So I finally read Twilight.

I bitched about Twilight to my friends lamenting like others of a generation gone a foul due to piss poor book choices based on things that I heard of the book. People either tend to be absolutely giddy about the damn thing or they absofucking loath it.

Well since I'm not one to let others fully do my thinking for me, I finally sat down and plugged through the whole damn thing.

Now I'm not about to write some kind of change of heart here and become a twilight fangirl, it was still pretty bad. Just not THAT bad.

I'm sure if you're aware of Twilight at all you know the general plot summery (it's hard to get away with not knowing these days.)

It's starts out okay, not terribly vapid of Bella to do what's right by her mother and go stay with her Dad, after all she's what? 16? 17 now? (I can't remember if the book actually said her age or not, I just know she turns 18 in the next book) Edward is a bit of a schmuck at first and there is a very good reason why Bella didn't have friends back in Phoenix
She's kind of a bitch.
But it explains why people like her in Forks (for some reason bitches are popular in small towns, pack mentality or something.)

The whole "You smell delicious AND you're the only person in the whole wide world I can't hear CLEARLY I LOVE YOU" is over the top Mary Sue'ish but you know what? A lot of books are like that (Harry Potter is quite the same. "What? You parents are dead? AND your foster family hates you? AND you're the CHOSEN ONE who can DO NO WRONG! By jove!" at least J.K can write a bit better to hide all the Gary Stu'isms) so I can ignore it.

Other then that for the most part Bella is still kind of a self centred bitch, and Edward is kinda cute being a bumbling kind of guy. (He reminds me of a nerd who is kind of strong so joins the football team or something. At any moment someone's going to dunk his head in the toilet so he try to act all aloof and standoffish to seem deep and cool but really he's just thinking about star trek)

Regular teenage fluff ensues. Normal vapid stupidity ensues. Cliché evil vampire is cliché but other then that it's just kind of a "meh" book. Not something I'd burn like the devil, not something I'd go out of my way to read. Maybe if I was really BORED and had nothing else I'd read it. But it's not that bad.

My only biggest nit-pick is the type of Gary Stu vampires Myers made.

There is a reason why vampires have weaknesses. It's because if they didn't there would be nothing stopping them from breeding humans like cattle and ruling the world as humans do currently.
However Myers effectively removed every possible weakness from these creatures. Other then the blood drinking, which really is no more a weakness then needing a blood transfusion or enjoying your meat a lot, there is nothing about them that humanity wouldn't leap at the chance to get. And that wouldn't stop humanity from getting.

Vampireism is spread through venom? That means that there would be loads more accidental vamps then one would normally think. Any tooth scratch kiss would automatically result in a new vamp. Any escaped victim, half dead leftovers would become a baby vampire in the world. There would be loads of vamps and the "kiss" or "covens" of them would be enormous especially since it's still hard for even vampires to kill vampires let alone anything else be a predator to them (since the werwolves are generally contained to just one tribe in one area of the world and even then it takes a pack of them to take one vampire)

Plus, what kind of light does it take to get these guys to glitter? Regular street light is pretty bright, depending on their shine they would sparkle like club kids at a midnight rave everywhere. Not to mention, it's called foundation and powder? They knew how to put a thin film of makeup on in the 1800 I'm sure vampires would figure out how to put on some makeup by the 2000's so that direct sun never hit their skin.

But that's just a nit pick.

Other then that, it's better then the Anita Blake series.