Dec 14 2008
Twilight? Hmm.
Last night, Turk and I finished up Twilight. I mentioned before that we were having trouble getting into the book and that I wasn’t overly impressed with it. Unfortunately, that remains true. (Please don’t hate me, Twilight lovers!)
Don’t get me wrong, I think Twilight was well written and it was obviously interesting or we would’ve put it down and called it a lost cause. I enjoyed many of the descriptions about the Northwest, scenery that I could picture perfectly since many similar scenes are just a few miles down the road from me. I especially enjoyed the descriptions about Edward, dead sexy by all meanings of the phrase. Mmmm. Edward’s immortal, cold, sexy lips can suck my blood any time, as far as I’m concerned… (Shh, don’t tell Turk.)
However, I feel like it dragged on in unnecessary places, especially at the end. I don’t like it when I’m reading a book and thinking, Get on with it already, I get the point, unless there is some twist that I hadn’t expected. Unfortunately, there were no major twists in Twilight that had my jaw dropping.
Maybe this is because there was so much hype about Twilight’s awesomeness that I was expecting something incredible. Maybe it’s because I was expecting something similar to Harry Potter, but got something far less superior. Who knows. But, I will say this, the first book of the Harry Potter series wasn’t as incredible as the books that followed. Though we weren’t amazingly impressed by Twilight, we’re still intrigued and will be reading the following books in the series. I’m holding out hope that the books will get better as the series progresses.
There was one reason that kept pulling me through the parts that dragged in Twilight, and that is the author. Stephenie Meyer wrote Twilight after a vivid dream she had one night. She was not a published author, she was a mother of three little boys. She queried 15 agents before one finally took the bait. Imagine how the other fourteen agents are feeling right about now! And, imagine how heartbreaking all fourteen of those rejections were for Stephenie. But she pushed on, she found an agent who signed her to a publishing company and now look at what has happened! She has inspired and entertained millions across the globe, all from a dream she had one night.
That is truly inspiring to me. A stay-at-home mom, just like myself, writing for the love of wanting to write. It is much like J.K. Rowling who was unheard of and unpublished before Harry Potter. It makes me think that maybe, just maybe I can get myself out there too.
