alright alot of people seem to be bringing up the point that not only teens read the book. I am quite aware of this, i've merely noticed that a large majority of the fan base is teenage rabid girls, the minority being older people of both genders. either way...i don't know, maybe it's just because i've read books with more complex characters, more action and the like-or possible because i'm writing several vampire novels myself-that these characters seem annoying, artificial and stereotypical. I find that vampire novels tend to disappoint me because they tend not to have evolved much from what i call the "old vampires" aka vamps that can't handle sunlight, crosses, UV lights, garlic etc.Even though this novel was alright in adapting the older version of what vampires were, i find it alittle "unrealistic" for vampires to be super powerful (forgive the irony/contradiction of the statement). I don't know, maybe it's because i grew up on Buffy (though i despise it now), read other books where vamps weren't super powerful (so the human had a chance albeit a slim one) and in my own story there have been/are human vampire hunters. And the fragility (sp?) of humans vs. vampires gets annoying after a while when we're constantly being reminded that Edward can turn bricks into dust if he touches it too hard-so imagine what he could do to bella by accident-. I don't know, maybe it just have a problem with the series and any argument/explanation given to me will have no affect on my opinion anyway...idk.

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It is the darkness that binds me, that kills me, that tortures and rapes me...and yet it is the only good thing I have.
~Shadow~