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Pretty much every publisher of young-adult books is looking for the next Twilight these days.  Fine.  But it’s a testament to how dumb we’ve all gotten just how blatant the ripoffs are.

Fallen-Cover-LaurenKateDisney has optioned rights to “Fallen,” a young-adult novel by Lauren Kate that features angels. The book, released this week by Delacorte Books for Young Readers, is part of a four-tome series, all of which were included in the deal. The contemporary story centers on an alienated girl torn between two charismatic young men, unaware that they are fallen angels who have battled over her for centuries.
“Twilight” comparisons are inevitable, and angels have been identified as the next trend in young-adult fiction with vampire and werewolf tales having inundated the market. “Fallen” and titles like Becca Fitzpatrick’s “Hush, Hush,” which was moved from a 2010 publication date to this past October, present angels as otherworldly hotties who are immortal and possess bad-boy charm. “Fallen” is the first cherubic title to receive major Hollywood attention. [THR]

If vampires are abstinent and virtuous and sparkling white now, it only follows that angels have to be the bad boys.  In Twilight, they can’t do it because the vampire will hurt her.  It’d really balance things out if in another popular book the angel is constantly pressuring his girlfriend into sex and that’s the only way they connect.  C’mon, babe, you’d do it if you really loved me.  Don’t you want to feel like a woman?  I talked to God last week and he says you’re being a total prude about this.