Vampires aren’t just for adults anymore. Just when I thought I was the only person in the world addicted to Ann Rice books, Vampire films and HBO’s True Blood, Stephanie Meyer comes along with a highly anticipated film, TWILIGHT. If you want a subject to discuss with teens, talk about this series of books and the film. It’s all they are raving about these days. The film is due in theaters November 21st.

The series of books focuses on a group of teens in a small local town. Dealing with the growing pressures that teens face from peer pressure, trying to fit in and more, Meyer weaves of web of tense, almost sexual entanglements.

The adult author, Stephanie Meyer, describes how she came up with the story. “Twilight was inspired by a very vivid dream, which is fairly faithfully transcribed as chapter thirteen of the book. There are [also] sequels… right now, and book three … I didn’t mean to write for anyone but myself, so I had an audience of one twenty-nine year old (and later one thirty-one year old when my sister started reading). I think the reason that I ended up with a book for teens is because high school is such a compelling time period–it gives you some of your worst scars and some of your most exhilarating memories. It’s a fascinating place: old enough to feel truly adult, old enough to make decisions that affect the rest of your life, old enough to fall in love, yet, at the same time too young (in most cases) to be free to make a lot of those decisions without someone else’s approval. There’s a lot of scope for a novel in that,” she says.

What I most like about the books is that she speaks to the young adult audience without “dumbing it down” or making it childish which is why I found myself really into the series.

Movie Synopsis:
Bella Swan (Kristen Stewart) has always been a bit different, never caring about or fitting in with the trendy girls at her Phoenix, Arizona high school. When her mother Renee (Sarah Clarke) remarries and decides to move with her new husband to Florida, and Bella decides to go live with her father, Charlie (Billy Burke), in the rainy little town of Forks, Washington, she doesn’t expect anything to change. Then she meets the mysterious and dazzlingly beautiful Edward Cullen (Robert Pattinson), a boy unlike any she’s ever met. Intelligent and witty, his piercing eyes see straight into her soul. Soon, Bella and Edward are swept up in a passionate and decidedly unorthodox romance. Edward can run faster than any cheetah, he can stop a moving car with his bare hands, and he hasn’t aged since 1918. Most importantly, he’s a vampire. Like all vampires, he’s immortal. He doesn’t drink human blood (they’re vampire “vegetarians”), which is rare among the vampire population. Instead, they go on regular “hiking” trips, where they feed on prey such as grizzly bears and mountain lions. For Edward, Bella is the thing he has waited ninety years for – a soul mate. But the closer they get, the more Edward must struggle to resist the primal pull of her scent, which could send him into an uncontrollable frenzy. And what will they do when James (Cam Gigandet), Laurent (Edi Gathegi), and Victoria (Rachel Lefevre) come into town and James sets his sights on Bella? Will true love prevail when Edward is forced to save her life and conquer his thirst? The true question is, When you can live forever, what do you live for?

Forwomenonline.com