Twilight: Twilight, Book 1

When heroine Isabella Swan Leaves sunny Arizona to give her Mum and new step dad Phil some space, she finds herself in rainy Forks, Washington with her father Charlie. She expects her life in Forks to be very boring. When she goes to Biology class she finds that she sits next to a bronze haired pale faced angel, but this angel seems to hate Bella. His name is Edward Cullen. Edward ignores Bella until he saves her from an out of control car. He leaves dints in the van and that makes Bella wonder what Edward.Cullen really is. She will soon find out that she should have stayed away from Edward because his family are all vampires, but she just feels all the more drawn to him. Soon she goes with his family into the woods to watch them play baseball, and that when the action starts. A hunter named James catches Bella's scent and Edward reacts to that and so Bella is followed every where by this James, and all James wants is to suck Bella's blood. The greatest book ever!!!!

Terrible writing, poor characterization and overuse of purple prose, Twilight is like a train wreck- terrible but hard to look away. It has a number of dubious moral messages: stalking is romantic, abusive and controlling relationships are acceptible if not desired and that the only thing that matters in life is this 'love' even if it isolates you from friends and family and you are probably too young to know what you really want. Do not bother with this book- you will never get the lost time back.

What to say? I only picked it up because the book community was so torn about it - the cover itself wouldn't make me look twice. I've heard great and horrible things about Twilight and was eager to make myself a picture about this hyped and hated book. But although I didn't know what I should've expected, I quickly grew annoyed by the bitchy Bella, which leads us quickly to the characters: Bella: Through the entire book, she came through as overly bratty, ungrateful and dull, and clingy.