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Twilight (novel series) tries to escape his love for Bella, and when Bella tries to locate a man named J. Jenks. It is also the location of a series of murders committed by newborn vampires in "Eclipse". In "Breaking Dawn", Bella and Edward spend their honeymoon on a fictional "Isle Esme", purportedly off the coast of Brazil. The "Twilight" series falls under the genre of young adult, fantasy, and romance, though Meyer categorized her first book, "Twilight", as "suspense romance horror comedy". However, she states that she considers her books as "romance more than anything else". The series explores the unorthodox romance between