1. Sex is dangerous and anything even approaching heavy petting can kill you.
2. Men get angry really easily, and they aren't responsible for losing control of themselves when they do.
3. Not eating anything is amazingly cool and makes you irresistibly attractive.
4. Making dinner for Dad every night and doing all the housework makes a teenage girl very happy.
And another observation, not especially feminist:
5. There are far fewer Asians and Latinos in the Pacific Northwest nowadays than there were when I lived there 15 years ago.
Also, the books could have told the stories effectively in about half the pages they use. There's a lot of wasted time between the scenes that actually move the story along. Worse, and much less forgivably, some of the most important action happens off-page -- if the narrator is unconscious when it happens, then you have to have another character tell her what happened. You can't just say "We won. The End." That's some flawed storytelling.
And yet I'm still reading the books; I'm nearly done the third one now.
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> There are far fewer Asians and Latinos in the Pacific Northwest nowadays than there were when I lived there 15 years ago.
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remember the books are set in Forks, which is pretty much the asshole of the Peninsula. there are probably fewer Asians and Latinos there than most other parts of the state, fwiw.
Oh, that's true. However, one of the books includes "excerpts" from a Seattle newspaper article, and the names listed are very WASPy, even though the narrator explains that the people were a very random-looking cross-section of the city's population.
The author notes in the back of, I think, the second one that she raided her family for character names.
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