What is your opinion on Stephenie Meyer?
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Re: What is your opinion on Stephenie Meyer?
In a way I feel bad for Stephanie Meyer; she published a YA novel and I think it blew up way more than she'd expected. Suddenly everyone's criticizing her writing and her work's under a microscope. She's not the most masterful writer but I don't think she deserved the blasting she got.
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Anyways, Meyer played a big part in causing my hormones to flare up during puberty stage because her novels are truly appealing to young readers. Vampires, werewoves .. she's an expert to those.
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You and I are in the same boat! I adored her during the same time in my life. Went to all the releases and got all the books. As a reader and writer, I agree with you, her work is weak. But, I never hide my love for the series or Meyer. If she hadn't created it, there wouldn't be Fifty Shades for anyone to read. There are probably some eye-rolls to that, but remember everyone's taste in genre and story line is different. I didn't care for Fifty Shades, but grandma did!emberwood wrote: ↑23 May 2013, 20:03 I was obsessed with her books when I was in the 8th grade. I believe there were two of them out at the time and I was waiting on the others. I went to Midnight openings for her new books hosted by various book stores and loved the storyline when I was young. As I grew as a reader, a writer, and a student, it became clear that her plots were weak and her grammar is horrible. Now, the books are painful to read.
Things I Like: Her series is different. It's not the run-of-the-mill story about vampires and werewolves; her plot runs deeper than that to include the Volturi and unique settings. I admire her fierceness for not being afraid to go there.
Thinks I Didn't Like: Her grammar, her writing style, her voice, her characterization, her descriptions; she definitely has a strong point in finding a plot, but a weakness in executing it.
I think they're ideal for a middle school audience, but you can definitely outgrow her writing.
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I also loved her book The Host. I think I enjoyed this one more than the Twilight series and sometimes think about revisiting it.
I do not fault Stephanie Meyer for her writing. I also love to write and I am fully aware that I am not the best writer, but I try to do it anyway. She was doing something she loved! What's so wrong about that?
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This pretty much sums up a lot of my frustration with the series, but I was also already older than the target audience when the books released.
I didn't have much of an opinion of Meyer as a person until I heard an interview where she says most of her inspiration for the novel, especially when it comes to the main two leads, stemmed from some adult dreams that she had. Her main two leads are teenage boys (even if one is much older, he still acts and looks like a teen boy). As a person who works with teens for a living, hearing older women sexualize teens is just creepy.
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This seems to be the general consensus among people I've talked to who read that book. Twilight was young and I think, given what she's said about it, that it was a bit self-indulgent, but it wasn't the worst book I've read. I agree with you about the writing and the plot, but also, I liked some of her characters. I've always loved Alice, and by the time Breaking Dawn came out my views on Rosalie changed toward something more positive.
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