CoolCly reads through the Twilight series

A project CoolCly started on April 3rd, 2010 on Board 8. He does summarizing write-ups for each chapter he reads, and then a final paragraph about his thoughts.

Preface
Barely a prologue as it was only like half a page long. But basically the character is saying she's going to die, but she's happy and she doesn't regret the choices she made that brought her to that city, Forks, and to this situation. A "hunter" smiles and walks over to kill her. That's it.

That's kind of interesting, I guess. How are we going to get to this situation?!

Chapter One: First Sight
The main character, Isabella "Bella" Swan is moving from Phoenix to a small town called Forks to live with her dad, in a self enforced "exile." She hates Forks and she hates her dad. I have no idea why though. Parents are divorced; she regrets leaving her mother alone but never clarifies why she's doing it. Anyway, moves in with the dad she hates into a house she hates in a town she hates. She is just over all rather disatisfied with her situation, even though it seems self inflicted.

She is not looking forward to starting school because in her huge school she was unpopular and she's not super hot, not athetlic and nobody likes her etc and nobody here will like her either. Basically just angsting about being a teenager. Cries herself to sleep.

Goes to school in wallows in what a loser she's going to be. Except everybody is super nice and friendly to her. She's like the most popular kid in the world. Except now she just acts annoyed that all these people deign to be her friends because she's too smart for them. Makes a point of not remembering any of their names.

Lunch time! Sits with some losers that she doesn't like even though they want to be friends with her and gets annoyed that everybody in school stares at her like she's some kind of alien. Then immediately acts hypocritical by noticing the table of inhumanely beautiful VAMPIRES across the lunch room and stares at them like they are some kind of aliens. Exposition girl next to her explains that the five of them are the Cullens and the Hales, and they all live together, moved there two years ago. But they are offlimits because two of the Cullens are with the two Hales and the fifth dude of the group, Edward Cullen, doesn't date. Apparently the girls at the school aren't good looking enough for him. Exposition girl is mad about this, obviously she got BURNED. Bella laughs at her for being such a loser and gettinged BURNED. Edward is casually looking over this whole time, and then smiles to himself when the girl gets mad about getting BURNED. He can obviously hear everything they are saying with VAMPIRE HEARING. I'm assuming the other 4 people at his table are all vampires as well as Bella describes them all as incredibly beautiful and graceful, and also pale.

But isn't this at lunch time? In the middle of the day? Why would vampires be at school? Aren't they going to burst into flames?

Oh well.

Time for class again! Bella goes to biology, and there is only one empty seat. NEXT TO HEART THROB EDWARD CULLEN! BELLA'S LUCKY DAY M I RITE?

But as she walks up, Edward looks at Bella in REVULSION! He HATES HER. Ahaha yes. He sits on the edge of his seat all class just so he can be as far from her as possible. Bella wonders if he's like this to all the girls, which is why exposition girl earlier didn't like him, and then finishes class off with the most hate filled glare ever then dashes off. Bella starts to cry but friendly dude Mike walks up and cheers her up and walks her to her next class. She decides Mike is cool and decides to remember his name. But then at the last second he says

"So, did you stab Edward Cullen with a pencil or what? I've never seen him act like that."

EXCELLENT. He doesn't hate all girls, JUST HER. Bella cries some more.

As part of some check list thing for her first day Bella has to go to the school office for something, and who do you know is there? Mr. Edward Cullen! And he's trying to transfer out of Biology! But of course, Bella just reasons to herself that there's no way she could cause some dude to drop biology that fast, something else must have pissed him off in there. Then he turns around and glared at her as if he wanted her to die and then runs off again. Bella starts crying immediately and runs home.

End chapter one!

Thoughts: Haha, well that was awesome. I thought they were supposed to be in love? It's possible that Edward is faking this hate and is trying to hide/ignore love at first sight or something, but the hate feels really strong when you read it. I hope hates her forever. That'd show her. This has me interested enough to continue, at least.

The writing itself is pretty weak. The author uses a lot of adjectives and big words to try and make everything seem more intelligent or something, but comes off as pretty weak to me. She constructs sentences pretty poorly, but overall it doesn't bother me that much. The worst part is the overall "fanfic" feel it has. Just like Eragon felt like a shoe in for some dude that wanted to be a fantasy hero, Bella feels like the author is vicariously living through high school again. I think I can handle it though.

So far, I'm going to keep reading!

Chapter 2: Open Book
So for the next week after Bella's first day, Edward Cullen doesn't show up to school. She wonders if she caused it but discards the notion as the thought of making someone quit school for nothing because of her is silly. She hangs out with the other kids and makes friends and starts having a good time with them, and even remembers their names. Cool dude Mike is still hitting on her big time, though she isn't interested! Her new bff apparently likes Mike, though he hasn't noticed!

Just when Bella thought she was finally free of Edward Cullen, he shows up next monday morning! He even spends the whole lunch hour staring at Bella! Creepy. Jessica thinks this is so totally omg awesome. Then they sit next to eachother in Biology again, and Edward acts pretty friendly! Bella embarrasses herself by being a blathering idiot. Then they have to perform some lab where they look at the stages of mitosis of an onion cell through a microscope, and Bella and Edward both show off how smart they are by taking turns identifying them easily. Then Edward starts asking about why she's in town and why she hates it there. Apparently she left because her mom remarried. Bella likes the guy her mom married, Phil, but he's a minor league ball player and moves around a lot. Her mom stayed with Bella instead of travelling with Phil, but Bella could see she's unhappy. So Bella moved to Forks with her dad so that her mom would be happy. But now Bella is unhappy! Bella and Edward then agree on how UNFAIR life is.

Anyway, a big deal in this is that Edward seems really different this time. Even aside from going from being hate filled to super friendly, he appears to be a lot less pale and more healthy. Also, his eyes are "ocher", which I guess is brown. I don't think I mentioned this, but last chapter they were coal black. Soo, something has happened in the last week. My guess is he FED ON HUMAN BLOOD.

After they have a great time in biology, Edward dashes off again.

Oh yeah, earlier Bella had a conversation with her dad and she mentions that the Cullen kids seem to not fit in very much, and her dad got angry, saying how great a man Dr. Cullen is, how great of a surgeon he is and how lucky the town is to have him. also the kids are very well behaved and never give him (he's a cop) trouble, so they should be treated with respect. It seems there's been naysaying about the Cullen's before, but he'll have none of that. When Bella mentions how attractive the Cullen kids are, he just says "you should see Dr. Cullen, if he wasn't married the nurses at the hospital would go crazy". So now I assume the whole family is a bunch of vampires. VAMPIRE SURGEON? That's interesting.

Thoughts: Well, I'm a little disappointed that Edward dropped the hatred, but I'm curious about what happened to him. Honestly, I actually enjoyed reading this chapter. There was some tension during her little lab session with him with a little competition during the microscope readings. The writing actually seemed to flow pretty well. The first chapter felt flooded with unnecessary adjectives that I would notice every single page, but I really didn't feel any of that this time. It was pretty easy to read actually. Overall, this chapter was a pretty big improvement and I enjoyed it!