I’m just as interested as anyone to see what happens when an impossibly handsome, wealthy, superpower-possessing immortal, who believes that a never-ending life is best spent being a cool kid in high school forever, tells a misunderstood girl that she’s his soulmate and also by the way the most important person in the universe. I understand the fascination with the source material twice removed, Stephanie Meyer’s Twilight series. And it’s not to lament the ascendance of trashy books. Quite the opposite if Grey were a novelization of that movie with Liam Neeson fighting the wolves, it’d probably be a better book. James’s Grey-from that time-honored genre of English letters, the shot-for-shot rewrite of an erotic fanfic of a series of young adult vampire novels-was the book of the summer. On the day the calendar officially turns to fall, the only thing that needs to be said about the state of the novel is this: E.L.
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