Twilight: Twilight, Book 1 (Twilight Saga, #1)

by Stephenie Meyer

When 17 year old Isabella Swan moves to Forks, Washington to live with her father she expects that her new life will be as dull as the town.

But in spite of her awkward manner and low expectations, she finds that her new classmates are drawn to this pale, dark-haired new girl in town. But not, it seems, the Cullen family. These five adopted brothers and sisters obviously prefer their own company and will make no exception for Bella.

Bella is convinced that Edward Cullen in particular hates her, but she feels a strange attraction to him, although his hostility makes her feel almost physically ill. He seems determined to push her away - until, that is, he saves her life from an out of control car.

Bella will soon discover that there is a very good reason for Edward's coldness. He, and his family, are vampires - and he knows how dangerous it is for others to get too close.

• ISBN10: 1904233651
• ISBN13: 9781904233657
• Publish Date: 22 March 2007 (first published 27 September 2005)
• Publish Status: Active
• Out of Print: 11 March 2022
• Publish Country: GB
• Publisher: Little, Brown Book Group
• Imprint: ATOM
• Format: Paperback (B-Format (198x129 mm))
• Pages: 464
• Language: English

Reviews

[Whitney @ First Impressions Reviews]

As soon as I got home from the book store I idmediatly began to read it and was hooked from page one. I don't know but there's something very intriguing about the whole vampire love thing; and Edward is just so charming and mysterious how can you not fall in love with him? I really enjoyed all the references to Wurthering Heights Bella, who is Edward's mortal girlfriend and is also telling the story from her point of view. Bella representing Cathy who is caught between a love triangle who loves both men but in different ways. Edward plays Heathcliff who is madly in love with Cathy {Bella} and only realizes these feels while they are separated and expresses them when it is almost to late. Jacob, who is Bella's best friend is Linton and while he also loves the girl with a passion and is married to her, it is not reciprocated the way he would have liked-- although in Twilight Bella and Jacob never even date. Sorry, excuse my literary comparisons. Seriously, this is a great novel, Twilight is a book that you just want to bite into.

I debated over adding this review. But I feel it's necessary to warn others about the series as a whole.

I LOVED Twilight. The first book was brilliant - I fell in love. And then she wrote the next one. And that was good. Decent. Not quite what I wanted but it was okay. The third one was pretty average. I struggled to get through it. The last one? What the hell was she thinking? It was like she jumped off a cliff. She threw every crazy idea you could possibly have and honestly left it looking like little more than a parody fanfiction.

Read at your own risk.