Book Review - Twilight

Hey guys, so some of you probably know that I've been reading Twilight for the past few days. I was mainly reading it just because I wanted to know what all the fuss was about the book. A lot of my female friends had been telling me that they loved the book, and I've been saying that I hated the book for awhile now, so I decided to actually read it just to find out if I actually have a basis for my hatred of the book. I basically want to see if I'll still not like the book even after i've read it. So this is basically just my review of the book now that ive completed it.

So, I'll be honest, I picked up the book expecting it to be really bad. I know its not right to go into something so biased because its gonna affect how I feel about the book at the end, but still theres no helping that fact. I originally saw it just as a book with little storyline and just sexy main characters, which actually isn't quite true about the book now that I've read it.

There are basically two explanations that people have given me or that I've randomly heard, as to why they like the book so much. One is that people can relate to the main character Bella, and the other is that they're really in love with the other main character Edward. After reading the book, its so easy to see why.

I actually came out with a better impression of the book than I did before I read it, but thats probably because I hated it so much at first, that my opinion of it could have only improved. The first half of the book is near torture to read, yet it also explained to me why so many of the books readers can relate so much to the main character. The first half of the book takes a very close look at the life of Bella, and its very hard not to be blunt here, but shes one of the most emo characters I've ever read about. Just the way she acts completely annoys me, because shes one of those people that apparently hates everything about their life, yet does nothing at all to improve it. She wallows in her self-pity throughout the first half of this book, because she can't enjoy anything in her life. Everything for her is like "Oh theyre doing this for me. Well whatever I don't care." I lost count of how many times I wanted to slap her and make her open her eyes. The thing is, I can totally see a typical teenage girl relating to her and feeling the way she does.

The second half of the book gets alot better actually, but its probably because the first half of the book was complete bs to read. The second half of the book was pretty good, except when Bella and Edward were alone talking. I couldn't stand to read their lines to each other. It was like reading the script to a soap opera. Everything was overblown and full of cheese. Another thing I hated about Edward AND the author for doing this, is that she made everything he did seem way too dramatic, and it makes normal guys look bad. A lot of the stuff Edward did that sounds oh so beautiful in the book, is stuff that typical guys do, just we don't make it so obvious or we don't even realize that we're doing it.

The storyline to this book actually got a little interesting near the end. When Bella was being tracked by the othe Vampires, I was like "hey theres actually a little action going on now. OH and hey bella might die! thats always a plus!". The book actually captured my attention at that point, but then it ended with more Bella/Edward novelties, but then again the ending did leave the story open in an interesting yet very predictable way.

In all, the book gave me a better understand of the whole craze behind it, and I'll be honest, I don't really hate it as much as I hated it back then, but I still think its a pretty bad book. The writing itself could have been alot better; it was just really awkward to read at times. Hardly any imagery or descriptions, other than physical descriptions of the vampires (which aren't even real vampires to be honest).So yeah thats my two cents about Twilight. 2/5