Done with Book One!

I thought I've seen and read every vampire-boy-meets-mortal-girl story in American pop culture, until my friend Ee Ya Kin told me to try the first book in the Twilight series by Stephanie Meyer. My verdict? It's good, really good.

Joss Whedon may have set the bar so high with the Angel-Buffy-Spike story arcs in his slayer tv show (I loved that show), but Stephanie Meyer may have created something a little bit new in the genre. Although there is still that usual action-packed theme of good-versus-evil (present in every sci-fi novel), I think Meyer's book stands out because it really concentrates on the intense relationship between the two protagonists, Edward and Bella -- it's teen-age romance with a lot of sweetness and angst. There is mush, mind you, but there is a lot of heart too.

Thanks Ee Ya Kin, for introducing me to the series.

Thanks to PDI, for devoting two full pages to the Twilight series and its upcoming movie adaptation. Thanks to an issue of Time Magazine, for saying Meyer could be the next JK Rowling (hindi naman siguro). These helped a lot in convincing me to buy the first book.

And thanks to the producers of Twilight the movie, for casting Robert Pattinson as the vampire boy. I thought we'd never see him again after he died as Cedric Diggory in Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire. Hehehe.

Will get started on Book Two, very soon. :-D