I finished the Twilight series today.

Okay so it wasn't the massively horrible train wreck that the first book had me thinking it was, but it was certainly not the greatest series I have ever read.

You can read what I have to say about the first book somewhere back in my other entries... and, yes, I'm too lazy to link it.

I did not care for the second book. Bella being all stupid Extreme Sports so she could hear Edward's voice, the trip to Italy that just came right out of left field dropping what I thought was the main plot (Victoria hunting down Bella) like a hot rock and OMG her best friend is a Wer-wuff!!!!!

Didn't dig it.

Eclipse was not bad. Jacob began to get on my nerves at this point though. He's like the guy the just won't quit even after he's been shot down a MILLION times! And what's with her dad being all "Woo way to go Jake!" when Bella angrily tells him that Jacob basically forced himself on her? I'm sorry, but my dad would be breaking out the shotgun. Doesn't matter who it was. And his crude, mannerisms toward the Cullen family really bugged me. Yes they're mortal enemies but the Vampires are making an effort to be polite, why can't you? The end was kinda cool. I liked learning about Jasper's past and the history of the Tribe and the wolves. All interesting.
But I found the ending a bit anticlimactic. I was expecting a HUGE battle and all I got was a minor scuffle.

Moderately dug it.


Breaking Dawn was the hardest for me to read. Perhaps it was because I had my fill of the series by then. So Bella and Edward finally get married. Bella doesn't really want to but it's the only way she'll get Edward into the sack so she agrees to it. They go on their honeymoon and have crazy vampire sex and Bella gets knocked up. Now, the whole thing with Bella carrying and birthing the Hell Fetus was semi interesting if not freakishly over the top. I mean she's drinking blood from a sippy cup??? And all the while it's in her womb breaking her ribs and cracking her pelvis... but according to Edward it loves her. Aaaaw. Oh, wait! What ever happened to Bella fainting and getting all sick at even the slightest smell of blood? Here she is drinking it like an afternoon martini. And she says it tastes good.

Sooo yeah, Bella has said Hellion and after the most grotesque birth possible little Renesmee is born and Bella is dead. But it's Edward to the rescue to turn her into a vampire and save her... sort of... ish. And then a few horribly painful days later Bella is a vampire. But no, no living happily every after yet. The Volturi Italian Pope Vampires get wind of this half breed abomination and are all about killing it dead. And the end, once again anticlimactic. I was hoping for a giant battle against the Volturi but alas, no. And what's with Jacob imprinting on Bella's spawn like that? She's like 3 seconds old!!!! And he more or less falls in love with her??? Yes I know the author explained that at that point it's not romantic love blah blah blah... ya know what, though... ew. Just ew.

Once again, moderately dug it.


My over all opinion. It's the side characters that make these books interesting. If it weren't for the other Cullens and some interesting random bits of fictional history I would have lost interest in the books right at the start. Bella to the very end annoyed the b'jesus out of me and is in no way, shape or form a good role model for young women. She has absolutely NO ambitions. All she wants to do is be with Edward. And when she does FINALLY agree to marry him she does it for all the absolute WRONG reasons! "WOO I GET TO HAVE SEX AND BECOME A VAMPIRE!!!!" What fabulous reasons to get married. Hell it's why I'm doing it!

Aren't you?