Bedazzled: Stephenie Meyer and the Twilight Phenomenon

I must admit that I was fairly disappointed in Bedazzled, as it provides no great insight or commentary on the works of Stephenie Meyer.  George Beahm’s explanation for providing no critical insight of the Twilight books is that Stephenie Meyers intends to publish the definitive guide to the world of Edward and Bella herself.  However, this really shouldn’t have stopped Beahm from adding his tuppence worth of opinion.  The only commentary he provides merely proves that Beahm has had a correspondence with the great Ray Bradbury rather than adding anything of particular relevance to the Twilight saga.  Much of the material of the book consists of interviews, mainly with Stephenie Meyer and the stars of the movie adaptations.  These could have been edited better, as there is a great deal of repetition (I got fed up of reading about Meyer’s protestation that she was never a fan of vampire movies, since this is often referred to in the book).  To be fair to Beahm, he does write that Bedazzled was devised as a book that you can dip into, rather than reading it from cover to cover.  I suspect that fans of the movies will be most satisfied with Bedazzled, due to the numerous interviews featuring Rob Pattinson, Kristen Stewart, and Taylor Lautner et al.  Fans wanting to visit locations featured in Twilight will also be well served by the guidance this book provides.  However, a lot of the book’s material does appear to have been derived from the Internet, but is still peculiarly colourless, maybe because Beahm has played it too safe with this book?  The illustrations, aside from the cover, are also nothing to write home about.  However, as noted above, the real problem of this book is a near complete absence of an author’s voice, which is strange, since this book is a celebration of one of the world’s most popular writers.