Edward Cullen, of course. There is little attempt made to conceal his arrogance, his disdain for humans, and his disturbingly obsessive behavior with Bella, if it were portrayed at any point as being a bad thing. Even so, it's implied that most vampires are much worse.
The Cullens as a whole come off way worse than in the Twilight series. Not only do they return to Forks, knowing that the Quileutes are terrified of them (through Edward's mindreading), but they're dismissive and rude to the townspeople as a whole. Not to mention drugging a woman to steal her car and then causing 27 car pileup to get to the ballet studio so quickly. While Alice doesn't foresee any fatalities, there's still going to be countless injuries and the costs to match, plus car repairs and loss of property.
All of the Cullens apparently get straight A's in all their classes. No surprise that they can, given how often they've repeated their educations, but exactly how is blowing the curve in every subject supposed to help them blend in with everybody else? Also, shouldn't the science classes, at least, occasionally have something new to offer?
Through Edward we learn that the Cullens hate high school even more than they seem to in Twilight. Jasper is always a hair's breadth away from killing people, Edward calls high school "purgatory," and the Cullens do very little to fit in or get along with the other students. We're told that the Cullens pose as younger so that they can stay in one place for longer, but considering how much they all so openly hate high school and humans, one can be left wondering why they even bother.
We learn that the Quileutes are (rightfully) terrified of the Cullens and have no way of assuring that their (unknowing) children don't wander onto Cullen land, thus breaking the treaty. Why then would the good, kind Cullens return to one of their many former residences, especially as Forks is the only town near to their known enemies? The meta reason is that Stephenie Meyer wrote the second half of Twilight first, after the meadow scene and before Jacob was created. When she realized that Edward, as she envisioned him, would never tell Bella the truth, she needed a way for Bella to discover the vampires without Edward's assistance. Meyer learned about the Quileutes, found it "kind of funny" that the Quileutes have werewolves in their legends, and so appropriated the tribe as a plot device to get Bella in on to the secret. In story, however, we're given very little reasoning beyond, "it's cloudy a lot."
Edward filters out a lot of people's thoughts when he finds them boring, mundane, unrelated to Bella, etc. We get to "hear" thoughts from Jessica and Mike that Edward focuses on and chooses to narrate— but he might be missing the full picture, or choosing not to narrate the ones that contradict his low opinions of them.
Given the myriad of crises that happened in 2020 before even half the year was up, the announcement of a new Twilight book getting released was quickly declared by people to be the cherry on top.
People's guesses as to how Robert Pattinson will react to this have been making the rounds, given his legendary hatred of the series.
Narm: Edward spends the entire first half of the book believing that, when Bella sees him sparkle in the sunlight, it will make her hate him, and he firmly believes that this is the most flagrant example of his inhumanity. He goes on, and on, about how she'll see him for the true horrific monster he is...when any savvy reader who has even heard of Twilight knows he is referring to the sparkling.
It's really not that romantic. Especially considering how Edward is an admitted stalker.
In racing to save Bella from James, the Cullens cause a major traffic accident as they hijack a car on the interstate and Emmett throws the previous one they were using into oncoming traffic, resulting in multiple cars trying to brake and hitting each other regardless. We're given a token assurance that Alice saw no fatalities, but that doesn't change the panic, injuries, damage, etc. that all of those people suffer.
They Wasted a Perfectly Good Plot: Edward's daydream about snapping the necks of everybody in the science class would have been great. He averaged himself at five per second.
Edward repeatedly narrates how "the monster" wants him to kill, can't understand why Bella doesn't fear him as a monster for her own safety, then is shocked to realize he was never separate from the monster he's been calling himself the entire book.
He feels guilty that he's stalking Bella, admonishing himself repeatedly for it, but he doesn't stop stalking her. He just endlessly berates himself for following her around and sneaking into her room while she sleeps.
