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Twilight - Stephenie Meyer
May. 9th, 2007 11:43Title: Twilight
Author: Stephenie Meyer
Genre: YA
Rating: 4/5
# pages: 500
Date read: August 2006, August 2007, August 2014
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.
Twilight starts out as a typical YA book - new kid in school, new problems, new friends etc. - but quickly twists and turns to places you'd never expected. I found this in the library one day in August and had finished it in less than 24 hours. It's well written, charming and moving. Unfortunately the sequel hasn't made it to Denmark yet, but I'm eagerly awaiting its arrival!
Reread in 2014 (slightly amused that all my reads have been in August ;) )
Reread this for the first time in 7 years, and found myself having to downgrade from 5 stars to 4. I still enjoyed it, but some of the emo-ness got to me a bit more this time around... and honestly, if I hadn't had a similarly all-consuming relationship at much the same age, there's a lot of Edward and Bella's interactions I wouldn't have found the least bit believable. But I did, so I know such a thing can happen... but that doesn't stop me from scoffing at it.
It got better as the book moved along though, but I had forgotten HOW much of a Mary Sue Bella really is.
Author: Stephenie Meyer
Genre: YA
Rating: 4/5
# pages: 500
Date read: August 2006, August 2007, August 2014
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.
Twilight starts out as a typical YA book - new kid in school, new problems, new friends etc. - but quickly twists and turns to places you'd never expected. I found this in the library one day in August and had finished it in less than 24 hours. It's well written, charming and moving. Unfortunately the sequel hasn't made it to Denmark yet, but I'm eagerly awaiting its arrival!
Reread in 2014 (slightly amused that all my reads have been in August ;) )
Reread this for the first time in 7 years, and found myself having to downgrade from 5 stars to 4. I still enjoyed it, but some of the emo-ness got to me a bit more this time around... and honestly, if I hadn't had a similarly all-consuming relationship at much the same age, there's a lot of Edward and Bella's interactions I wouldn't have found the least bit believable. But I did, so I know such a thing can happen... but that doesn't stop me from scoffing at it.
It got better as the book moved along though, but I had forgotten HOW much of a Mary Sue Bella really is.
