I started reading Twilight when I heard all of the hype about it "It´s so good!" and "You have to read it!!". The thing was, at the same time, I kept hearing "It´s really really bad", "Not worth your time, seriously" and "Watch out for the rabid fangirls!!". I decided that the premises of the book didn´t seem too bad, and that I might as well read them in order to form my own opinion, not just parrot other peoples´.....so I´ve read all the books, beginning to end.
My impression: they´re vampire (pseudo) romance novels written for teens. Bella is a "blank slate character", or Mary Sue, written in a purposely vague manner and as the ULTIMATE main character so that any teen girl can imagine herself in her place. The first time tht Edward´s "beauty" was described in the first book, I got it. The second time, I was like "OK, yes, so he´s a gorgeous male god, apparently". By the twentieth time in the first book, I was rolling my eyes. But all of that isn´t horrible--really, you can stand it, after all, I said I´d read all the books and I did--since it´s obviously a book written with a younger (teen) female crowd in mind, and reading standards....have lowered. In fact, it´s great that it´s actually caught the interest of that crowd and has encouraged them to read, much like Harry Potter did when those books first came out. Personally, I´m glad I didn´t actually buy the books, because I would have found someone to "gift" them to, seeing as how I will never read that series again. Not because it was BAD, mind you, but because it didn´t interest me enough to merit a re-read.
What worries me, though, is that certain values are being promoted as "normal" in that book, which are obviously not. And I´m not talking about the vampires, obviously. I´m talking about the fact that Bella accepts it as normal when Edward rips out the engine of her car so that she
can´t go see other guys. Excuse me, but that´s pathological jealousy bordering on abuse, not something "Romantic". I´m also talking about the fact that Bella believes that she absolutely cannot live separate from Edward, to an obsessive degree. And a few other things, but I don´t want to insert any more spoilers for the later books. When I was in my teaching practices last year, I saw one of my 12-year-old girl students with a Twilight book. And I thought--is she going to accept those situations as normal without even noticing? Very worrisome. But admittedly, Spain doesn´t have the fangirl problem as extended as it is in the US, so maybe I shoudln´t worry over something like that, but really, I can´t help it.
So, basically, I read the Twilight books, and found them to be forgettable and rather basic with Mary Sue tendencies and certain annoying and worrisome aspects. I didn´t particularly like them; I will not be reading them again. The characters were bland, the only half-exception being Jacob (who is ruined in the later books, in my opinion) and the female werewolf (who was barely given a passing commentary since she was not Bella or a vampire), and the ending was terrible. The ending basically encouraged (in my opinion) ALERT SPOILER HIGLIGHT AT YOUR OWN RISK
Child grooming and pedophilia, as well as nullifying any personality that Jacob once had END SPOILER But at the same time, I think that it´s really positive that at least SOMETHING is encouraging youths to read. Even though sometimes I wonder if that´s
really what they should be reading.
I´m sorry if I offended anyone, I didn´t mean to, but I really wanted to express my opinion and worries about this series. I tried to be coherent and justify my opinion, as I personally find the "TWILIGHT IS STUPID" without any additional arguments anti-Twilight people as annoying as I find squeeing-mad (who trample each other in order to get to "Edward") Twilight fangirls, and definitely don´t want to be classified in either category.
Holy crap they're like piranah in blood infested waters. Girls who saw the first movie and instantly became the KYAA KYAA I ♥ EDWARD groupies instantly turned me away and many of my other now closeted Twilight fans. XD It's just the fact they went on like they knew the entire series front and back, then you tell them to read the books and they're all like, "there are books? how many pages?" "Like, 500" "Any pictures?" "Nope" "Not interested"
AGREEED!!!! lol The books were good, don't like the movies too much. And everyone keeps talking about Edward and Jacob....helllooo what about Jasper and Carlisle?!?! Carlisle is my absolute fav character next to Jasper and Alice =) forget the 'main' characters. 
