I totally stopped reading those stories because her heroine is a limp rag. She never stands up to that stupid vampire, and frankly she's living in fear most of the time. It was cute for the first half of the book with the flirting and the mystery, but once she met his family, I checked out, it's like they were actually trying to put some kind of "reality" over it and it failed for me.

There's not enough going on outside the FANTASY part to ground anything. And I suspect that she's just being magically dominated by him, and now her mind is mush. And I couldn't ever stand Edward, and the description of him sounded plain.

And what you say about things needing to be insular to be understood, Tamora pierce does a much better job of total fantasy with much better writing. The emotional fantastic is what drew me to Meyer's stuff, but there wasn't enough stuff there to hold on to. It was a girly pleasure until the killed the romantic suspense.

You gotta be careful when you do that, you have to find a way to make it suspenseful in other ways. Once the couple gets together your story is on a countdown clock of how many things you can do before you lose your readers to bordem :)

Unless they are DBZ fans, and then they will read/watch anything a million times. lol