I have an alarm clock that is an effigy of former British Prime-minister John Major. Each night I will set the alarm and each morning I am awoken to his monotone voice blasting out, "Will the right honorable member, please rise?". I've never had a problem with my honorable member rising first thing of a morning, or anytime for that matter, but I digress. The way to shut Mr Major up is to pick up the clock and throw it at the wall or just smack his head against a hard surface at which point he sheepishly utters, "Oh dear!". If my John Major clock could read this book he would no doubt utter the same words as when he is thrown at the wall.
I've never read any of the Twilight novels or watched any of the movies and I was thinking that this book might be a steppingstone to actually taking the plunge and seeing what all the fuss is about. After trudging through the Meyer (mire/Meyer...fine, I thought it was smart anyway) of this offering I think I'll give it a permanent miss.
So where did 'The Twilight Gospel' go wrong?
Well, if you are a fan of the Twilight series of novels you will probably find most of this book irrelevant as it is steeped in explanations of the movie. Pages and pages and pages are devoted to summarizing various scenes before the author uses only a fraction of that amount of space to make a connection with spirituality. At a guess I would say at least 70% of the book is a summary of the Twilight novels. When the link to spirituality (and by spirituality we're talking Christianity) is made it's more to do with the author's opinion than any outright fact. A perfect example of this would be to point out that Mr Roberts first uses biblical scripture as evidence seventy-six pages into the book...just a couple of pages short of being exactly at the halfway point.
Thankfully this was a quick read and the writing itself is of a high standard although I found it to be lacking personality and to be very monotone in the delivery of the opinions it was giving. As such I certainly would not recommend this book and will leave the final words to my John Major clock...
"Oh dear!" ( )