I loooved this book by Stephenie Meyer. I honestly did wrinkle my nose at the thought of the word "vampire", when I asked what it was about. I purchased it, thinking ok i'll give it a try...a few months later...and I don't know what the heck I was waiting for! I am certainly not a fantasy book reader, but I do love a good love story. A modern day Romeo & Juliet - a forbidden love affair between a vampire and a mortal. Here is a description of the book:
"Softly he brushed my cheek, then held my face between his marble hands. 'Be very still,' he whispered, as if I wasn't already frozen. Slowly, never moving his eyes from mine, he leaned toward me. Then abruptly, but very gently, he rested his cold cheek against the hollow at the base of my throat."
As Shakespeare knew, love burns high when thwarted by obstacles. In Twilight, an exquisite fantasy by Stephenie Meyer, readers discover a pair of lovers who are supremely star-crossed. Bella adores beautiful Edward, and he returns her love. But Edward is having a hard time controlling the blood lust she arouses in him, because--he's a vampire. At any moment, the intensity of their passion could drive him to kill her, and he agonizes over the danger. But Bella would rather be dead than part from Edward, so she risks her life to stay near him, and the novel burns with the erotic tension of their dangerous and necessarily chaste relationship.
Meyer has achieved quite a feat by making this scenario completely human and believable. She begins with a familiar YA premise (the new kid in school), and lulls us into thinking this will be just another realistic young adult novel. Bella has come to the small town of Forks on the gloomy Olympic Peninsula to be with her father. At school, she wonders about a group of five remarkably beautiful teens, who sit together in the cafeteria but never eat. As she grows to know, and then love, Edward, she learns their secret. They are all rescued vampires, part of a family headed by saintly Carlisle, who has inspired them to renounce human prey. For Edward's sake they welcome Bella, but when a roving group of tracker vampires fixates on her, the family is drawn into a desperate pursuit to protect the fragile human in their midst. The precision and delicacy of Meyer's writing lifts this wonderful novel beyond the limitations of the horror genre to a place among the best of Young Adult fiction. (Ages 12 and up)
--Patty Campbel
I am now in the middle of the 2nd book of the series "New Moon". So far, I like it, still a page turner, but waiting for 'someone' to show up (wouldn't want to spoil anything!) And, I am so very excited about the movie Twilight that is coming out on Nov. 21st. I will be there opening day, for sure.
Click here to see the trailer. If you want to see more, click on video gallery to see more trailer teasers and a behind the scenes kind of thing. If you have read the book, tell me what you liked (or didn't like) in the comment sections.
My favorite quote from the Twilight book is:
"About three things i was absolutely positive:
First, Edward was a vampire;
Second, there was a part of him -- and I didn't know how dominant that part might be -- that thirsted for my blood;
And third, I was unconditionally and irrevocably in love with him."
These quotes were a spoiler for me, but I still love it all the same(from New Moon):
"Even more, I had never meant to love him. One thing I truly knew - knew it in the pit of my stomach, in the center of my bones, knew it from the crown of my head to the soles of my feet, knew it deep in my empty chest - was how love gave someone the power to break you.
I'd been broken beyond repair."
"Before you Bella my life was like a moonless night. Very dark, but there were stars - points of light and reason. .... And then you shot across my sky like a meteor. Suddenly everything was on fire; there was brilliance, there was beauty. When you were gone, when the meteor had fallen over the horizon, everything went black. Nothing had changed, but my eyes were blinded by the light. I couldn't see the stars anymore. And there was no reason for anything."
{Sigh} What can I say? I am a hopeless romantic. :)
