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Twilight (The Twilight Saga, Book 1) | Stephenie Meyer | Completely Unexpected & Fantastic!

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	Twilight (The Twilight Saga, Book 1) Stephenie Meyer Little, Brown Young Readers, 2006 - 544 pages average customer review:based on 2536 reviews view larger image
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highly recommended

Twilight (The Twilight Saga, Book 1)

After reading the first chapter on line here, I ordered the book. It was VERY entertaining.

Completely Unexpected & Fantastic!

I am an avid reader, and I am not a young adult. I have been reading so many books lately is is somewhat ludicrous. This book however...it was amazing. I never thought I would be even remotely interested in a book with a vampire subject. To my utter surprise I could not put the book down and eagerly look forward to the next book in the series. It is ridiculous how I cannot wait to start it and plan to order the other two tonight. Give it a try~ it is absolutely worth it.

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Meyer's amazing debut

Have to admit I picked up this book after seeing an interview with Meyer promoting the movie. Loved the trailer so much I asked my niece if she liked the book and swore I would love it. She was right! Ok, so its a young adult/teen book, so what. It's a book that translates across generations. Essentially, a modern day Romeo and Juliet - only difference is, Romeo's a vampire.

Bella Swan is the clumsy high school student who is far from the average 17 year old caring more about reading books than partying with friends. Edward Cullen is the beautiful, cool, alluring 17 year old with a classic elegance. The only thing is, he's a mind-reading vampire who's made a conscious choice to not be a monster. Bored by the average high school girl and their babbling thoughts lacking substance, he finds it interesting that he is unable to read Bella's mind. He then discovers that he's drawn to her maddening 'scent' unlike anything he's ever experienced potentially causing him to become the monster he strongly despises.

Written entirely from Bella's perspective, this story begins with her moving to Forks to be with her father, starting at a new school and the development of her relationship with Edward. Although the book may seem a little 'thick', it's an easy read. Most of the book is dialogue so you go right through it pretty easily. There are some parts that could have been cut out just to reduce the size of the book (she put the food in the microwave, the food spun, she took it out, etc), but its such a quick read it doesn't really matter. Aside from the fact that the typical vampire myths don't apply in this story, what I like most from this series is that it is a love story about 'love' not a roll in the sack which is too common now-a-days. As a standalone novel its great but you can't help but want to learn more about their relationship and where it goes from here.

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Incredible :)

I thought this book was absolutely incredible. It grabbed me from page one, and I couldn't put it down until I was through. As soon as I finished, I had to have New Moon. I was absolutely in love with Edward from the second he was introduced- the mystery and elusiveness surrounding his character make you want him just as much as Bella does. You begin to love and relate with Bella as well, because it is so well written that you begin to feel as if you are there, living the plot as Bella. I didn't like Jacob, however, and I've found that most people don't. I feel like he gets in the way of Bella and Edward too much. He annoyed me. Every time he was brought up, I just got annoyed, and wanted him to leave. I did love how she set the story in Forks, Washington, though. I've heard that she tried to find out what the rainiest city in America was, and that it was indeed Forks. It feels like the perfect setting for Twilight: a gloomy, yet oddly kind of cozy town. Also- at first, I thought the whole vampire idea seemed somewhat dark, but the book doesn't have a dark feel at all. I thought it was going to be more of a Harry Potter-like story, where most of the plot is centered on magic and spells, but Twilight is definitely centered on the love story between Edward and Bella. The vampire aspect of the story, to me, is somewhat insignificant. I think it was only an issue when it was a problem for Edward in the beginning of the book, before he can tolerate the scent of Bella's blood. Other than the parts about Jacob Black, I think this book is incredible, and very well written. I would recommend it to any of my friends, and anybody that wants to read a book that they can't put down.

