In Twilight land, everyone dazzles you until your eyes hurt.

[persephone_blue]

I finally grit my teeth and finished it this morning. In writing this review, I'm trying to figure out what exactly this book is and what it wants to do.

Comments

[rapunzels_tears]

Hey, this is Maureen Hitch of Woo.

I admire you for getting through the book and writing such a good critique. Every time I think about the Twilight Franchise I get tense and angry - my feminism is allergic. I also object to the idea of everything being "perfect" in a glorification of superficiality.

Really, I should probably actually read the books and know my enemy...but I know I won't. Mostly because thanks to IS I don't really have time for recreational reading anyways. *sadface*.

Buffy and Angel are better.

[persephone_blue]

Hi Maureen!

After finishing the book, I had a lot of thoughts about it and I wanted to organize them. LJ seemed like the best format. If I wrote an opinion article for the Wooster Voice, I don't think I would have been able to ramble so much!

Go ahead and put off the book. If anything, reading it after the fad has passed might put it in a better perspective.

This is fun. Isn't this fun?

[blue_infernian]

You should critique books for a living. Maybe I'd actually read critiques if you wrote them for a living

Re: This is fun. Isn't this fun?

[blue_infernian]

I just realized that I repeated myself in the first sentence.

I hate when I do that.

[anonymous]

If you think Twilight is (somewhat) bad, try reading New Moon and Breaking Dawn. I haven't read them, but just the Wikipedia plot summaries are enough for me.