I think that's a very stretched definition of well-written. All the words she used wrong, all the awkward phrasing… you can't be saying that's a good thing.
Yeah I'm sorry review maker but are you a college graduated or have you taken any literature classes? There is no way an intelligent person with a background in literature could ever consider something like Twilight well written.
I think it's a joke review? They're saying the author should be commended for creating a narrator which the reviewer has managed to form a personal dislike for. It's meant to be seen as an Achievements in Ignorance sort of thing, making a narrator - the glue of your story - realistic to the point of being able to dislike them. It's a very roundabout joke.
I also imagine there's some feelings about dumb teenagers which fuel the joke as well.
This really isn't a review that should be taken at face value, and it's pretty much evident from the first line.
You give way too many people too much credit Mallard. I do believe there are people out there that genuinely believe what the review creator put.
The first sentence looks like irony, the title and all the other sentences look sincere.
I don't know of any definition of "good writer" under which Meyer qualifies.
I guess it depends on your definition of well-written. If you mean well-written in the sense that Twilight is easy to read and Meyer is very good at connecting with certain readers to provide an escapist fantasy, I definitely think that's true. But in terms of literary construction, story, and themes? No.
You final sentences contradict your first sentence and title. If you couldn't find it in your soul to get to the most important part of the book, it wasn't well written. But Meyer certainly appreciates you taking pity on her and being nice. Honestly, it was less well written and more obsessively written. Or perhaps feverishly is more accurate.
Trust me. When it came out, I read that book enough times for every commenter + you to have literally read it three times around. And in doing so, have come to realize that it is specifically to entice teenagers and middle aged women disillusioned with romance novels at that moment.
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Twilight was well-written ... but I still didn't like it.
Stephanie Meyer is to be commended. She managed to create a character and narrator so believeable that I was able to form a personal dislike for them. Twilight is the first book I gave up reading because I disliked the narrator so much. I got as far as Bella blowing off that guy who nearly hit her with his car when he was annoying her with his desire to apologize. (I didn't get as far as the vampire reveal, so I don't feel it's my place to criticize or defend her reinterpretation of them.)