The Twilight Saga

After this post I promise I will never talk about this series again. Ever.

I'm sick and tired of people talking about it. Most people already know how I feel about it. Sure, I read the whole series, but if I could do it all over again I wouldn't even bother. IT's funny because I didn't hate the series until the fourth book. I can't even bring myself to reread the first one, which I originally thought was okay. The books were great at first. Maybe it's because I was younger or whatever, but now even the thought kills me.

I like to think that I don't like the series now because it's solely based on romance that the action is pushed to the back, but that's not it either. I love Sarah Dessen, and ALL of her books are like that.

Mabe it's because the writing is horrible. Recently, I've noticed I've become extremely picky about the books I read. Not genre-wise. The way it is written plays a key role in how interested I will be in it. Take Marked by the Cast people, for example. It had a great plot, but it was written like a 13 year old girl wrote it, and I just couldn't get into it. But then there are books like The Den of Shadows Quartet, which ultimately have similar plots to Twilight and the House of Night seriees (Marked is the first book in the series), and I love them. I can't put them down. But the way The Den of Shadows Quartet was written was just amazing. Genius, even. And it was suprising that Amelia Atwater-Rhodes wrote the book when she was 13 years old. That makes my criticisms of Twilight and House of Night even funnier to me!

But I'm not saying Stephanie Meyer is all bad. I loved The Host, and am impatiently waiting for the sequel. Language wise, The Host was a lot better than Twilight.

So maybe I'm a book elitist or something, and I honestly don't want to offend people who can tolerate Twilight in a way that I no longer can becuase of my elitist ways. Ugh, I don't even like calling myself an elitist when I know deep down that that is what I am.

I am a literary elitist.
The pickiest reader there is.
And you know what, there's nothing wrong with that.