Twilight Makes Reading A New Trend

Twilight fever has made reading 'cool' for everyone.

Clearly, carrying 4 thick black books, among other young adult books is now the 'it' trend. Figures from Nielsen BookScan states that the young adult fiction market is booming, with book sales of £36.1 million last year, an increase of 11 per cent on 2011.

The rise may be due to the last appearance of Kristen Stewart and Robert Pattinson in The Twilight Saga: Breaking Dawn, in addition to another rising young adult trilogy, The Hunger Games.

It is true though, that the Twilight Saga has the ability to keep readers at the edge of their seats all day, immensely absorbed in the love story of Bella Swan and Edward Cullen. As a Twilight reader myself, I do feel that reading the roughly 500 paged novel (times 4 to complete the saga) feels like a breeze, that finishing it in a day or two feels like a flash. It is intriguingly page turning that makes reading a whole new exciting experience to both book lovers, and to first time readers. 

With translation rights sold in nearly 50 countries, Meyer’s Twilight Saga has sold 116 million copies worldwide.  Meyer has received many positive critiques; as described to be a "the world's most popular vampire novelist since Anne Rice" by Entertainment Weekly.