Title says all. This circumstance is usually pretty uncommon (THANK GOD), but recently I’ve read two books with this sort of dilemma. 1.) Twilight Series and 2.) Revelations (latest book of the Blue Bloods series…yes, it’s about vampires.)
I mean, I don’t know if it’s because girls can’t resist the sex appeals vampires have or something else because both books have the girl literally loving BOTH her sexy vamp bf and her not-so-sexy but cute human guy. Except, in Revelations, Schuyler (pronounced Skyler) is a half-vampire herself… that has spent most of her life living as a human(not a fledgling like Bella) It’s a nice psychological thing and all, where the girl has to choose between her human self and supernatural vamp self, but COME ON!
Now, there might be a chance that this bugs me because I’ve never been in love and have no idea what it feels like. But is it POSSIBLE to love TWO PEOPLE PASSIONATELY at the same time?!!? Feel free to let me know when you find out. 
But still, it is a HORRIBLE plot device because it requires a dues ex machina (in the form of the author manipulating the plot like Stephenie Meyer did with the birth of Renesmee and like Melissa de la Cruz did by having Mimi assault Jack ((the smexy vamp bf)) and force him to realize that she is his soul-mate (complicated bonding stuff. Apparently it’s inescapable like werewolves being imprinted.)
Unlike other love triangles (which are only slightly annoying) the heroine CANNOT solve the problem by herself and is TRULY A TWO-TIMER! (and spends a large part of the book moping about how sucky she is and how she feels sorry for the guys).
Don’t get me wrong, I still loved Revelations and Breaking Dawn and thought both were awesomely epic. Revelations just had bad timing and was published around the same year, not letting me recover from my last fit of annoyance for Bella. D:<
I am going to promise right here and now that I am NEVER going to include one of these in my writing. NEVER.
i think vampire books are popular amongst publishers right now
it must be the trend in publishing right now, vampire books
i mean there are so many vampire books
its awfully redundant, walking down a young adult bookstore aisle
dont these vampire-book-writing authors feel very unoriginal?
not that theres anything wrong with vampires, necessarily, but now there are so many books about vampires that any book about vampires becomes automatically cliche. although theres not anything wrong with cliches necessarily either, because an idea will only become an overused idea if its a good enough idea enough for people to WANT to use it over and over again.
and yes i can see how the heroine spending most of the book moping about being a two-timer might not be pleasant to read about. at least its not something i would want to read about, never having been in love with two people at once, but maybe other people like the whole angsty i-suck thing because they can relate to it.
i dont get how a person can love two people at once either, its kind of a strange idea, and it really does make the character a two-timer which is like, kinda dishonest and i really hate dishonesty, especially cheating on homework and stuff.
i dont really like this theme, except for the really nice forest picture, and the really pretty butterfly which contrasts with the colors in the picture and it looks really, really nice.
and oh with all the projects and stuff im so behind. i was sick and then i didnt do my makeup work so im stuck with all the makeup work over the weekend, and i was really tired yesterday so i basically slept the whole day and now im screwed.
Heehee, I really like the header area,but the lavendar border doesn’t really match that well. Nevertheless, still soothing in a way.
I get what you mean with the frustration about the two-timing female character. That sort of thing really takes a toll on the actual stroy and plot because it forces the author to spend at least 50% of the book writing about the mental turmoil the female character is going through. That’s one of the things that I didn’t like so much about Breaking Dawn because the whole “should I pick Jacob or should I pick Edward” thing just smothered the underlying plot. In New Moon and Eclipse this tension was to a tolerable extent, but in Breaking Dawn it just got out of hand. As I’ve said before, Breaking Dawn just didn’t have the kind of substance that I loved about Twilight.
And about all the vampire novels, I think it’s because the Twilight series has garnered so much publicity and popularity that writers think that using the word “vampire” anywhere in their writing is a one way ticket to getting it published. I guess publishing companies think the same way too because they know that vampire books are more likely to grasp the attention of browsers.
Anway, that’s my little schbeel for the day.
is it lavender or lavendar?
i think it’s with an e…
yes i think its lavender with an e
i caught a typo barney
i think your typo disorder is coming back
its spiel not schbeel
…? unless you meant to spell it that way, for some reason…
I am truly sick of vampire novels. People say that Twilight is so unique because of it’s portrayal of vampires as ‘good guys’. That is so false. I think I read a series a long time ago like that, but with demons or dead people…
I didn’t know how to spell it in the first place, so I just sounded it out.
i think it probably meant they were the first “popular” books that portrayed vampires as good guys.
Barney, I changed the color a little bit to make it less glaring. Is it better?
yeah, it blends in more