Why would anyone be bothered by visitors commenting on older threads? I'm happy to receive comments on anything that interests people, even if I wrote the original post five years ago. So no worries. :)

The general consensus on Evernight seems to be that it starts slowly, but picks up considerably later on. (I wasn't bothered by the slow start myself, but a lot of other reviewers have mentioned it.)

As for the prologue, I don't like that kind of thing usually either, but resigned myself to it as probably being an editorial decision to make the book seem more exciting from the get-go. At least the scene in the beginning does actually resemble the one that happens later on, or at least the discrepancies weren't great enough to quibble about.

I haven't heard anybody who's read Evernight say that it's a Twilight knockoff, however, and I definitely wouldn't say so myself -- other than the fact that it happens to teenagers and involves romance and vampires, there really aren't that many similarities in the way it plays out. Certainly the characters involved are very different from the ones in Meyers' book -- in ways that don't even become fully apparent until you hit the twist I mentioned.

Or at least, I didn't think much of Twilight but quite enjoyed this book, which is enough of a dissimilarity for me. :)