Twilight, Stephenie Meyer

Bella Swan’s mother remarried a baseball player, so, Bella decides to go stay with her father in Forks, Washington where she joins high school. There, she finds out about the Cullens, a mysterious family who keep to themselves. Alice, Jasper, Emmett, Rosalie and Edward are all drop-dead gorgeous. Bella quickly falls in love with Edward. Of course, as Jessica, one of Bella’s new friends puts it, the girls at school aren’t good enough for any of them.
During biology, Bella has to sit next to Edward Cullen where he acts as if he’s suffocating, gripping the table. Hard. Then, she catches him trying to change his biology class to another period. As soon as he sees her he walks out. Confused, Bella decides to ask him what what was wrong the next day. Unfortunately, he’s not there. Nor the day after that.
The next week he returns and introduces himself to her. Bella spots that his eyes have changed from black to gold.
The day after that, a sheet of ice spreads over Forks. When Bella gets to school, she sees Edward Cullen standing by his shiny volvo four cars down. Bella also notices that Charlie, her dad, has added snow chains on her truck. She inspects them carefully oblivious to the fact that a van has skidded on the ice and is heading towards her. As she stands up, she sees the van skidding towards her and is frozen in terror. Suddenly, Edward appears out of nowhere, pushing her out of the way and stopping the truck with his hand. Now, Bella is sure that Edward is not human. He got to her so fast and he stopped a car with his hand!

She soon finds out that her guess was correct as the Cullens are vampires. As Bella says: About three things I was absolutely positive. First Edward was a vampire. Second, there was a part of him- and I didn’t know how dominent that part might be- that thirsted for my blood. And third, I was unconditionally and irrevocably in love with him.

I really enjoyed this book, as Amazon said,” Best Book of the Decade… so far”. It encouraged me to read the rest of the saga. Though I think the book is better than the film, I am eager to watch New Moon, the second book in the saga. I agree to the fact that this is a girlie book although parts of it do involve adventure. For example, Bella’s best friend, Jacob Black, who turns out to be a werewolf. The vampires James and Victoria who want to kill Bella and the Volturi’s Guard ready to kill Bella (once again) if she does not become a vampire herself.

The book definately deserves 10/10 for romance, suspence and fantasy and 8/10 for action. Well done to Stephenie Meyer!

~ by Raphy T. on May 3, 2009.