Stephenie Meyer's Twilight series. As you may or may not know, I have a penchance for Young Adult Fiction, mostly the new Sci-Fi Fantasy, like J.K. Rowling, Jonathan Stroud, Anna Dale, and Cornelia Funke. I'm also impressed with the fun that Dave Barry and Ridley Pearson provide in their Peter Pan series, and of course, I'm crazy about Pearson's Kingdom Keepers. You see, I am a literary wimp. I can't stand the idea that the story could end badly, and I've found that YA lit usually ends happily, with all the strings tied up into a nice package. It's safer. But back to Edward and Bella... The Twilight series, I'm almost ashamed to admit, is a romance, with---okay, yes, I know I am so dorky!---vampires and werewolves. Not my usual style at all!
Meyer's first book, Twilight, opens slowly. I have a friend who said that she just couldn't get into it. I almost felt the same way and put this book down, but kept chugging through the first chapter, which by the way, contains way too much description of the weather. The rain. It was raining. It was overcast and raining. The clouds threatened rain, but the ground was already soaked from yesterday's rain. All right, we get it! Forks, Washington is a cold, gloomy, dreary place. (To be fair, it is apparently the place in the U.S. that receives the most amount of rainfall each year.) Pull out your umbrellas, though. The storyline, at least, clears up even though the weather remains cloudy. By the second chapter, I was in too deep.
I finished the book, and was really happily surprised to find chapter one of the second book, New Moon, in the back of Twilight! Of course, that drew me in from page one, and I started the second book by noon the next day. I'm reading Eclipse, the third book now, but another book isn't slated to be published until Fall 2008. I'm afraid of the after-series slump, the withdrawal symptoms I'll have when I have to leave this mythical place.
If you choose to read this series, I'm envious of you. Savor it, for you can only read them for the first time once! Enjoy!
3 comments:
I'm really gonna have to check these out. So many librarians have recommended them...
YOU WILL NOT BE DISAPPOINTED! These books are SOOO good. They are can't-eat-can't-sleep until I've absorbed it all. I stayed up every night reading until I passed out from exhaustion. I'd wake up in the morning with the book on my lap. It was almost a relief when I finished book three so that I could do household chores, because I'd neglected everything until I got thru all three.
I was exhausted after reading these too because I lost too much sleep! I read "New Moon" in one five-hour sitting! I'm not kidding.
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