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Ack! The sparkles, they burn!
Dec. 14th, 2008 08:35 amI read Twilight last night, because I figured if I was going to openly mock the sparkly vampires, then I should at least do so with some knowledge of the material.
Yeah.
I'd promise to avoid spoilers in my review, but since there WAS NO PLOT EVER I don't think it's really necessary. Okay, onward.
1- The book won no points with me by being full of typos. Do the editors just not care?
2- The writing is okay. Nothing exceptional, but not terrible either, and the author has a good feel for sentence structure and rhythm. The tone is appropriate for a first-person teenage narrator (although a bit on the young side for a girl who's supposedly seventeen: I'd have pegged her at closer to thirteen or fourteen at most). I have nothing against the writing style for the most part, although it becomes very very purple (especially in the notorious "sparkling" scene) and kind of lurid and overblown at times. It's not egregious for the most part.
( Herein I discuss the characters and plot —or lack thereof: spoilers ahoy! )
In short, I'm very glad that this was a quick and easy read. I lost patience with it very quickly, so if it had taken me any longer than a couple of hours to read I probably wouldn't have bothered finishing it.
Yeah.
I'd promise to avoid spoilers in my review, but since there WAS NO PLOT EVER I don't think it's really necessary. Okay, onward.
1- The book won no points with me by being full of typos. Do the editors just not care?
2- The writing is okay. Nothing exceptional, but not terrible either, and the author has a good feel for sentence structure and rhythm. The tone is appropriate for a first-person teenage narrator (although a bit on the young side for a girl who's supposedly seventeen: I'd have pegged her at closer to thirteen or fourteen at most). I have nothing against the writing style for the most part, although it becomes very very purple (especially in the notorious "sparkling" scene) and kind of lurid and overblown at times. It's not egregious for the most part.
( Herein I discuss the characters and plot —or lack thereof: spoilers ahoy! )
In short, I'm very glad that this was a quick and easy read. I lost patience with it very quickly, so if it had taken me any longer than a couple of hours to read I probably wouldn't have bothered finishing it.
