Twilight

'Twilight' by Stephenie Meyer was first published in October 2005.

Publisher: Little, Brown

512 Pages

There's a reason more than 10 million Twilight series books are in print. Twilight, the first in the series, is the addictive story of two teenagers –- Bella, a regular girl, and Edward, a perfect gentleman and a vampire. This is the type of book you might read in just a few sittings, becoming engrossed in its fantastical world and oblivious to your physical surroundings. While not the next great thing in modern literature, it's a fun book to get lost in and comes to an end much too quickly.

Pros

• Highly entertaining, fast-paced story of romance and suspense
• Relatively clean for a teenage vampire love story
• The concept of good vampires is unusual and intriguing

Cons

• The writing can be clunky at times
• Edward's perfection can be over-the-top, even for a fictitious super-human
• At times, Edward and Bella's relationship can seem more like that of a father and daughter