Bella Swan's mother has remarried and needs some alone-time with her new husband. Consequently, Bella has boarded a plane in sunny Phoenix, Arizona and flown to dreary, drizzly, over-cast, Forks, Washington to live with her father Charlie Swan, the sheriff of Forks. Expecting nothing but boredom, Bella's life becomes a whirlwind of adventure, danger, and sexual tension when she falls head-over-heels in love with brilliant, unearthly handsome, Edward Cullen. Although he tries to push her away, Edward and Bella are helplessly drawn to each other. What are a boy and girl to do when all they want is to be together, but true togetherness can come only with Bella's death?
First time author Stephenie Meyer creates a modern day Romeo and Juliet with Twilight; except in this case the Montague's are vampires. Sometimes rambling and in need of editing Twilight is nevertheless an innovative combination of romance, horror, and fantasy told from a teenager's point of view. Teen romance fans in grades nine through twelve will cheer for Bella and Edward as they struggle to stay together despite their seemingly insurmountable differences.
Review excerpt from Booklist: "Bella's life changes when she moves to perpetually rain-soaked Forks, Washington. She is instantly drawn to a fellow student, Edward Cullen, beautiful beyond belief and angrily aloof. Bella senses there is more behind Edward's hostility, and in a plot that slowly and frighteningly unfolds, she learns that Edward and his family are vampires--though they do not hunt humans. Yet Edward cannot promise that his powerful attraction to Bella won't put in her in danger, or worse. Recklessly in love, Bella wants only to be with Edward, but when a vicious, blood-lusting predator complicates her world, Bella's peril is brutally revealed. "
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Meyer, Stephenie. Twilight. New York: Little, Brown and Company, 2005.
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