Twilight

Okay, here's a REAL, very long, non-biased definition: Twilight is a series of books by Stephenie Meyer consisting of Twilight, New Moon, Eclipse, and Breaking Dawn in that order. The first book was published in 2005 and began to gain popularity around 2006-7. It's about a 17 year old girl, Isabella "Bella" Swan who moves to Forks, Washington. She believes that she is average and unremarkable in every way. She is also horrible at sports and incredibly clumsy. Despite this, many boys at her school swoon over her immediately and she turns them all down. The one she wants is Edward Cullen, a pale boy with blond hair and gold eyes who is beautiful and perfect with a perfect 4.0 GPA. Edward seems to hate her at first, but is really trying to resist the smell of her blood because he's a vampire and has never smelled tastier blood. Bella tricks family friend Jacob Black into telling her local tribal legends which help her to conclude that Edward is a "vegetarian" vampire who drinks animal blood instead of human. Edward confesses to all of this and the two eventually fall hopelessly in love with each other. Another vampire coven later comes to Forks and James decides to hunt for Bella. Bella hides in a hotel in Phoenix, but she gets a phone call from James tricking her into coming to a ballet studio. Bella surrenders, James tries to kill her, Edward saves her, and the two go to prom. The end. A film adaptation of the book was made in 2008 that left a lot of stuff out of it. Meyer has said that the cover of the first Twilight book represents Edward and Bella's forbidden love. Twilight has been translated into 20 languages.