Greta is Great spelled wrong.

book review on twilight

 Twilight:

497 pages

5 hardest words on a random page:

endearment

pivotal

grudgingly

unrelentingly

chivalry

            This book was amazing.  It is my new favorite book but this review isn’t supposed to just praise it so if I do please forgive me.  It had this odd reality scheme that was both confusing and endearing.  It made you want to keep reading but there were certain parts that most books have that this one lacked.  Like in a lot of books it describes when the main character eats and does normal everyday activities like that.  In this book it seemed like if it had things like that it would only slow things down. The book is already lengthy and if it did have these things I think a lot would be taken away from it.  I haven’t been able to figure out what makes some books slow and now I think maybe that is part of it.  I really don’t care when the character eats or goes to the bathroom.  I’d rather hear about her infatuation with someone who wants to drink her blood.  So in a way the books “flaw” only makes it more unique and fun to read.

            I read this book in 2 days flat.  I don’t know how anyone could just read it a chapter at a time.  At certain parts I literally had adrenaline pumping through my veins.  The sheer suspense is enough to make you want to scream.  It is NEVER slow, boring, or routine.  You are always longing to have it when you are away.  I’m serious you have separation anxiety from just a pile of paper!  I have come to the uncertain conclusion that this is because of the characters.  They aren’t developed in the sense that you know all about their past but more like you know what they would do in future situations.  This does not make it predictable like you may think because the situations are so odd there is no way you could imagine them yourself.  The characters are portrayed more like you know them.  Not personally but kind of like how we try and find out about ourselves but more like we know them better then we do ourselves.  You know how they feel about other characters and how they deal with things.  On a physical level, the characters aren’t very drawn out.  You do get an idea of what they may look like but it gives you room to elaborate yourself.  You have the option of making them look like what you want them to.

            As much as I like this book it frustrates me.  It’s like I want to know what happens next but it makes me uneasy if I read it too fast because then it will be over.  It’s pretty amusing but still unnerving.  I honestly don’t know how the author could have dreamed up such an elaborate plot for her first book.  Seriously her imagination is amazing to me.  I didn’t know that one person could dream up such complicated themes.  I really think this book is extremely appealing to so many readers because of its theme of vampires.  I don’t care if I’m stereotyping when I say this because I truly do believe it.  EVERY girl loves vampires.  Young or old, smart or stupid, tall or short, EVERY girl has a thing for vampires.  So yes using that theme to attract readers is sort of “cheating” but it doesn’t take away from how well this book is written.  Just to even imagine a clan of vampires living in a small rainy town is exciting.  It is a very feminine book in that sense.  I’ve caught myself daydreaming about what happened in this book.  Embarrassing as it is it’s true.  I think the theme is the biggest reason why people are drawn to this book.

            Another aspect of this book was that it was actually pretty challenging.  I am a good reader but in this I found I had to go back to read sentences over again and I think I even looked up a word or two.  I’m not saying it’s a bad thing but it annoyed me because it just slowed me down.  I didn’t like having to pay so much attention but then if I didn’t I felt like I was missing something.  I usually read things that are way to easy for me just so I don’t have to concentrate on it too much.  But this one was kind of bittersweet. In the sense that I had to pay attention to get the whole story, but if I didn’t get the whole story I was mad at myself so I went back and read stuff over again.  To put it simply this book was perfect in it’s frustration.