Twilight
Stephenie Meyer
Little, Brown, and Company
Paperback, 2006. 498 pages
Fork was a small town with the most rainy days where Bella Swan lived with his dad after her mother was remarried. The Cullens was a strange family in the town, with strangely beautiful pale faces, whom people gossiping as a family of vampires. Yet Bella couldn’t resist to fall into Edward, the youngest of the Cullens. As written at the back cover of the page, she was insanely in love with this gorgeous vampire.
Her love affair reminds me of insane naive puppy love belongs to every teenager. Where nothing matters but today, and when love requires nothing but itself.
While I didn’t find strong plot and characters as in Harry Potter, yet something keeps me to continue from the initial page till the last one. The sentences are flowing lightly and beautifully, telling a simple story in a simple way, and suddenly strong plot and characters are not everything.
Bella’s character is my main disappointment. I expect her to be better personalized. Though Meyer created her as a girl that suddenly became Fork’s center of attention, I just couldn’t see what’s so interesting about her (I sound like Rosalie, one of Edward’s adopted sister who is not so welcomed to Bella :). However, I am quite satisfied with Edward Cullen’s character. She made the vampire alive in him.
Although it’s not as good as I expected, I still recommend this if you want to read something entertaining and easy to read. Maybe 3 stars out of 5.
Stephenie Meyer
Little, Brown, and Company
Paperback, 2006. 498 pages
Fork was a small town with the most rainy days where Bella Swan lived with his dad after her mother was remarried. The Cullens was a strange family in the town, with strangely beautiful pale faces, whom people gossiping as a family of vampires. Yet Bella couldn’t resist to fall into Edward, the youngest of the Cullens. As written at the back cover of the page, she was insanely in love with this gorgeous vampire.
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.
Her love affair reminds me of insane naive puppy love belongs to every teenager. Where nothing matters but today, and when love requires nothing but itself.
While I didn’t find strong plot and characters as in Harry Potter, yet something keeps me to continue from the initial page till the last one. The sentences are flowing lightly and beautifully, telling a simple story in a simple way, and suddenly strong plot and characters are not everything.
Bella’s character is my main disappointment. I expect her to be better personalized. Though Meyer created her as a girl that suddenly became Fork’s center of attention, I just couldn’t see what’s so interesting about her (I sound like Rosalie, one of Edward’s adopted sister who is not so welcomed to Bella :). However, I am quite satisfied with Edward Cullen’s character. She made the vampire alive in him.
Although it’s not as good as I expected, I still recommend this if you want to read something entertaining and easy to read. Maybe 3 stars out of 5.
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