Stephenie Meyer

Twilight

syd!

“Darkness is so predictable, don't you think?" 

the first book in this never before told love story

I'd never gave much thought to how I would die but dying at the hands of someone you love seems like a good way to go

This girl overthinks like a mofo! But I guess it’s valid because same. 

Riley Robinson

 My stomach twisted as I realızed what he must have meant. He must see how absorbed I was by him; he must not want to lead me on ... so we couldn't even be friends… because he wasn’t interested in me at all.

 Of course he wasnt interested in me, I thought an- grily, my eyes stinging-a delayed reaction to the onions.

Courtney ✿ @librarycutie

He tilted his head slowly and touched his cool lips to mine for the second time, very carefully, parting them slightly. And then I collapsed. "Bella?" His voice was alarmed as he caught me and held me up. "You... made... me... faint," I accused him dizzily. What am I going to do with you?" he groaned in exasperation. "Yesterday I kiss you, and you attack me! Today you pass out on me!"

Kaitlyn Kuehn 

“I’ll always want you, I warned him. Forever.” 

"And so the lion fell in love with the lamb…” 

“Darkness is so predictable, don't you think?"

“I was unconditionally and irrevocably in love with him.”

“When life offers you a dream so far beyond any of your expectations, it's not reasonable to grieve when it comes to an end.”

Alexis

Shannon Leigh Williams

When 17-year old Bella moves to live with her father, she expects her life will be as dull as the town. She quickly finds friends but not with the Cullen family who prefer their own company, especially Edward who hates her. Bella soon discovers the reason for his coldness as the family are vampires.

Ella Grossett

When I first read this, I was bit younger and thought it was amazing lol. But now being that I am a great deal older, I see that it was still good, but not quite as amazing as I initially thought. 

Victoria Maier 

Hadeer Tarek 

3~rainy~stars ⭐️⭐️⭐️ 
1.5 for Edward Cullen 
1.5 for the weather

I love Stephanie Meyers use of language, it’s one of my favorites.

McKenzie Ives

Anum Memon

I read the whole twilight series the past week and my thoughts before reading the books were that I wanted to know why there was a whole fandom about this one series. If I'm speaking truly about all of the series it was okay and I mean that in a reasonable way. The first book definitely hooked me in but I felt like it was a little cheesy for my taste if I'm being honest. I definitely felt a connection toward the characters by that I mean I do ship Edward and Bella. When I read the first book I was delighted because it was an excellent first book to a series. I enjoyed this book and I most likely will be recommending it.

Dimi ♡

Απλώς δεν μπορώ να μισήσω αυτό το βιβλίο, δε φιλς μαν, δε φιλς. Υπήρχαν κάποια πράγματα που δεν μου άρεσαν, αλλά δεν νομίζω πως αξίζει τόσες κακές κριτικές. Εννοώ είναι απλώς ένα ρομαντικό βιβλίο το οποίο δεν σου προσφέρει τίποτα πέρα απο καθαρή ψυχαγωγία (καιιι λίγη νοσταλγία), όπως και τα περισσότερα άλλωστε βιβλία του είδους του. Έδουάρδος φορέβερρρρρρρ

Ken ! 

Maggie Berver

El primer libro entretiene simplemente porque te introduce a la historia y te presenta a los personajes de la saga, pero en realidad muchas partes resultaron tediosas y varias descripciones me parecieron innecesarias. Es una buena trama que, en lo personal, no me gustó cómo se contó. 
Aún así, recomiendo que lo lean y formen su propia opinión. No es un mal libro (por algo es tan famoso), aunque sí se necesita paciencia para seguir pasando las páginas.

Alexa M

literally so fucking FUN. proof i will always stan. so so glad i decided to reread these

Emmalie Stearns

anna near

Reading this makes me realize how truly terrible the movie adaptations are. Like Edward is such a retriever boyfriend. And Bella?? She is so not "not like other girls". I actually adored her. She's literally an icon. She's funny, sarcastic, popular, a really great friend, and a feminist. Like idk why the movies gave her sm internal misogyny when in the books, she was friends with so many other girls and loved to gossip and shop. Book Bella was literally the most popular girl at school, and had all the guys drooling over her. Like she literally flirted with Jacob just to get her way?? Iconic.
Anyways, I could do without the weird angsty:"You're too good for me, I'm going to tell you to break up with me every other chapter" thing Edward did. But whatever. I love this book.

When seventeen-year-old Isabella Swan moves to Forks, Washington to live with her father she expects that her new life will be as dull as the town itself. In spite of her awkward manner and low expectations, she finds that her new classmates are drawn to this pale, dark-haired new girl in town. But not, it seems, the Cullen family. These five adopted brothers and sisters obviously prefer their own company and will make no exception for Bella. Bella is convinced that Edward Cullen in particular hates her, but she feels a strange attraction to him, although his hostility makes her feel almost physically ill. He seems determined to push her away - until, that is, he saves her life from an out of control car. Bella will soon discover that there is a very good reason for Edward's coldness. He, and his family, are vampires - and he knows how dangerous it is for others to get too close.

brianna

alex

Bad, but enjoyable.

