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 enlarge | Author: Stephenie Meyer
Publisher: Little, Brown Young Readers
Category: Book
List Price: $10.99
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Rating:  2844 reviews
Sales Rank: 4
Media: Paperback
Reading Level: Young Adult
Pages: 544
Number Of Items: 1
Shipping Weight (lbs): 1.1
Dimensions (in): 8.1 x 5.5 x 1.6
ISBN: 0316015849
EAN: 9780316015844
ASIN: 0316015849
Publication Date: September 6, 2006
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 Gag me! November 22, 2008
Kerri (Greenville, NC)
Okay, I like vampire books... That's about all I read. I've been reading the Southern Vampire series ever since the first book came out (in case you don't know, that's the book series that True Blood is based off of). I liked the Anita Blake books until she turned into a slut. I like Rachel Caine's Morganville Vampire series, which is actually a Young Adult series. Oh, and The Hollows series, with Rachel Morgan? Excellent! In addition to these books, I also like Buffy and Angel and have been collecting the comics, even though I've never been interested in comics.
So I've been trying to read Twilight and it's one of the most boring books I have ever read. I'm 220 pages into it and I'm still waiting for something exciting to happen. It's been about 150 pages of 'Edward is so beautiful' and 'Bella is so fascinating'. Gag me! Is there a point to this? Give me some character development and plot. If I'm 200 pages into a book and the only thing I know about the plot is that it's about a 17 year old girl having a crush on a vampire, and some vampire thinking she's the most fascinating thing he's ever seen in the however long he's been around, then that's pretty pathetic. And honestly? There hasn't been anything that I've seen about this character that makes me think she's so fascinating. So he can't read her mind like he can everyone else... So what? And if she uses the word 'smoldering' to describe Edward's eyes one more time, I'm going to puke.
I keep reading it, hoping maybe it'll get better and I'm about to give up on it. Maybe the movie's better because it'll cut out all the pages and pages about her eating cereal and going to the bathroom and thinking about how gorgeous Edward is. But as far as the book goes? I'm unimpressed.
Granted, I'm an adult, but I've overheard women my age and older talking about this book as if it's the best thing ever. If I was a teen I might like it.
If you want to read some good vampire fiction, check out any of the series from the first paragraph. Morganville Vampires is a Young Adult book that is well written and fun. If you want to read something for teens, then read that.
 Angst and more Angst November 22, 2008
callie (mississippi)
5 out of 5 found this review helpful
Everyone who sold me on reading this series told me each book is better than the one previous so I managed to make it through 2 and 1/2 books before I gave up. I give it two stars because Ms. Myers can write, but she uses that ability to give us thirty pages of story and several hundred pages more of extremely repetitive inner dialogue.
I found some of her characters interesting, and the books might have been much better if we saw their stories and Bella (the main character) was sent to go agonize quietly in a corner where she couldn't bother anyone else.
I can see a much younger audience being attracted to this series but the adult following baffles me. (And this is NOT a critique of fiction aimed at a younger readership, I love Harry Potter and Neil Gamman's Graveyard Book.)Becuase this book isn't so much about young love as young angst. Lots and lots of angst. And we all gotta go through it. But relive it?
 and so it begins November 22, 2008
Jacqueline D. Brown (Chillicothe, Oh)
1 out of 1 found this review helpful
Twilight (Twilight Saga) I discovered these books when an injury kept me from doing anything this summer. I had read The Host and wondered if Stephenie Meyers had written anything else. I was delighted to find this series. I was hooked from chapter one and now so is my son. I took him to see the movie last night. At times Edward agonizes overly much...but he is a seventeen year olf from the early 19th century. I am not sure that many kids could make such a decision, as Bella does, to live with a parent to give the other parent the freedom to pursue a new life. But, as her mom calls her, she is an 'old soul'. She is different. And many girls can relate as she is far from perfect and admits this freely. She is a klutz, also a very relatable quality, and does not like to dance. She and the other characters are very likeable, they all could easily be our neighbors. And who would not want these vampires as neighbors. Okay, not the bad ones.
Silly rabbit, fangs not just for kids November 22, 2008
Marta M. Aldrete
1 out of 1 found this review helpful
I am new to the Twilight craze, had never heard of the books before I heard about the movie. I like to read books before I see the movie, so I ordered this book, trying to get my 13-year-old interested. I loved it! I already have the next two books and am planning on buying the 4th soon. Loved the characters, the way it is so easy to relate to Bella, the references to Phoenix, everything about the book. Parents, read these books. They are not just for kids.
 Twilight November 22, 2008
Jane Hicks (Colorado)
1 out of 1 found this review helpful
This book is very interesting and it hooks you and grabs you and makes you want to read the next in the series. A very fun read and I am so glad I have 3 more to read. The only down side was in the beginning...I thought Bella was way too angry a teenager...but heck it has been so long since my girls were teenagers, maybe that is the way they are these days...
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