I'm not a complete fan, but I have read the books. They work because they get into the mind of a teenage girl and before someone says that teenage girl's have more personality, I'm terribly sorry but they don't. As a teenager, I had image issues. I thought I was not pretty enough or good enough and this is the experience of a lot of women. Yeah she could be more... well more of a role model, ya know, more sensible or true to life but then the books would not have sold as well. I've read loads of teenage fiction where the main female character is strong willed, independent and so on, (all the things that people who don't read twilight want) and guess what, those books don't sell. Bella is a teenager, shallow, self centred, obsessed with looks and totally in the throes of that first crush that most people get but will end in reality. And despite what a lot of feminists say, women love romance. Hell I don't watch a lot of rom-coms but I do love romance.
Yes I hated the imprinting thing in Breaking Dawn, because it was such a cop-out to give everyone a happy ending.
Though having a go because she can't take criticism or open tons of emails full of negativity is a little OTT. Especially when that article starts with the line:
Unless you've been living under a rock for a year or two, chances are you've heard of Twilight and it's creator Stephenie Meyer. Thought in equal parts to be a whiny bitch with the mind of a 13 year old, and a god.
And then goes on to say:
Stephanie is a self-obsessed, narrsisistic, hypocritical and infantile woman.
Yeah… that’s not criticism of a book, that’s personal attacks, in an article whining about how she can’t take criticism. I had to laugh at them whining over her exultation about the publishers who rejected her. I’m currently writing a book, I expect to get a lot of rejections when I try to get it published. If the miracle happens and I do get it published and become hugely popular to boot, you can bet I’ll be thinking about contacting those publishers who rejected me and sending then copies of my new multi-million deal stapled to their letter. And anyone who thinks they wouldn’t think about that is lying through their teeth.
I know I ranted, but it hacks me off all these hate sites. It reminds me of the sites that sprang up around HP while it was being written. It’s stupid and infantile and 9 times out of 10 created by people who want to be ‘against the trend’. So you don’t like the book.. big sodding deal. Is it worth your time to waste air going on about S Meyer when you could be talking about someone you do like.
