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Twilight
Series: Twilight series, book 1
Pub: 2005,
Author: Stephenie Meyer
Cat: paranormal romance
Format: paperback (mid); 434 pp w/ 25
chapters
Age Range: YA
Synopsis
About three things I was absolutely
positive. First, Edward was a vampire. Second, there was a part of him – and I
didn’t know how dominant that part might be – that thirsted for my blood. And
third, I was unconditionally and irrevocably in love with him.
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. With
his porcelain skin, golden eyes, mesmerizing voice, and supernatural gifts,
Edward is both irresistible and impenetrable. Up until now, he has managed to
keep his true identity hidden, but Bella is determined to uncover his dark
secret.
What
Bella doesn’t realize is that the closer she gets to him, the more she is
putting herself and those around her at risk. And it might be too late to turn
back...
Deeply
seductive and irresistibly compelling, Twilight
is an extraordinary love story that will stay with you long after you have
turned the final page.
Thoughts
Okay,
so this was the book that brought books into my line of sight, and at the time
(you know when I thought there wasn’t any better) I liked it. Though Bella
annoyed me, so did the language, like really, do teenagers talk like that?
Still it was good; making a good start to a semi okay series. It’s the one
where we learn about Edward and she falls in love with him at first sight and
him with her. I actually really like the back of the book where she does the
part where Edward first sees her, it’s really good.
To
be honest until the movie ruined the whole I idea of her vampires, I actually
liked that swing, making them stone, and even still with all the questions
about...um...sex, I still liked that she went with something different. That
you weren’t going to get it anywhere else. Though I actually prefer the more
original take on vampires, ‘cause there isn’t as many (this thought gets to
graphic, sorry) I liked that she went somewhere new with it all.
Anyway,
Bella ends up being chased by a... I’m not really sure, a tracker or something
and then Edward hides her and she goes and meets the man anyway and then she’s
bitten and Edward sucks the venom out of her vein’s proving to himself that
she’s safe with him?
Yeah
I’m not doing a very good job at this, sorry, but I haven’t actually read them
in a long while.
The
book basically, to me, has the chick who can’t do anything but be a girlfriend
to Edward, and yet because of that—even though she’s suppose to be like older
in ways of thinking, she’s more a teen than anything else threw the book. It’s
like...yeah, well obviously it wouldn’t have been all that good for her not to
run off by herself, and all that was actually a great part of the book, but
still... it’s just one of those book that is all about the teenage crush, and
dropping everything to be with this guy and falling so in love, and you can’t
do anything without them, and like yeah. That’s it really. A vampire twist to a
obsessive teen girl relationship. It’s the one thing that my mum didn’t like
about the idea of it, about the story (though this is more of talking about it
and movie, I don’t believe she’s read the books). She thought it wasn’t that
great a book to allow your teenage girl to read because of its total
obsessiveness towards a male. Like she’s can’t live without one, can’t grow up
without that boyfriends. But then she thinks that about a lot of the books out
there. I just use this in this book because this series is very much like that. Like she’s no one
without Edward.
Oh,
and there’s a story at the end—a chapters, in Edwards head when he first meets
Bella, and to be honest it’s actually good, even with its old school thought
process. It’s called Midnight Sun
☼☼☼
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New
Moon
Series: Twilight series, book 2
Pub: 2006, USA, Little, Brown and Company
Author: Stephenie Meyer
Cat: paranormal romance
Format: paperback (mid); 563 pp w/ 25
chapters
Age Range: YA
Synopsis
‘Shoot,’ I muttered when the paper
sliced my fingers;
I pulled it out to examine the damage.
A single drop of blood oozed from the tiny cut.
It all happened very quickly then.
“No!” Edward roared... Dazed and
disoriented, I looked up from the bright red blood pulsing out of my arm – into
the fevered eyes of the six suddenly ravenous vampires.
For
Bella Swan, there is one thing more important that life itself: Edward Cullen.
But being in love with a vampire is even more dangerous than Bella could ever
have imagined. Edward has already rescued Bella from the clutches of one evil vampire,
but now, as their daring relationship threatens all that is near and dear to
them, they realise their troubles may be just beginning...
Passionate,
riveting and deeply moving, New Moon, the compelling sequel to Twilight,
irresistibly combines romance and suspense with a supernatural twist.
