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Actually excited to see this as someone who was the target demographic and eager reader when these initially came out.
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Wuthering Heights is a great story about how Heathcliff ruins everyone's life but people persist in trying to label it a love story. I doubt Meyer is familiar with it beyond the obvious plot. Thanks for the reading, chitoryu. I keep having war flashbacks to the twilight fandom days as a teen.
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Jun 26, 2019 22:23
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"“Why did you even bother?” I asked frigidly. He paused, and for a brief moment his stunning face was unexpectedly vulnerable. “I don’t know,” he whispered." I wish the books had leaned more into how alien the Cullens are. Later they get into how utterly detached from the world the "bad vampires" are and how they view people as food only, but it would have been much more interesting to have Edward struggling to care about people after a century of no longer being one.
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Jun 28, 2019 17:34
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Edward posted:Run, Bella, run. I love you too much, for your good or mine. He's talked to her like three times at this point 
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Jul 3, 2019 05:29
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A more interesting story would focus on how Edward is essentially a predator and the Cullens are really badly attempting to ape humanity with little success. There are also moral dilemmas with the Cullens: one of them is a surgeon but the rest just pretend to do high school instead of actually useful stuff. And they are aware of the vampires who are, uh, bad, but have a sort of don't ask don't tell policy toward widespread murder. When I was a teenage girl reading these books and getting into the fandom, I liked all the stories that played with the minor characters. There are some actual good elements in the story that are just dropped or poorly handled: I am not sure what the spoiler policy is so I'll hold off. I hadn't read Midnight Sun so I am kind of delighted to hear that the Cullens are just as big sickos as they come off in the series: constantly debating about murdering people to maintain their facade of "hot highschooler."
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Jul 3, 2019 14:39
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this is so much more terrifying to read as someone who has now experienced healthy adult relationships than it was when I was 11. someone please rescue this girl
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Jul 8, 2019 17:36
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Every single minor character is more interesting than Bella and Edward lol
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Aug 14, 2019 23:14
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chitoryu12 posted:In her website’s FAQ, Stephenie Meyer confirmed the CD Phil gave Bella: Linkin Park. She was canonically falling asleep by blasting “What I’ve Done” at max volume. Idk if her website has changed at all, but back in the day she had playlists for the books. The movies have surprisingly good soundtracks, though.
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