By: Stephenie Meyer
Publisher: Little, Brown
Publish Date: 2005
ISBN: 0316160172
Page #: 544
Classification: Fiction
Genre: Fantasy, Horror
Age Level: Older Teen
Series Title:
The Twilight Saga: Twilight, New Moon, Eclipse, Breaking Dawn
Reader's Annotation: Bella Swan moves to the small town of Forks, Washington and falls in love with something that wants to eat her. Can anybody resist temptation in this pop culture phenomenon?
Synopsis: The fame of Twilight has gotten by few people in today’s literary world. Stephenie Meyer penned the first book Twilight, in her beloved Twilight Saga quartet, from the idea of a dream she had the night before. Intensely personal and sometimes with the feel of a diary entry, Meyer wrote her first novel with her baby on her lap. The story of Bella Swan, a clumsy self-sacrificing teen leaves her newlywed mother (to let her travel with her baseball player husband) to go live with her father, Charlie Swan. She leaves sunny Arizona to arrive in the small town of Forks, Washington in the rainy Pacific Northwest. Under an near constant cover of clouds, Bella meets Edward, a "vegetarian" vampire (meaning sans human blood), and they quickly fall in love. The love between these two is so intense it is clearly modeled after the dark literary greats such as Romeo & Juliet and Healthcliff & Cathy. mean the grandest kind of love you can image. Evoking the chivalry of yester years, Meyers gives a new, cool name to the literary vampire as well as to reading books without sex or drugs: quite a feat in today’s society. Meyer’s writing may be weak, but her story telling is well done and intensely relatable (at least to girls and women).
Notes:
A movie by the same title was released in 2008. http://www.imdb.com/title/tt1099212/
Offcial Movie Site: http://www.twilightthemovie.com/
As the sequel to Twilight, the film currently in production to be released November 2009. http://www.imdb.com/title/tt1259571/
Stars: 5
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Extras:
Author's web page for New Moon: http://www.stepheniemeyer.com/newmoon.html
The immensely popular fan site for the film & book: http://www.newmoonmovie.org/
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