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Top Reasons Why the Twilight Series Is Awful
YUCK 
Tags: twilight, Stephenie Meyer, vampires
The popular series of teen romance novels may be a pop culture phenomenon, but it's also a literary atrocity. Here's why these books suck:
| | Edward Cullen. How do teenage girls find him attractive? He's mopey, whiny, selfish, and kind of creepy. Plus he's dead. C'mon...how is that attractive? |
| | Stephenie Meyer's blatant misogynism. Um, way to write a female character who is so helpless and codependent that she would die without the help of her sparkly knight in shining armor, and who forgoes college and a career to be with her high school boyfriend whom she has known for, like, less than two years. And way to write other female characters who have no real motivations of their own other than having babies (I'm looking at you, Esme and Rosalie). |
| | The undertone of abuse in Edward and Bella's relationship. Edward controls her movements, prevents her from seeing her friends, and watches her sleep at night, all without her knowledge. So gross! |
| | Bella's clumsiness. It was cute for two and a half seconds, and then it became obnoxious. |
| | The creepy anti-abortion metaphor in "Breaking Dawn." Actually, the entire pregnancy thing in general. No, your fetus doesn't know who you are, you idiot, and it doesn't have feelings. Geez. |
| | The way the books encourage teens to engage in obsessive romantic relationships. |
| | The way the books encourage teen marriage. |
| | The way the books encourage teen pregnancy. |
| | The writing...oh gosh, the writing. Every other word is "sparkling" or "perfect" or" dazzling." Adjectives have their place, but adjective misuse is a felony of the highest order. |
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