Book Reviews: Twilight series, Stephenie Meyer – Part 2

A dream transformed into a bestseller, Twilight (written by Stephenie Meyer) has become a phenomenon among teens and adults all across the world. Meyer, who is a Mormon, captured such a complicated love story and made it come to life.

The main character and narrator of the book is 17 year old Bella Swan. When the book opens up, Bella is in Phoenix about to get on a plane to Washington. She has chosen to leave her mom (Renee) and live with her father (Charlie). She really doesn’t know why she has chosen to live with her father, but she feels its just something she must do. She boards the plane and then arrives in Washington, where she is met by Charlie and driven to the small and rainy town of Forks.

Bella settles in her “new” house, goes to sleep, and wakes up the next day for school. She isn’t real excited about it, but wants to get out of the house. She gets into the red truck that Charlie had gotten her, and drives to school. At school is where she meets the second main character of the book, Edward Cullen. She notices that him and his siblings are “outcasts” in the school but doesn’t quite grasp how that’s possible. To her they are the most beautiful people in the world. What she doesn’t know is that the Cullens are actually a clan of vampires, unique vampires at that. They are unique in the vampire world because they choose to abstain from drinking human blood. They call themselves “vegetarians” because they only go after animal blood.

After seeing Edward from across the cafeteria, Bella goes off to Biology. When she walks in all the chairs are filled, with the exception of one, the one right next to Edward. When she sits down next to him all the muscles in his body seem to tense, it looks like he’s holding his breath, and he angles the chair away from her. She can’t understand what about her repulses him like this. She smells her hair and thinks about everything, but nothing seems to click.

To turn this long love story short, Bella finds out that Edward is indeed a vampire, they fall in love, she meets his vampire family, and then she gets tracked by a nomad vampire who is out for nothing more than the victory of killing her.

This book has got to be one of the best love stories since Shakespeare. The words are magic on paper. Stephenie Meyer is an amazing writer who knows how to appeal to her audience. I highly recommend this book to anyone who likes to read, and even some who don’t.