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The vampire/werewolf/witch books though - I love books like this. They're usually "our world but not" type of things, and are light, easy but really fun reads. The ultimate escapism novels. The thing is, they're never really emotionally involving. Fun, yes, but in a good action movie sort of way.
I picked up a trilogy by Stephanie Meyer - Twilight, New Moon and Eclipse. I wasn't expecting too much more than a nice easy read. After all, these were in young adult book section, and billed quite openly as a love story. I only got them cause they had been on the best sellers list for ages and were in my typical light reading genre of vampires/werewolves/witches. My thoughts were leading me in a Harry Potter sort of direction - fun and interesting, but not all that engrossing.
I would say there wasn't much in the way of gratuitous scenes in these books at all. Most books of this genre include paragraphs of physical description, or personality description, or what clothing the character was wearing each and every day described in the book. In these books, I didn't even know the hair color of the main character until the third book and it didn't matter. I didn't feel like I was missing out on a thing. In a series that spent so little time describing the characters and instead spent it's time telling the story, I felt more like I knew the characters than any other book of this genre that I have ever read simply because I was able to create them for myself.
I was actually impressed.
So, are there any other unashamed vampire/werewolf/witch books readers out there on this board, or am I the only one?
If you have read Stephanie Meyer, what did you think?
Do you have any books in the genre that you would recommend?