It may be a vampire for those who like their men pasty pale and prone to spontaneously ripping their shirts off. It may be an elf, for those who never truly grew out of the rainbow fairy series. Or it may be a werewolf for animal rights activists and other people with equally strange fetishes.
The predictability bores me and yet authors keep churning out these copy and paste versions of twilight which may aswell be computer generated for all the social awareness displayed.
It sickens me how the covers are still almost identical with a dark background and white or vivid red featuring in a random object which has zero relevance to the actual story.
And while writing this I realise that all other genres have their stereotypes, if not quite as pronounced as dark romance.
In detective stories the brooding private investigator will find that he is somehow linked into the plot, his life may endangered or a suspect is a close friend or relative. He will also have an intimate encounter with a female friend which is broken off for some reason or another, perhaps to be requited later, perhaps not. And of course, the butler did it.
Teen narrated stories will focus mainly on the opposite sex with all physical features explained in explicit detail but neglecting to mention that, say, they play the piano.
Dystopian fiction will have large amounts of death, one or more of which will be of significance to the protagonist. Rulers of dysfunctional worlds will be cold and unpleasant which the protagonist will sense even before they do anything remotely evil. There's such thing as too much foreshadowing.
Talking of which, did anyone notice that in the first few scenes of the twilight movie Bella is carrying a cactus which remotely resembles the hairstyle of a certain Mr Edward Cullen? Coincidence? I think not.
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