About 2 years ago my friend Faith insisted I read a book called Twilight. I never read it at that moment but soon enough she convinced other girls at our workplace to begin reading it. Needless to say, most of them also fell in love with Edward and wished the men around them took examples from this smoldering Vampire. Finally, I gave in and borrowed Faith's copy. I had to see what the fuss was about. Faith is a Twilight fanatic and her copy has little sticky tags stuck all over her favourite quotes. It was quite embarrassing walking around with it.
Maybe I'm bitter but to be honest I found nothing too spectacular about this novel. It was poorly written and Bella Swan is such a dull leading lady. She's way too needy and has no personality.
However, I must say the marketing/communications team behind Twilight are geniuses. Who would've guessed that a stay at home mom whose never had experience with writing before would be behind this "phenomenon". There is now official vampire mania going on in our society. Two new shows on primetime are about vampires, Nordstrom has a vampire/gothic inspired fashion line for pre-teens and you too can have the vampire look by visiting www.twilightbeauty.com. The sequel to this saga is set to come out on Thurs. night and fans are eagerly waiting. I bet some are even sleeping outside of the movie theater already.
I wonder how long this Twilight craze is going to last. I can't even say it will go away when the readers reach puberty because I know plenty of girls over 20 who also long for a 132 year old Edward in their lives. One piece of advice of I do have for the Twilight team: There is such thing as overexposure.
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