Twilight - end of a Saga **Spoiler alert**

So I've finished the Twilight Saga & I am part uplifted by it and part... is that it?  Really?  That is what the 4 books (one of which like a telephone directory) was leading up to? 

Don't get me wrong I have enjoyed each of Stephanie Meyers books but kind of feel like they are the literature equivalent to KFC - I think the idea is probably more appealing than the reality, it never really lives up to what you'd like it to be.

Whilst about 2 thirds of the way through Breaking Dawn I turned to the friend who loaned it to me and said 'Why do I get the feeling that this is just going to be resolved in a paragraph?'

In each of Ms Meyers novels there had been a terrible threat for Bella / Edward / The Cullens / Jacob / the good folks of Forks but they all seem to be resolved in under a chapter & always a bit too simply. 

What, the werewolves want to kill Bella & Edwards daughter, but oh, Jacob has imprinted on her and so it is forbidden for them to attack her so it's all OK now.   Oh OK.

What the transformation to vampire is terrible and a 'newborn' vampire is feral and completely out of control for decades, oh but Bella is the exception to the rule you say?

So the Volturi are set to kill The Cullens and everyone who stands with them, but what is this?  Whilst a half hearted kind of battle splutters to a start Bella works out she has a force field that can protect everyone....Righto.

And they all lived happily ever after.

Maybe I am just expecting too much, it isn't really pitched at my age group, but I kind of want a bit more clever in my stories.  If a terrible danger can be resolved with a one line fix it just seems a bit cheap.

I guess it gives me hope though that if she can make that big maybe anyone can, including me.  Now all I need to do is figure what the heck the next big thing will be.  Zombie teens?

So that's it, it's all over, my flirting with teen angst...Oh but I can still look forward to watching the very wooden but rather beautiful RPattz in the last two films...

RPattz is sneaking onto my list

Twiharder

My lovely friend has lent me the last instalment of the Twilight saga to read.  This is exciting, not because it is fantastic literature but it makes my nearing middle aged heart (if you don't mind Mr D) beat a little faster and you know, I'm a completest, I need to know what happens in the Bella/Edward/Jacob love triangle. 

This is made all the more thrilling as I am going away for 2 whole nights next week ON MY OWN! (this means I have already ticked off some of my 'to do' list  as this definitely counts as 'time for me', although lets just skirt over the fact I will undoubtedly be scoring out the 'not drinking for a month' with big black marker whilst I'm away) 

I cannot even begin to explain how excited I am at the prospect of it.  The day in between will be occupied with a university Alumni /networking/drinking thing which in itself will be good fun and means I can catch up with some old friends, but on top of that I will have 2 train journeys unpunctuated by small girls needing attention / the toilet / snacks / entertainment in which I can try & work my way through the mammoth tome and without Mr D bemusement at exactly why I would want to read a 'teenager's book'.  The thing is, he didn't seem to mind me reading Harry Potter, in actual fact actively encouraged it, he brought me many of the series.  And so I can only put his dislike of Stephanie Meyers books down to Robert Pattinson (from the films obviously).  I suspect he feels the same way about RPattz as Jack Whitehall does. 

So excited am I about even the train journey, I have mapped it out in my head.  Alongside reading I plan some writing, listening to music and I fear I may even turn into one of those people that cracks open a can of G&T on the train (have always wondered who those people were).


(As an aside, my mother saw the book in my kitchen yesterday and declared 'It doesn't appeal to me!' which made me roar with laughter.  It's bad enough that I could be RPattz *cough* older sister, but his aunt taking a shine to him?  Well that's just icky!)

The Forbidden Fruit Tastes the Sweetest

Mr DOMADQ is out tonight & I am planning a quiet night in.  Wanting to avoid 'Children in Need' (a really really great cause but really don't think I'd be able to withstand the cringe factor of watching the cast from Eastenders singing a Queen medley), I have other plans.  There is an open bottle of wine in the fridge & a very good friend of mine has leant me the 2nd Twilight film, 'New Moon' and it will be all mine to watch once 2 x small girls are in bed.  A complete guilty pleasure.  

RPattz is very easy on the eye & although I am old enough to be his *cough* older sister, I may allow myself a swoon or two.

I have only read / watched the 1st film in the 'Saga' and despite being incredibly flawed I can see the appeal to young girls and middle aged women alike.  My sister surmised that girls yearn for what they are yet to experience and woman are yearning for what they will never have again, first love.

Tosh it may yet turn out to be, but I cannot wait.