The dismal heroine - a clumsy, selfish nincompoop with the charisma of a boiled potato - is left to make all the sexual running, while her demon lover persists in behaving like a perfect little gentleman, the chivalric hero of a bygone era." - The Guardianĥ. "Even the most timorous teenage girl couldn't conceive of Bella as intimidating it's hard to imagine a person more insecure, or a situation better set up to magnify her insecurities. A little more 'showing' and a lot less 'telling' might have been a good thing, especially some pruning to eliminate the constant references to Edward's shattering beauty and Bella's undying love." - The New York TimesĤ. "What I most resent about the world of Twilight, apart from the perfectly good hours it's thieved from my precious, finite life, is the drawing of the vampire's teeth. "The premise of 'Twilight' is attractive and compelling - who hasn't fantasized about unearthly love with a beautiful stranger? - but the book suffers at times from overearnest, amateurish writing.
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If I had an eternity to read, I still might never pick up this book again." - Jezebel, on Breaking Dawn Even the tedium of immortality is glossed over - these vampires just keep busy with their hobbies. So do we." - Entertainment Weekly, on Breaking DawnĢ. " It's 754 pages long, its heroine's dominant personality trait is low self-esteem, and, as Amazon reviewer Eventide points out, nobody really has to give up anything. Like I was in some Goth version of a bad sitcom,' Jacob confides before he too is swept up in the narrative mayhem. He becomes our tenuous anchor to sanity, as outrageous new plot twists sprout like kudzu. "During the loonier stretches of the novel, Meyer wisely turns the narration over to Bella's old friend Jacob, a warmhearted werewolf who has always been sweet on her. (Stephenie Meyer: not regarded as a Great American Novelist.) In honor of the books' 10-year anniversary, here are 10 of the meanest reviews about the series, including one particularly nasty/LOL Amazon review.ġ. But then came the fans, the book sales, the chatter Twilight was a bona fide cultural phenomenon. It was a throwaway YA novel, they assumed - and that's if they even thought about it at all. When the first Twilight book debuted 10 years ago, critics and culture writers didn't lift a finger.
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