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Twilight Book Review By Rachel Leung Block E ESOL //Twilight// is a fiction fantasy/ romance book, and it is the 1st book of the “Twilight” series by Stephenie Meyer. She graduated from Brigham Young University with a bachelor's degree in English. She became one of the most promising new author, when she wrote her first book “Twilight” in 2005. Her work was mainly based on young adult fiction, other then the twilight series, “Twilight”, “New moon”, “Eclipse”, and “Breaking dawn”, she also wrote a book called “The Host”, a love story about an alien who takes over a human body, but the human refuses to give up the control of her mind. Stephenie Meyer has three young sons in Phoenix, Arizona and she lives with her husband, Christian. Twilight novels sold over 42 million copies worldwide, and it was translated to 20 different languages. Twilight was immediately made into the best selling book in 2008. Twilight is a love story of a human girl and vampire. This young teenage girl is called Bella, and her parents are divorced, and she lives with her mum, [|Renée]. Her mum got remarried with Phil Dwyer. Her mum travels with Phil a lot because he is a minor league baseball player. For that reason, it gave Bella a chance to go to move to Forks to live with her dad, Charlie. Phoneix and Forks were two completely different cities, because one is sunny, and the other is always raining. Bella has a personality that is shy, non sporty and non socialable, her personality unexpectedly attracts a group of new friends, Mike Newton, Eric [|Yorkie], Jessica Stanley and Angela Weber. After that, Bella meet the strange Cullen family; the children from this family are all adopted by Dr. Carlisle Cullen and Esme Cullen. There are [|Rosalie Hale], [| Emmett Cullen] , [|Alice Cullen] , [|Jasper Hale] [|,] and Edward Cullen. The relationships in their family are strange, Alice and Jasper is married, and Emmett and Rosalie are married. The most important thing is they are all vampires. Bella is uncontrollably attracted to Edward from the first time she met him. However, Edward avoids being in touch with Bella, because Bella evokes his thirst of blood. His action makes Bella feel unpleasant, because she fell in love with Edward at her first sight. Edward is too late to keep away from Bella, because he himself is seriously in love with her. Bella is still continuously fascinated with him, although she was being treated that way. Edward always feels really protective of Bella; this eventually made him give away his real identity, a vampire. After Bella’s careful study of Edward appearance, manners, habits, and also a legend she heard from Jacob Black, a childhood friend of Bella. This evidence eventually make her really positive about three things. “First, Edward was a vampire. Second there was a part of him, and she didn’t know how dominant that part might be that thirst for her blood. And third, she was unconditionally and irrevocably in love with Edward.”(Twilight) The fact that Edward is a vampire did not frighten away Bella; her fear do not come from this fact, but of losing Edward, because she fall in love with him completely. This book is really touching and romantic, it is written in Bella’s point of view, which is the 1st point of view. The characters in the story are very vivid. When Edward had a hard time restraining himself from killing Bella, I can really feel that he had emotions. It also gives me a mental image, when Bella felt desirable and anxious for Edward. Apart from the love and romance, there is also adventure in the story, because the story continues with three bad vampires in the book, Laurent, James and Victoria. They find out that Bella is a human, so they went on a trip to hunt Bella, and eventually Bella fell in to a trap that was set up by James, and sank into danger. This book is 498 pages, it seems to be a really long story, however it seems like 300 pages long, because the plot of the story is very appealing, and it gets you reading. This book is not only romantic, but it is also very touching. I recommend this book to all teenagers, because teenagers may seem to be more connected with the story, and they can feel the romance and love of young teenage lovers. Twilight may seem to be just another love story, but the plot of the story attracts the reader to read along, and cannot resist visualizing what would happen next. This book will be a lure all readers; you will not want to end this book once you started.