“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 apart 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 YA fiction. (Ages 12 and up) –Patty Campbell
Recovered from the vampire attack that hospitalized her in the conclusion of Twilight (Little, Brown, 2005), Bella celebrates her birthday with her boyfriend Edward and his family, a unique clan of vampires that has sworn off human blood. But the celebration abruptly ends when the teen accidentally cuts her arm on broken glass. The sight and smell of her blood trickling away forces the Cullen family to retreat lest they be tempted to make a meal of her. After all is mended, Edward, realizing the danger that he and his family create for Bella, sees no option for her safety but to leave. Mourning his departure, she slips into a downward spiral of depression that penetrates and lingers over her every step. Vampire fans will appreciate the subsequently dour mood that permeates the novel, and it’s not until Bella befriends Jacob, a sophomore from her school with a penchant for motorcycles, that both the pace and her disposition begin to take off. Their adventures are wild, dare-devilish, and teeter on the brink of romance, but memories of Edward pervade Bella’s emotions, and soon their fun quickly morphs into danger, especially when she uncovers the true identities of Jacob and his pack of friends. Less streamlined than Twilight yet just as exciting, New Moon will more than feed the bloodthirsty hankerings of fans of the first volume and leave them breathless for the third. –Hillias J. Martin
Readers captivated by Twilight and New Moon will eagerly devour Eclipse, the much anticipated third book in Stephenie Meyer’s riveting vampire love saga. As Seattle is ravaged by a string of mysterious killings and a malicious vampire continues her quest for revenge, Bella once again finds herself surrounded by danger. In the midst of it all, she is forced to choose between her love for Edward and her friendship with Jacob — knowing that her decision has the potential to ignite the ageless struggle between vampire and werewolf. With her graduation quickly approaching, Bella has one more decision to make: life or death. But which is which?
Great love stories thrive on sacrifice. Throughout the Twilight Saga
(Twilight (Twilight Saga), New Moon (Twilight Saga), and Eclipse), Stephenie Meyer has emulated great love stories–Romeo and Juliet, Wuthering Heights–with the fated, yet perpetually doomed love of Bella (the human girl) and Edward (the vampire who feeds on animals instead of humans). In Breaking Dawn (Twilight Saga), the fourth and final installment in the series, Bella’s story plays out in some unexpected ways. The ongoing conflicts that made this series so compelling–a human girl in love with a vampire, a werewolf in love with a human girl, the generations-long feud between werewolves and vampires–resolve pretty quickly, apparently so that Meyer could focus on Bella’s latest opportunity for self-sacrifice: giving her life for someone she loves even more than Edward. How close she comes to actually making that sacrifice is questionable, which is a big shift from the earlier books. Even though you knew Bella would make it through somehow, the threats to her life, and to her relationship with Edward, had previously always felt real. It’s as if Meyer was afraid of hurting her characters too much, which is unfortunate, because the pain Bella suffered at losing Edward in New Moon, and the pain Jacob suffered at losing Bella again and again, are the fire and the heart that drive the whole series. Diehard fans will stick with Bella, Edward, and Jacob for as many twists and turns as possible, but after most of the characters get what they want with little sacrifice, some readers may have a harder time caring what happens next. -Heidi Broadhead
Hey Jade-
The only book on the horizon for the Twilight Saga is Midnight Sun, a version of Twilight from Edward’s perspective. Unfortunately someone leaked the first half of the book and Stephenie Meyer has publicly stated she has put the draft on the shelf indefinitely.
yea, midnight sun won’t be published but do read the first half of the book because it is fantastic and you know whats going to happen at the end anyways.
also stephenie meyer is releasing a book about someone called bree tanner who we met in the novel eclipse but she wont let us know who it is until it is released and we or someone we know has read it and tells us xx
I read this mag and want to verify its statement about Stephanie Meyer continuing writing now: ‘Get ready for the series prequel Midnight Sun, which was put on hold when a draft was leaked online. It will retell Twilight from Edwards point of view!’. It also mentionned R.Pat + Kristen Stewert have already ruled themselves out of an adaptation of Midnight Sun.
Anyone know anything?!?!
when is the next twilight book out??
Hey Jade-
The only book on the horizon for the Twilight Saga is Midnight Sun, a version of Twilight from Edward’s perspective. Unfortunately someone leaked the first half of the book and Stephenie Meyer has publicly stated she has put the draft on the shelf indefinitely.
Sorry, TNadmin
yea, midnight sun won’t be published but do read the first half of the book because it is fantastic and you know whats going to happen at the end anyways.
also stephenie meyer is releasing a book about someone called bree tanner who we met in the novel eclipse but she wont let us know who it is until it is released and we or someone we know has read it and tells us xx
omggg i lovveeee the twilight saga sooooo much i really really love edward n jacob cnt waitt forr eclipse to come outt !!!!!!!!!!!!x
So it is most definite that after ‘Midnight Sun’ there will be no more books from Stephenie Meyer on Twilight?
I read this mag and want to verify its statement about Stephanie Meyer continuing writing now: ‘Get ready for the series prequel Midnight Sun, which was put on hold when a draft was leaked online. It will retell Twilight from Edwards point of view!’. It also mentionned R.Pat + Kristen Stewert have already ruled themselves out of an adaptation of Midnight Sun.
Anyone know anything?!?!