IMO: I read the first book and it was painfully horrible. It was a bad romance novel with vampires instead of burly manly-men. The descriptions and dialogue were repetitive and juvenile. I read it because my middle-schooler wanted to read it, and I wanted to preview it first to be sure it was appropriate. My assessment: read it if you want to, but you’ll get a better story reading the back of your cereal box.
Did I mention the book is awful?
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My son hates Twilight with a burning passion. He loves the “percy Jackson and the Olympians” series though. Pretty good stuff, he started reading them in middle school. Really good unless you have a problem with Greek myths being portrayed as real.