Twilight by Stephenie Meyer

Twilight is the story of Bella Swan, the seventeen-year-old daughter of divorced parents. She leaves her mother and her home-town, Phoenix, and moves to rainy Forks, Washington, to live with her father.

There, she meets Edward Cullen, a mysterious and beautiful boy who she soon falls in love with. Too late, she discovers he’s a vampire. The book details their relationship and and adventures.

The concept of this book was both intriguing and original. I was drawn in immediately by the author’s well-written, first-person narrative. However, the beginning is the high point. The middle lags, bogged down by Bella’s worshipful infatuation with Edward’s physical beauty, poorly supplemented by plot or realistic character development. I had difficulty visualizing Edward and Bella and understanding their attraction to each other.

Before I could fully relate to the characters, the book ended in a whirl of activity. Even though the sudden blurb of action was refreshing, it came across as thrown together instead of well thought out.

With better editing, Twilight could have fulfilled the starry-eyed reviews I’ve heard from my friends.
Unfortunately, it will remain a lightweight fantasy romance high on emotion but low on content.

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The Twilight Series by Stephenie Meyer

This book deserves 5 stars

I definitely loved all three of the books. It’s so passionate and shows how involved the two main characters are. As for Bella (the human), her being so `plain’ just shows the readers that even someone as beautiful as Edward can fall in love with anyone. So basically it’s just proving that it depends on your character and I think that’s a good message to send out to people. So, if you like romances, this book is defiantly for you!

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Twilight by Stephenie Meyer

This book deserves 5 stars.

This book was really amazing, I felt in tune with the main character/narrator, Bella. I couldn’t put it down, it was most definitely a page turner! P.S. The next book in the series is called New Moon!!

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Twilight by Stephenie Meyer

This book deserves 5 stars.

I really liked this book, I only wish I could have given it more stars. It’s about this girl who goes to stay with her father in Forks, Washington (her parents are divorced). Her life is very dull until she meets a very good-looking boy. He saves her live countless times (she’s very clumsy) and she begins to fall in love with him. Then he reveals a very big secret about him and his family: they’re all vampires.

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Twilight series by Stephenie Meyer

This book deserves 1 star.

If there was an option of giving negative stars, I would. Anyone who has read quality literature like from Anne Rice, Laurell K. Hamilton, or Kevin Brooks, knows that this series is nothing to be amazed with. The main character is flat and has no real personality. Everything is cliche and predictable. The character’s backgrounds aren’t told until the third book in the series. The word “eyes” can be found on every page at least once. And I don’t know about you, but if I found out my friend was a vampire, I would not respond with something like “Oh really? That’s cool. I’m going to google vampires to see what you are really about.” And my personal favorite, when vampires go out in the sunlight, they shimmer. They glitter and sparkle! It can’t get any more queer than that.

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Twilight by Stephenie Meyer

This book deserves 1 star.

“Don’t get me wrong, I love a good vampire book, but this novel was one of the worst I have ever read. The plot was predictable- of course the vampires were Edward and the outcasts in school who everyone was afraid of. Even though there was nothing remotely special or interesting about the main character, Bella, somehow it seems that every male who comes in contact with her falls in love. No plot or problem is introduced until the last hundred pages. The events range from Bella tripping, Edward saving her, Bella almost getting hit by a car, Edward saving her. See a pettern emerging? The only character who had a personality was Jacob- the werewolf. The title has nothing to do with the book. Meyers focuses and repeats the same exact description on almost every page- eyes, eyes, eyes, eyes. Putting a unique spin or twist on vampires is fine-for example, having them fly, grow more powerful with age, read thoughts, etc. However, every vampire book still holds true to one main fact-that vampires can’t go in sunlight! Because, after all, they’re VAMPIRES! In Twilight, the only repurcussion for stepping out into the sun is glowing and glittering. Overall, the book is a total cliche and a complete waste of time. It’s popularity definitely procedes it. “

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