Twilight

If you have not heard it yet, Twilight will be turning 20 this fall. I don't know if there is a series that impacted literature more throughout my life. Born out of 90s vampire media like Buffy, Interview with the Vampire, the original Vampire diaries novel run, etc, Twilight was the first series since Harry Potter that pushed masses into the book stores. From this hype came the obvious riders on its coat tails, but the influence of Twilight is more far-reaching than that. Any series this popular is bound to have fanfiction but as far as I'm aware Twilight is the first franchise whose fan fiction also became a bestseller. Snowqueens Icedragon aka E L James was picked up from her BDSM fanfic's success to make it into a book series with the names changed and so 50 Shades of Gray was born. One might say this opened the floodgates to various kinds of fanfiction and other web fiction to be published into the physical markets and for publishers to keep their eyes always on Wattpad and nowadays AO3. Much of modern young adult, new adult, dark romance, and romantasy is still, knowingly or not, breathing the fumes of Twilight. Since it has been twenty years, Twilight is now historically valuable, however strange this may sound.

Im Alter von 10-13 Jahren war es eins meiner Lieblingsbücher. Sobald man es nochmal liest, wenn man älter ist, erscheint es einem sehr Kitschig und die Beziehung unrealistisch.