Here we’re seeing the slowness we knew was coming. I was wearing my favorite shirt - sleeveless, white eyelet lace I was wearing it as a farewell gesture. It was seventy-five degrees in Phoenix, the sky a perfect, cloudless blue. My mother drove me to the airport with the windows rolled down. Let’s move onto the actual opening chapter. If Bella is really saying she doesn’t think about her own death before the climax of this book, she is a liar-pants. Yes, I changed the content so she has thought about her death. I’d imagined my death a lot in the last few months, but I never thought it would be like this.

Word economy matters here’s how it could have been tightened: It’s as though Meyer was trying to make her opening hook stronger just by lengthening it. That doesn’t mean the wordcraft couldn’t use help. We don’t know who the hunter is, how she ends up threatened by him, what in Forks is so meaningful to her, and what happened in the last months to give her reason to think about her death. It’s loaded with high stakes conflict and plenty of mystery. However, as flash forwards go, this is strong. You know what’s better? A beginning with conflict. What we have here is a flash forward. It’s Meyer’s way of saying, “I swear there will be conflict later in this story, so bear with me!” This functions as a patch for a beginning without much conflict. The hunter smiled in a friendly way as he sauntered forward to kill me. But, terrified as I was, I couldn’t bring myself to regret the decision. I knew that if I’d never gone to Forks, I wouldn’t be facing death now. I’d never given much thought to how I would die - though I’d had reason enough in the last few months - but even if I had, I would not have imagined it like this. Which book makes the best first impression? Twilight Which book will win? The answer will shock you not surprise you in the least. Then I’ll tally the points to find a winner.

I will jump to important sections in each book, cast judgement on each, and award one book a point. I’ve selected two books that are indisputably similar: Twilight by Stephanie Meyer, and its off-brand offspring, Fifty Shades of Grey by EL James. I’m going to pit two books against each other in a battle to the DEATH! No, I’m not sure how a book can die in battle. Just imagine it, okay? * We’ve looked at entire short stories, and now I’ll kick it up a notch. We’ve dissected the first chapters of terrible novels and great ones.

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