Twilight by Stephenie Meyer
So it’s a romantic teen novel about vampires, not something I’d normally read. But I was ultimately captivated by Harry Potter and I really enjoyed The DaVinci Code, so it’s worth it to take my nose out of the air now and then and see what the TV-crowd is reading. When you think about it, these uber-popular books must be pretty entertaining to get so many non-readers reading.
Twilight is a chick book, no mistake, and I was chick enough to be reeled in. It’s superficial and slow-moving but oh-so-sexy. After I read it, I went back and read the chapters in the middle where they’re falling in love straight through all over again. Ah, those first throbs of new love. What can beat that?
The amazing twist to the romance/passion is that the author manages to pull it off without ever having her teen protagonists do more than chastely kiss. Men should read this for the road map.