Hi,
while reading Meyer's Twilight saga, a couple of things stuck with me in the end:
1. The writing is truly abominable
Reading these novels I remembered quite some socalled "amateur" or fanfic writing I've read in the past, which stands several houses above Meyer's.
Still I would recommend the saga for the basic storyline, which is fresh and intriguing (though ends just hopelessly romantic, I really sympathize with Stephen King in his criticism there

).
2. The premise is very fascinating and nicely executed
Meyer took out the forced gore of the past couple of decades and gave vampires back some of the sex appeal Bram Stoker invested Dracula with. Neat and a big thank you!
3. The feminazis have it wrong!
I usually have a hard, hard, HARD time reading any texts of modern, politically oh so correct feminists.
I particularly hated the whole flock of them descendeding on Stephenie Meyer for what they perceived was her goal: propagate virginity and sexual abstinence prior to marriage and being the little wifey yes-sayer to strong vampire hubby.
Wrong interpretation!
Firstly, Meyer gives her heroine a rather headstrong character who would just love to get it on with her vampire. He's the one who insists on abstinence. Bella is the one who gets what she wants in the end, she's the one who takes the best from/off two lovely guys.
Secondly, I rather doubt the fascination of the saga, especially for females, is abstinence and virginity, nor even just the romance.
In our day and age, I'd say the one thing which has females hunger after someone like Edward (what is it about that name?) is the fact that he is Bella's alone, 100% faithful, quite unable to cheat on his lover and not a partner for a set amount of years (or months), but truly forever.