Twilight by Stephenie MeyerI kept hearing about this book: a student reading it on the bus on the way to a soccer game, coming across the author's site on the internet, strange reports of teen girls' obsession with a certain character. So I picked it up as a little gift to myself at the Scholastic book fair at the elementary school a while back.
When I got home, I opened it up and couldn't put it back down. I was up quite late and probably wasn't firing on all cylinders at work the next day.
I raved about it to the student I had seen reading it and she smiled knowingly as I rambled on about how great it was - oh my gosh, Edward! - and so on. Then I borrowed the sequel, New Moon, from the public library and gushed to her after I read that one too. I think she might believe I'm a little obsessed (although she has read both books multiple times, as I understand it), which I will neither confirm nor deny.
So yes, this is supposed to be a review. Onward!
Brief synopsis: Bella has just moved to Washington to live with her father. She notices a strange yet strikingly beautiful group of students sitting in the cafeteria - one boy in particular. When she sits beside him in chemistry class it seems like he can't even look at her, let alone speak to hear. Even when she comes to find out that he is a vampire and finds her irresistable (a dangerous prospect!), it doesn't stop her from falling in love with him and finding herself in imminent danger.
This book is written in a way that makes legions of girls fall in love with Edward and wish they were Bella (despite her klutziness). Stephenie Meyer portrays vampires in a way that makes them more like fun-loving superheroes than bloodsucking nocturnal beings that sleep in coffins and transform into bats, and her characters are all lively and believable. Even though Twilight is a pretty long book, it will leave you wanting more.
5 stars out of 5.
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Read about the author on her fantastic website.
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