{"id":199,"date":"2008-03-17T10:38:44","date_gmt":"2008-03-17T14:38:44","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/abbykingsbury.org\/books\/?p=199"},"modified":"2008-03-17T10:38:44","modified_gmt":"2008-03-17T14:38:44","slug":"sucked-in-to-the-twilight-vortex","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/abbykingsbury.org\/books\/sucked-in-to-the-twilight-vortex\/","title":{"rendered":"Sucked in to the Twilight vortex…"},"content":{"rendered":"

So, where have I been these last few days?\u00c2\u00a0 Reading, reading, reading — totally consumed by and sucked into the Twilight <\/em>saga by Stephenie Meyer.\u00c2\u00a0 Over three days (Friday, Saturday, Sunday) I read the first two books, which comes to about 1000 pages, I think, and I have Eclipse <\/em>at home waiting for me.\u00c2\u00a0<\/p>\n

This is my first paranormal romance (despite rumors to the contrary, Jim is NOT a vampire!), and I’m kind of enjoying it.\u00c2\u00a0 Reading Meyer’s books is a bit like eating those yummy fruit flavored Twizzler-type candies that we sometimes buy at Idylwilde: very addictive, can’t stop myself, but I feel a bit ill once I’m done.\u00c2\u00a0 Probably that ill feeling wouldn’t be there if I didn’t guzzle the books down in one sitting, but I have to know <\/em>what’s going to happen next.<\/p>\n

So my verdict on this series?\u00c2\u00a0 Compelling plot line, interesting premise, and a few excellent characters.\u00c2\u00a0 I have to admit to not liking Edward’s character much, though; to me, Jacob is\u00c2\u00a0far more appealing and well-rounded than the rather grumpy and two-dimensional Edward.\u00c2\u00a0 If I were Bella, I think I’d choose fun, sunny Jacob over boring Edward anyday.<\/p>\n

After all this compulsive reading, I’m feeling a bit googly-eyed and incoherent, but it’s a good bet that I’ll be settling in with Eclipse <\/em>next weekend…and then counting the months until the last book in the series is released.\u00c2\u00a0 They’re not great literature, but they are addictive and very, very fun.\u00c2\u00a0 Two thumbs up from me.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

So, where have I been these last few days?\u00c2\u00a0 Reading, reading, reading — totally consumed by and sucked into the Twilight saga by Stephenie Meyer.\u00c2\u00a0 Over three days (Friday, Saturday, Sunday) I read the first two books, which comes to about 1000 pages, I think, and I have Eclipse at home waiting for me.\u00c2\u00a0 This … Continue reading Sucked in to the Twilight vortex…<\/span> →<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[17,20],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-199","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-spare-time","category-young-adult-book-review"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/abbykingsbury.org\/books\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/199","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/abbykingsbury.org\/books\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/abbykingsbury.org\/books\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/abbykingsbury.org\/books\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/abbykingsbury.org\/books\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=199"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/abbykingsbury.org\/books\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/199\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/abbykingsbury.org\/books\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=199"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/abbykingsbury.org\/books\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=199"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/abbykingsbury.org\/books\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=199"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}