

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.
