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I don't really understand why these books are so popular. Twilight was great but the series seems to get worse after each book. Her writing, especially in Eclipse, goes on and on and on without much action. She probably could have cut the book in half if not more, and gotten to the point. The fight scenes are weak and it took forever to go from scene to scene. Bella's entire life revolves around Edward. She's willing to give up being human, her family, her friends, Jacod--for one man? I don't think I'll read Breaking Dawn. It got bad reveiws and I can't imagine reading that many pages of nothing.

I confess. My favorite character in Twilight was Edward. I honestly could never understand what the fuss was about Bella. Sure, she may have been smart, but she had no interests, no hobbies, doesn't do sports, and is not creative. She has absolutely no interesting quality whatsoever. How dull can one person be? Those boys may have been attracted to her but I doubt if any of them would have gone for a second date. She would have bored the living daylights out of them! In Eclipse, Bella is even more horrified of any normal social interaction than ever before, sulkier, and ungrateful. However, what really turned me off was the fact that the Edward I so liked in Twilight seems to have disappeared. Edward used to have a personality, and a sense of humor which are totally lacking in Eclipse. Where is the boy who blocked Bella's car to let Tyler ask her out, just to see her face while he laughed? Where is the endearing boy who was such a tease and got such a kick our of discovering he was a good kisser? This completely self-sacrificing, saintly, lump on a log did not resemble the original Edward in the least. His entire purpose in this book is to run himself ragged trying to keep an unappreciative Bella safe and seemingly lost his sense of humor and everything else in the process. Talk about a living statue! You really can picture them as a couple sitting unmoving on a porch somewhere. It was hard to remember that he's supposed to be beautiful, sexy, and edgy the way he acted throughout the book. As far as Jacob. I had no problem with the fact that Bella could love and be agonizing about hurting her best friend, but he should not have been anything more than that. That soul mate nonsense was over the top and totally unnecessary. Please! What a crock! All in all, not nearly what I expected and a bit of a disappointment not necessarily for the story, but the loss of the characters I liked.

Saw Twilight and New Moon. Read Eclipse very quickly!!!This is the first book I'vd read and I am hooked. May go back and read the first two. I am reading Breaking Dawn- Can't wait to see the movies.Cute story for the teens.

Amazing. Great story, good quality writing. The first time I read it for the compelling story the second time for the quality writing.

This book was like a roller coaster. It had its good parts followed by not so good parts. Each chapter was either a hill or a valley so to speak.

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I like a good Vampire tale, to be honest with you I am fanatic about Vampire anything. So recently I decided to watch the first 2 movies of the Twilight Series and then read the books of the other two, Eclipse and Breaking Dawn. Because of all the bashing of Breaking Dawn, I decided to get it at the library(didnt want to waste my money). Breaking Dawn didn't keep my attention as the other books. I found, I kept skipping the pages to get back to stuff about Edward and Bella, which is what I am interested in. The non Bella /Edwards parts of the book , just didnt seem to do much for me. Overall I found the book 4 to be really for Teenagers and found most of it to be really hilarious. The whole series is for the 14-17 yrs old really, because no adult experience reader could really take this kind of writing seriously. I dont see why an adult reader would bash the book. It really is for the young , weired and naive. It is not like Ms Meyer is in the class of say a "Angela Knight". Now her books are what movies should be made of! Anyway stop bashing Breaking Dawn, its not necessary. I am hoping the painful , scary pregnancy and the paranormal birth of the baby chapters, was scary enough to help prevent teenage pregnancy. I must admit, I was looking so forward to more mature juicy stuff between Edward and Bella since they got married and all and are both Vampires. But alas, only silly , weird, funny crap, that teenagers love. Did I say the book was for Teenagers? PJ

When I began reading Twilight I started with the first book and read them all straight through. And, in my opinion, they were written beautifully. Breaking Dawn was no exception. I, too, was surprised by all the bad reviews. I took a moment to read some of them and found that, in my opinion, some of the situations in Breaking Dawn were taken in the wrong context. Too literally almost. First of all, it's a fantasy book about Vampires and Shape Shifters. While Stephanie Meyer makes it incredibly easy for society to wrap their heads around Bella's situation, I don't think it's fair to say the book is morally wrong. For example, Jacob does not fall in love with an infant. He sees Renesmee as his responsibility to protect and nurture until she decides he is her one and only. The only difference is that he already knows the outcome. It's not like Jacob is thinking about Renesmee in a phyisical way. And Meyer makes that very clear. In our society that part of Jacob's CULTURE would be deemed as perverted, but I think we can all agree that Bella is no longer living in a society like ours. Things just operate differently. There are other situations like that in Breaking Dawn that were misconstrued by some. Perhaps if the book was reread with more of an open mind it would make more sense and be a better experiance. I think the book was amazing, and that it was all perfectly tied together. With a happy ending as the icing on the cake.

The final instalment to the Twilight Saga is teriffic! In this book Bella and Edward are together for ever and ever. With a cute new character I would reccomend this book for anyone. I don't kno why people gave it such bad reviews.I couldn't put this book down.There isn't anything I can say that is bad about this book.

I loved this book!!!! I believe that SM showed extreme genus when writing this book! I loved the Creativeness and imagination that SM has and her passion for the characters. I know there were a lot of people that did not like this book and everyone is entitled to their own opinion! But I enjoyed this book the most out of the whole series! I love the fact that SM went into the detail that she did. I know that a lot of people were upset about a lot of so people say "graphic" detailing in this novel, but in reality there is more "graphic" detailing on television! This book is again creative and very well imagined! The book is about Love, Friendship and most of all Family! The loyalty between people! I give SM 2 thumbs up for this book! Loved it! It was Awesome!!!!

