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I enjoy well-written fantasy books, like the Charlaine Harris’ Southern Vampire series, books 1-7 (let’s forget books 8 -9 happened) and Patricia Briggs’ Mercy Thompson series. Those books feature female protagonists who have dimension, character, quirkiness, and occasional flaws. The characters are well-fleshed out and have internal conflicts, as any real person would. They aren’t perfect and they don’t live with perfect people.

Bella Swan, the main character in the Twilight, is a one-dimensional, whiny, sullen, bratty teenager. Her only flaw seems to be that she doesn’t fit in the town and that maybe she’s just too darn pensive and too darn pretty. She’s just too darn perfect. (I’m being facetious….) I won’t divulge much of the plot (little as there is) but during much of this book, Bella is either feeling like she’s too good for Forks (the small town she’s relocated to) or she’s fawning over Edward, the “mysterious” Cullen boy.

The author fails to inject any sense of character into her characters. They come across as flat, predictable and formulaic. Every vampire character is described as beautiful, attractive, alluring, etc. The school kids are stereotypical school kids. No one seems to have any real flaws, physical or otherwise. The “good” vampires are even – gasp – pseudo-VEGETARIANS…! (They feed on animals, but not people.) And of course, everyone knows the joke about the sparkling. If you don’t, I won’t spoil it for you but you can Google or Yahoo it, if you really want to know.

The writing was painful to read. The style read like a teenager’s diary, ironically, it would have made more sense had it been written in that way, ala Bridget Jone’s Diary. I would have more easily forgiven the endless ogling that Bella subjects Edward to. The author tries to write him in a sympathetic Byronesque fashion, but he’s simply bad tempered and chauvinistic. He’s not a tragic hero, Edward is just tragically boring. The supporting characters
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