Know what really fascinates me when it comes to the Twilight books? The pacing. Everything happens but also nothing happens. I’m living the day-to-day life of a teenage girl in the early 2000′s through this narrative style but then in the background there are vampire things happening and dangerous plot developments happening. Ya know?
Bella spends so much time in her own head and speculating about other people that almost no actual action happens until the very end of each novel. It’s just so weird. SMeyer’s exposition, writing style, and dialogue choices create a story that’s paced so strangely her audience didn’t really question Bella and Edward’s wedding after only a year-and-a-half (ish) of dating. Or Charlie moving in on Sue Clearwater so fast. Or Bella’s crazy-long catatonic-depressive episode.
Truly amazing. Truly odd. Only Twilight.