Why? Â I have no idea except I couldn’t sleep one night and I wanted something both paranormal and mindless, and I’d recently re-read all the paranormal on my shelves that I could reach, except these.
I was never a Twilight hater, though I readily admit the mc, Bella, is silly beyond belief.  Neither Edward nor Jacob do heaps for me as romantic leads; I not into sparkly or stupid.  But I enjoyed aspects of the story enough to read the first and skim 2-4.  Actually, I barely read Eclipse because I can’t do whiny tragic.  I think any appeal the books have for me centered on the Cullen family dynamic.
At any rate, it seems I never wrote reviews for these books originally, though I starred them (4, 4, 3.5, 3 respectively). Â My thoughts on them remain more or less the same as I remember thinking the first time I read them. Â Eh. Â Average.
I read the first 2 and simply couldn’t stomach any more….
And the first 2 were arguably the better fo the four. If you’d asked me last week if I’d ever read them again, I’d have said it wasn’t likely – I’ve always thought Bella a simpering idiot and I disliked her self-victimisation in the third book. But I don’t know – as mindless entertainment on a few sleepless nights when my meds failed me, they served their purpose.
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I have never read these – not a hater either but I simply never thought I would like it. The sparkly vampire and stupid romances just didn’t sound that appealing to me.
Now, I sometimes think I maybe should have read them…
The only reason I read them the first time around was sheer and utter boredom. I’d just moved to Australia, couldn’t work, and my books were still in transit. The Borders bookshop down the road was huge, but I was crushed to find that ‘cozy’ mysteries aren’t really a thing here and they’d never heard of Illona Andrews or Patricia Briggs. At the front of the store was a huge display of all the twilight books and I figured ‘ how bad can a sparkly vampire be?’. It was as vapid as I expected, but readable enough to entertain me during those first few, very long, days.
Yes, I totally understand. I hope that they have since warmed up a little towards cozy mysteries and Ilona Andrews and the likes?
Yes to Andrews and Briggs, but still a big nope to cozy mysteries. Aussies seem to have a much stronger preference for dysfunction and graphic violence in their fiction. Something I tease my husband about a lot. 🙂
Hahaha. I have to admit I don’t really see it here in NL or Belgium either… It feels very British to me. 😉