Beware. I liked it. A lot.
***No worries, I won't leave spoiler***
So it's roughly 1 am on Aug. 4th and I finished the book. I think I read something like 400 pages today. And I am speechless. I'm going to try to do this without spoilers cause I hate that.
I'm astounded at how wonderful this book was. I was skeptical at first. The premise threw me and I was skepitcal. But this book more than pulled itself together and morphed into a force of nature. In the way the first two spoke of the passion of first and true love this book speaks of the passions of an entirely different love. And it's amazing.
I'm in awe of Stephenie Meyer's writing ability. To not only make a completely implausible reality real, but to make you latch on in spite of those implausiblities and sink your whole self into the book and cry and cheer and laugh with the characters is amazing. And it's true. There was a moment that caught me so off gaurd that I had enormous painful tears jetting down my cheeks. And another moment when I was so happy and elated and again surprised that I nearly squealed loud enough to wake my sleeping family.
I'm sad I'm finished but I am so ecstatic that it ended as uniquely and wonderfully as it did. And I'll be happy to re-enter these delightful books many, many more times in the future.
hey-hey, i finished it up last night, too. i actually didn't buy it till 10:30 sat, so you can imagine how much of yesterday i had my nose stuck in those pages. :)
some parts i loved, some i was kind of eh about. and me too, i LOVED j's chapter titles. one of the highlights of the book.
email me and we'll talk vampires! (okay, *and* werewolves. lol.)
Posted by: nic | August 04, 2008 at 01:47 PM
oh, and when i say 10:30, i mean PM. just so that makes more sense.
Posted by: nic | August 04, 2008 at 01:48 PM
I started reading this series with the intention of not liking it. And was really annoyed when I did. Apparently I'm really in for it now.
Posted by: Kimberly | August 04, 2008 at 01:48 PM
I enjoyed this book. I read it much slower than the other books in the series partially because I wanted to savor it and also because I didn't find it as gripping as the last three. That doesn't mean that I didn't like it, I did. It was just different.
Posted by: Renee aka MekhisMom | August 05, 2008 at 09:04 AM
Our book club chose Twilight for this month. I'm so excited because I've heard so many great things about it! Thanks for the great review!
Posted by: Jen | August 09, 2008 at 09:11 AM