Why Not Edward. No, that's not a question.

I have to say that Edward's "perfection" gets a little annoying. Everything he does is parent-like. Yes, that's how he has to be with Bella. But he acts like there is no other way to react. Sometimes it seems like there is no other way for him to love her except to protect her. Yes, it's romantic and yes, I gushed over it. But in retrospect? It almost makes their relationship seem empty. A balance with a more normal side of a relationship would be oh so welcome. To me at least. Others might have lost my drift a long time ago. Sorry bout that.

On a side note, why are the "best" love stories the epic ones? Doesn't anyone know what love looks like outside dangerous escapes and forbidden romances? Have people not realized what true love is in a relationship free of intense extraneous emotions? Or worse, is "true love" just a regular relationship marked with adrenaline? Well, I think maybe love is never true or false, and maybe it doesn't have an obvious marker. Maybe all our relationships are just varying degrees of good and bad.

Okay back on topic. So I'm going to try to explain my annoyance at Edward better. Basically, I think their relationship focuses way too much on the clash between her humanness and his vampire-ness. I know it's a big deal, no need to comment on the obviousness. But if she's planning on becoming a vampire like him so that they are equal for once, don't you think it'd be a good idea if they focus on other things in their relationship? Once that obstacle was cleared, or was decided to be cleared, it shouldn't be the draw of their relationship. There should be other...compatibilities, even though the human vs. vampire thing isn't exactly compatible. I know it's hard to make true love relationships seem different from others without professions of true love every other sentence, but there is more to love than that.

I know there are other things, but it would be nice if a book reassured the normal human of true love's existence. Instead, this book just makes me want to find a vampire. But, no, it has to go and be all fictional.