However, Bella Swan is almost too irritating for me to continue. I get the pain of a broken heart, I get the emptiness, but the girl is suicidal. Maybe she wasn't intending to die when she jumped off a cliff, but she gave up in the water. And it's that lack of caring for everyone else that makes me slam the book shut. I knew girls and know women who were(are) so invested in the romance in their lives that they forget everyone else, but a third of the time, Bella claims not to be that person, but then Edward is mentioned and she's the same whiny girl that makes me want to scream. She's two people and they don't fit together, and for that the first-person narrative gets to me, because she's lying to us. I could try to claim that she's an unreliable narrator, but she's been presented to us as the opposite. And this is what I would discuss with Meyer at the moment because I know that if we were reading a third-person narrative, we'd have the same conflicting versions of Bella. In many ways, I think Meyer likes Bella too much to be honest in her treatment. There's the Bella who has the sincere exploration of Jacob's role in her life, but then there's the Bella who forgets him the moment she hears Edward's name, and those two don't mix, which makes the “treaty” just false. She misses the boy she's sucking the life out of, but not enough to give up the boy who she'd have to give up everyone else to be with. And I've hijacked your blog and I'm sorry and will disappear now because, well, I could go on for ages about my issues with Bella. But, Yay! Jacob!

However, Bella Swan is almost too irritating for me to continue. I get the pain of a broken heart, I get the emptiness, but the girl is suicidal. Maybe she wasn't intending to die when she jumped off a cliff, but she gave up in the water. And it's that lack of caring for everyone else that makes me slam the book shut. I knew girls and know women who were(are) so invested in the romance in their lives that they forget everyone else, but a third of the time, Bella claims not to be that person, but then Edward is mentioned and she's the same whiny girl that makes me want to scream. She's two people and they don't fit together, and for that the first-person narrative gets to me, because she's lying to us. I could try to claim that she's an unreliable narrator, but she's been presented to us as the opposite. And this is what I would discuss with Meyer at the moment because I know that if we were reading a third-person narrative, we'd have the same conflicting versions of Bella. In many ways, I think Meyer likes Bella too much to be honest in her treatment. There's the Bella who has the sincere exploration of Jacob's role in her life, but then there's the Bella who forgets him the moment she hears Edward's name, and those two don't mix, which makes the “treaty” just false. She misses the boy she's sucking the life out of, but not enough to give up the boy who she'd have to give up everyone else to be with. And I've hijacked your blog and I'm sorry and will disappear now because, well, I could go on for ages about my issues with Bella. But, Yay! Jacob!