Vampires

Okay so Vampires. Lets face it and get over it. No long is Dracula private and secluded. Now he is SPARKLE!

Getting back to the topic at hand.

Twilight has got to be one of the most boring book series ever. Edward is a bitch. Bella is an emo high school brat. Jacob is just in denial in Bella's obsession with Edward. There is no development. As time progresses you read it in hopes that someone gets laid or bit. And no one does. The build is lackluster at best.

The attempt at making Dracula a high school student with an anti-social attitude is more like Frankenstein. Looking over the idea sounds neat, but make him cool. Don't have a Gothic novel become a book of smut.

Stephanie Myers goes into detail about everyone must follow along with only to find it is religious. So the idea has no longer become about death, but rather kids need to follow purity in sex and wait til marriage. I hate to say, but look at how well that worked.

On the flip of that Dracula was a great read. The detail of going into how Dracula would seduce his victims is interesting. Whereas the set up and pay off in Twilight is not gripping or intriguing.

Do I feel it may be due to that both writers were of the opposite sex? No. I feel it had to do with the times and the life which both writers lived.