When Twilight came out, I read and enjoyed it like many others, but it was the first Vampire book I'd read since Dracula. I've read many vampire books since then, but the Twilight series, even though I'm totally over it, ( I didn't think much of the movies) still has a kind of magic about it that other books don't. It has nothing to do with whether it's well written or not, it has to do with the flavour of the series, the feeling it left me with. There's a lot you can say about the story, both good and bad, but the warm aftertaste for me comes from the character's struggle to live a compassionate life. That's a rare theme in a YA book, or in any popular fiction actually, but compassion is a powerful thing and has the ability to move people deeply. Ms Meyer deals with the same theme but in a different way in her book, The Host. If you haven't read it, then do, even - or perhaps especially - if you didn't like the Twilight Series. In The Host, we have another being dedicated to living a … [Read more...]