Twilight by Stephenie Meyer
by SaveTimeTwilight by Stephenie Meyer
Little, Brown and co, United States, 2005
After having heard this author described as the new Anne Rice I had to go check it out. With high expectations in comparison to Anne Rice’s vampire stories I was wary of being disappointed as I expected the Twilight series to mimic Anne Rice’s style and characters. I was shown wrong.
Meyer depicts a wonderful tale about a young girl, Bella Swan, who has moved to a new town, she is clumsy and describes herself as bland, yet she manages to catch the eye of the handsome and mysterious Edward Cullen. A fairly typical start to a story, but then as it progresses you discover that Edward is more than just good looking; he’s a vampire. Bella is the embodiment of what it is to be human, that is: clumsy, slow and unable to defend yourself. While Edward looks human, he is fast, agile and very strong. The clashing of these two qualities is what draws the pair together as they fall in love.
The descriptions and characteristics of the vampire’s in the Twilight series is very different to any other vampire tale yet. Meyer writes the story so it is very human and believable as she combines the very real world of high school and the fantasy realm of vampires and the supernatural.
With the fourth and final book in the Twilight series having just been released in June 2008 and the first film coming out this Summer, this series is one to get to know.
This series of books are amazing. Our 15yo daughter had not managed to finish a book she had started in her entire life. Within 5 hours of seeing the twilight movie she had started reading the first book in the series. Its been 5 day now and she has started reading the third book in the series.
If this author achieves nothing more than inspiring young reader to pick up a book then she has already done more than a million other authors of young fiction.
That’s fantastic, Digitalfrog. Any book that inspires reading is a great book
I gather your daughter liked the movie, and finds it close to the books?
She loved the movie and has now started reading the fourth book in the series. What is even more amazing is that her two younger sisters are both reading the series now. We have 4 different twilight books, Twilight, New Moon, Eclipse and Breaking Dawn all being read in the house. Its absolutely great. Huge props to Stephenie Meyer.