When I started to read the book Evermore by Alyson Noel during lunch one day my friend Casey saw the book and started to talk to me about it. She told me how much like Twilight it was which ruined the story for her since it could have been so good. As I read I began to pick up a few similarities. Like when one of the characters, Damen, put his hand on top of the main character’s, Ever, hand and she feels a shock. And then once again when Ever dreams that Damen was in her room at night. Casey was right. That got me thinking about something Casey said to me last year in World History class.
One of her epiphanies as me and my friends like to call them. She said that pretty much all of the teen books are the same with only a few exceptions. That they’re all about romance with a girl who thinks she’s not pretty or a freak ending up with the hottest guy out there without doing anything. Which then lead me to think about Joseph Campbell and the hero’s journey which I learned about in World Literature this year. How the same plot line has been used over and over again for hundreds of years as explained by Campbell in The Hero with a Thousand Faces.
Is it just becoming more obvious in books how similar they are to one another? Is there no originality anymore? Or is a good idea being ruined by the need to have romance and the thoughtlessness of a character being a Mary Sue?
I just hope there are no more Twilight moments in Evermore.
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