Twilight by Stephenie Meyer

Now, I know there's pretty much no way anyone could be reading this and not know what the plot of Twilight is. But because I like to cater to the improbable, I'll provide a brief description:
Bella is a classic 17-year-old girl that moves from her beloved Pheonix, Arizona to the wet and not so wild city of Forks, Washington to live with her dad. While there she does the only things you can do in such a remote part of the Olympic Peninsula; she falls in love with a vampire.
I first read about Bella and Edward before any of today's "Twilight Mania" existed and I remember picking the book off of the shelf because I thought, "Hey, this is creative." And it is. The plot created by Stephenie Meyer is rather commemorable and if you take into account the time when the book was actually first published, the story is unique and intriguing.
Nowadays, you're hard pressed to find a book store without an Edward poster on the wall and it's even harder to find a girl that hasn't joined the "Team Edward" and "Team Jacob" debate. I say it about most books that are made into movies, the media coverage really takes away from the story itself. Take the Harry Potter series for example, every kid in the world knows who Harry Potter is but how many of them have even know what happens in the first chapter of Harry Potter and the Sorcerer's [Philosopher's] Stone? The "Twilight Fanatics" can hardly be called such if they've never read the saga but the media has made it so that they don't even have to.
But back to the story: my friend once described it as "reading like a dream" and I think that explanation is fairly spot on. Everything in Twilight happens easily, quickly and perfectly, giving the reader the feeling that none of it is actually happening. Other than the obvious vampire factor, Twilight isn't a very realistic story but I encourage most 'tweens to at least read the first of the series, even if it's just for a laugh!