Twilight by Stephenie Meyer

This book is the first in a series. It is considered "young adult" fiction, but I thought it was a good adult fiction book.

Brief plot overview (no spoilers): This is a series about vampires. That should be all I need to say to get B.P. and Zoe to read it! It is set in high school, but very little of that crap we may recall from high school is going on. It is a love story.

I have always had a thing for vampires. As a kid, if it had Dracula in it, I read it or saw it. There is just something so appealing about vampires. The main vampire in Twilight is very appealing, to the point of making Dracula seem ugly and uncouth. I would have begged to be bitten to spend my life with the main vampire in this book.

Review: I loved it, maybe even more than Harry Potter. That should either cause Nate and Knitts to read it or never speak to me again. I read it in about a day and a half, could not put it down. For young adult fiction, it was pretty erotic. Now before Zoe, Tysgirl, and Limpy get all riled up, there was no sex in it. This may have you (or more specifically, them) asking, "Well what was erotic then?" My answer: the descriptions of falling in love. I remember falling in love with Phollower as being distinctly different from any other experience, and the descriptions in this book reminded me of that. I don't know if you all went through this or not with your significant other. But sometimes I'd get dizzy when he kissed me or touched my face or my heart would flip-flop when I looked at him. I still have those experiences, not every time he kisses me, but still sometimes. Sometimes when I look across the room at him at a get-together with friends, my heart does flip-flops at how remarkable it is that he is my husband. Maybe it was different with him because I knew he was the one, from very early in our dating relationship. Either way, I really enjoyed her descriptions of them falling in love. And the plot has a fair amount of action, keeping it going.

I can't wait to read the second in the series. Phollower went out a bought it for me today. So sweet. My favorite scene was the one where the two main characters are on their first date, sitting in the sun in the meadow. So romantic. As always, if you read it (or have read it), let me know what you think and what your favorite scene was. But if you've read the next two books in the series, NO SPOILERS PLEASE!