Nov 28 2008
But on the other Twilight Series hand….
Yesterday, I had some good things to say about “Twilight” in that it didn’t have the heroine automatically having sex with her boyfriend.
But I’m not yet ready to go on a Stephanie Meyer love fest for one reason:
SPOILER ALERT
The fourth book in the series, Breaking Dawn.
Bella and Edward get married, Bella becomes pregnant, and she has a psychic bond with her baby. And then Jacob imprints on the baby (!?). And then Bella becomes a vampire and loses her humanity.
I’m not alone in my feelings. If you want to see some bottled vitriol, go over to Amazon and read some of the reviews. First three books: great. Fourth book? { shudder } That’s a quote.
So, we know that the series devolves into a glorification of teenaged motherhood with a perfect baby, and an adult werewolf who falls head-over-heels in love with the baby. Uh, no… and eww, gross.
Dear God. I thought the only people who pushed the idea of teenaged marriage and pregnancy as being perfectly wonderful, and grown men claiming women as babies, lived in countries where women don’t have any rights at all. Why is this in our bookstores as entertainment?
