I've finished reading Twilight yesterday at last. We've bought this book (along with the other 3 books of the series) months ago, and I immediately started reading the book back then. But the first several pages had not captured my interest at all that I had to stop reading it.
So Sharie took over reading the book and told me that it started so slow indeed but had become interesting midway through. She has already finished reading all four books back then while I still did not pick up Twilight again until last last Friday. It was a little surprising because most of the time, I'm always the first one to read any books we buy or books given to us. :D
I remembered reading comments about Twilight before, some saying that Harry Potter and JK Rowling should move over because Twilight has arrived. This got me curious because even though I'm a very late Harry Potter books fanatic (started reading only book 6, then I backread book 1 -5 to understand what happened in book 6 and had been rereading the HP series every six months I think LOL), I had become a very avid and absorbed HP fan. So I thought it would be as interesting and captivating as HP first book. But sadly for me, it was not the case.
It took me more than a week to finish Twilight because the first half of the book had often lulled me to sleep that I ended up hugging it till I wake up. LOL It only became interesting to me when they played baseball during a thunderstorm.
I think one of the reasons why Twilight was not the captivating to me is because I've been reading a lot of book about vampires for ages. LOL The spookiest I've read was Salem's Lot by Stephen King.
Then the first ever vampire series that I came to love was Linda Lael Miller's Forever series. There are a lot of interesting info in this series like vampires are afraid of Gideon's wrath that they try not to anger him. The vampires also drink blood here. :D
Then there's JR Ward's Black Dagger Brotherhood series. This is more of a paranormal (and steamy LOL) I think but this is also interesting. Ack, I need to reread the books to refresh me of some original vampire characteristics that were introduced in this series.
There's also Christine Feehan's Carpathians or Dark Series, about an extinct powerful and ancient human race that feed on human blood to live (but they do not kill them). One of the most original idea in this book was their need to find their 'lifemate' before they lose their ability to kill and see color. Once they've lost these two abilities, they would be left with only one feeling - the thrill to kill. BTW, this series is steamy too. LOL
And then there's Sherrilyn Kenyon's Dark Hunter series. Dark Hunters are not vampires but warriors created by Artemis to fight the Daimons (who have vampire characteristics). The history of how these creatures came into existence was so 'original' that I got so hooked on this series too.
So I guess, with all those books and vampire series that I have read and followed, reading Twilight was a little 'tame' for me. LOL The only new vampire characteristic I've read in Twilight was their ability to sparkle in the sun - the main reason why they shy away from sunlight. Oh, and vampires dont sleep - it's new to me too. :D Coz in Christine Feehan's Carpathians and the Dark Hunters needed sleep to recover their strenght or recuperate from injury.
Regarding the romance aspect in Twilight, hhmmm......hhmm........can i get back to this after reading the whole Twilight series? LOL
Waa this is already too long...:D Phew...blogs are finished...now time to tackle my FFs :D
*simultaneously posted at my blog Lady Wakefield Passions
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