Ok, so...Mattie and my dear friend Berniece turned me onto the "Twilight" book series written by author and fellow LDS member, Stephenie Meyer. She's written a a young adult novel that is very different and very sophistcated series of books about a vampire, a girl and true love with an old fashion set of values. I love it all. The hero in the story is a true, blue, bonified, chilvarous hero.
Ms. Meyer has a legion of fans, you'd think the obvious, teenagers,right? But no, she has a slew of middle-age mom's who totally love her stories. I am now one of them, darn it! I can't help myself. I had a dear friend, Kathy who turned me onto a website dedicated to this whole world of Twilight, called Twilightmoms.com the ladies there are your average women, all are married and majority have children. They share their thoughts and feelings about the books, the upcoming movie, etc. and also share ideas, recipes, parenting, with each other. They are a group of fascinating women, and the majority of them, oh about 75 % are LDS moms.
I am still trying to figure out what the fascination for me is for the whole thing, but I am learning that what is great about this book and this website is that it does hold those old fashioned morals and values that seem to be lost in most books, even some YA novels these days. I have read many, many books, and the classics stay classics because they are about the story not the sex and violence within the story. I believe that's why Ms. Meyer's books are so popular, especially among these particular women. Ms. Meyer's story although rife with conflict, both scary and personally emotional, there is an underlying theme of true love and decency. It's refreshing to read a love story that has no gratuitous sex and violence, and shows love in an eternal perspective, unselfish, long suffering, bittersweet.
I give these books a big thumbs up, they are easy, fun reads and you do get caught up in the story, and maybe even find yourself wishing you were a teenager again, for at least a brief moment and that a young man like the lead character Hero, Edward was someone that lurked at your high school. I know I do!