not only would it be weird and uncomfortable, but unsafe to say the least.
Sure, Jacob is a whiny, bratty, kind-of-self-centered kid, but he's a teenage boy! He hasn't had the years and years of finesse of his competition. He has no chance in hell, and never did, even though he's the one who's been there for Bella from the moment she moved to Forks. He's the one who's been reliable, who she vents to. He's the one who doesn't force stupid, unnecessary restrictions on Bella just because he doesn't like what she wants to do.
So, I'm not going to name names, but Breaking Dawn has me pretty much pissed off. Could the woman not have found one original bone in her body to write a fourth book, or had she run out of ideas on Eclipse. Because that's how it seems to me.
Truly, I want to start yelling. I'm working myself into a panic about something as stupid as a book. But, as a writer myself, it makes me angry to see people like Stephenie Meyer, who don't have a creative bone in their bodies, getting published, and becoming extremely successful for books that aren't even consistent. There are so many other, better, examples of Young Adult fiction that more than deserve to be getting the recognition that these half-baked books are receiving. It just makes my blood boil under my skin to know that this is the best people could come up with. It's basically blasphemy of the genre.
And now, because I'm posting this, I'm most likely going to get hate comments out the ying-yang, but I really don't care. I just needed that venting. It was well worth it, if you ask me.