How did you get hooked on Twilight?

A question I've been asked....

For me it was quite simple.  I was stressed and life was going full speed ahead. I was in desperate need of a good book, basically to calm the soul.  I hadn't heard of any good books and didn't know where to begin.  (I'm a stickler when it comes to reading.  If a book doesn't hold my interest right from the first page, I ditch it.)

So one day while on facebook, one of my friend's status' read "Eclipse is my favorite book by far"...hmmm...ok, I thought.  Look no further.   I'm not a "status" stalker, just thought "What a coincidence?"

Totally oblivious to Stephenie Meyer and her saga, I didn't find out until I got to the store that "Eclipse" was number 3 of 4.  I read the back of Twilight and thought, "What the fuck? A vampire story?" But the book was 30% off and I didn't really have anything else in mind.  So I trekked to the checkout just to have the teeny bopper behind the register looked at me like "You have got to be fucking kidding me".

Right from page 1 I became wrapped in Bella's world.  Although it had been quite some years since I was 17 (cough) I was reliving, through Bella, all those feelings from long ago.  

...Enter Edward Cullen. Oh Edward.


Who wouldn't want to be 17 and the object of anothers complete obsession?  To be protected, to be watched. To be desperately wanted and to be the drive of anothers exsistance. By a man, who's beauty, words cannot justify....I fell in love with a fictional character. I fell in love with Edward Cullen.  I fell in love with all the characters.  I fell in love with the love story.  A unique love story at that.  Totally absorbed in it.  Screw the laundry, screw helping with homework, screw motherhood.  I finished twilight in 2 days.  The same day I finished the last sentence, I was headed to the store for "New Moon".  

"New Moon".  WOW.  

Bella's heartbreak.  So well written, her feelings so real.  Bella to Edward, "You. don't...want me?" (gulp)  I read the pages of the break up scene a few times before moving on.  It was THAT deep, I wanted to grasp it all.  My heart was broken for Bella, for Edward. Emptiness.... October, November, December, January...Brilliant.  Just brilliant.  Same thing, New Moon done in 2 days.

 "Eclipse".  My favorite book as well.  Edward and Bella back together, loving each other.  Jacob, an annoyance.   Don't get me wrong, I love Jacob's character.  Happy go lucky, sweet, playful, smart ass...But Bella belonged with Edward, to Edward. The part when they're in the woods, camping out to keep Bella safe from Victoria, and Bella gets into the sleeping bag with Jacob to stay warm. OMFG...Then she kisses Jacob, passionately, knowing full well Edward could read Jacob's mind.  See the betrayal.  Once I got passed the "What the fuck is wrong with you Bella!" I thought, kudos to Stephenie Meyer...That book I savored, taking me a whopping 3 days to finish.


Then came "Breaking Dawn".  

The biggest let down of any novel I have ever read.  Ridiculously bizarre shit.  That's the only way for me to describe it.  I never would have imagined Stephenie doing that to her beloved characters, her love story.  Edward, who had been serious, loving, compassionate, obsessed, protective, gentle, tortured..reduced to moping desperately throughout most of the book with little of importance to say. Edward Cullen had become a mere background distraction.  It reminded me of a scene from "Dirty Dancing".  Johnny to Baby's father: "Nobody puts Baby in a corner".  That's how I felt about Stephenie and what she did to Edward's character.  And what's up with "Book Two: Jacob"?   Who gives a shit about Jacob's perspective?  It should've read "Book Two:  Edward".  After all, it was about Edward and Bella.  Edward, not Jacob.  I wanted to know what EDWARD was thinking and feeling. Feeling about Bella, the pregnancy, Renesmee, (awful name, just awful) Jacob's presence, Charlie and need to know rule, Rosalie's intrusion, turning Bella... all of it.  I wanted to feel Edward's pain, his anguish.

Honeymoon night. 

Good lord. After being teased by the sexual restraint throughout the first 3 books,  especially "Eclipse",  I imagined my husband becoming one lucky motherfucker after reading of Edward and Bella finally consummating their love.  Instead, Stephenie gave us a fade to black.  Are you kidding me?  I understand the whole "wait until your married first"  thing, after all I was brought up that way. BUT Edward and Bella did wait until they got married.  That message rang strong for any teenage chick reading the story. BUT Stephenie should've indulged those of us who waited patiently for the real deal. Instead we were given bruises, ripped pillows and a broken headboard to feed the imagination. "WTF?" pretty much summed it up for me.


 I loved the first 100 or so pages. The wedding...everything I thought it should be and was.  For me, it was pretty much down hill from that point on.  There were so many things that I thought were wrong about this book.  Like what was up with Edward's annoying enthusiasm for sightseeing?  I imagined him wanting to be imprisoned in that bedroom making love to his Bella.  Nope, just that fucking fade to black....So there you have it...Totally and completely hooked.

Coming soon...my RPattz addiction rant ;)