QUOTE(Darkness Eternal @ Mar 25 2013, 08:54 PM)

The whole romance and vampire thing is just cliche nowadays. And most people think it started with Twilight, and while Twilight did make it popular it didn't start it. Bram Stoker's Dracula introduced the vampire as both monstrous and, well, sexy. Count Dracula was an amazing character. Slipping into boudoirs, corrupting virgins, mind-controlling them with vampire's seduction and giving them wet dreams? And that was a horror-type book to begin with. Easily my Twilight right there.
Stephanie Meyer's version is, well, meh. A love-sick shapeshifter must compete with a centurie's old vampire who fell in love with a mortal girl in High School and has the traits of a stalker. Who bruises her during nightly escapades.
And the protagonist? Bella, a mortal girl, who during the duration of most of the books, must choose betwen bestiality or necrophilia!
Stephanie Meyer is one sick woman.
^This.
Vampires are predators. They hunt, stalk, and kill. The only semblance of love that they feel is possessiveness, and that's as close as it gets. It's more of a territory thing, too.
Even Robert Pattinson hates Edward, lol