I Think I'm Turning Into A Teenager — I Can't Wait For New Moon

Roll on November 20!

Don’t tell my editor, but while I was madly scrambling to meet deadline the other day I found myself (instead) on YouTube, watching the official trailers for the second Twilight movie installment, New Moon, which comes out on November 20, this year.

Here they are, if you’re curious.

I think I’m turning into a teenager, because I just can’t wait to see it. Which is kinda pathetic for a mumble-mumble-year-old woman who has a daughter, who already has a group of friends sorted out to go to the premier, and can’t go with them. Bugger.

Thing is, I avoided the books big time when they came out. Professional envy, see. Hated Meyer. Green-eyed monster had me by the tail, and wouldn’t let go. The bitch sold millions, didn’t she? I wasn’t going to go to read her damned books.

So when the movies came out, my daughter, crafty thing, said “Of course, the movie isn’t anything like the book, and isn’t all that good, but it’s kinda interesting, and there’s nothing better to watch, and it IS about vampires, after all.” So I agreed that there probably wasn’t a more boring way to blow two hours on a rainy afternoon, and sat down to watch the movie. And got sucked in, damn it.

I mean, it’s a romance. With a sexy vampire. And a sexy vampire father figure (god, he’s a damn fine father, too!) With death-dealing stakes. How much better can a romance get? Well…you could have a *bit* more sexy stuff in it, but I’m an Ellora’s Cave author, so I’m jaded.

And of course, the fatal phrase “The book is much better,” will get me every time…and that’s exactly what my daughter uttered at the end of the movie, along with the other fatal phrase; “They cut out so much of the story!”

Dammit!

I brought all four books the next day.

And had read them all in ten days. The last book I read in ten eye-straining hours (at the price of a stand-up fight with at least two family members — after I had finished the book and after I had finished ignoring them). The fourth book, believe me, pays off all the rest. It’s marvellous. Even my Ellora’s Cave jaded instincts were happy. And I cried like a baby at the end of it.

If you’ve been ignoring the Twilight phenomenon because it’s vampires, or Young Adult, or for a number of reasons that have nothing to do with the story itself (money, time, no-one has personally recommended it, you just haven’t got around to it yet), then put the books on your TBR pile. Push through the second book, New Moon. It’s the weakest of the lot, and by that, I mean it’s worth hanging in there just to get to the last book, but it’s still a hell of a story in its own right.

And I still hate Stephenie Meyer, damn the bitch. And my eyes are not green, just for the record.

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