Twilight

It's been a few days since I last post, and I was struggling for a subject to write about again. And I went to see the new Twilight film, Eclipse on Sunday, so I thought I'd give my view on the whole Twilight Phenomenon.

I don't remember exactly when I first heard about the Twilight Saga, I think it might have been just before the first film came out. I never thought I'd bother reading the books because they weren't really my thing. I've not read anything else vampire related, although in a way you could count Harry Potter as they're both fantasy I guess? Anyway, a few of my friends had read the books, and then the film came out and went to DVD. I ended up watching it at a DVD night and annoying one of my friends who'd read the books asking lots of questions about all the in and outs. It was then I decided I should probably just read the books, so I went out and bought Twilight, New Moon and Eclipse.

I thought Twilight was OK, it helped me understand all the things they gloss over in the film. I'm kind of undecided, I think I need to re-read them all to be honest. There's a couple of things the Stephanie Meyer does that annoy me, like repeat the same phrase over and over in all the books. But I guess when you write a certain way that's inevitable.

I enjoyed New Moon slightly more, the storyline was a bit more interesting with the introduction of Jacob, it's probably my favourite of the books if I had to have one. I did have to rush through it a slightly because it was just before the New Moon film came out and obviously I didn't want the film spoiling the ending of the book. Even though the film and book end differently.

With Eclipse the Jacob character really started to annoy me the way he just wouldn't take no for an answer from Bella. In that way I guess I'd lean slightly towards "Team Edward", but really I'm not that bothered to be honest. Having only just seen the film, it's hard not to get the two mixed up as it's been quite a while now since I read the Eclipse book. I've also just read "The short second life of Bree Tanner". Which is about the girl that "surrenders" after the big fight between the Cullen's (and werewolves) and Victoria's new born army. I found it interested to see the other side of the story and the point of view of vampire.

When it comes to "Breaking Dawn", I didn't read it straight way after finishing the other three. I didn't want to buy it in hardback form so I ended up borrowing it from a friend. But this is where it lost me. The whole vampire baby storyline is a bit too far-fetched for me, not that the whole thing isn't. Not that I didn't enjoy reading it, because obviously I wouldn't have finished it if I thought it was that bad! I did find the ended slightly disappointing.

Sorry I'm not very good at the whole reviewing thing, that's why I have blogs, I'm hoping to get better at it! I just wanted to put my opinion out there. I'm not a major Twilight fan, but I did enjoy reading the books and watching the films. As I said earlier, I think I'm going to re-read the books so maybe I'll take in things I didn't notice the first time.

And I'm afraid I don't see the whole Robert Pattinson thing!