Sunday, August 10, 2008

Twilight is a no go

Let me preface this review by stating that I enjoy the occasionally children's/teen novel. I love the Harry Potter series and enjoy Artemis Fowl series (the first book of which accompanied Lucy and I on our trip to Europe and was read at least four times in total, once aloud to Lucy in hostel in Brussels). So please don't think that my dislike for the book "Twilight" is due to a dislike of all books in this genre. The reason that I read "Twilight" is because there was a lot of comparisons in media between Harry Potter and this novel. The premise of the novel is a romance between a teenage girl and a vampire. And I hated it. The plot was not very interesting or compelling and the characters were rather one-dimensional or at least they did not give the appearance of any depth (or maybe didn't interest me enough to want to think about any hidden depths). The "heroine" was a bit to much damsel in distress for me (I swear there is a reference to her being klutzy) and has some self-confidence issues and the "hero" seemed a bit to prissy and a milquetoast. And occasionally the dialog bordered on teenage melodrama. I rather reread Harry Potter, Artemis Fowl, A Wrinkle in Time or any of the several hundred better written novels for children/teens.

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