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Nightlight: A Parody by The Harvard Lampoon


A little background: I bailed on reading Twilight after the first page. (Sorry, Twihards). Out of boredom and morbid curiosity, I recently watched all the movies (after seeing someone share her live reactions in her IG stories to reading the first book), so I thought reading a parody was just the thing for me. 

This book is cringe-worthy and Belle is incredibly dumb, which *is* the point. I found myself snorting at several things. Yes, I actually snorted out loud several times. And even chuckled a couple of times. I enjoyed reading and catching on to the little digs at the books/movies. There could've been way more, though. A few things did not make sense to me-at all-and were just plain weird, but I did appreciate this parody for what it was trying to do/did.

One of my favorite lines was: "I was finally about to ask him if he liked me for me or for my paper cuts..."

I'm not sure I can figure out a rating for this, so I'll leave that blank.