Starts out with a bible quote.... so far seeming relatively unrelated. I don't know what vampires have to do with genesis....
Second page and already this book is ridiculous. Bella starts out talking about Arizona, where she lives currently. She describes the sky as "perfect". She then goes on to talk about Forks, where she's moving. Forks is gloomy, her mother "escaped" from there (first mention of Forks being prison-like). She was "compelled" to live there, prison reference #2. She then says that Forks is where she is going to "exile" herself, which apparently she is taking "with great horror" because she detests Forks... We have no idea WHY she is leaving Phoenix, but she is. She is leaving the "perfect" sky for the "gloomy, omnipresent shade". Well okay then, obviously this girl makes poor decisions.
Now she's on her way, with her father, Charlie, to Forks. He tells her he got a car from an old friend, who Bella doesn't remember because she "blocks out painful and unnecessary memories" which is both whiney and annoying but also untrue, judging on how much she hates Forks, you'd think she would have forgotten it's existence.
So Bella exiles herself and absolutely hates her life, though it seemed that she does a pretty shit job of blocking out memories seeing as she appears to be clinically depressed. Way to fail.
Also, her fathers old friend (the car selling one) is in a wheelchair "now" (implying that he wasn't in one last time that Bella saw him). Bella doesn't even question how or why this happened to this poor guy, she just starts asking about the car. Shallow bitch.
So she goes to her bedroom after getting home, and sits around, examining her room and thinking about school and how much tomorrow is going to suck. She's a real ray of sunshine.
Now she is talking about how badly she relates to people and mentions that the person with whom she shares the best bond is her mother. Who she just abandoned to live with a father who she obviously as no connection with since she calls him "Charlie". Bella is obviously a masochist.
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