My main problem with Twilight is the main characters. Bella is a blatant Mary-Sue. She's obviously stunningly pretty, because Edward the Mind-Reading Stalker reported that every boy in the school was thinking lascivious thoughts about her on her first day (not that it takes that much to make teenage boys think... but you get my point). At least three guys fall in love with her; the stunningly perfect (Meyer spends a LONG time REPEATEDLY emphasizing this) Edward, That human kid whose name I can't remember but is a sweet guy and apparently quite hot, and Jacob the SMOKIN' werewolf who is, aside from being totally fit (yes, I have a thing for Taylor Lautner, but even in the book attention is paid to how muscular and handsome the werewolves are when human), a sweet, funny, caring guy who is insanely devoted to Bella. All three of these guys fall more or less instantaneously and utterly in love with her. She also exhibits a random but eminently powerful ability, a resistance to vampire mind powers, which becomes an insane copout catchall power in the last book.
Oh, and she can’t function without her love interest. Literally. When he vanishes in book two, four months are more or less instantly wiped away, and other characters stress what a zombie she has become. All she does is think about him and hallucinate about him. I’m not saying that loving a guy makes you spineless, but this is something else altogether. This girl doesn’t seem to exist without Edward around. And throughout this, she’s demanding that the other guy, the one who loves her and is completely devoted to her, stays just friends with her, and, the implication is, her alone. She wants him to herself but doesn’t want him to love her, regardless of how much pain this causes him. Oh, but it’s totally okay for her to do this because of the Last Minute Hookup copout from the fourth book. That makes it all alright. [/sarcasm]
By the way, Edward is an equal Gary-Stu. Meyer spends long passages describing his godly physical perfection, and, being a vampire, he has your general superpowers of super strength, super speed, invulnerability to most things, insane senses, immortality, etc. And he totally won’t hurt Bella because he’s a “vegetarianâ€
Vampires should be evil blood thirsty monsters.
Not twinkly twinkie cute dream boys with flowing messy hair that have feeelinggsss.
Meyer completely destroys what vampires are supposed to be.
Commi-Ninja wrote:
Honestly, I liked the series when I first read it (of course.... I was about fifteen at the time, so there ya go). Now, I'd like to burn every copy of it. The story line is unusual in some respects (sparkling vampires, anyone?), but other than that, it's just another teenage romance novel with a Mary Sue for an MC.
Kay and her friends...
no offense, But I prefer my vampires not sparkling 
