It has been 20 years since the first book of Stephanie Meyer’s saga kicked off.
While it took until 2008 to get Robert Pattinson in glittery make-up and yellow contacts, the Twilight books initially kicked off in 2005. It’s hard to say the books would have been as much of a global phenomenon without the movies, as even if they’re not going to blow you away they certainly did a lot for middle-aged women in the late 2000s-early 2010s.
