Review: Twilight. Rating: intriguingly Stupid.

I read Twilight not long ago, after avoiding it for quite a while because I just knew it wasn't going to be worthy of my attention.  And while after reading it I definitely don't think it was the best use of my time ever, I didn't hate this book like I thought I would.  I admit that it didn't interest me enough to pick up the second book, but it wasn't as awful as I had thought it would be.

Okay, maybe it was a little awful.

Summary -

Regular Misfit Teen girl is infatuated with Hundred Year Old Man Vampire who lives in a teenage boy's body. Old Man Vampire in teenager's body is infatuated with Regular Misfit Teen girl.  He wants to eat her. She finds this attractive. Danger ensues. He must rescue her but will he eat her instead? 

Oh my goodness? What is going to happen?

First, the only thing I really liked about it were the action scenes.  I thought the romance portion was stupid, embarrassing, and pedophilia-ish.  A hundred and something year old man infatuated with a teenage girl is just not normal, no matter how young he appears.  Shivers, people, shivers, that this was an acceptable theme for any book written for young people.

I also thought that Misfit Teen was stupid. Everything she did was stupid.  She had almost zero redeeming qualities and that ticked me off good.

There was no physical romance aside from kissing, though it's discussed between the two. Old Man Vampire lets Teen Girl know quite firmly that it's too dangerous for them to be together in that kind of way because he wants to bite her and drain her of blood and she'll be dead.  She doesn't seem to understand the danger because she's stupid. 

All in all I am rating this book as intriguingly stupid.  This rating would probably be like a 4 out of 10 or something.  I can't really recommend it but I don't think it is the end of humanity as we know it either. Pick it up at your own risk.