When a book is a good read I can usually tell why, that’s why I was so surprised with Stephanie Meyer’s Twilight.
I picked it up from the children’s section of all places. And watching a couple of prepubescent girls giggling ahead of me with the same book under their arm didn’t bode well for it.
The book has everything in it I hate in a novel. Juvenile writing, weak plotting, shallow, boring and weak characters with silly motivations, a high school setting, and a whole lot of other crap. You name it and it was there. I don’t get it folks, I really don’t, but this very large book where very little happens was like literary crack. I just couldn’t put the darned thing down.
This book could easily be categorized as nothing more than the rambling fantasies of a teenage girl. But a third of the way through it, I found myself in love with these silly poorly drawn characters and I just couldn’t get enough. By the time I came to the end of the thing I didn’t want it to end.
I’m not sure how Meyer did it but this one really is a couldn’t put it down winner.
Stumble It!
I know how you felt about the Twilight Series, and while they were good, Stephenie Meyer’s newer book, The Host, is far, far better. It has even become my absolute favorite book so far, and it was definitely a book I couldn’t put down.
It starts out a bit confusing, but after the first couple of chapters, you really start connecting with the self-sacrificing main heroine and what she goes through throughout the story.
I highly recommend a read.