With Midnight Sun, Twilight is back at the best possible time
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Like so many things loved by teenage girls, Stephenie Meyer’s books have been dismissed as rubbish. I thought this too - until I discovered how addictive and erotic they are
It requires a strange sort of skill to miss a phenomenon such as Twilight. The first instalment of Stephenie Meyer’s young adult series was published in 2005, when I was 15 and ripe for an obsession with vampires and sexual repression. But I had recently fallen in love with a boy who read Douglas Adams and Terry Pratchett, and other funny books by men. I cringe now to think of it, but I followed his taste blindly, parroting his beliefs that Twilight was overrated, problematic rubbish, without reading it for myself. Of course, I came to learn how often all things beloved by teenage girls are dismissed, and I’ve never done it since – still, it took lockdown for me to finally read this contemporary classic. And while it is true Twilight has its issues, the books are addictive; so much so that Meyer’s internet-breaking announcement of a new Twilight book, Midnight Sun, on Monday had me preordering faster than a girl melting under the intense gaze of a sparkly vampire.
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