It turns out Twilight is all that and a bag of chips. I know, I know, I’m like 2 years late to the snack machine, but better late than never, right?
So after 2 days of non-stop reading (substitute swimming with Twilight and my life was not so different from Michael Phelps’s Olympic regimen: eat, read, sleep a little, get up in middle of the night to read, eat some breakfast, read some more on morning commute, eat some lunch, sneak a read in at work…etc. etc.) I finish it and immediately set out as a veritable one-woman publicity machine, telling everyone to get their hands on a copy, under the promise that this is “vampire love, at it’s finest”.
Fast forward a few days and I see my good friend - let’s call her “Gemma” - at dinner. Apparently, Gemma had taken me up on my endorsement, literally verbatim, and asked a bookseller for a copy of “Vampire Love”. Unbeknownst to Gemma (and a slightly perplexed bookseller), she is taken to the paranormal erotic section and handed copies of “I Only Have Fangs for You” and “Love Bites”. Poor girl. And the saddest bit of all, she has yet to read the book! Oh well, I guess she can get in line and borrow my copy, embarrassment-free.
How many of you have read the series? Did you devour it (pardon the pun) the same way I did?
I love it! Your poor friend...
I definitely devoured Twilight in one sitting. Course, I started reading when it first came out so I had to wait a year or so in between books!
I'm working my way through the Sookie Stackhouse series, but as vampires seem to be the flavor of the summer and because I simply can't watch the movie without reading the book, I've got the library in my sights. I pray the list of holds won't be too long.
I haven't read the books. But I had lunch with the author last week:
Shawn, Stephenie & Terry
She was nothing like her books, at least from what I understand of her books. Some vampire writers are as spooky as their creations but Stephenie was a lovely sweet unassuming young woman.
I will definitely read Twilight when I can, just so I can know what the big buzz is about. Gotta read it before the movie though. I don't like my internal movie being altered by Hollywood directors. :)
I read the first book and found it slow-moving and filled with repetitive passages of angst. Not tempted to ever read another word, but my nieces inhaled the series.
Joanna---love your post! Now I most definitely must read this...before twilight?
For those of you that enjoyed twilight and the rest of the saga, make sure you check out stepeniemeyer.com and read the first chapter of Midnight Sun, which is rewritten from Edward's POV.
I'm no longer afraid of thunder now that I know it's just the Cullen family playing a game of baseball...
Do you think they need cheerleaders? I'm Edward's biggest fan.