Twilight

So I fall in the camp of someone who was diappointed in Twilight the book. And now I guess I'm diappointed in the movie, too, but it suffered from the same flaws as the book, so there's not much to be done about it.

I loved Meyer's first-person voice and her ability to recapture high school. That, was by far the strongest part of the book. This article in the Atlantic is right on in my book:

http://www.theatlantic.com/doc/200812/twilight-vampires

My main gripe with Twilight is that there's no romantic tension. Girl meets vampire. Vampire and girl fall in love. Bad guy tries to get girl. Vampire saves girl. Hello? Where is the step where the girl says, holy f*ck, you're a vampire? What about the step where the girl makes some attempt to resist falling in love with something that wants to eat her? What does the vampire do to earn the girls love? What about the step where the vampire thinks he succeeded byt screws up and must win then back affection of the girl?

Maybe I'm just to staid a romance reader with expectations about what I see in the romance genre, but come on aren't these just basic steps in writing dramatic tension?