Sucked.
I work with a few people who are pretty voracious readers. I introduced them to the Charlaine Harris "Sookie" books. Afterwards, they caught on to the Twilight crap, and the praise was endless from them (and still is). Due to a lost wager, I am forced to read the first Twilight book.
I am roughly halfway through it, and it's like this ....
The author is pretty clearly a fan of Charlaine Harris. She has decided she wants to write fanfiction set in Harris' universe. And so that's exactly what she does.
She has created a main character that is a whiney - very whiney - self-absorbed teenager. She constantly throws herself pity parties where she convinces herself that she is the most heroic person ever, because she's sacrificing her happiness to be with her dad. Well whoopidy fucking doo. She sees herself as a "plain Jane, nothing special" but every single girl in school is jealous of her, and every single male in school wants her.
The boys fight over her. Repeatedly. And often. She tries to protest "Oh, I'm just an ordinary girl" but the boys are all "No, you're the most beautiful girl we've ever seen and we must all have you".
And so the vampires come out and say "Here we are. We know we'll all die if we tell you this, but we want you." The werewolves do the same thing. "No, it's us who will die." Because your typical high school is full of vampires and werewolves.
Ok, seriously, vampires? In a fucking high school? It's set in a normally-overcast town, where the sun doesn't shine. Ok fine. And yet for all the "mortals" know about the vampires, they have never once made the connection? If the sun is out, they're not here? Maybe there's something to that? And they move supernaturally fast. And they're all completely pale, yet "painfully beautiful" to watch?
The book, at least as far as I have read so far, is nothing more than a bad Mary Sue fanfiction.
