Twilight Twilight Twilight

Twilight and New Moon is all i read, i mean did, the last two days straight. I have heard the word Twilight thrown around by friends and family but never ever gave it much thought as I really am not into vampire, ghost stuff. What was that series that used to come on TV. Buffy the Vampire Slayer and I used to find even the title lame and I just wasn't into supernatural stuff, ever in my life. Ok, I did find the yakshi stories my grandma spun, very interesting and if you are from Kerala, you would too.. they get very eerie and scary, but anyway, for someone who has zero interest in vampire stories, what happens, a pair of vampire books land up on her lap. And that too the first and the second books of the Twilight saga.

I casually open the first page and she had written beautifully. I cry just upon reading the two liner dedication to her father. If someone where to ask me when i decided to read the book, that is when i decided to read the book, after the two liner dedication, that is.

And to my utmost delight, it was a chick lit. And you know how girls go gaga over a well written chick lit. And so did I too.

The first half of the book where she keeps describing how handsome Edward is, is the best. Later part of the book when he takes her to house and after that, the magical lyrical writing of Edward's handsomeness is not there, which left me yearning for writing that just described the beginning of the tender love phase of Edward and Bella.

I was very confused as to what Edward wanted from her. The prose absolutely brilliant on how he is just twists her words or her normal fears. We as humans would fear for others than ourselves and when Bella does that, the prose about how Edward finds that twisted, is just so well written. Whenever she opens her mouth, for example, she says that the Cullens need to like her, instead of being afraid of going into the vampires house, the way she fears for his life, when she should be afraid of hers, the way she says Alice knows that he is taking Bella away on the Saturday, that conversation among them produces funny feelings to us and we all are so jealous of the love Edward has for Bella.

Just like Bella, even we cannot understand why he should like Bella in a hundred years, when it is so easy for anyone to just like Edward for his greek god looks.

So i hope somewhere they do write why Edward falls in love with Bella other than the lame excuse of being a singer. If she were a singer, he should have just had his fill, instead of falling in love. No one falls in love just cuz they cannot hear her thoughts alone. So if somewhere if there is a more plausible explanation of why he falls in love.

But that is the trick, isn't it. We can easily say why we don't like somebody, but it is very hard for us to pinpoint why we love somebody, why we go that extra mile for friendship with someone else

NEW MOON

was a bit of a drag. Even after Edward came into the picture, Stephanie should have caught that moment in paper, in our memories forever, but instead they are just dragged into the situation right away. Yes, she does take it up later in Bella's house and that does give the reader some satisfaction to experience some lengthy conversation between them.

Jacob is a big drag, and I cannot believe that he takes up 90% of that book. I was about to give up on the Cullen family when Alice appears and then it became interesting to read if they talk about Edward at all.

So after reading all this, naturally i turn to youtube and just one look at Edward Cullen and I am in love, all over again, with my hubby ofcourse ;)