Book Review: Twilight by Stephenie Meyer

One day I was listening to Y100 and they were talking about this book and how good it was when they read it, so of course I picked it up. Trust me, I was not disappointed, especially when I found out it was a series book and I completely love a good series.
Stephenie Meyer really changed up the way vampires are viewed by giving them different characteristics than the ones that we are used to. There is so much passion and love in this book and I really enjoyed reading it. Never mind that this book was written for High School students, adults can definitely enjoy it too.


So if you're into Vampires by all means pick this book up. Even if you're not into them, you should still pick this book up. And guess what? They are making a movie for this book and it will be coming out this November. So if you like to read books before watching a movie about them (e.g. Harry Potter), I would suggest you get a move on.

Synopsis
When seventeen year-old Bella Swan leaves sunny Arizona to live with her father in the small and gloomy Pacific North-West town of Forks she doesn’t expect to like it. After all she has made excuses not to go there enough times over the past few years. If living in Forks, with its constant mist and rain, wasn’t bad enough she will have to make a whole new set of friends and settle into a new school.
Bella soon makes some new friends at school but when she sees a boy called Edward Cullen sitting with his brothers and sisters in the cafeteria she is instantly intrigued. Edward is stunningly attractive, almost inhumanly beautiful, and yet he is an outsider too. Although Edward and his family have lived in Forks for two years they have never really been accepted by the townsfolk.
At first Edward is aloof, sometimes it almost seems like he can’t stand to be in the same room as her, but eventually they strike up an unlikely friendship. Even as Bella falls hopelessly and irrevocably in love with Edward, she still can’t work out exactly what makes him so different to everyone else.
On a trip to the beach, Bella is told of the local legend about the “cold ones”, a group of blood drinkers who have sworn off hunting humans but are still not welcome on Indian land because vampires are not to be trusted. Realising Edward is vampire changes nothing for Bella, she knows that she still loves him even if he’s not human.
Edward and his whole family are vampires. Edward himself was made a vampire when he was seventeen years-old, although that was at the end of World War I. For Edward his love for Bella is both a delight and a torment. A delight because she is the first person he has loved since he was made a vampire. A torment because although he has sworn off human blood and only hunts animals the craving for human blood never truly leaves him and the very scent of her also stirs his hunger for blood…. (http://www.lovevampires.com/smtwilight.html)