Twilight by Stephanie Meyers - ALERT - there are spoilers in this blog. Read at your own peril

[Kyung]

So I'm reading the Twilight series by Stephanie Meyers. I am overwhelmingly annoyed by the heroine Bella. And the dialogue is just too Romeo & Juliet-ish. "I leave my heart with you."

Twilight - Wouldn't it have been easier to just let her get smashed by the car and then make her into a vampire? Of course, that would then negate the whole raison d'etre for the books.

New Moon - End of story, same situation as above. Not a car, but attacked by another vampire. I kind of liked the chapters that were just titles denoting the passage of time.

Eclipse - What's the deal with not getting married? She want to spend eternity w/him and yet she's worried about marriage. The whole three-way love triangle is harsh, and you have to be some kind of idiot to realize that you're not attracted to someone.

Haven't read Breaking Dawn yet or Midnight Sun.

So why do I keep reading if I don't think the books are so great? I don't know. I like the Cullen family.

[Tracy Revalee]

I gently told my 18-year old that Mommy doesn't like teenage romances anymore.

Actually, I'm scared of vampires.

[Kyung]

It took me forever to get started on the fourth one, Breaking Dawn. But I did. I kind of actually liked it. At least, I found her much less annoying than in the first three books. She was much more assertive, and less I'm not worthy. So annoying. Ms. Meyers did an excellent job of wrapping up all loose ends.

I do like nice and tidy endings where all the loose ends are wrapped up. One of my favorite parts of HP is when she jumped ahead and let people know how everybody is doing. I also like those things at the end of the movie where they give a little synopsis of what happens to people. Anyway, all done.

[Dana Serrano]

I like the books too, but feel the same way, Kyung... too much of the sappy love story going on for me, but yet, I keep reading them. Glad to know I'm not the only one.