My mom, who is a very intelligent woman, loves Twilight. Then again, my mother, for all her genius, reads some really trashy novels.
When reading a book I am quick to evaluate; often the quality of the prose is indicative of the quality of the writer (and prose I enjoy reading more so than story). Twilight's prose style is bland--the kind of quality you'd expect from a typical creative writing major, not an author of any distinction.
The story and characters, from what I've had told to me by a hysterical Twilight enthusiast who refuses to shut up when I see her (again, my mother), are the stuff of shallowness, impracticalities, stereotypes, vapidness (what's a good book without eccentric characters?) and worst of all, inconsistencies. This is all based on second hand accounts, though, so obviously I could be wrong (I only read a bit to gauge the style of writing).
My opinion on the quality of the writing stands, though.