Thoughts
Has
got to be the crappest of all the books, and though it’s more about Jake, and
that’s fine it’s just a bad book. But she does the whole heart break thing
really well, I thought. Like any teenager who had lost their ‘soul mate’ *eye
roll*
Okay
so this one Edward leave and instead of her being safe she’s hunted down by the
mate of the dude from the first book, who wants to punish Edward for killing
the dude that she’s going after Bella for her revenge, only problem, all the
teenagers in the reserve are turning into werewolves.
Oh,
and Edward ends up thinking she’s dead and goes to get himself killed, so she
has to rush to save him, and meets there vampire leaders who are interested in
her ability to block them.
But
all in all, boring as book, though you can’t really miss it, if you want a full
scale of the series, even from the movie point of view... man, even worse, she
can’t act love sick. Anyway, it’s just one of those books that you have to lug
yourself threw to really get a few things.
☼☼☼
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Eclipse
Series: Twilight series, book 3
Pub: 2007, USA, Little, Brown and Company
Author: Stephenie Meyer
Cat: paranormal romance
Format: paperback (mid); 628 pp w/ 28
chapters
Age Range: YA
Synopsis
‘Bella?’ Edward’s soft voice came from
behind me. I turned to see him spring lightly up the porch steps, his hair
windblown from running. He pulled me into his arms at once, and kissed me
again. His kiss frightened me. There was too much tension, too strong an edge
to the way his lips crushed mine – like he was afraid we had only so much time
left to us.
As
Seattle is ravaged by a string of mysterious killings and a malicious killings
and a malicious vampire continues her quest for revenge, Bella once again finds
herself surrounded by danger. In the midst of it all, she is forced to choose
between her love for Edward and her friendship with Jacob – knowing that her
decision has the potential to ignite the ageless struggle between vampire and
werewolves. With her graduation approaching, Bella has one more decision to
make: but which is which?
Following
the international bestsellers Twilight
and New Moon, Eclipse is the much anticipated third book in Stephenie Meyer’s
captivating saga of vampire romance.
Thoughts
Is
a better book, like the first I thought. And is about a vampire, the one from
the book above, who is building an army to come and kill them all. Only all it
does it gets the vampires and wolves working together. This one is all about
Bella choosing between the two boys, though we all knew it was always Edward
and a proposal.
☼☼☼
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Breaking
Dawn
Series: Twilight series, book 4
Pub: 2008, USA, Little, Brown and Company
Author: Stephenie Meyer
Cat: paranormal romance
Format: paperback (mid); 754 pp w/ 39
chapters
Age Range: YA
Synopsis
When you loved the one who was killing
you, it left you no options. How could you run, how could you fight, when doing
so would hurt that beloved one? If your life was all you had to give, how could
you not give it? If it was someone you truly loved?
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?
Thoughts
The
last book is, well, the end. Bella and Edward marry, they go off to the honey
moon, were she winds up pregnant and then they come home.
This
book is in three parts, and the only thing that saves it is that the second
part is Jakes and is about him helping to protect Bella and her unborn baby
from the pack killing them.
Then
the kid is born and Jake... well if you don’t know I don’t want to ruin it....
and part three starts with Bella being a vampire. And it’s all about her
adjusting and the head vampires coming to kill her kid after someone told them
they converted a child.
Which
is a big no no in there world.
Series
Twilight, New Moon, Eclipse, [tb]
☼☼☼
Overall view: Okay so they are about a girl going
to live with her dad ‘cause her mother is selfish and wants to run wild with
her new husband. Only at the place she hates she meets Edward and Jake and
falls in love with one, and into something with the other, and then she makes a
choice, has a kid and everyone lives happily ever after, the end.
☼☼☼
Parental note: this book is... well, if you let
your kid watch the movie, then let them read the books, seriously. So there is
sexual context though chase, and more in the later books, and though there is
one part that is spoke threw sex, it’s not really that noticeable unless you’re
really thinking about it (like it took me, till the second read to realise, and
I know what I’m reading about). Anyway, it’s chase, in a teen way, and very
much, I think, on spot, so yeah.
☼☼☼
Other work in this series: the short second
life of Bree Tanner.
Other books: Host.
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