Twilight
by Stephenie Meyer

When a book is a good read I can usually tell why, that’s why I was so surprised with Stephanie Meyer’s Twilight.

I picked it up from the children’s section of all places. And watching a couple of prepubescent girls giggling ahead of me with the same book under their arm didn’t bode well for it.

The book has everything in it I hate in a novel. Juvenile writing, weak plotting, shallow, boring and weak characters with silly motivations, a high school setting, and a whole lot of other crap. You name it and it was there. I don’t get it folks, I really don’t, but this very large book where very little happens was like literary crack. I just couldn’t put the darned thing down.

This book could easily be categorized as nothing more than the rambling fantasies of a teenage girl. But a third of the way through it, I found myself in love with these silly poorly drawn characters and I just couldn’t get enough. By the time I came to the end of the thing I didn’t want it to end.

I’m not sure how Meyer did it but this one really is a couldn’t put it down winner.