As I warned you all in my previous post, nothing in this book is safe from being snarked:
The characters and events in this book are fictitious. Any similarity real persons, living or dead, is coincidental and not intended by the author
Got that, fangurlz? This story isn't real, vampires don't exist, and even if they did, I doubt they'd be cute, angsty sparkly-boos.
Summary: When seventeen-year-old Bella moves from Phoenix to live with her father in Forks, Washington, she meets an exquisitely handsome boy at school for whom she feels an overwhelming attraction and who she comes to realize is not fully human.
That summary makes the story seem so straightforward and innocuous. I swear, if you went by the summary alone, it wouldn't seem like a bad story. In fact, I bet someone with better writing chops could probably make a better story from it (but they'd have to change names and locations, of course, or risk a plagiarism suit) But I really like how the Bella/Edward relationship is summed up as "an overwhelming attraction". This describes the relationship perfectly: It's about *attraction*, not necessarily love, and while attraction can lead you to love, it's not the be-all and end-all of a relationship. Love -- real, lasting love -- takes time to develop, time for you and that special someone to get to know each other; attraction hits you like a ton of bricks -- and can bury you just as easily if you're not careful.
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The 'exquisitely handsome boy' made me put the book back down...
ReplyDeleteOne could go over to the romance paperback aisle (oh, we're already there) and pick out any random book, turn it over and read 'seduced by an exquisitiely handsome rogue/cowboy/bi-polar vampire...' Creativity has its merits.We're agreed ont he 'love takes time to develop' a truer sentence was never spoken. opposites do attract, no doubt about it, but the two must have things in common to successfully stay together.