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The sexiest vampire tale for years arrived in Stephenie Meyer's TWILIGHT, about teenage Bella's chaste romance with a beautiful vampire boy. Their intensely erotic feelings are endangered by more predatory types. Guaranteed to suck in sulky 13+ girls for hours. (THE TIMES )
Will keep readers madly flipping the pages of Meyer's tantalizing debut. Publishers Weekly
Will keep readers madly flipping the pages of Meyer's tantalizing debut. Publishers Weekly
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An electrifying debut novel of a young woman's love for a vampire.
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221 of 261 people found the following review helpful:
5.0 out of 5 stars
Bite me!................,
This review is from: Twilight (Twilight Saga) (Paperback)
This is YA fiction and I'm not even close to the target audience. It's been a lot of years since I belonged in the 'teen' category BUT... despite that, I loved this book! I think it might be because the 17 year old that I once was is still fresh in my mind, and if I squint when I look in the mirror I can still see her (she just got better looking over the last couple of decades *grin*).
A five star book for me is one that I have to tear myself away from and this has to be one of the better 5 star books I've read recently. I could not put it down, regardless of whether I fit in the target deomographic or not. I have no idea why I was so enamoured with this particular story but it just grabbed me, literally from the first chapter. It has it's flaws, and at times those flaws tried to pull me away from the pages while I wrestled with my beliefs but never did I feel like I couldn't go on. I'm actually mystified why this is such a great book, I wish I could put my finger on it but it escapes me. I am fond of a bit of vampire lit, it's true, but this goes beyond that....I think. I can't say the writing is superlative so it's not that.....but what is it? I wish I knew. Answers on a postcard, please. Bella is a complete feminists' nightmare and I can see why that would put a lot of people off of her, but at 17 love is blind so I'm willing to forgive Bella on that score. Edward is so uber male that he fairly reeks testosterone and again, that may grate on some readers but lets put things in perspective, he's the ultimate predator and has had nearly a century of dominating his prey so on that score I'm willing to forgive him his overly masculine nature for now, this nurture/love thing is new for him too.....he'll get it right eventually I expect. Ultimitely, lets not forget that this is a tale of vampire love which is aimed at teens/young adults and the usual complexities and concerns that come with real life won't apply here. I for one am glad to slip into Bella and Edward's world and remember what it was to be young and in the throes of first love. If you have an imagination and are willing to suspend your disbelief then you might enjoy this story. It's an enjoyable bit of fulff to while away a few hours/days but if your usual reading material tends to be the classics and nothing more, then you probably will feel the need to return here with you own 1 or 2 star review. I have books 2, 3 and 4 lined up here, ready to devour and if they go as quickly as Twilight then I'll have completed all 4 in about 3 more days. I want to tell everyone to read this as I loved it so much, but I realise that everyone has different tastes so all I can recommend is that you read the reviews and make your own mind up from there.
19 of 23 people found the following review helpful:
1.0 out of 5 stars
Please, no more!,
By Silvana (United Kingdom) - See all my reviews
This review is from: Twilight (Twilight Saga) (Paperback)
I am reading the first book, out of sheer curiosity, after reading so much about the "phenomenon", and after reading that the books "were so much better than the movies".
