Title: Why is everyone so impressed by this book?
Product review: Don't get me wrong - she's a competent writer, her prose flows smoothly and she has a deft hand with description. But the plot? It offers nothing new to the vampire fantasy genre - fantasy and vampire lovers would be far better off reading Robin McKinley's Sunshine. And the conflict of whether or not to live forever? It's been done before, Tuck Everlasting would be an example, and Meyer's book has nothing new to say on the subject. The book is enjoyable, the main character sympathetic, but ultimately it failed to hold my interest or to say anything truly original. A disappointment.
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