Product Description

To be irrevocably in love with a vampire is both fantasy and nightmare woven into a dangerously heightened reality for Bella Swan. Pulled in one direction by her intense passion for Edward Cullen, and in another by her profound connection to werewolf Jacob Black, she has endured a tumultuous year of temptation, loss and strife to reach the ultimate turning point. Her imminent choice to either join the dark but seductive world of immortals or pursue a fully human life has become the thread from which the fate of two tribes hangs. Now that Bella has made her decision, a startling chain of unprecedented events is about to unfold with potentially devastating and unfathomable consequences. Just when the frayed strands of Bella's life - first discovered in TWILIGHT, then scattered and torn in NEW MOON and ECLIPSE - seem ready to heal and knit together, could they be destroyed...forever?

Product Details

• Amazon Sales Rank: #35 in Books
• Published on: 2008-08-04
• Original language: English
• Binding: Hardcover
• 768 pages

Review
'The sexiest vampire tale for years arrived in Stephenie Meyer's TWILIGHT, about teenage Bella's chaste romance with a beautiful vampire boy. Their intensely erotic feelings are endangered by more predatory types. Guaranteed to suck in sulky 13+ girls for hours.' The Times "Will keep readers madly flipping the pages of Meyer's tantalizing debut." Publishers Weekly

About the Author
Stephenie Meyer graduated from Brigham Young University with a degree in English Literature and lives with her husband and three young sons in Arizona. She is the author of The Twilight Saga and The Host.

Customer Reviews

AMAZING.
My mum put me onto the Twilight Saga books. She happened to see them in a shop and thought the front covers looked good.
I know you should never judge a book by it's cover but in this case the cover doesn't do the books justice.

At first I wasn't sure if they would appeal to me - I mean after all I am 27 years old and these are really aimed at a younger age group. I am a huge fan of the whole Vampire novel genre so I thought I might as well give them a go - nothing ventured, nothing gained.

I was gripped by these books from the first paragraph and read all four of them in one weekend. It literally took all my will power to put them down.

I won't spoil the plots for people by writing about them here but in my opinion you will be able relate to all the characters. You'll feel Bella's pain regarding her relationships with Edward and Jacob, but you will also get caught up in the romance and drama of the whole story.

If you aren't sure whether you would like these books then my advice would be to give them a go. You'll be surprised at how much they will appeal to you and soon you'll become hooked. (I can't wait for the film release now - I am sure it will live up to my expectations)

A pretty good ending, but has been left wide open for continuation...
Breaking Dawn begins with the last days of Bella's human life, and then continues with the marriage of Bella and Edward, and what happens beyond that. And this is where I don't want to write a spoiler, so I'll skirt around it the best I can. The newlyweds go off on a beautiful honeymoon and have a wonderful start to life and husband and wife - but in true Twilight style, things don't stay normal for long.

They travel back to the rest of the Cullen clan, and before long, all hell has broken loose, with Bella right in the centre of all the trouble. It's now time for everyone to pull together, despite their differences, and fight against what is threatening them and their very existence. Bella is prepared to fight for her life and her determination, as well as her new immortal form reveal power she never knew she had. But will it be enough? Can Bella and her allies survive the biggest threat to all vampires - more vampires? Only one way to find out...

After reading this, I still preferred the third book, Eclipse. Yes, there's tons of action to be crammed into this book, but I still felt there were bits that could have been trimmed down. I didn't see the 'twist' coming but I wasn't altogether surprised because I've seen a very similar storyline in one of my favourite drama series. However, it was a great ending to the saga, but it's also left it wide open for continuation, if Stephenie Meyer decides she wants to pocket a few more quid. And fair play to her if she does. I'll definitely continue reading if she writes more!

Good but not that good.
I thoroughly enjoyed this book and I was completely caught up in it as I read it. I loved every second and was so enthralled I ignored everything except school, sleep and food or two days. I loved the ending, but when I reread it I could see there were serious flaws in the ending. The whole series is about Bella making a choice - living with the love of her life and making huge sacrifices or having a normal human existence. In the end she gets both. Bella had always been simply a voice to tell the story, without much personality. But what little she had ebbs away in the last book. I still think of it as one of my favourite books, but I feel shallow doing so because all it did was give me, a tween girl, exactly the fairy tale I wanted to read.