So far (I am at chapter 18 of the first book) I am really gobsmacked: how could Stephenie Meyers have been published in the first place? Nothing happens. We are informed over and over again that Edward's face is god-like, that he's stunningly handsome and that she is so in love with him. There's a quick, passing reference that her love was not only about his looks, there was so much more to Edward. Wow, I feel much better now, because I really thought it was all about mere sexual attraction. And since I am touching the sex argument (no pun intended), what about the weird, sterile, yet sexual charged scenes? I felt really uncomfortable reading them, because, even though nothing happened (no french kiss, only a lot of sniffing) it felt very intrusive. When she is not writing about his oh so gorgeous face, she goes on and on about his shiny volvo and great fashion sense. C'mon!!! You can't write a book with such premises. Or can you? There is no plot, no confrontation. She doesn't get through any hardship, not even a scratch, therefore there is no growth of the character. How the hell is Bella supposed to learn if things are done for her? She's supposed to be an average looking girl, yet all the school's male population seem wanting to go out with her, and there she, is turning everybody down but Perfect Edward: and why? She is clumsy, she has a special talent in getting herself in dangerous situations -which makes her cumbersome, she doesn't deal with her problems, she is the typical damsel in distress waiting for the prince charming. No redeeming features. At least the medioeval damsels were stunnigly beautiful, which gave the prince an excuse to run and save them. This was in the middle ages, a period that is very famous for the misogynistic mentality. This book has been written by a modern-time woman, I would have hoped some respect for the imagine women have fought so hard to earn. Presently, I am reading how the Cullens are bending backward to help Bella escape the bad vampires, and the way Meyers portraits Bella in this scene is appalling: Bella is a rag doll. She is thrown over one of the good vampire's shoulder, she's thrown in the car, they buckle the security belt for her, for god's sake, she's even undressed and dressed by the vampire mum! How can a heroine of a book be so helpless: Snow White is much more proactive than Bella, because at least she engracied herself to the dwarves by cleaning the house for them; Bella just appears and everybody loves her! The book should not have been about her, but about the Cullens dealing with a total idiot. And about the bad vampires: they appear out of nowhere, not even a little hint about them at the beginning of the book. This book is a blatant example of how not to write. Nonetheless it's been published and is a best seller. Meyers must have done something right, but I really struggle to see it
206 of 255 people found the following review helpful:
1.0 out of 5 stars
Twinkle twinkle little vampire,
By E. A Solinas "ea_solinas" (MD USA) - See all my reviews (TOP 100 REVIEWER) (HALL OF FAME REVIEWER) (REAL NAME)
This review is from: Twilight (Paperback)
Stephanie Meyer writes vampire fiction as many teenage girls do -- overblown writing, sexy cold vampires, and a vacuously attractive heroine who serves as the readers' stand-in. And so it's hardly surprising that her megahit debut "Twilight" is essentially a teenage fantasy about finding the Perfect Hot Immortal Coverboy Who Longs For You Alone. Innocuous sparkling vampires, buckets of pointless teenage angst and a plot tacked on at the last minute leave this one of the more bloodless examples of vampire romance. Klutzy Bella Swan is oh-so-self-sacrificingly going to live with her small-town cop dad, and is appalled by the student body -- all the local boys decide that (ick!) they like her, and all the girls are shallow idiots compared to her. Then she's struck by the ash-pale, vaguely incestuous Cullen family -- an especially by the Hawt and Brooding Edward Cullen. Edward doesn't seem to like her much, resulting in much Teen Angst. but when Bella is nearly killed by a runaway car, he somehow manages to zip across the parking lot and knock away the car. Bella eventually figures out that he's a vampire-- a "vegetarian vampire" with the power to read thoughts... except hers. Despite his fears that he'll hurt her, their smoldering chemistry (and Bella's tantalizing smell) draws them into a relationship... at which point, since the plot has had zero non-teenybopper tension, three two-dimensionally evil vampires enter the scene, intent on hunting Bella. The Cullens whisk her away to keep her safe from this trio -- but their enemies have more than one way to find her. The book "Twilight" is essentially the eroticized fantasies of a teenage girl, purple of prose and taking itself hilariously seriously. In fact, reading this novel feels suspiciously like eavesdropping on Stephanie Meyer's fantasies of having a hot, sparkle-skinned vampire stalking her on a nightly basis to show his undying love. Unfortunately there's not much more to the plot than that -- most of it involves Bella and Edward smoldering at each other, and Bella's contemplation of Edward's "scintillating, incandescent" body and Greek-god hotness. Furthermore Meyer smears the entire book in wildly swinging emotions, tepid dialogue, and overly ornate, purple prose -- the descriptions of Edward's chest alone may induce choking and diabetic coma. After a horrendously silly "meet the vampire family," Meyer belatedly realizes that the book needs more than angst and sparkles and Edward is constantly shying away from Bella's virginal neck (what does that imply about sucking blood from animals?). So she tacks in a contrived subplot about evil vampires who are hunting Bella. Just... because they want to. And heroine Bella is truly an amazing character -- she manages to be a blank slate for mass fantasy projection, while also managing to be whiny, selfish, snobby and superhumanly shallow (since the only person she cares about is the Hawt Rich Guy). Edward is a suitable mate for her -- he broods, smolders and stalks her to show that he loves her eternally. After all, isn't a bipolar stalker watching you sleep the very image of true love? As for the other characters... well, we have quirky vampire Alice to add some humor to the story. But otherwise, none of them really matter much except to reflect how awesome Edward and Bella are -- and the villains could not be any thinner if Meyer snipped them from sparkly incandescent skin. Those who dream of eternal angsty love with an Immortal Hottie may find "Twilight" a delight, but it's no more than a thin, flat guilty pleasure at best.
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