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The Hunger Games & Young Adult Fiction - The Current Big Thing?
fiction written, published, or marketed to adolescents and young adults, approximately ages 10 to 20. This market has been growing exponentially in the last ten years with movie bosses raking in the profits of predictable (if this could ever become boring!) storylines aimed at teen audiences featuring romance, heroism, teen love and the fight against evil. When interviewed about the idea of a werewolf falling in love with a human girl, Meyer still says, “It really captured my imagination.” Which seems to be an understatement for what it did to the rest of the world’s population of young girls (and adult women too)! After documenting the dream and its details vividly, Meyer started spending more time in this fantasy world to find out what happened to the characters and their stories. After the books’ raving success, the movie offers came in and because of the movie successes, its three young stars were also catapulted to stardom. The constant underlying competition between Edward and Jacob has created a wall of fans supporting Team Edward and Team Jacob. What has been captivating is how young fans feel part of how the romance between Edward and Bella developed. The unorthodox manner of the romance between these two very unlikely characters appeals to young readers in a day and age where they are constantly bombarded with imperfections and here they get a picture of an age old romance overcoming all obstacles – a true love story indeed.
TwiFans – a Whole Generation
With the successes of the Twilight and Harry Potter movies, Hollywood seems to have hit gold again with the movie release of The Hunger Games. The movie so far has received only praise from both fans and critics and is expected to rake in record sales worldwide. The movie’s sales figure so far puts it on par with the income from the last Harry Potter movie, which took seven movies to reach that level! The Hunger Games has also had the third best o