I read the first one as a recommendation from my teacher. I got through it, but it was pretty dull and slow. Mind you, I was fourteen at the time, and didn't know what good literature was. I wasn't seeking out faults, I was just reading a book. I didn't hate it, but I certainly didn't like it.

Then I read the second book.

I got to the part where Bella spends FIVE FUCKING CHAPTERS sitting in the FUCKING WOODS. "Oh, my boyfriend left me! I better sit in this one place and wait for him to return!" While that is a sound rescue strategy, it is certainly not a romantic strategy. I am estimating how many chapters she spent sitting there, as it was five years ago, and I never read far enough for her to get out of the woods.

So as far as I'm concerned, she got eaten by a wolf or something in those woods.