I love Anne Rice. (well before she got so wordy) I also love New Orleans. In college I spent alot of time in NO. enough time to find her house and find all the houses in her stories. All the places she writes about are around her house. It puts a new perspective on NO all together. I even did a study on vampires in college. I miss those days and those books. I would like to see another story about Armond. He was my favorite.

I’m a huge Anne Rice fan too! Or at least I *used* to be. :/ But yeah, I grew up on that stuff, my mom and I are huge vampire/paranormal lit fans. The Twilight series is wonderful young adult fiction, I would have been thrilled to have this available to me then, and I’m thrilled as an adult. I recommend that you read just the first one before you see the movie, but then again, I often find it refreshing to see the movie first and then read the book. I’ve been bitterly disappointed too often in the past when a book I love is poorly translated. Seeing the movie first, the few times that this has happened, has given the movie a fighting chance.

Mom and I have already made a date to go to dinner and then see the movie, girl’s night out.

Yes as Nell states they are written for teenagers—as a matter of a fact I wouldn’t be surprised if your daughter wants to read them next.

They are page turners though–You have been warned:)

OMG- You’ll LOVE the Twilight books. You just have to remember that they are written for teenagers. So you can’t get too annoyed with the cadence of the writing.