I love stories. When I was little, whenever the words "Once upon a time" were read aloud, the world would just vanish around me and I entered a fairytale. I became the hero of the story, I would be surrounded by magic and I would always have a happily ever after.
Even though I'm eighteen now, I can't help but relive my childhood excitement whenever I start reading a new novel. In these novels, I once again enter a whole new world. I'm not exactly a "deep" reader, for example, I'm not a a fan of Jane Austen or other classic authors, I'm more of an urban fantasy romance lover. My favourite series is Cassandra Clare's 'Mortal Instruments' series and Lauren Kate's 'Fallen' series. I will be writing about my opinions about these books as well as some of my other favourite novels, as well as some books I'm reading at the time, but for right now I am going to cover the concept of an urban fantasy story.
I have to confess that I have not read the 'Twilight' saga, which you may think odd considering it pretty much is the "spokesperson" of the genre. However when it was the massive hype when I was fourteen, I was very defensive of 'Harry Potter' when everyone compared 'Twilight' to what I considered as the classic of our times. So on principle I have never read it. Mind you, I am the person who continued doing maths in my last year of school because I thought it would be weird to go to school without complaining about it. Worst decision of my life- so you probably can see that I have no sense of logic.
Anyway, despite my personal conflict with 'Twilight,' I love the concept of a girl living in what she thinks is a mundane world, then something occurs which turns her life upside down and she discovers that vampires/ angels/ fallen angels/ werewolves/ witches and so on exist. And she falls in love with an incredibly good looking guy, which as a reader you wish they actually existed, and together fight the bad guys in an apocalyptic battle and save the world and end with a kiss. To me, that is one of the best plots. Many people complain that these stories are the same-same plot- but it is the incredible formula for this genre and without meaning to sound harsh, but the people who bag these books should just not read them. The "generic" format of urban fantasy romance is just as generic as a fairytale and fairytales are beautiful things. We all love the prospect of a "happily ever after."
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