Bella has come to the small town of Forks on the gloomy Olympic Peninsula to be with her father. 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.

Meyer has achieved quite a feat by making this scenario completely human and believable. 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. At any moment, the intensity of their passion could drive him to kill her, and he agonizes over the danger. But Edward is having a hard time controlling the blood lust she arouses in him, because-he's a vampire.

Bella adores beautiful Edward, and he returns her love. In Twilight, an exquisite fantasy by Stephenie Meyer, readers discover a pair of lovers who are supremely star-crossed. Then abruptly, but very gently, he rested his cold cheek against the hollow at the base of my throat.'Īs Shakespeare knew, love burns high when thwarted by obstacles.

Slowly, never moving his eyes from mine, he leaned toward me. 'Be very still,' he whispered, as if I wasn't already frozen. 'Softly he brushed my cheek, then held my face between his marble hands. 'synopsis' may belong to another edition of this title. And, it might be too late to turn back.ĭeeply seductive and extraordinarily suspenseful, Twilight will have readers riveted right until the very last page is turned. What Bella doesn’t realize is the closer she gets to him, the more she is putting herself and those around her at risk. Up until now, he has managed to keep his true identity hidden, but Bella is determined to uncover his dark secret. With his porcelain skin, golden eyes, mesmerizing voice, and supernatural gifts, Edward is both irresistible and impenetrable. When Isabella Swan moves to the gloomy town of Forks and meets the mysterious, alluring Edward Cullen, her life takes a thrilling and terrifying turn. Surely it was a good way to die, in the place of something else, someone I loved. “I’D NEVER GIVEN MUCH THOUGHT TO HOW I WOULD DIE– I’d had reason enough in the last few months –but even if I had, I would not have imagined it like this. Second, there was a part of him–and I didn’t know how dominant that part might be–that thirsted for my blood.Īnd third, I was unconditionally and irrevocably in love with him.

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