So. Anything Twilight was trying to be. It could be a book or a movie or a musical (I remember someone saying this about the German musical Elisabeth) or even a poem. It could be a romance or a horror story or a love triangle, or even a story about family. If there was any part of Twilight that you thought was done better by something else, name that something else here! Especially if it’s epic! This may show some people what they’re missing out on by reading Twilight, and not checking these things out. Links and diatribes appreciated.

Go.

Link. Diatribe. Come on!

Any paperback romance novel? Like, the “he slipped his cool hand into her bleep“ kind?

To be specific, Buffy also had a girl having a relationship with a vampire. What was different was that Buffy was actually a competent character, Angel did not sparkle (nor did any vampire on the show for that matter), their romance did not consist of mostly stalking each other, and there was other stuff going on. Also, the whole vampire sex thing was handled better with the Angelus arc in season 2.

In the episode where Buffy gains telepathy, the only thoughts she can’t read are Angels. Other vampires are constantly complicating their romantic life.

Both Bella and Buffy do manage to graduate from high school despite their time consuming extra-curriculars. Both attend the local community college after high school.

Buffy > Bella any day of the week. There’s no smackdown, except for Buffy snapping Bella’s neck. It wouldn’t be a very fair fight. Vampire Bella though… that’d be more interesting.

Smeyer was totally trying to be Anne Rice. I mean, Rice invented pretty vampires.

I never particularly cared for pretty, let alone vampires. I mean, why do vampires have to be automatically pretty? being a vampire is anything but pretty - you are an undead abomination living as a parasite, draining people of blood and doing other kinds of nasty stuff. Nosferatu, for example, would never make the cover of Cosmo Girl! But he was still one creepy - ass vampire and one of the very few respectable ones

true, but dont vampires also have something like their own special magic which basically hypnotizes the victim into uselessness?

I prefer the Lahmians, then Blood Dragons.

Necrarchs get Zomblie Dragons! And Lahmians can have Thralls!

They still get those, right? I haven’t seen the latest army book…

I'm not sure if this thread hasn't strayed too far, but few days ago, I read Alyzon Whitestarr by Isobelle Carmody for the first time. It's similar to Twilight in many ways; it's first person point of view, via the eponymous title character, a teenaged girl, who develops an extraordinary extension of her senses in an accident involving a truck - She's not run over, the tailgate crashes down on her skull when she tries to save her little brother. (So, she is not almost run over, and she is not saved at all!) Bella should have died there. Or, at the very least, discovered the vampires secret by doing some investigation at the hospital, when she is confined, much less contrived.)

The main difference from Twilight would be that the bloodsuckers are a different kind of parasite, the medical kind. There's also a member of her class who has the parasite, and her reaction to him struck a chord with me. It's how Bella should have reacted to a stalker. Bella should have run for the misty hills. But she didn't, and I'm... I'm...ranting... sorry.

Both Bella and Buffy do manage to graduate from high school despite their time consuming extra-curriculars. Both attend the local community college after high school.

Just noticed this. Buffy only makes community college because her slayer activities stop her from doing any better at High School. She is actually Important and does Important Things.

Plus, you know, she can’t actually leave the Hellmouth unguarded.

Ooh, I was going to read that, but then didn’t. How is it?