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Alluring and Captivating

When author Anne Rice announced at the end of 2005 that she would never write another book for her wildly popular "Vampire Chronicles" series, fans were shocked and disappointed, admonishing her for her decision "to write only for the Lord" due to her spiritual reawakening. "I would never go back, not even if they say, 'You will be financially ruined; you've got to write another vampire book.' I would say no. I have no choice. I would be a fool for all eternity to turn my back on God like that." That said, those disgruntled fans have been redeemed in their own way by a new talent in fiction named Stephenie Meyer, one who has taken the subject of vampires by the reigns and brought it to the legions of vampire novel enthusiasts (or just people who are enthusiastic about great fiction) with renewed vigor. Unlike her predecessor, Meyer avoids drowning in the abstruse style that Rice is so known for and instead tells her tale with ease, intrigue and a heavy splash of romance - she is the new addiction in fiction.

The central character of Meyer's extremely popular "Twilight" series is seventeen-year old Isabella Swan, better known as Bella. When her mother Renee is remarried to a young athlete, Bella decides to move from the dry desert heat of Phoenix to Forks, Washington to live with her dad Charlie. Moving from a hot, sprawling city to a little-recognized municipality saturated by consistent cloud cover and rainfall from the relentless Maritime Polar Air Mass is quite a drastic change for her, one she makes most reluctantly. Forks holds very few attractions for Bella save for one: a boy with bronze-hued hair and flesh a whiter shade of pale named Edward Cullen, a boy who dares to briefly meet her eye during lunch.

When she makes her way to Biology class later, she is nervously pleased to see Edward at a lab table, the seat next to him empty. As she breezes past him, she is met by an irascible and piercing glare, his eyes as black as sable, a look that communicates utmost animosity. What Bella does not realize at first is that Edward is a preternatural being of the oldest lore, a vampire whose bloodlust has been rendered successfully dormant for several years. Vampires of his ilk have been subsisting off of the blood of wild animals (bears, lions, deer) due to their compassion for human life and at the first sight and smell of Bella, his lust for the kill has been abruptly awakened at long last.

After this mystifying incident, Bella does not see Edward at school for a whole week. When he shows his face again, he is not the hostile individual she took him for, instead rather sociable and utterly charming. Those cold black eyes she remembered from last week are now a brilliant topazine brown, his sallow skin now flush with color and the shadows under his eyes noticeably absent. Her curiosity remains peaked but it isn't until Edward inexplicably saves her from certain death during a horrible auto accident outside of the school that Bella's mind begins racing with a whole new set of questions. The more they speak after this incident, the more she is met by Edward's resistance to tell her the whole truth about what happened. It's only when she runs into an old friend named Jacob Black on an Indian reservation that she begins to piece things together after a rousing story Jacob tells her about "blood drinkers".

From this point on, Bella alludes to Edward that she knows what he is and after another mysterious rescue, he makes his feelings known. Their love for each other grows quickly and despite Edward's undeniable attraction to Bella's blood essence, he demonstrates surprising resilience against temptation and becomes fiercely protective of her. Their relationship is fraught with risk but neither can tear themselves away from the other and this means that they must make great sacrifices in more than one fashion, something that becomes painfully evident to Bella towards the end of the novel.

Naturally, "Twilight" is equipped with a bit of a cliffhanger ending designed to encourage the reader to proceed to the next book in the series and there are few out there who read it that will fail to be persuaded. Though her work has been classified as teen/young adult fiction, Meyer defies her genre with her variable and transcendental style of writing. Her massive book sales are proof of this, young girls AND their mothers reading the entire series with an unforeseen zeal. The book is densely populated with eloquent and electric dialogue, Meyer expertly brewing the sexual tension between her two protagonists; a screenplay could be ripped directly from it's pages, much to the thrill of the thousands who have read the novel. The story plows straight ahead into suspenseful territory and with all its simplicity and light-handed eroticism, it will translate very easily to film (we'll see how well its adaptation is received in November of this year). That said, I'm eager to see the film myself and I can hardly wait to read the rest of the series, as well as her most recent novel entitled "The Host".

Bottom line: If you're a lover of vampire novels, "Twilight" is your ticket to paradise. For those who are intimidated by books thicker than an inch, you will come to find your apprehension about reading its nearly 500 pages to be a walk in the park, your reward for your bravery a wealth of captivating storytelling .

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