My female classmates insisted I read the Twilight Saga. So I did, and I hated them. However, I was able to see that they did have some potential. The plot was actually fairly good—it's just that all the poorly done plotless romance got in the way. While the protagonists were flat and had no depth behind the relationship, there were good, likable characters. There's a ton of Purple Prose, yes, and it has major flaws, but the series had the potential to be a good one. Change the romance and protagonists so that they have actual depth, focus less on the romance and more on the impact the romance had on the plot, give the other characters some more screentime, make vampires a bit less...lame, and completely rewrite the final book. Then, it might have been a good series. As it stands, it's kind of crap.
What could have been...but wasn't.
My female classmates insisted I read the Twilight Saga. So I did, and I hated them. However, I was able to see that they did have some potential. The plot was actually fairly good—it's just that all the poorly done plotless romance got in the way. While the protagonists were flat and had no depth behind the relationship, there were good, likable characters. There's a ton of Purple Prose, yes, and it has major flaws, but the series had the potential to be a good one. Change the romance and protagonists so that they have actual depth, focus less on the romance and more on the impact the romance had on the plot, give the other characters some more screentime, make vampires a bit less...lame, and completely rewrite the final book. Then, it might have been a good series. As it stands, it's kind of crap.