I was hesitant to read this series because of it's popularity and didn't think that there was much to it. However, after seeing New Moon in theaters it peaked my interest and I wanted more information, which is why I started reading the second book. Although I had thought that Bella was a fairly weak character, by the end of Breaking Dawn my perception was changed and I realized that she is actually quite strong emotionally. I am definitely glad that I read this series.

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I was given the book Eclipse by my daughter for Christmas, the third book in the series, which I read in less than a day. I decided maybe I should start by reading the series from the beginning so I could understand what the third book was all about.I must say that from the moment I received the book and started reading it I could not put it down. It's touching and conflicting. How Edward didn't understand the "emotions" he was feeling and his over-protectiveness for Bella, which at times he got just a little carried away with.It's a wonderful love story with quite a twist. I later bought the movie and the rest of the books. All I can say is Stephenie Meyer, kudos to you for writing such wonderful and conflicting stories about true love.

Twilight centers on the developing romance between star-crossed flirters Bella Swan and Edward Cullen. Problem is, Bella and Edward have no chemistry. He's a 100 year-old vampire. She's a helpless, self-conscious klutz. They don't do anything together except look at each other. They have nothing in common--except they're both virgins--and so they talk about nothing. Oh, sure, they talk about the weather, music, and their favorite color, but nothing important like what they believe in or their values. These conversations about nothing are fraught with artificial tension and abused facial expressions. There's a glower, a simper, a chuckle, a smirk, a sigh, a blush after EVERY laborious exchange. It's meant to be engrossing and edgy, but it's distracting and silly. Edward the Emo shifts moods from cocky to lustful to angry to protective in the blink of an eye. Bella's range of emotions exists between expressing embarassment for her clumsiness and awe of Edward's smooth skin, his sculpted chest, his fiery eyes, etc. The story is told from Bella's perspective. She's your typical upper-middle-class teenager: spoiled, snobbish, and uninteresting. After moving to Forks, Washington, she looks down on her high school classmates because they are nice and emotionally engaged. She acquires friends effortlessly and for no other reason than to have someone to sit with at lunch. Invitations extended to her to go shopping, to go to the beach, and to go to the high school dance she treats with ambivalence if not distaste. She placates these little people by pretending to enjoy their company, but she is really just biding her time, waiting for love. When Edward enters her life, she drops all pretense. Edward, as described through the eyes of Bella, is just as one-dimensional and unlikable. He's brooding, intelligent, good-looking...basically a fantasy realized. Stephenie Meyer spares an editor to overwhelm us with descriptions of Edward with SAT words like "sinuous" and "translucent." In addition to his beauty, Edward doesn't eat, doesn't breathe, sparkles in the sunlight, has super strength, super speed, super scent, venomous fangs, and the ability to read minds. How did he get these powers? Because he's a vampire, of course! I understand Bella's attraction to Edward--young women are often attracted to jerks--but I can't understand what Edward likes about her. Actually, I can't deduce ANY motivation behind Edward's actions. It seems to me that, aged 100 years, he would have weightier things on his mind than seducing the new girl in town. It is as if Stephenie Meyer decided the Cullens would be vampires in the middle of the process of writing the book. But this revelation renders Edward's "cover" as a high school student--and thus how he meets Bella in the first place--a ridiculous charade. There are no bad guys, no challenge or foreseeable goal for the characters to struggle toward or overcome. So it's no surprise Meyer first introduces a hint of a theme about 1/4 of the way through the book, when Bella meets Jacob. He's the best character in the book because he's the least pretentious. Just when you think the book might be going somewhere with him, he all but disappears until the end. The absence of a story necessitates that Bella entertain us with the plot points of her day-to-day life, such as surfing the Internet, cooking for her dad, finding a space in the student parking lot, and reading Jane Austen (no coincidence; Edward is very much like Mr. Darcy in Pride and Prejudice). Pages upon pages are filled with Bella's babbling to herself about her dreadful, boring life and about Edward. Realizing that she'd written a whole novel in which nothing happened, Meyer introduces the antagonists of the book 100 pages from the end: a coven of vampires on the prowl. It starts innocently enough. They ask to join the Cullens' intramural baseball game in the foothills of the Olympic Mountains. Then it turns ugly as a member of the visiting team gets a whiff of Bella's blood. The Cullens whisk Bella away to a hotel in Phoenix for her safety while Edward pursues the bad guy to Vancouver. The deliberate precaution to ensure Bella's safety backfires completely, but the contrived international flair is halfway redeeming. As a writer myself, I struggle to establish textured settings, empathetic characters, and a compelling plot. I establish tension early on and sustain it throughout the story. Unless there is something at stake, there is no point in writing more. I make my characters just neurotic enough that they surprise you once or twice when the course of the plot depends on his/her actions. This takes a lot of work that doesn't necessarily come through in the finished book, but believe me, it's necessary to write well. Twilight lacks effort on all these fronts. Its success is indeed a phenomenon, but the writing is not.

I think the twilight saga has an incredible storyline to it, and has many parts to it that are unique. A lot of people criticize parts of the books (e.g. some of the features), but I think that the fact is that they don't like some of the small change Stephenie Meyer has made to vampires, so they critize it because it isn't the same.

This has to be my ultimate favorite book and love the style, print and cover.

Ty Webb once said that a flute with only one hole isn't really a flute, and a donut without a hole is a danish. It was true then and it's true now, and a remarkably prescient preface to one's immersion into the pimply, purple world Meyer has created.