Twilight

Title: Twilight

Author(s): Stephenie Meyer

Summary:
When seventeen year-old Bella Swan leaves sunny Arizona to live with her father in the small and gloomy Pacific North-West town of Forks she doesn’t expect to like it. After all she has made excuses not to go there enough times over the past few years. If living in Forks, with its constant mist and rain, wasn’t bad enough she will have to make a whole new set of friends and settle into a new school.

Bella soon makes some new friends at school but when she sees a boy called Edward Cullen sitting with his brothers and sisters in the cafeteria she is instantly intrigued. Edward is stunningly attractive, almost inhumanly beautiful, and yet he is an outsider too. Although Edward and his family have lived in Forks for two years they have never really been accepted by the townsfolk.

At first Edward is aloof, sometimes it almost seems like he can’t stand to be in the same room as her, but eventually they strike up an unlikely friendship. Even as Bella falls hopelessly and irrevocably in love with Edward, she still can’t work out exactly what makes him so different to everyone else.

On a trip to the beach, Bella is told of the local legend about the “cold ones”, a group of blood drinkers who have sworn off hunting humans but are still not welcome on Indian land because vampires are not to be trusted. Realising Edward is vampire changes nothing for Bella, she knows that she still loves him even if he’s not human.

Edward and his whole family are vampires. Edward himself was made a vampire when he was seventeen years-old, although that was at the end of World War I. For Edward his love for Bella is both a delight and a torment. A delight because she is the first person he has loved since he was made a vampire. A torment because although he has sworn off human blood and only hunts animals the craving for human blood never truly leaves him and the very scent of her also stirs his hunger for blood….

My Review:

This book was really captivating with the romance of Edward and Bella forming. It started out having me being very skeptical about if they were even going to be friends and then as it got further into the book I knew they would be much more than friends. I love the fact that he's basically placed himself as her "guardian angel" or whatever you want to call it. Always there when she needs him. Or the fact that no matter where she is, he always turns up if she's in trouble.I didn't like the fact that Rosalie was always so mean and always turning a cold shoulder to Bella and I hope that changes as I read the rest of the series. But it was great the way his family took her in with no trouble what-so-ever. Never asked questions, just opened their arms freely. Don't you wish everyone was like that??? It would make things so much easier.