New Moon

Book: New Moon
Author: Stephenie Meyer
Audience: Teen and Adult
In a Nutshell: human-vampire-werewolf love triangle (or maybe just a love 'V')

In this sequel to the runaway hit, Twilight, Edward the love-lorn vampire is in and out of the picture after he and the rest of the undead Cullen family suddenly leave Forks, Washington, and Bella- for her own good, of course. The focus shifts to Jacob Black, Bella's reliable friend, who is disturbed by the weird changes running through the other guys in his tribe. Super-puberty hits some, and suddenly they get bigger, stronger, and run with a very tight crowd. The Big Change comes next to Jacob, and what a change it is. That's right, he's a werewolf. The only (un?)natural enemy of the vampire. And of course, he's in love with Bella, who's in love with Edward but Jacob's nice too, and Edward may be off in Italy finding himself and moping, but he's still got it bad for Bella. Add some Italian vampire mafia called the Volturi and you've got a globe-hopping supernatural soap opera.

Like the first book, this one is compulsively readable. My old roommate read Twilight three times in a row, I think (you know who you are, Katie Lind). And there are at least two more sequels in the works, so the lit crack fix goes on.