Thursday, May 7, 2009

Twilight


Twilight

By Stephenie Meyer

544p

Little, Brown Young Readers

ISBN-10: 0316015849
ISBN-13: 978-0316015844

Annotation:

When seventeen-year-old Bella leaves Phoenix to live with her father in Forks, Washington, she meets an exquisitely handsome boy at school for whom she feels an overwhelming attraction and who she comes to realize is not wholly human.

Summary:

Perhaps one of the most popular young adult series in recent times, Stephenie Meyer's Twilight is single handedly bringing back the vampire novel. In this gripping romance seventeen year old Isabella Swan has just moved from sunny Phoenix, AZ to the rainy day capital of Forks, WA. Lets just say the weather is about the only thing she is fond of in Forks.

Bella quickly makes friends even though she is tragically uncoordinated and meets a mysterious student by the name of Edward Cullen. Her heartrate quickens and leaves her with one question , what is the secret about the Cullen Family. And so begins the Twilight Series.

Meyers has made a franchise of the vampire story, Twilight has now become a cultural boom, with movies and action figures in the works. This story has found an audience in the young and old, all are in awe of the relationship of Bella Swan and Edward Cullen.

Perhaps not one of the literary masterpieces, Twilight has found a comfortable home amound the fluff and will be entertaining readers for years to come.

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