Twilight

Stephenie Meyer

Jul 2007 · Twilight saga Book 1 · Sold by Little, Brown Books for Young Readers

About this ebook

Fall in love with the addictive, suspenseful love story between a teenage girl and a vampire with the book that sparked a "literary phenomenon" and redefined romance for a generation (New York Times).
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.
It's here! #1 bestselling author Stephenie Meyer makes a triumphant return to the world of Twilight with the highly anticipated companion, Midnight Sun: the iconic love story of Bella and Edward told from the vampire's point of view.
"People do not want to just read Meyer's books; they want to climb inside them and live there." -- Time
"A literary phenomenon." -- The New York Times

Ratings and reviews

Boring, weak, underdeveloped and illogical characters + insipid, slow and pointless plot=amateur writing at its finest. The youngest of teens may find this drivel tolerable, enjoyable even, and that's to be expected, but it's definitely not for mature audiences capable of higher levels of thinking. I could have written this when I was 12...and if a child wrote it, THEN it could be considered excellent writing. Alas, Mrs Myers is certainly no adolescent. What grown woman comes up with this kind of nonsense??

May as well be called "Edward and Bella Have the Same Conversation Over and Over Again in a Variety of Different Locations...and Bella Bitches and Moans" but I suppose that'd look awkward on the cover. Seriously, their isn't an actual conflict until the last 50 pages, up until then it's just Edward stalking Bella while simultaneously telling her to stay away from him because he's dangerous and Bella telling him she doesn't care that he's dangerous because she loves him. Rinse, repeat.

The fact that many young girls enjoyed this poorly-written tripe is a perfect representation of how todays youth are slowly becoming illiterate. Full pages of dialogue with little to no narration, grammatical errors, and a very odd use of vocabulary that makes me believe Stephanie Meyer sat there with a thesaurus looking for words to use. It's almost as if she thought it would make her terrible authoring skills less apparent. To think, she was an English major in college! The education system is failing us.

About the author

Stephenie Meyer is the author of the #1 bestselling Twilight Saga, The Host, and The Chemist. Twilight has enraptured millions of readers since its publication in 2005 and has become a modern classic, redefining genres within young adult literature and inspiring a phenomenon that has had readers yearning for more. The series has sold 160 million copies worldwide and was made into five blockbuster feature films. Stephenie lives in Arizona with her husband. Her website is stepheniemeyer.com.