Mentally slapping myself over missing the Day 7 Reading Challenge, therefore, I choose to merge challenges Day 7 & Day 8. Not entirely sure of what the significance of that statement was, though. Anyway, getting to the point:
The most overrated book in my opinion is Twilight. Although I do find Stephenie Meyer's writing skills to be extremely good, I don't understand what people deem as great in her Twilight series. I do agree that Edward Cullen is the perfect gentleman, but honestly, who would want to date a centuries-old person. No, I don't care that Edward Cullen is supposedly very attractive and hard to resist, he's still... ancient. His dating Bella actually makes him a pedophile of some sort. Sorry, I'm not sorry. But I will admit to immensely fan-girling over some of his and Bella's "moments". I will probably never understand why my 13-year old self begged my parents to buy me all four books from the Twilight series and more so, why I enjoyed reading it so much. Self-embarrassment.
The most underrated book on the other hand is probably Legend by Marie Lu. Let's face it, not many have heard of this book, much less read it. Legend, however, was the first dystopian novel I've read and inevitably the reason why I have this intense fascination (and undying love) for dystopian novels. Legend has been overlooked, what with other dystopian stories being commercially promoted through movies or upcoming series. Yes, I do mean The Hunger Games and Delirium, and no, I do not have a hatred for those other two dystopian series. You should know that I immediately devour the words and fall in love with any dystopian novel I get my hands on. I wouldn't, however, want Legend to go mainstream, otherwise everyone would be reading it and twisting it into something it's not. And that would perhaps break my heart. I guess it's better that it stays underrated, then.
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