Well, to be fair, neither did anyone else.
All said and done, I think I was fairly okay with Breaking Dawn. It certainly wasn't the adrenaline-kicking climatix that I'd been waiting for, but neither did I toss it out the window in disgust. Yes, I didn't like how the story was moved along, how the plotline seemed to encorporate too many aspects for it too handle. I didn't like how some things were tied up, and I'd rather if some of those strings were cut. And I regretted that Stephenie Meyer didn't have the bloodthirsty authoring skills of J.K. Rowling, killing off characters and fandoms one by one. Such a pity.
However, I've already ranted about this both at school and online, so moving on.
My next challenge- for want of a better word- is finding more books to satisfy my thirst after all my pent-up hype for Breaking Dawn has been released. I've realised that I've been slightly straying away from the stories of family clashes, teenage romance and high-school blues (but don't get me wrong- I love the teenage angst) and into the realms of fantasy.
A list of books soon to be read- please comment if you find any good reads worth investigating :)
Currently reading the first in the series in Home-Ec lessons while I pretend that I have nothing to do. As a result, my shorts that I am making resemble nothing like the finished product, and I have several scars on my fingers when I tried to read while unpinning my material. Not a good idea.
I read the first book in this series as one of many to settle my pre-bookrelease hype, and amazingly, this one I stuck with right until the very end. A wonderful, original plot- hopefully will be reading the next two in the series after the library has ordered them...
Another one by Scott Westerfeld... I've got a lot of variety here, don't I? A strong relation to the Twilight series here- this one is about vampires- the not-oh-so traditional ones. I've read a few chapters of this, having coveted the book from an over-protective blue-haired girl, and so far, I like what I see. Watch this space.
One I've heard much about while dealing with the Twilight world, but never really quite got around to reading. So far on the bottom of a huge waiting list...
Haven't heard too much about this one- recommended by our school librarian on our book club website recently. Will be interesting investigating.
Hopefully that list will keep me going for a while. Until I get my hand on them, I'm rereading Trickster's Queen by Tamora Pierce- a great author for any of you in the epic fantasy genre.
Finally, because I simply can't be torn away from saying something else about Twilight, here's the full ballet scene from the upcoming movie, filmed at Comic Con:
And the design we used on our t-shirts!!!
