Twilight
by Stephenie Meyer

Little, Brown and Co., 2005, 498 pp., $10.99ISBN 978-0-316-01584-4

Bella Swan just moved to a little town called Forks, in Washington, to live with her dad, the sheriff. Its always rainy there -exactly the opposite of hot and sunny Phoenix. Bella is a typical teen who is very clumsy and doesn’t believe in her abilities and the way she looks, but when she starts school in Forks everything changes. First of all it seems like all of the guys are staring at her and not because she’s ugly like she thinks. All of the guys like her and are confident that she will ask them to the girls’ choice dance. But there is only one guy that catches her attention; actually his family does, on her first day at school during lunch to be exact.

The family is beautiful, from their really pale skin to their dark eyes. Rosalie and Jasper Hale, Alice, Emmett and Edward Cullen (who are all adopted) - are so beautiful, inhumanly beautiful. That’s because they are not humans anymore; they are vampires. Bella and Edward become a “thing” and to take it to the next level he takes her to meet his family. They go to play baseball in a thunderstorm and some unexpected visitors show up, three nomads: Laurent, Victoria and their leader James. Oh, yeah, and their not “vegetarians” like the Cullens.

Twilight is a well-written book that has suspense and love. Stephenie Meyer has many characters and blends them and their stories in very well. Twilight is written in first person in Bella’s point of view, which I like because you know what she’s thinking. Twilight is the good book it is because of the way Meyer writes it. I related to the main character, Bella because she is a typical teen, experiencing her first love, her awkwardness and her striving to fit in. I like how there are a lot of stories, information, vocabulary and characters but if you don’t read carefully you could get confused.

 Twilight is a book mostly about love. Love between Edward and Bella and the love that the whole family has for each other. Beauty is so big because of how beautiful all of the vampires are. Truth, when Bella finally figures it out that they are vampires. And hatred, how much Edward loathes James and how much Mike hates Edward. Also how Edward hates himself for loving Bella because he is putting her in danger.

This was the best book I read in a long while. I think that all teenage girls and adult women would like it like. When I read this book I couldn’t stop reading. I would end up reading late into the night because there was no place to stop; the end of the chapters were cliffhangers and the chapters themselves were full and there were not many lulls.

Twilight is the first book in the Twilight saga. I would recommend this book to any female that wants to read a love, action, and a just a whole-hearted good book. This is the one for you.

~ reviewed by Alli