Shannon Fernandez

This book is awful on SO many levels! First off as an author how lazy can you be to rewrite the first book TWICE, with mainly the same dialog and story as a cash grab? There are so many spelling and grammatical errors it's comical. I already despised Bella, but in this book I absolutely LOATHE her. There is nothing redeeming about her, she is even more stupid, classless, and ridiculous as ever. Much of this book has several pages of random rambling that you can skip over without missing anything. Just on the surface the book is complete trash. The real issue is the story that is being sold to young girls. I am a survivor, was stalked, and my ex tried to kill me and left me for dead leaving me permanently disabled. In this book several times words like unhealthy, stalker, peeping Tom, all come up and it is all put off as super lighthearted, or love. This relationship is severely toxic. Someone stalking you, wanting to murder you, control your life, and removing you away from all friends and family is a monster. This is not love at all. Young girls reading this are taught to take all of this lightly and the wrong definition of love. He does this because he loves me, etc....This whole book is literally the cycle of abuse over and over. My mother was the type to always have to have a man no matter how bad he was. My current stepfather tried to kill me, and has my mom work 2 jobs to support his drug habit and treats her like a slave. Bella's mom is like this, as well as mentally unstable and sounds really bipolar. She definitely was never capable of caring for a child, made her child feel like a burden, and abandoned her to chase some young D bag loser who loves Linkin Park, and thinks he's hot playing in the minors...what a catch. CPS probably should have stepped in, this is another topic that is turned lighthearted. Nothing about this is ok or lighthearted. Bella needs help, and has felt abandoned. Then her dad seems almost mentally challenged, and she doesn't see him as a parent either. She wants to be wanted, and accepts this extremely unhealthy abuse and mistakes it as love because she has only been exposed to dysfunction. As women we have come way too far for books like this, and this is the last thing I would ever want in the hands of young girls. This is basically constant domestic violence made into a love story. This absolutely disgusts me. I would love to beat Stephanie Meyer into a pulp and see how she likes it, but it seems apparent she does and is ok with abuse...She definitely needs help! Her cry for help should NEVER be placed in the hands of vulnerable young girls in unfortunate situations like Bella. The only thing interesting is the Cullen backstory. She should do a prequel about Carlisle and his story. He at least tried to do good and is level headed. Instead she continues to write trash, and promote domestic abuse for girls from dysfunctional families that want to belong...And the cycle continues...