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Building The Perfect Vampire
8/9/08 10:15So: I have now read all four Stephanie Meyer vampire books.
I thought the first one was great fun--reads fast enough so I rarely stopped to say "say wha?", full of silly teen-angst (I live with real, authentic teen angst on a day-to-day basis, and it is both more anguished and more inchoate than anything served up in Twilight). Meyer sets up a Mary Sue: the classic girl-who-is-prettier-than-she-thinks, a little spunky, good enough in school without being a Brain. While living with her mother in the sunbelt, she's always been this pale, gawky, clumsy kid, not popular, not hated, just negligible. Then she moves to Forks, Washington, a town beset 350 days of the year with clouds and rain (this is a plot point, honest). Suddenly pale is cool, and she's kinda a babe. And the best looking boy in school is interested in her. Of course, he's a vampire. And of course, once Bella (the girl) finds out Edward's secret she becomes 1) privy to all the vampire secrets (cause Edward is one of a coven of peaceful vampires who eat deer and woodchucks and stuff, rather than human blood) and 2) in fear for her life because she knows the vampire secrets.
( Cut to avoid undead spoilerage. Move on if length discussions of Twilight annoy you. )
I thought the first one was great fun--reads fast enough so I rarely stopped to say "say wha?", full of silly teen-angst (I live with real, authentic teen angst on a day-to-day basis, and it is both more anguished and more inchoate than anything served up in Twilight). Meyer sets up a Mary Sue: the classic girl-who-is-prettier-than-she-thinks, a little spunky, good enough in school without being a Brain. While living with her mother in the sunbelt, she's always been this pale, gawky, clumsy kid, not popular, not hated, just negligible. Then she moves to Forks, Washington, a town beset 350 days of the year with clouds and rain (this is a plot point, honest). Suddenly pale is cool, and she's kinda a babe. And the best looking boy in school is interested in her. Of course, he's a vampire. And of course, once Bella (the girl) finds out Edward's secret she becomes 1) privy to all the vampire secrets (cause Edward is one of a coven of peaceful vampires who eat deer and woodchucks and stuff, rather than human blood) and 2) in fear for her life because she knows the vampire secrets.
( Cut to avoid undead spoilerage. Move on if length discussions of Twilight annoy you. )