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"Average" girl from Phoenix moves to Seattle to live with her father after her mother's remarriage. Suddenly, she's beautiful and popular. Meets boy who looks like Greek god. Falls in lurve. Boy says "I'm too dangerous for you". Girl says "I don't care. I loooooooove you." Boy turns out to be vampire. Girl doesn't care. Because she looooooves him. They makeout for the remainder of the book. The End. Here are my problems with Twilight: 1. S.A.S. Selfish, Angsty, and Shallow. Once Bella and Edward realize their love for each other, they simply don't care about anybody else. "True Love" is never selfish. Honestly: Edward is over 100 years old--yet he never seemed to have got over the angst stage in life. Both Bella and Edward come across as extremely shallow and unbelievable. Bella faints when she sees a drop of blood, but she doesn't give a darn that one of the reasons Edward likes her is because he wants her blood. Also, she is unaccountably clumsy. People as clumsy as Bella usually get put in straight jackets---except Bella's clumsiness is (italics, please) attractive. 2. The characters are not believable. Bella talks like a whiny, middle-aged woman, not a "mature" 17-year-old. Edward is the reverse: he comes across as an angsty teen when he is really 100+. 3. The whole "damsel in distress" plot is getting old. One hundred years ago, it could have been believeable, but things are different now; Bella needs to buck up and use her brain for once. 4. After Bella and Edward meet, they fall in love without getting to know each other. They spend more time making out then talking to each other. Love-at-first-sight doesn't mean that you're all set to have a relationship with that person without actually knowing them. 5. Plot holes. So many plot holes. The novel was not thought out very well. Maybe the first draft was published by accident. The biggest plot hole was in Bella and Edward's attraction for each other. Basically, Bella fell in love with Edward because he was different, amazing, perfect (just to top off a long list of dazzling adjectives). Edward fell in love with Bella because she was different--although I didn't buy that one. Bella begs Edward to turn her into a vampire, but neither of them seem to realize that if Bella is a vampire, their attraction for each other is over. Then Bella is stuck in immortality with a guy she no longer feels attracted to. 6. Bella, again. The whole time I was reading Twilight, there was something nagging me about Bella and I couldn't figure out what it was. I turned the last page and saw the picture of the author. She looked almost exactly like my mental image of Bella. It occurred to me that the author used A LOT of personal experience in creating Bella. Big mistake. You can't try blending yourself into a fictional person. It's an unbalanced equation: it just won't work. This book made me almost ashamed to be a 16 year old female. Are teenagers of the female sex all this stupid and pathetic? For the love of God I hope not. If you want a modern vampire story, read "Sunshine" by Robin McKinley.