Twilight Trilogy by Stephenie Meyer

This series had three strikes against it before I started reading it. I usually don’t like fiction that comes from graduates of the BYU English department and I don’t do vampire romance. Third, I’ve never known my sisters to like the books I like (Although I’ve slogged through more Austen novels than they have Card, McCaffrey or Lackey). So when my sister recommended Twilight to me, I didn’t run out and put it on my library list. I also ignored it when The King’s English announced that Stephenie Meyer would be doing a book signing.

I wasn’t until one of the guys in my EMBA class mentioned that with all the reading he saw me do, he was surprised I hadn’t read Twilight. Well that got it put on the library list and when my turn came up (funny I didn’t think being hold 206 would go that fast). It came home and sat on my end table…and sat there... and sat there… and I knew that I either had to read it or send it back because it was due Thursday but I wasn’t looking forward to it until my daughter came home from college and handed her copy to her younger brother and said, “You so have to read this!” So it was a race, thank goodness for the flu? I ended up stuck in bed for the weekend and I finished the library copy before he finished her copy so I got to read her copy of New Moon and I finished that during the same weekend (I think I love the 3 month chapters as much as I love Faulkner’s “My mother is a fish”). And tonight I finished Eclipse and I can’t wait for Midnight Sun (Why does that title remind me of Nightwish?)

It’s more than a vampire romance, it’s a coming of age book for anyone who can’t believe that the cute guy (who you just know has a flaw) could ever fall for you. Then there is the teen angst that comes when you discover that there is more than one love in your life. The trauma that comes from choosing between good and better, making the decision and knowing it caused someone pain.

The topics are universal but the writing is definitely for the juvenile audience that the reader should have been cued to since it's published by a Young Adult division. And yes, my son is just getting to the fight scene in Twilight. He doesn’t get to put off homework to read the way that mom does…