Thanks for the recommend. I'll check it out.

The books described the "sparkle" skin as being like granite and their nature as being like stone so you visualize something much more subtle than the disco ball the movies did but still obviously inhuman.

Swear to God though. In the movie. That sparkle sound effect was so fucking ridiculous it was absolutely embarrassing. Just cringe.

It reminds me of that old cartoon from the 80s about a girl rock band who were secret super heroes. It was called Gem, remember that?

You can imagine a bunch of special effects guys got together to brainstorm how to do this movie and they're all tore up because it's very limited violence, right? So they're all keyed up about making it exciting for the poor boyfriends who will sadly be dragged to see this travesty. But a lot of twilight fans were early teens girls, even preteens so it's got to be appealing to them too.

What to do? And then one of them stands up and says, "what do 12-14 year old girls even like?"

And they're all scrathing their heads and then one I'd them remembers he has daughters and then he recalls sparkly stuff. Stepping up to lead, he says, "glitter?"

Then they're all clapping each other on the back and YEAH BRO! GLITTER!! Well Done.

And then the sound guy drops his head in his hands and moans, "But what does glitter sound like?"

Silence falls. Crickets.

And then the old guy, the one who had daughters during the 80s and has been dying for an excuse to revitalize the synthesizer, goes over to the keyboard and plugs in that sound from that show as close as he can remember...

"It sounds like.....Gem!" in that super cheesy stadium voice.

The room erupts with joy over an insolveable problem solved.

Christ on a cracker. The shame..