Twilight (The Twilight Saga, Book 1) |  | Author: Stephenie Meyer
Publisher: Little, Brown Books for Young Readers
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Reading Level: Young Adult
Pages: 544
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Dimensions (in): 8.3 x 5.4 x 1.7
ISBN: 0316015849
EAN: 9780316015844
ASIN: 0316015849
Publication Date: September 6, 2006
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The book that started the phenomenon is now available in a deluxe collector's edition! Featuring a ribbon bookmark, cloth cover, ragged edges, new chapter opener designs, and a beautiful protective slipcase, this edition is perfect for fans and collectors alike.
Bella Swan's move to Forks, a small, perpetually rainy town in Washington, could have been the most boring move she ever made. But once she meets the mysterious and alluring Edward Cullen, Bella's life takes a thrilling and terrifying turn. Up until now, Edward has managed to keep his vampire identity a secret in the small community he lives in, but now nobody is safe, especially Bella, the person Edward holds most dear.
Deeply romantic and extraordinarily suspenseful, Twilight captures the struggle between defying our instincts and satisfying our desires. This is a love story with bite.
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Isabella Swan's move to Forks, a small, perpetually rainy town in Washington, could have been the most boring move she ever made. But once she meets the mysterious and alluring Edward Cullen, Isabella's life takes a thrilling and terrifying turn. Up until now, Edward has managed to keep his vampire identity a secret in the small community he lives in, but now nobody is safe, especially Isabella, the person Edward holds most dear. The lovers find themselves balanced precariously on the point of a knife-between desire and danger.Deeply romantic and extraordinarily suspenseful, Twilight captures the struggle between defying our instincts and satisfying our desires. This is a love story with bite.
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 As a struggling writer, I'm offended March 10, 2010
J. Dooley (Baltimore, MD)
2 out of 2 found this review helpful
Twilight centers on the developing romance between Bella and Edward. Problem is, Bella and Edward have no chemistry. He's a 100 year-old vampire. She's a helpless, self-conscious klutz. They don't do anything together except look at each other. They have nothing in common and so they talk about nothing.
These conversations about nothing are fraught with overwrought tension and abused facial expressions. There's a glower, a simper, a chuckle, a smirk, a sigh, a blush after EVERY laborious exchange. It's meant to be engrossing and edgy, but it's distracting and silly. Edward the Emo shifts moods from cocky to lustful to angry to protective in the blink of an eye. Bella's range of emotions exists between expressing shame for her clumsiness and awe of Edward's smooth, translucent skin, his sinuous muscles, his fiery eyes, etc.
The story is told from Bella's perspective. She's your typical upper-middle-class teenager: spoiled, snobbish, and uninteresting. After moving to Forks, Washington, she looks down on her high school classmates because they are nice and emotionally engaged. She acquires friends effortlessly and for no other reason than to have someone to sit with at lunch. Invitations extended her to go shopping, to go to the beach, and to go the high school dance she treats with ambivalence if not distaste.
She placates these little people by pretending to enjoy their company, but she is really just biding her time. When Edward enters her life, however, she drops all pretense.
Edward, as described through the eyes of Bella, is just as one-dimensional and unlikable. He's brooding, quiet, intelligent, good-looking...basically a fantasy realized. In addition to his beauty, he doesn't eat, doesn't breathe, sparkles in the sunlight, has super strength, super speed, venomous fangs, and the ability to read minds (except Bella's). Why does he have these powers? Because he's a vampire, of course!
Unfortunately Edward's "sparkle" prevents him from venturing out in public on sunny days. School officials don't mind that he skips class half the time. As long as he keeps up his grades, they have no problem advancing him to the next grade.
I understand Bella's attraction to Edward--young women are often attracted to jerks--but I can't understand what Edward likes about her. Actually, I can't deduce ANY motivation behind Edward's actions. It seems to me that, aged 100 years, he would have weightier things on his mind than seducing the new girl in town. It is as if Stephenie Meyer decided the Cullens would be vampires in the middle of the process of writing the book. But this revelation renders Edward's "cover" as a high school student--and thus how he meets Bella in the first place--a ridiculous charade.
There are no bad guys, no challenge or foreseeable goal for the characters to struggle toward or overcome. So it's no surprise Meyer introduces a hint of a theme about 1/4 of the way through the book, when Bella meets Jacob. He's the best character in the book because he's the least pretentious. Just when you think the book might be going somewhere with him, he all but disappears until the end.
The absence of a plot necessitates that Bella excite us with the plot points her day-to-day life, such as surfing the Internet, cooking for her dad, finding a space in the student parking lot, and reading Jane Austen (no coincidence; Edward is very much like Mr. Darcy in Pride and Prejudice). Pages upon pages are filled with Bella's babbling to herself.
Realizing that she'd written a whole novel in which nothing happened, Meyer introduces the antagonists of the book 100 pages from the end: a coven of vampires on the prowl. It starts innocently enough. They ask to join the Cullens' intramural baseball game in the foothills of the Olympic Mountains. Then it turns ugly as one of the visiting team gets a whiff of Bella's blood. The Cullens whisk Bella away to a hotel in Phoenix for her safety (which ends up being compromised anyway), giving the contrived climax an intercontinental dimension.
As a writer myself, I struggle to establish textured settings, established characters, and a compelling plot. I establish tension early on and sustain it throughout the story. Unless there is something at stake, there is no point in writing more. I make my characters just neurotic enough that they surprise you once or twice when the course of the plot depends on his/her actions. This takes a lot of work that doesn't necessarily come through in the finished book, but believe me, it's necessary to write well.
Twilight lacks effort on all these fronts. Its success is indeed a phenomenon, but the writing is not.
 Twilight March 10, 2010
Lewis Hackett (Hereford, England)
0 out of 1 found this review helpful
I think the twilight saga has an incredible storyline to it, and has many parts to it that are unique. A lot of people criticize parts of the books (e.g. some of the features), but I think that the fact is that they don't like some of the small change Stephenie Meyer has made to vampires, so they critize it because it isn't the same.
Collector's Edition March 9, 2010
D. DuMouchel (Norton Shores, MI USA)
0 out of 1 found this review helpful
This has to be my ultimate favorite book and love the style, print and cover.
Young Love Bites March 9, 2010
LP Quagmire (Canada)
0 out of 1 found this review helpful
Ty Webb once said that a flute with only one hole isn't really a flute, and a donut without a hole is a danish. It was true then and it's true now, and a remarkably prescient preface to one's immersion into the pimply, purple world Meyer has created.
Twilight March 9, 2010
Alistair Tomlinson (Sydney, NSW Australia)
This book is AMAZING! Before I read this book I was bored to death. I had read all of my other books at least fifty times. I still found it impossible to decide which book was my favourite. And then my life changed- I got Twilight. I read it and toally loved it. The following three bools just got better and better. I would reccomend this book for any one-I couldn't put it down
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