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Isabella Swan's move to Forks, a small, perpetually rainy town in Washington, could have been the most boring move she ever made. But once she meets the mysterious and alluring Edward Cullen, Isabella's life takes a thrilling and terrifying turn.
Up until now, Edward has managed to keep his vampire identity a secret in the small community he lives in, but now nobody is safe, especially Isabella, the person Edward holds most dear. The lovers find themselves balanced precariously on the point of a knife -- between desire and danger.
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Let me just start off with when I last read Twilight, I was 16, and I LOVED the book. I read it about a year before the movie really hyped it up and I was in my own little happy Twilight bubble. But then all the criticism came out about it, and they obviously made good points and it completely turned me off to the book series. The movie really did ruin the series for me, which was such a bummer for me because these books were one of the few things that made me happy during a pretty rough time in my life.
So why did I feel the need to reread Twilight after 10 years of not touching the books? I have no idea, but since I've been in a terrible reading slump since February, I felt the pull to reread Twilight, so I went with it because at least I was reading something.
I actually sped through the first 200 pages, only because I remembered certain scenes and wanted to get to them quickly to see what I thought about everything now. But then I hit the 300 mark and hit a wall and it took me about 2 months to pick the book back up, and I only did that because I made it 300 pages in, I might as well finish it.
I am honestly shocked by how bad the writing was (and how did it not bother me at 16?). It was so bland, I felt like I was reading everything in a monotoned voice. Every time I read a sentence, I was mentally editing the sentence to make it better, which is kind of exhausting after a while. And I really was not feeling the love between Edward and Bella. I did not care about their relationship at all, which made reading the book even more difficult since, you know, that's the focus of the book.
So, this experiment was kind of fun, until it wasn't.
