When Twilight first came out, and captured the hearts of teenage girls across the world, I flat-out refused to read it. I mean, it was a story about vampires—and I was trying to be one of the cool kids at school. My friends had to literally hold me down and dangle the book in front of my face before I deigned to read a word of it. (Of course, I then got totally hooked on it, read all four, and attended midnight screenings of the movies wearing a “Team Jacob: the Cullens don’t come here” t-shirt—but if you tell anybody that, I’ll have to kill you.) So trust me, I had zero interest in buying the 10th anniversary edition. That is, until Stephenie Meyer surprised us all by announcing that this time… the vampire was the girl.

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