Review - Twilight by Stephenie Meyer

Title: Twilight

Author: Stephenie Meyer

Series: Twilight #1

Pages: 498

Release Date: September 6th 2006

Format: Paperback

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Synopsis: About three things I was absolutely positive.

First, Edward was a vampire.

Second, there was a part of him—and I didn't know how dominant that part might be—that thirsted for my blood.

And third, I was unconditionally and irrevocably in love with him.

In the first book of the Twilight Saga, internationally bestselling author Stephenie Meyer introduces Bella Swan and Edward Cullen, a pair of star-crossed lovers whose forbidden relationship ripens against the backdrop of small-town suspicion and a mysterious coven of vampires. This is a love story with bite.

My Review: Obviously I have seen the films before I read the books and I have to say that neither of them lived up to the hype I was hearing.

Bella goes to live with her dad in a small town named Forks where it rains more than it does where I live. Bella’s dad Charlie (she actually calls him Charlie, I would never have been able to get away with calling my dad by his given name) is the police chief and is hardly home due to work and when he is home he like his own company which is due to having lived on his own for so long.

On her first day at school she makes new friends and is intrigued by the pretty and pale family the Cullens, she has a class with the handsome Edward Cullen and he acts all weird towards her and she doesn’t understand what she did wrong, then he goes missing for a few days and when he comes back he is all happy and friendly towards her.

Throughout the story Bella is more curious about Edward and even looks into the story that a friend Jake tells her about the ‘Cold Ones’.

When Bella finds out that Edward and his whole family are ‘vegetarian’ Vampires she is okay with this, she doesn’t freak out or want to kill him, or get away from him and never see him again, she becomes more attracted to him and wants be become just like him. The only thing that seems to bother her is that Rosalie doesn’t like her and Jasper acts weird around her.

Towards the end Bella hangs out with the Cullens while they play baseball and they end up running to another Vampire clan, these people aren’t like the Cullen’s who feed off animals they feed off humans and want Bella.

Alice and Jasper take Bella away while the others stay in Forks to try and stop the other Vampires and to protect Charlie only James manages to get Bella away from Alice and Jasper and tries to kill her.

In the end Edward and the Cullen’s save the day and save Bella and kill James.

Bella is so miserable and boring that I really thought that the Cullen’s should have just let James and Victoria have her.

Currently Reading: New Moon by Stephenie Meyer

Read in 2019: 26/30