The Bella/Anne Shirley comparison does have some reasoning behind it: they're both so melodramatic, I want to smack them.
The thing that bugged me about Rosalie's backstory (besides the whole BAAAAABIES!) is that it took place in 1933. As in, the Great Depression. The stock market crash. The Dustbowl. Well-off banker parents and a Richy McRapist fiancee? Not so much.
One thing that made me really angry was the way Leah was treated- she loses her boyfriend to her cousin, then has to listen to him waxing mentally poetic about Emily, and she's a "bitter harpy" while Jacob sexually assaults Bella, but it's okay, because he's a guy it's True Love? Bullshit.
I feel really sorry for Quil's imprintee. She'll never have any chance of a life of her own, because it's predetermined that she'll marry someone almost twenty years older than her. And in the meantime, he'll be her "older brother"? I'm sorry, but ew.
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The thing that bugged me about Rosalie's backstory (besides the whole BAAAAABIES!) is that it took place in 1933. As in, the Great Depression. The stock market crash. The Dustbowl. Well-off banker parents and a Richy McRapist fiancee? Not so much.
One thing that made me really angry was the way Leah was treated- she loses her boyfriend to her cousin, then has to listen to him waxing mentally poetic about Emily, and she's a "bitter harpy" while Jacob sexually assaults Bella, but it's okay, because
he's a guyit's True Love? Bullshit.I feel really sorry for Quil's imprintee. She'll never have any chance of a life of her own, because it's predetermined that she'll marry someone almost twenty years older than her. And in the meantime, he'll be her "older brother"? I'm sorry, but ew.