Twilight is no Buffy

I am always up for quality Young Adult lit. I love Harry Potter (although it is flawed - Hermione hardly got to kick any butt at the end, ok...tangent!), and Phillip Pullman's His Dark Materials series is the BEST. Oh, and UnLunDun rocked. Right now I have The True Meaning of Smeckday on my night stand. Anyway. So we recently rented Penelope (very cute modern fairy tale) and one of the features was a preview of the Twilight movie. I only watched the first 20 seconds because I could tell it wasn't going to a very Amelie-appropriate place. I've also been hearing about this series from the internet, in Comic Con coverage, and in my Borders e-mails. I was going to check it out, first, literally, from the library, and then since the waiting list is months long, from my BOMC2 subscription. I had added it to the queue (it's like Netflix for books) but not to the top. Then this article, and these discussions that followed, convinced me to drop it. How insipid Bella sounds! I guess sometimes the Mormon housewife in an author is going to come through.

It's funny, because I did get kind of an ick vibe when I saw the teen vamp carrying the girl around like a baby in the preview, and I was looking for a good place for a dispassionate take on the whole thing. You get too many gushing reviews for something like this on Amazon. So here it is, thankfully in time to save me 10 bucks. I'll rent Buffy instead, thanks.