Breaking Dawn

by Travis

“We never thought there was going to be another Harry Potter” ~ Samantha Gutierrez, manager of the Children’s and Teen’s Department at Barnes and Noble. 

There’s been a lot of buzz around The Twilight Saga, a quartet by Stephanie Meyer about teen vampires which has even been proclaimed “the next Harry Potter.”  The fourth and final book, Breaking Dawn, was recently released with Potter-like midnight parties.  If you’ve interacted much with Harry Potter fandom outside of this blog, you’ll know that many Potter fans have also become big Twilight fans.  

I haven’t read it yet, so I’m in no position to make a judgment call on it.  But I’m wondering if any Hog’s Head patrons have read the series and would like to comment.  Is it really “the next Harry Potter”?  And the real question is: Is it great literature, or is it the first successful marketing campaign to tap into Harry Potter fandom?

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