Whom will Bella choose? The answer will not be a surprise, unless these are the only two books you have ever read.īook Three, Eclipse (2007), was a disappointment, never delivering an epic werewolf-bloodsucker smackdown, though it provides more of the vampires' backstory (ancient origins, ruling triumvirate who all resemble Star Wars' Emperor Palpatine, lots of ominous vampiric hissing, etc.). Problem: Werewolves and vampires are, like, mortal enemies. New Moon (2006), Meyer's second novel, was an improvement, largely because it centered on Bella's new love interest - Jacob, a teen werewolf who acts like a real kid rather than a beautiful, unattainable love object. It's like reading a young teenage girl's blog, boosted with enough of Meyer's made-up vampire lore to give it some mild narrative and sexual tension. (Though it's never spelled out explicitly, the specter of unrestrained teenage sex haunts these books: The sequence becomes an increasingly bizarre allegory of sexual abstinence.) Meyer's prose seldom rises above the serviceable, and the plotting is leaden, but Twilight is really all about unrequited female erotic yearning. If Edward loses control of himself, Bella is in danger of losing her life and soul, along with her maidenhead. As a result, the 17-year-old Bella and immortal Edward can't even think of consummating their relationship, or progress beyond light petting. Still, physical proximity to mortals remains a torment to these vampires, and a dead end for humans. But Edward and his adopted vampire family are 'vegetarians' they survive by hunting animals rather than humans. Much is made of vampire Edward's granite-hard, icy lips and chest, as well as the fact that Bella's scent drives him to a frenzy of erotic longing and bloodlust. Twilight (2005) had a simple, teen-friendly plot: plain, clumsy, dull Bella becomes the Chosen One of Edward, the hottest - actually, coldest - guy in high school. Last weekend, Breaking Dawn, the final book in the series, sold 1.3 million copies in its first 24 hours. Meyer woke up and, after tending to her young children, began to write the story that became Twilight. Stephenie Meyer, author of the wildly popular Twilight series of young adult vampire romances, has her own creation myth: Her first book came to her in a dream about an ordinary mortal girl encountering a boy vampire of unearthly beauty. Readers want to believe there's something heroic, even magical, about the birth of the characters and stories they become obsessed with. Rowling hunched over a table in an Edinburgh coffee shop, scrawling Harry Potter in longhand while her baby napped Stephen King sat in the laundry room of his snowbound trailer, banging out Carrie on an old typewriter. Origin stories are as important to bestselling novelists as they are to superheroes.

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