And so it begins.

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• Twilight was nothing. Watch out for stuff like The Unwind series or some of the other very dark dystologies. Some of the YA material can be very dark.

• Are the books better than the movies? I know that is usually the case.... but I saw about half of the first movie... and, frankly, found the premise a bit sickening.... Just my opinion. And yes, yes, I understand what you're all saying above.... and I know that Carolyn is an intelligent girl... and perhaps this IS just a "drop in the bucket," as Greg said above.... BUT... why FEED these kinds of things to our children? They will find out a ton of "immorality" all on their own... why offer it to them on a silver (albeit literary) platter? Just a thought. :)

  • I haven't seen the movies, so I can't comment. We will certainly talk to Carolyn about the moral content of the book, as we do with all the media she consumes (or helps to create).

• She's gonna be okay. She'll read this, but she's already read everything else. This is a drop in the bucket for her, as opposed to all those people who read Twilight and nothing else.

• I'm not gonna lie, I enjoyed reading Twilight at her age.

• Alas. You can't pretend you didn't know it was coming.

• There are worse things.... I must confess to liking the series. Sort of captures the angstyness of adolescence along with a sort of Victorian aesthetic about sexuality.