![]() This isn't about happy endings it's about gratification. ![]() Stephenie Meyer is the worlds most popular vampire novelist since Anne Rice. Nobody has to renounce anything or suffer more than temporarily-in other words, grandeur is out. paperback editions of Twilight, New Moon, Eclipse, Breaking Dawn. Essentially, everyone gets everything they want, even if their desires necessitate an about-face in characterization or the messy introduction of some back story. Everygirl Bella achieves her wishes quickly (marriage and sex, in that order, are two, and becoming an immortal is another), and once she becomes a vampire it's almost impossible to identify with her. The conclusion is much thinner, despite its interminable length. ![]() ![]() It ought to seem redundant to dismiss the fourth and final Twilight novel as escapist fantasy-but how else could anyone look at a romance about an ordinary, even clumsy teenager torn between a vampire and a werewolf, both of whom are willing to sacrifice their happiness for hers? Flaws and all, however, Meyer's first three novels touched on something powerful in their weird refraction of our culture's paradoxical messages about sex and sexuality. ![]()
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