I’ll admit that when I first read this book I thought it was fantastic, but that’s because I thought it was a parody. I didn’t know it was serious until it became so popular. The reason I thought it was a parody was because it was so awful. The plot, characters, and writing all reek of clichés and awful.

The “plot” and by plot I mean that thing that shows its head every 200 pages or so, revolves around Bella, a girl who I like to think is just suffering from a truly horrible inner ear infection, and Edward, a mentally unstable vampire. I had heard that this book was supposed to be about the passionate love between the deep and engrossing characters but I guess I missed those parts.

The characters in this book are anything but deep and engrossing. Bella is a heroine with all the character strength and charm of a wet tissue, and a personality to match. She is a horrible role model for any girl. She’s so blinded by her “love” for Edward that she completely disregards her family, friends, common sense, and life. She doesn’t care about anything out side of Edward. Without Edward she isn’t a person, not even in her own mind. She thinks Edward is the only thing that makes her worth while. Sure the author tries to tell us she’s intelligent by having her write papers about misogyny in Shakespeare, read Jane Austen books, or listen to other characters comment on how intelligent she is but I just couldn’t buy it. She does nothing to prove she is as intelligent or clever as we are told she
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