The Twilight Saga is told from the point of view of the most depressing, uninteresting, annoying, frustrating, egotistical, shallow teenage girl there ever was. She is literally the most terrible protagonist ever conceived in all of literature. That is, if you can call Twilight literature. Some refer to it as glorified fanfiction. However, the real problem with Isabella Swan is not her self-centeredness or her flat personality, it's the fact that she alone sets back the women's rights movement about 7000 years by becoming so attached to a high-school boyfriend (who happens to be a vampire) that she convinces herself that she literally cannot live without him. The author also manages to single-handedly derail the train of teenage girls who were once headed towards living healthy, moral lives, for they are now so corrupted by these books that they search for a man who is controlling and abusive and admits to being a creeper and murdering innocent people. Oh, and he has to sparkle, because saying things like "the lion fell in love with the lamb" isn't weird enough. But maybe I'm just not a romantic like Bella Swan, because she thinks that because he is trying really really really hard to NOT kill her, he's the most sensitive being there ever was. I say, dig in Edward Cullen. Who's going to care? Who's going to miss Bella Swan?
Stephenie Meyer makes it seem that Bella is the ying to Edward Cullen's yang. But in reality, Bella is more the masochist that the sadist vampire craves.
Most books have lessons, but I couldn't find a single one in Twilight. Bella accepts the fact that she has to sever ties with friends and family for a boy she has known for about a year. And he's really lucky that he hasn't killed her yet because everyone in town loves her, despite her being boring and plain. The entire saga makes absolutely no sense, and I can't stand to hear people gush over it any longer. So I'm tearing it apart piece by piece to show you that not only are these books sending a terrible message to all of the seventh-graders in love with Edward Cullen, they're poorly written and make zero sense.
