So, though the text simmers in "Twilight'' and its sequels, "New Moon'' and "Eclipse,'' high school students Edward and Bella remain as G-rated as the Bobbsey Twins, with perhaps a superior ability to resist temptation. Meyer's special gift is infusing an electricity in holding hands or kissing, similar to film director Alfred Hitchcock's talent for implying horror far more exquisite than what the camera showed. "I think of the books as very romantic,'' says the impeccably groomed Meyer, who takes her new celebrity standing more or less in stride and still feels guilty about being unable to personally answer her stacks of fan mail with the "three-page handwritten letter they all deserve." It's a book that Meyer's mother and children could read without blushing. Yet there's nothing that last century's National Legion of Decency could reasonably censure. The characters barely touch, "but there's more sex in that one paragraph than in all the snogging in Harry Potter,'' as Time magazine's Lew Grossman put it in his recent profile of Meyer. There's enough torrid frisson in "The Host'' to start major fires.
Instead of vampires, it features a disconcertingly appealing alien who takes possession of a stubborn human, giving new meaning to the phrase "being of two minds.'' But spiritually, "The Host'' is right in step with the "Twilight'' books. "The Host'' departs from the earlier series in subject.
The book has occupied the No."‰ 2 and 3 spots on recent New York Times bestseller lists. "The Host,'' published 12 weeks ago, is her first for adults, and it has proven to be as much a success as her "Twilight'' books. A movie version of the first "Twilight'' book arrives in theaters next winter. sales climbed to more than 5.3 million this year - about a searing but chaste romance between a devastatingly moral vampire named Edward and a mortal girl, Bella, the object of his tautly reined appetites. Her fans devour the books in Meyer's "Twilight'' series - U.S. Stephenie Meyer - a teetotaling stay-at-home, Mormon mother of three young sons - is the new icon of hip among avid readers intimately familiar with the Harry Potter and Lemony Snicket books.
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