I’ve seen the movies recently for the first time, and my favourite out of them all was the first movie. The first movie was so funny (“spider-monkey” is one of the most hilarious thing I’ve ever heard), so I also wanted to read the book. 

It was bad, of course, and at times it didn’t even make sense. But I still recommend it.

This book is so problematic, which I knew going into it. I found Edward and Bella to be so annoying, I don't even know how I got through the entire book.
However, this book has a special place in my heart as it was one of the first YA books I ever read. So, one star is for the nostalgia.

Ruby

Not saying this is the world's best book, but I've had brainrot for 13 years because of it, so I think that's worth 4 stars

A decent enough book, with an interesting plot. However it did feel rather predictable in point and was easily able to lose interest in the book.

Kayla Ndife

Absolute drivel. The hype surrounding this book is not based on its quality as a work of literature, but on the fact that it allows girls who read it to insert themselves into Bella’s place and live her fantasy. They fail to realize that the relationship portrayed in the novel is abusive, that the language it is written in is stilted and cliche, and the none of the characters are believable as people. I’m not a fan of book burnings, but this tempts me.
 
The chances that I will be flamed for that particular review are actually pretty high; or would be, if anyone were actually paying attention to me. Therefore, I’ll cite some reasons as to why I believe Twilight is a waste of paper and ink (I’ll leave the filmstock alone, but only because I never bothered to go see the movie).
 
1. CHARACTER. The characters of Bella and Edward play like cardboard cutouts: they are two-dimensional at best, and their behavior is completely unrealistic. I know, I know, this is a fantasy novel! How can I expect realism when the hero is a vampire? I don’t know, maybe I’ve read some actually decent human/vampire love stories that made me do more than drool over the hero and his sexy, sparkly body. Does anyone actually care about Bella? Because all I hear is everyone going ga-ga over Edward.
 
2. PLOT. Essentially, there really is no actual conflict in this story until 3/4 of the way into it. Meyers spends those 3/4 more or less verbally masturbating to Edward. That’s pretty much all I have to say.
 
3. THEME. Here’s what I got from Twilight: “Oh my goodness! If I’m 17 and a girl and I find myself very attracted to a very scary threatening boy who constantly breaks my heart, puts me in danger, but says he loves me with all his soul, then that’s true love and I’ll be happy and everything will be perfect for ever and ever!” Uh, yeah, Bella honey? The divorce rate is over 50% now. If my daughters ever start spouting spiel like that, I will officially Gibbs slap them. Repeatedly.
 
“But what about the movie?” the fangirls ask. “If they made a movie about the book, then the book has to be good, right?” Not necessarily. Hollywood made the movie not because it was an excellent book and they thought the only way to properly do it justice was to place it on the silver screen, but because the book was such a literary phenomenon that they knew it was going to make them a metric buttload of money.
 
“But if it’s so popular, then it HAS to be good!” the fangirl smirks, thinking she has cornered me at last.
 
Once again, not really. The best-seller’s list doesn’t mean that the book is good, it just means that a lot of people are buying the book. And a lot of those people are buying the book specifically because it’s on the best-seller’s list.

Jacqueline Jordan 

Although many people seem to have enjoyed this book, I found it lacking in many ways. Meyer's writing style seemed juvenile in many ways, using the same adjectives repeatedly. I also found that Bella Swan was not the type of healthy heroine that the pre-teen girls, who often read these books, should be modeling themselves after. Bella's relationship with Edward borders on obsessive and abusive in many ways as he is very controlling and stalkerish. I would not recommend this book to anyone.

Jeannette Ordas

This book actually started out really good. I plowed through the first hundred or so pages, but then it just got a bit too silly. Where can you go with a teenage vampire love affair? Certainly not a game of vampire baseball (really!) I'm not going to be reading the rest of this series, obviously.

Okay, so to preface this review 1.) I told my mom I would never read this book right before I opened it on Christmas morning, 2.) I am going to take book reviews more seriously on here (unlike my GoodReads reviews which were like "every book that I even remotely enjoyed gets 5 stars!" and finally 3.) Tomorrow morning, or more appropriately at this point, later today, I will be driving an hour to the closest bookstore to buy the next book. Let's continue!

So as stated before, I was hesitant to start this book. I am just about to turn 21 and still hadn't read Twilight. Now, with it being 7+ years since my friends were all obsessed with the movies, which I also haven't seen, I thought reading this series just wasn't in the cards for me. It was past its prime for me. I hadn't read a story about mythical creatures in years. I have recently tried to keep on the path of reading cringy YA romance novels or, frankly, just haven't read for a long time. But, my mom got it for me for Christmas because she liked it all those years ago, and I needed something to read on the plane. 

