August 17, 2008
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Look For Me By Moonlight….
Okay, so when I was like 11 or 12, I read this book that I completely fell in love with. I had checked it out from the library, and I read it a few times. It’s a young adult vampire love story. The book simply took my breath away. In the years following, I’ve tried finding it a few times, but I couldn’t remember exactly what it was called.
I walked into Barnes and Noble today, intending to buy only one book. Well, there was one of those tables with a little banner that said something like “If you like the Twilight series, check out these other great books,” or something to that effect. I went over to the table, and oh my god I saw the book I’ve been searching for all these years. I picked it up and read the description on the back, and yes, I’d found it. It’s called Look For Me By Moonlight, by Mary Downing Hahn. It’s got a different cover, because it’s from a second printing.
The only thing is, I think I remember that I don’t like the ending, it’s not the ending I wanted. Nevertheless, I still loved the book when I was younger. Of course, I bought it. I only hope it still holds the magical properties that I remember reading it all those years ago.
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Now, for news on Breaking Dawn. I finished it quite some time ago, two weeks exactly. My initial thoughts were that I genuinly liked it. I thought it was good, but I thought New Moon was still my favorite.
Right off the bat I didn’t like the non-sex sex scenes. While I didn’t like it, I understood it because it’s written for teens and yada yada about all that crap. But whatever. Throughtout the series, I was a genuine Edward fan. I loved Edward, because it was from Bella’s perspective, and how could you help but not love him like she does? In Breaking Dawn, I really became a fan of Jacob. I developed a respect of him that wasn’t there before. I kind of disliked Edward a little bit, but that’s because he faded into the background in Breaking Dawn.
The whole child vampire thing was a bit weird, in all honesty. You’d think a baby like that would be a hellon, a little demon baby. But no, she’s perfect in every way. I don’t know. I really did like it, but again, it wasn’t my favorite.
Well, after I read it, I went online to see what people were saying in various message boards. I read a lot of comments about people hating it and such. Some of the points I read did make me think a little bit, and then I did become quite disappointed, because I realized that some of this stuff was right. I won’t go into it, because I think all the fans of the series have been hearing what everyone’s been saying and such. But I will say that I’ve noticed that the older fans such as people my age and older, and maybe just a touch younger, are all horribly disappinted in this ending of what had been a very good series. We think Stephenie could have done better. But all the younger fans, the teenage ones, love the book and I’ve seen several of them writing that it’s their favorite book of the series.
I think there’s this difference because of the level of mature thoughts. The older fans realize that it could have been written better, while the younger ones haven’t experienced enough to think there could have been something better. I apologize if I offend anyone, but that’s just what I see.
Also, I think it would have been better if there had been two more books, not one. I think this because there was too much to wrap up. There’s two major things going on that needed conclusions, and they were too big to keep contained in one book. Hence, that’s why there’s the “random stories” thrown in that people have been talking about. Maybe I’ll re-read it and post my more detailed thoughts… but that’s all for now.
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