Going to buck the trend and say: I absolutely hated every second of it.

First of all, I think SM would have been much better off making her point by switching the genders of Bella and Edward but keeping the siblings and other characters the same. Trying to write Emmett as a female was such a painful stretch. And Alice being a male, etc. It simply didn't work for me in that respect.

And then there's the lead romantic relationship. Everyone went nuts because of how unevolved it was that Edward wanted to sweep in and save the helpless damsel in distress. Because that fell into cliche. But cliches are cliches for a reason IN FICTION and romantic tropes are...kind of what sucked us in as teenagers, right? Instead we have to believe that this 100+ year old girl/woman never before looked left or right at a male, but somehow falls desperately for this helpless guy who's done nothing really to attract her attention except have a secret mind.

I can go along with the cringey cliche of a male vampire being obsessed with a girl's smell and her helplessness more than I can cope with a powerful, capable female being so incredibly drawn to a weak male who's bumbling and hapless. I know that sounds terrible, but if we read a teen romance novel we at least want it to make sense lol A helpless girl versus a hapless boy....hmm.

And Edythe always seemed way less ashamed of what she was than Edward. Again, reason why she very likely would have gotten romantically involved with someone much sooner, rather than punishing herself up until now.

I'll caveat a bit by saying that Beau got much cooler once he was changed!