New Moon

Bottom line: If you're still grieving that Harry Potter is over, this series has the backing of over 10 clinical psychology grad students at U of U, which is how I got hooked, and we're all supposed to be intelligent, right? I'd give it a try.

Right. Anyway. The teen vampire romance. Part Deux. This one goes up a star because it was captivating enough for me to finish in one night. While not exactly literature (well...not at all literature), anything that induces 540+ pages of reading in less than 12 hours should get some credit for being addictive. Plus, while Bella, the heroine, remains aggravatingly insecure, the love plot thickens! In ways that are spicier and way more fun than the first book. The author is Mormon, so I won't be getting the hot vampire sex I'd really like to be reading about, but I'm sure there's some fan fiction that's positively filthy.