The Twilight Saga: Where does it fall in Literary Terms?

The Twilight Saga fever began sweeping the country with the appearance of the first volume in the Saga, aptly named Twilight. Despite it's unusual presentation of the family of vampires involved in the storyline and more than its fill of teenage angst the book is not without merit. Stephanie Meyer's vampires are no harder to believe in than were Bram Stoker's when he wrote Dracula a little over a century ago. Stoker's Dracula has since become the standard by which all vampire stories are measured, but is it totally inconceivable that a vampire could have a conscience; one that would turn him or her away from human blood and toward animal blood providing a means of survival without the necessity of what is essentially [Read the rest of this article...]