twilight

A vampire love story? Really??

These were my reactions when I first heard about the book. I wasn't really impressed, Plus I wasn't really into romance novels. But then another friend of mine happened to read the book. Fact was, He wasn’t much of a reader and when He told me the book was good and that the movie of the book was out recently, I had to go try it out. And the result, well I'm not flabbergasted or entirely thrilled or anything. But hey the book was good, and I shall read the sequels as well. I should quote one friend who said that the book according to her was better than Erich Segal's love story. I've never read that book and don't really intend to either. This statement was just for those who have read it to make a judgement.

It's a modern day love story where a girl exiles herself from the big city to a godforsaken town. Here she happens to meet an exceedingly handsome guy from a family of exceedingly beautiful and handsome people and falls in love with that guy. The guy reacts strangely towards her like he was revolted or afraid of her. But the incidents that happen later on bring them closer and soon she understands the reasons behind his initial reactions as they decide to break all traditions and embark upon a human-vampire relationship. (One of them one of us. – Sounds familiar? I snicked it from heroes. :P) Having seen all the eloquent prose and poetry that describes love, strangely I didn't find this all that overwhelming. The words and language used were simple and somehow I didn’t really get all the emotions being described here as I should have. The inability of the couple to be intimate due to his nature and instinctual capabilities which could harm her was just not really explained well I felt.

Pretty dramatic towards the end, some how I felt the book didn't really keep me turning the pages as fast as I could really do. Maybe the more romantic at heart might disagree. Hmm so maybe I'm not romantic at heart. Sounds probable. Back to the book, a pretty good book; I've downloaded the film though, hoping it maybe might express better, what I felt was lacking in those words.

But then, maybe I'm wrong. Maybe I expected it to be a dramatic, cheesy weird love story and instead I got a good simple and elegant modern tale.