| The Twilight Saga |  | Author: Stephenie Meyer
Publisher: ATOM
Category: Book
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Avg. Customer Rating:  2 reviews
Sales Rank: 47222
Media: Hardcover
Pages: 2208
ISBN: 1905654391
EAN: 9781905654390
ASIN: 1905654391
Publication Date: November 14, 2008 (New: Last 30 Days)
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 Twilight Saga October 25, 2008
1 out of 3 found this review helpful
I've been reading the Twilight saga; as of this post I'm about half way through the fourth book, Breaking Dawn. Now while I've been finding all of the books to an easy read, I do have some issues with the books. My main issue with the books have been the lack of a struggle on the part of Bella when it comes to her decision to become a vampire; it's as if the author is not familiar with the term foreshadowing. I realize the intended audience for these books is female teenagers, but come on, even they can comprehend foreshadowing! It's almost as if the audience is being treated like they're stupid. I would have liked to have had some suspense on Bella becoming a vampire up until the time she actually becomes a vampire. Is that too much to ask? Apparently. Even after the vampire police insist Bella be turned into a vampire, there should have been some struggle on Bella's part; I wanted Bella to scream that becoming a vampire was ultimately her decision and that she alone would face the consequences of that decision. But Bella didn't. Because it's all about Edward after all, and being with him forever.
There was more of a struggle in Bella's mind between her being with either Edward or Jacob, and ultimately, there wasn't much of decision. In the instance of this particular decision it really boiled down to this: I want to spend eternity with Edward but I love Jacob, too; this was a theme that was repeated several times throughout the series.
Let me focus a little more on Jacob for a moment here. With all the discussion on imprinting in the series, it was pretty easy to figure out that eventually this was going to happen to Jacob; it was just a matter of who. And it keeps Jacob in Bella's life on top of that!!! Too much of an easy out, if you ask me.
My other issue had to do with the whole vampire/human sexual relations. According to the series, and this is assuming that I read this correctly and all, vampires use up their own blood within the first year of their changing. In another series that I've read concerning vampires, males can still father children for a year after they have become a vampire, which makes a lot of sense to me. Edward has been a vampire for 90 years approximately. So I'm having issues about the amount of blood Edward has in his system and the whole reality of biology, as in men don't have enough blood in their systems to run their brain and their balls at the same time. So reality is making it extremely hard for me to buy into this particular part of the book. But if you assume that vampires and humans can interbreed, the whole situation about Bella being pregnant makes sense to me.
Now I don't want to make it sound like I dislike this series, because on the whole, I do. I just wish their had been more of a struggle about becoming a vampire and the choice between Edward and Jacob, because it really wasn't there for me
 Awesome! October 17, 2008
2 out of 4 found this review helpful
Twilight is awesome no doubt about it. Although there are some people who hate it others absolutely love it! I'm one of the latter!!
Nicolle.x
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