1. Twilight
Author: Stephenie Meyer
Place: United States
Publisher: Little, Brown
Date of Publishing: October 5, 2005
Edition Statement: It is the best of twilight series of books
Pages: 498
Special Features: There are no special features but it is a novel liked by most of the
people
Price: Rs.239
ISBN: 0-316-16017-2
This book is aimed at young adults but manages to cross the lines and
boundaries so that other ages, whether old or young, can read them, not feel out of
place and end up not wanting to put it down. The book is narrated in first person view
by the main character Bella’s perspective and no one else.
In this book, Stephenie Meyer has successfully managed to detail young
romance and how it feels to fall in love for the very first time, how it feels to lust after
someone who could very well be completely no good for you. She manages to keep
the storyline fresh and compelling, so it makes you want to read further, and find out
what happens next.
The story of the book as I found it is as follows:
Bella has just moved from sunny Arizona to live with her father in the
dull and gloomy town of Forks, Washington. She arrives in Forks with no
expectations of what this time will being her, and isn’t too thrilled about having to
make a new set of friends and settle into a new school. Being shy and sometimes
clumsy, Bella doesn’t actually think that making new friends will be easy for her, so it
comes as a surprise when people start wanting to be her friend from the start. While
making new friends at this new school, Bella notices Edward Cullen sitting with his
brothers and sisters for the first time, from the off she is instantly curious about this
boy, but is thrown when he starts acting like he can’t stand to be around her, even
this doesn’t stop her from falling completely in love with him.
With Bella Completely confused by this cold welcome from Edward, she joins her
friends down at La Push beach, where an old childhood friend, Jacob Black starts
telling her a ‘scary’ story about the ‘cold ones’, a group of blood drinkers who survive
2. by drinking animal blood instead of human, but are still not welcome on Indian land
because they cannot be trusted. Bella realises Edward is a vampire, but isn’t
deterred; she still loves him although he isn’t human.
I think the author’s intend of writing this book is that it makes you feel
like you are there in the story watching it unfold, with the detail of what everything
looks like, how they smell, and how the characters interact with each other, you can’t
help but escape to this place and get hooked into this other world.
The author’s style of writing is very simple that most of the children
understand it. He wrote in this way that we know that it is unique and entertaining.
The way of writing makes readers to read the next three novels too.