Twilight (The Twilight Saga, Book 1) | 
 enlarge | Author: Stephenie Meyer
Publisher: Little, Brown Young Readers
Category: Book
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Reading Level: Young Adult
Pages: 544
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Dimensions (in): 8.1 x 5.5 x 1.6
ISBN: 0316015849
EAN: 9780316015844
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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 loved it November 21, 2008
Jennifer Shannon (San Francisco)
I loved this book. It is a great easy read! Very interesting and kept me wanting more. Even though I am 20 years old I could still get into it!
Glitz is in! November 21, 2008
Laura M. Cospito (Edmonds, WA)
I found the Twilight Saga to be pure fun. Perhaps the folks who don't like it take their free time more seriously than I do mine. Or perhaps they don't read at every available opportunity. I don't watch TV. I work very hard with very difficult people and reading is more of an escape than a study. It isn't that I thought it was perfect. I simply found the story enjoyable and gripping. I have read the series twice and two of the books two and three times. They were quite consumable.
Unfortunately I'm plagued by the need to edit and will buy a book specifically to edit it. My copies are vigorously marked up. And I'm still delighted by the departure this reading gave me from the norm. Editing is fun, too!
I found the characters to be entertaining. Because I have vertigo, it was grand to read of someone who is more plagued by gracelessness than I. I think her bad luck just made her more appealing, for me. The Cullens were intimidating to some, I suppose. I have been around some very famous people and have always assumed they are just like you and me. Some are completely kind and some aren't. The Cullens' stories were an excursion into fantasy and the recreation of myths that I reveled in. I love to see someone stretch all of our notions by changing what we think we believe. What DO we believe about vampires, after all? I, traditionally, if the use of that word isn't too idiosyncratic, find vampire stories annoying. These were candy.
Great Book November 21, 2008
S. McCartney (IL USA)
I actually bought this book because it was the only one in the store here in Iraq, and to my suprise it was actually great. I am waiting on book 2 because they only had 1 and 3, but I couldn't put the book down and read it in a day. Very great story line.
twilight November 20, 2008
Cynthia Y. Reyna (San Antonio, Texas)
this is book was amazing and it captured the way love is supposed to feel and the way that love is free and dangerous all at the same time!!! i have never liked love stories but this one i am very happy i read....
A tension filled love story!!!!!!!!!! November 20, 2008
Glen Kaplan (California)
This book was recommended to me. I didn't want to read it until I saw the movie trailer. Now I can't put it down. I have stayed up late wanting to know what happens next. If you like a good love story with alot of surprises you will love this book. I love the banter between Edward and Bella.
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