This entire entry is going behind the wall, so to speak, because I want to talk about these books I just finished, and I'm almost 100% certain my sister will want to read them too, and I just can't spoil them for her. But I'm DYING to talk about them. I don't know how interesting this will be to many of you, (probably not caring about vampires and romance and YA novels and stuff), but I'm going to write about it anyway because nyah-nyah-nyah-nyah-nyah, it's my blog. If you're interested at all, click through. Katie, don't you dare. You don't want them spoiled, I promise you. You'll just have to read them FAST so we can discuss them. (Also, don't read this if you're anywhere in the middle of Kim Harrison's Rachel Morgan series.)
6 days ago (on 21 November), on this very blog, I talked about a book called Twilight and pretty much gushed all over it. I did enjoy the two other books as much as the first, so that wasn't a disappointment. I read all three in what? A week. Even for me (and these books aren't small, exactly), that's fast. I think for me, these books were a little like Harry Potter. I resisted the hype and the oversaturation of them because I believed that they couldn't possibly be THAT good. I was wrong about Harry Potter, and I was wrong about these. Now, I'm not saying they're for everyone. I know some people (most people?) might actually hate them. I'm not recommending them to you, you understand? It takes a certain kind of person to like a YA novel about a girl who falls in love with a vampire and a werewolf. I'm one of those kinds of people, clearly, as I couldn't put these things down. I think I touched on why I liked them so much in the other entry, and I don't really want to talk about that.
What I want to talk about is Jacob v. Edward. And Bella's choice. Because frankly, I think she made the wrong one. I loved Jacob. I understand that Edward is her true love and blah blah blah, but Edward-style men? Don't appeal to me AT ALL. It's not the vampire thing, but the polish thing. The hotness thing. The...smoothness thing. (This is like in Evanovich's books. Hello, I'm totally a Moretti girl. That danger and smooth and hot thing with Ranger? Not appealing in the least.) The thing is, Meyer's writing another book. This ain't a trilogy. But with Bella having made her choice (and please don't tell me Jacob will lope in in wolf form and protest Bella and Edward's wedding), what's in the fourth book? The wedding? Bella turning vampire? Don't get me wrong, I'll read it. I'm sure I will. I just...part of what made the 2nd book so delicious was Jacob. I knew, after reading New Moon, that I wanted Jacob to win, and I knew that was wrong, and that the author wasn't exactly going for that. I think I'm supposed to be ecstatic that Bella's going to marry Edward and live happily ever forever with him as a vampire. (Here's a side question--do vampires have sex? I mean, are Alice and Jasper doing it? Anyone?) But that doesn't float my boat, and even though I get the fact that Jacob didn't imprint on Bella (he just loves her a lot a lot), and that he will imprint someday, (Christ, this is starting to feel weird, typing about these people) I still am not happy.
This happened in another series I read--not a bad love choice, but a catastrophic (to me) death--Kim Harrison's series. I loved those books like none other, until the last one, when Kisten died. Um, hello? I wanted her to be happy with Kisten (see! I can root for the vampire.) This is all abstract, obviously, if you haven't read the books, but I also don't wany Rachel to find a blood balance with Ivy. I don't want Ivy anywhere near Rachel.
But see, now I'm invested in all of these characters--Bella, Edward and Jacob, and Rachel, Ivy and Kisten (RIP). And I don't want to just GIVE UP the books. But I also only begrudgingly want to read about these characters who are WITH THE WRONG PERSON. What do you do when one of your favorite authors make a bad decision in the plot and you're left with a situation you don't enjoy very much? That's the question. I'm left on a down note with Eclipse (and the fourth book is a LONG way off), because I don't want the ending to be the ending. Sigh. Has anyone out there read these books? Can you please tell me what you think of it all? I'm not holding out much hope right now, I mean that anyone who reads this has read those, but I figure it's worth a shot. Again. Sigh.
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