Actually, after skimming it over again, Twilight is weak as a romance novel, but does pretty well (albeit in a very twisted way) if you read it as a chronicle of a weak-willed girl artificially mesmerized by the vampire powers Edward keeps complaining about (charisma, pheromones, appealing appearance, psychic powers) and the vampire too lonely and depressed and screwed up to let her go or get out of her life, even though he knows how likely he is to kill her in the end, told from the unreliable POV of the hypnotized girl herself.
It at least makes Edward's repeated attempts to leave, repeated pathetic complaint of how dangerous this is to her but how he can't bear to walk away from her, and games of cheat-the-devil with how long he can kiss her before he has to back off and hyperventilate for a while, interesting in a sinister way...and it makes her constant babbling about how magnificent and godlike and lovely and arresting and magnetic he is, go from irritating preteen hormones to something pretty fricking creepy.
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It at least makes Edward's repeated attempts to leave, repeated pathetic complaint of how dangerous this is to her but how he can't bear to walk away from her, and games of cheat-the-devil with how long he can kiss her before he has to back off and hyperventilate for a while, interesting in a sinister way...and it makes her constant babbling about how magnificent and godlike and lovely and arresting and magnetic he is, go from irritating preteen hormones to something pretty fricking creepy.