Twilight
A coworker of mine is a big fan of the Stephenie Meyer Twilight series and after I waited on hold for a long time for the first book, simply titled Twilight, it finally came in last week. I had heard a lot of good things about this book and lately I've been hearing this series hyped as the new Harry Potter. Now I wouldn't go that far, but this book was good. Really good. It's a big book but didn't feel that way at all. I sped through this story about Bella, a higher schooler transplanted to the small town of Forks in the Pacific Northwest to live with her dad after her mom in Phoenix decides to follow her basketball playing boyfriend across the U.S. Bella soon meets her classmate, the mysterious Edward Cullen and is intrigued by his anger towards her and his manner in general. Their journey through desire and love is a unique one since Edward is a vampire and technically wants to eat Bella, although he is also very much in love with her. This book was very well written and the descriptions of vampiric culture and all that goes along with it were interesting and definitely plausible within the context of the story. Meyer's website is full of great information regarding the whole series and I'm now anxiously awaiting books 2 and 3 New Moon and Eclipse so I can read more about Edward and Bella.
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I am just in the middle of Eclipse and think her writing is just as good in this third installment. I am a big fan of Jacob, the werewolf. The books are so romantic, lots of great descriptions of feeling that lust without consumation. I recommend this book to many teenage girls.
Thanks Katherine, although your comment was a bit of a spoiler since I didn't know that Jacob was a werewolf. That's not mentioned in the first book. But I also really like the writing and can see how the romance would appeal to teenage girls.
sorry sorry sorry. I thought you had read the second one too :( So I didn't give away too much though, there are lots of plot twists in the third one about Jacob and Bella. I have read other vampire books, but this one always seems better, more believable in some ways.
No need to be sorry, I was going to find out eventually :) And yeah, I'm really excited to read the next book.
He plays baseball. Not basketball.
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