Look, sparkles!
About a year ago my friends introduced me to Flair on Facebook. After a few days one of them was asking me “Who are Edward and Bella and why are they all over Flair?” With my google-fu powers I was able to deduce that they were the main characters in a book called Twilight. Until then I had never heard of the series or Stephenie Meyer. A year later (which would mean about now) I could barely turn around without hearing about Twilight and Edward. Bella isn’t talked about so much because everyone (exageration) wants to be Bella. Curiosity got to me so I finally read the books. Er, I mean, The Twilight Saga. Oh who am I kidding. I giggle every time I think about these books being called a saga.
That is, I read them once I finally got copies of them. They are never on the shelf at the local library and I was not going to buy them due to the number of people who have said they are absolute rubbish. I will admit that I was fully prepared to give the same denouncement because I knew about the sparkly vampire bit. Sparkles? Really? Are the going to dazzle me to death with their sparkliness? I tried to put that out of my mind and read the books. Warning: spoilers ahead. Lots of them.
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