Drew Hayes answers “Why do people hate this book so much? They...”

A Goodreads user asked this question about Twilight (The Twilight Saga, #1):

Why do people hate this book so much? They should't even be allowed to

Drew Hayes Having read this once as the intended audience and then recently reading it again as a 30 something adult, I realized something.

One of the reasons I s…moreHaving read this once as the intended audience and then recently reading it again as a 30 something adult, I realized something.

One of the reasons I struggled to understand all the "hate" or negative reviews was because I had a shitty childhood. Everything was my fault in regard to my little sister and our household. I had to be responsible from a young age for things I shouldn't have to be. My mom was a textbook narcissist and gaslighting was a daily experience. Dad loved us, but he was a workaholic and wasn't around much.

So all of the people who read twilight and recoil in horror probably had normal families and were brought up the healthy way.

I read the stories and didn't think twice about a lot of the issues because it didn't seem that bad by comparison.

Now that I'm in my thirties and in a stable environment with a healthy head space I see what everyone was upset about. It still doesn't bother me much because it's fiction, and it got a lot of people to read books that weren't readers back in the day. Just my two cents.(less)

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