Oh thank god this is over. What a terrible final book, no wonder the movie was no good either. This series started out so well and just went downhill steadily until diving off a cliff. The first half of this book is about Bella’s unexpected pregnancy, which is biologically weird and turns into a totally gross few chapters. The second half is all about lots of random vampires turning up, lots of training, and lots of soul searching about what’s right and what’s wrong… for a fight that never actually happens. What a waste!

This is a short novella that follows the third book in the Twilight quadrilogy, and it’s an interesting book - more because of its concepts than the actual story itself. It’s the first time we see events in Forks from a perspective other than Bella’s, and the first time we really see vampires behaving badly and why they do so. I did like that we went on Bree’s journey dispelling the myths of vampires, but equally, it just reminded me how annoying these vampires are that nothing really hampers them. Back to normality and the final book in the series, please.

Yep, ticking along nicely through this Twilight books but have to admit this was the worst one by far. Very, very little happened until right at the end when a medium level battle took place - albeit far away from where we were waiting with our golden couple. Most of the book was waiting and planning and torturing each other with this love triangle… even though Jacob was an actual dickhead at several points, barely respecting Bella at all.

I’m not sure why I suddenly want to read the bundle of Twilight books that I’ve had for ages, but having got through the first one relatively easily, I dipped into the second. It really feels like not a lot happens for a good portion of the book, until suddenly Jacob is a werewolf and Edward is in trouble and all the action is in the last couple of chapters. It’s better than I was expecting, and an interesting way to develop the series, but it’s not as good as the first one.

I tried reading this book ages ago, perhaps when we watched the movies, and gave up after just a couple of chapters. But for some reason, I have the whole set of Twilight books sitting in my digital library, so I thought it was worth giving it another go. Actually it went better this time, it’s not the best writing we can all agree, but it’s a serviceable teen vampire rom com.