Stephenie Meyer's Killers

Talking about vampires, what comes to people’s mind firstly? Killers. However, the best-seller Twilight Saga series written by Stephenie Meyer has changed people’s traditional bias towards vampires and stirred up frenzy all over the world. The premise is quite interesting: vampires who try not to be vampiric, recognizing that killing humans is wrong. The Cullens are vegetarians among vampires, dedicated to self-control and self-actualization, pursue the virtues of human society and try to live in harmony with it by suppressing the evil of bloodthirsty nature of vampires. They are “all committed to protecting human life - preferred the flavor of large predators for satisfying their dietary needs.” (Meyer, Eclipse 22) Another reason for Twilight’s

(2) "I needed come to grips with the consequences." (Meyer, Eclipse 311)

It should be “I needed to come to grips with the consequences.”

(3) "The birds were quiet, too, the drops increasing in frequency, so it must be raining above." (Meyer, Twilight 66)

It should be “it must have been raining above."

(4) "Who's definition of right?"(Meyer, Eclipse 415)

It should be “Whose definition of right?”

Thirdly, the plotlines in the Twilight series often appear to be messy and illogical, like they aren’t thought through very well. For example, Edward's trip to Italy at the end of New Moon seems like it is just hastily added in as a way to bring him back into the story. And there is another plot of Eclipse which doesn't make any sense either. Why is Victoria taking revenge on Edward when it was actually Emmett and Jasper who killed James? This was never explained or even mentioned in the

Indeed, Stephenie Meyer is the that kind of writer “whom it is quite impossible to call ‘good’ by any strictly literary standard”(Orwell 20). For practiced writers, it can be painful to read. However, it doesn't preclude being good at others. Meyer is good at the macro level while most writers obsess over the micro level. Beautiful sentences matter to them but not to all of readers, especially teenagers. To professional writers, a worn cliche may be indistinguishable from a beautifully novel display of craft. But there's nothing wrong for Stephenie to take care of her aimed audience---by both decreasing obsession with the micro level and paying more attention to the macro level of storytelling. In other words, I would like to at least give credit and say, at the least she’s a good storyteller and one of those “who are natural novelists and who seem to attain sincerity partly because they are not inhibited by good taste” (Orwell 20). Despite everything wrong with the series, Meyer does an amazing job of convincing readers to keep turning the