When I first started blogging, my book blog was Sanctuary’s Finest but then we shut that blog down to start fresh and Book Binge was born. At both of those blogs, I had a weekly feature that later became a monthly feature about my heroes.

I called it Hero of the Month.

I stopped doing it over at Book Binge because we started spotlighting our favorite authors and we played a fun voting game and crowned a Last Hero Standing so it was kind of pointless to do a Hero of the Month but now that I have this nifty little place of my own, I’m going to bring Hero of the Month back and feature my favorite heroes from our YA books!

To start things off, I’m going to spotlight the one guy that I absolutely adored from the moment I started reading his first book, Twilight.

I can still remember picking this book up on the recommendation of my friends, Isabel and Holly. I remember not being able to put this book down and then finishing it and having to immediately start New Moon..and then having to wait on pins and needles for Eclipse.

I may not be a Twitard now but back when I first read these suckers, I had it bad…for Edward. I had it so bad that I used to fight over him with Izzy and Holly. We used to steal “Edward” from each other and be total boobs over him.

Yeah, we were those people.

The thing I loved the most about Edward was the intense love he had for Bella. He loved her so passionately that it should have been creepy but it wasn’t. The whole forbidden love thing that they had going on just had me on the edge of my seat, wanting more and more.

Then he would say things like:

“Bella, I couldn’t live with myself if I ever hurt you. You don’t know how it’s tortured me. The thought of you, still, white, cold… to never see you blush scarlet again, to never see that flash of intuition in your eyes when you see through my pretenses… it would be unendurable. You are the most important thing to me now. The most important thing to me ever.”

And…

“If I could dream at all, it would be about you. And I’m not ashamed of it.”

..and then there was this one:

“Isn’t it supposed to be like this? The glory of first love, and all that. It’s incredible, isn’t it, the difference between reading about something, seeing it in the pictures, and experiencing it?”

*sigh*

I seriously heart Edward Cullen, even though I could not stand the way that he let Bella treat him in Eclipse. In my heart of hearts, I’ll always be Team Edward. He was one of the first YA heroes that I read and fell in love with and so that is why he’s this month’s Hero of the Month.

What about you? Love Edward or hate him? Share your thoughts on this yummy sparkly vampire that I love oh so much!