I was recently reading a few blogs that mentioned the new book coming out Breaking Dawn by Stephenie Meyer.  She is the author of the four book ‘Twilight’ saga.  I decided to buy the first book in the series in paperback this weekend and started reading.  I wanted to see what all the hoopla was about.  I am half way through the book. 

This morning, while I was supposed to be working on a new design for my companies website, I came across this review of the series of books asking the question…”Is this really good reading for teen girls?”

I thought all you Twilight fans would like to read what these two authors had to say…

By Martha Brockenbrough with Lorie Ann Grover
MSN Cinemama

If 2007 was the year of the boy wizard — with the final “Harry Potter” book and a movie coming out in the same month — 2008 is the year of the vampire.

More specifically, a vampire named Edward, who literally sparkles as the romantic hero of a four-book series that has become the obsession of teen girls (and many of their mothers) nationwide.

Welcome to the “Twilight” zone.

In case you still haven’t heard of the series by Stephenie Meyer, you’re about to. On Aug. 2, the fourth installment, “Breaking Dawn,” hits bookstores. The series tells the story of Bella, a teenage girl living in Forks, Wash., who falls in love with one of the town’s resident vampires. Bella would trade her soul to be undead happily ever after; Edward forcefully resists such a thing.

Across the country, 4,000 stores will open at midnight, just so those sweaty, trembling fans can lose a night’s sleep finding out whether the vampire finally bites the girl after 1,000-plus pages of extremely chaste necking.

And then, when the movie opens Dec. 12, the whole thing can start over again.

There’s no question that the “Twilight” series, which has dominated best-seller lists, is a pop culture phenomenon. Ask a teen girl if she prefers Edward or Jacob, a teen werewolf, and you are likely to get an essay in response.

The question is: Are these books a worthy obsession for our teen girls? And should you let your own daughter read them and see the movie?

Lorie Ann Grover Gives the Case for ‘Twilight’

I call him the hottest guy in modern literature. The hottest! He’s why I read the entire “Twilight” series straight through twice. He’s why my fellow author friend Justina Chen Headley and I dissected “Twilight” together, each and every page.

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