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Twilight (The Twilight Saga, Book 1) | 
 enlarge | Author: Stephenie Meyer
Publisher: Little, Brown Young Readers
Category: Book
List Price: $10.99
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Rating:  2524 reviews
Sales Rank: 3
Media: Paperback
Reading Level: Young Adult
Number Of Items: 1
Pages: 544
Shipping Weight (lbs): 1.1
Dimensions (in): 8.2 x 5.4 x 1.5
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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"Softly he brushed my cheek, then held my face between his marble hands. ''Be very still,'' he whispered, as if I wasn''t already frozen. Slowly, never moving his eyes from mine, he leaned toward me. Then abruptly, but very gently, he rested his cold cheek against the hollow at the base of my throat. " As Shakespeare knew, love burns high when thwarted by obstacles. In Twilight, an exquisite fantasy by Stephenie Meyer, readers discover a pair of lovers who are supremely star-crossed. Bella adores beautiful Edward, and he returns her love. But Edward is having a hard time controlling the blood lust she arouses in him, because--he''s a vampire. At any moment, the intensity of their passion could drive him to kill her, and he agonizes over the danger. But, Bella would rather be dead than part from Edward, so she risks her life to stay near him, and the novel burns with the erotic tension of their dangerous and necessarily chaste relationship.Meyer has achieved quite a feat by making this scenario completely human and believable. She begins with a familiar YA premise (the new kid in school), and lulls us into thinking this will be just another realistic young adult novel. Bella has come to the small town of Forks on the gloomy Olympic Peninsula to be with her father. At school, she wonders about a group of five remarkably beautiful teens, who sit together in the cafeteria but never eat. As she grows to know, and then love, Edward, she learns their secret. They are all rescued vampires, part of a family headed by saintly Carlisle, who has inspired them to renounce human prey. For Edward''s sake they welcome Bella, but when a roving group of tracker vampires fixates on her, the family is drawn into a desperate pursuit to protect the fragile human in their midst. The precision and delicacy of Meyer''s writing lifts this wonderful novel beyond the limitations of the horror genre to a place among the best of YA fiction. (Ages 12 and up)
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 ~*Worth Reading*~ October 13, 2008
Twilight is one of my favorite books. It's a love, drama, & action story, that is very well written. It is about a girl named Bella who moves to a new town, meets a guy that she deems worth going after. His name is Edward & he has to struggle with being a vampire & falling madly in love with her. It is a book that is worth reading over & over again.
 Yawn October 13, 2008
Unoriginal and hardly worth a comment. Its popularity says more about the quality of contemporary readership than about the quality of the book.
Twilight Review October 13, 2008
I loved this book. I had previously bought it for a memorial gift to the school library. As soon as I gifted it, I was asked by High School students to read it for a book club. Knowing I would not have time to run 'to town' and grab another copy, I went to amazon.com. I got the book in plenty of time to read it for the book club. It was a great story and age appropriate for Junior High or High School age kids.
Wonderful October 13, 2008
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I can't believe it took me so long to get around to reading this book. It's every bit as good as everyone says. Great depth to the characters and a very different and original take on vampires. I now can;t wait to read the rest of the Stephanie Meyers books. Once you start the book prepare to be totally sucked into Meyer's world.
Well worth buying. Lives up to the hype.
 expected more. October 13, 2008
i decided to read this book because there has been so much hype surrounding it. it was alright, nothing more nothing less.
i think that i would enjoy the story a lot more if i understood why bella and edward were attracted to each other emotionally. she thinks he's hot and he wants her blood, but i just didn't feel anything else from them. why did they fall in love? i felt like i missed 5 chapters of build up or something cause they had a few conversations, he ignored her for a month, then all of a sudden they were in love.
this book took me awhile to read because there was no real plot other than the love story until the last 100 pages or so. the end i enjoyed a lot more. i really liked the character james and the "action" part of the ending.
i enjoy a good love story, but i just do not think this one was well written. there were too many cheesy lines and i just didn't feel their connection.
i did enjoy jacob, he is a three dimensional character, and i really felt a spark between him and bella. i really liked bella's father charlie and the other cullens. i loved alice and jasper the most. carlisle was a great character too. i just wish there could have been more of the other cullens in the book and less descriptions of edward's beautiful face and body. i get it, he's hot.
i am going to give 'new moon' a shot because i'm hoping that they story will get better. but if i don't enjoy, i'll just end my twilight experience there.
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