Never even considered watching either of the films.
Noticed a copy on a bookshelf at my sister's house when I was visiting her a few months back. Read a few chapters and thumbed around threw it for a bit. Man, absolutely awful stuff! It is almost literally 600 pages of lusting over an imaginary character. Lines like, "He walked into the cafeteria, looking more like a Greek god than anyone had a right to" run rampant throughout.
Me and my buddies call it "Female Vampire Porn".