Noura Khalid (theperksofbeingnoura)'s Reviews > Twilight

I'm going to be honest here, this wasn't even half as bad as some of you made it out to be.

Let us backtrack to when I was 15 years old. I absolutely LOVED Twilight back then. Despite me knowing how cringe the movies were a lot of the time, I loved them. Although I went through quite a lot of the popular YA books during the next couple of years I somehow never got around to Twilight. I completely forgot about them to be honest, but I've decided 2022 is the year I'm going to read the series.

The first time I read Twilight was in 2019. I forgot so much about the book that I decided to reread it before continuing the series. I genuinely enjoyed Twilight much more the second time around. I will admit, I cringed a whole lot throughout this book but that's a story for another time. It honestly annoys me that Bella wasn't this...emotional in the movies. I feel like movie Bella is a whole different person. I was surprised with how sassy she actually was. She had her cloudy moments but not as much as in the movies. That aside, she had some less than smart moments and a whole lot of recklessness. I rolled my eyes here and there but in some ways, I liked her.

Edward was so very weird. I found it kinda funny how his expressions and reactions always changed from one minute to the next. He was constantly moody but if I were more than 100 years old I guess I would be too. I did love the Cullens though. When reading the baseball scene I felt so much nostalgia. The scene from the movie was playing in my head and I just remembered how much I really loved the dynamic between the Cullens. Alice was always my favourite and I'm happy to say that nothing has changed. I enjoyed reading about Carlisle's past (something I completely forgot about) and almost everyone else's too. I think I'm most excited about learning more about them in the coming books.

I didn't like the romance much. It felt rushed and instalove like which I'm not really a fan of. The book felt kinda slow at times but I didn't mind it all that much. I actually enjoyed the writing. There was just something about it that really kept me reading. The last quarter of the book was probably the one with the most action and it might have been the part I enjoyed the most. Though some stupid mistakes were made, it is what it is. Safe to say I'll be continuing the series. I'm actually pretty excited about that. Hopefully I'll continue to enjoy them, at least a little bit.