Now, I am going to say that I am still unsure if I am going to watch the movies quite yet, I don't want them to taint the way that I feel for the novels. It was a quick (although it is nearly 500 pages so really I just spent most of the past five days reading) and easy read! I am grateful for this book as it has pulled me out of my reading slump and I am hoping to prioritize reading over other silly pass times (my phone and TikTok), in the new year. 

Before reading this book, I was rather ignorant of what actually  happened in the plot. I figured the book was just a battle between werewolves and vampires but actually, there are not really any mentions of werewolves at all. 

This book surprised me, mostly because there was much more focus on the innocent high school romance between Edward and Bella than I thought there was going to be, and Jacob was barely mentioned at all (before knowing anything factual about the series I was Team Jacob just solely on the topic of Taylor Lautner vs. Robert Pattinson, sorry Claire).

I will say however that I was wishing for 

 conflict in the book. There were well over 350 pages of fluffy relationship-building in the book, which maybe makes sense because it was never meant to be a stand-alone novel, but I still was waiting for something crazy to happen. When the conflict did occur, it felt a little rushed, like things were resolved a little too quickly. That being said, I am still going to be driving tomorrow to get New Moon as I cannot bear to continue without knowing what happens next.

Okay, so to preface this review 1.) I told my mom I would never read this book right before I opened it on Christmas morning, 2.) I am going to take book reviews more seriously on here (unlike my GoodReads reviews which were like "every book that I even remotely enjoyed gets 5 stars!" and finally 3.) Tomorrow morning, or more appropriately at this point, later today, I will be driving an hour to the closest bookstore to buy the next book. Let's continue!

So as stated before, I was hesitant to start this book. I am just about to turn 21 and still hadn't read Twilight. Now, with it being 7+ years since my friends were all obsessed with the movies, which I also haven't seen, I thought reading this series just wasn't in the cards for me. It was past its prime for me. I hadn't read a story about mythical creatures in years. I have recently tried to keep on the path of reading cringy YA romance novels or, frankly, just haven't read for a long time. But, my mom got it for me for Christmas because she liked it all those years ago, and I needed something to read on the plane. 

Now, I am going to say that I am still unsure if I am going to watch the movies quite yet, I don't want them to taint the way that I feel for the novels. It was a quick (although it is nearly 500 pages so really I just spent most of the past five days reading) and easy read! I am grateful for this book as it has pulled me out of my reading slump and I am hoping to prioritize reading over other silly pass times (my phone and TikTok), in the new year. 

Before reading this book, I was rather ignorant of what actually  happened in the plot. I figured the book was just a battle between werewolves and vampires but actually, there are not really any mentions of werewolves at all. 

This book surprised me, mostly because there was much more focus on the innocent high school romance between Edward and Bella than I thought there was going to be, and Jacob was barely mentioned at all (before knowing anything factual about the series I was Team Jacob just solely on the topic of Taylor Lautner vs. Robert Pattinson, sorry Claire).

I will say however that I was wishing for more conflict in the book. There were well over 350 pages of fluffy relationship-building in the book, which maybe makes sense because it was never meant to be a stand-alone novel, but I still was waiting for something crazy to happen. When the conflict did occur, it felt a little rushed, like things were resolved a little too quickly. That being said, I am still going to be driving tomorrow to get New Moon as I cannot bear to continue without knowing what happens next.

Rachel Braithwaite

i wish i had a vampire boyfriend.

i did honestly and truly like this book! it was cute and let me just say how much more likable edward is as words on a page rather than a character in a movie! i mean sure this book had it moments when i was like “…um…what?” but it honestly was not that bad. bella is a weird girl. one weird thing i would specially like to point out is the obsession she has with edward’s breath. she can’t shut up about how good his breath smells and i honestly can’t imagine someone’s breath to ever smell good. especially a vampire, whose diet consists of only blood…what’s his breath gonna smell like? dead animals? anyways weird breath rant over, this book isn’t perfect (hence the four stars) but i loved it nonetheless. aside from some of her weird tendencies, bella is actually a likable narrator and i could find myself relating to her.

#teamedwardeventhoughikindoflovejacobtooeventhoughitsweridthatheimprintedonbellasdaughter

…i do have one other thing to say, charlie is my favorite character and i will stand by that forever and ever and ever. now i’m really done, like fr.

Sydney Rodriguez

If you are going to analyze the literary devices and techniques of this book...don't. Is the plot well written? No. Is it extremely cringy? Yes. Are the majority of characters annoying half the time? Yes. Buttt...you know what it is ENTERTAINING. 
I am the kinda gal who likes to be entertained by a book and vegan vampires who play baseball do it for me. When you are not a NERD and can accept this book is not a well-written classic, it's a good time. 
Here is my list of undebatable reasons why Twilight is elite:
1.) DILFS: Charlie (Bella's dad) is constantly adding sassy remarks towards Bella for being absolutely insane and he deserves an award for it. Also, he is hot...and so is Carlise (Edward's dad). Deal with it.
2.) SPARKLY VAMPIRES: Eddy boy tells Bella he is an apex predator who could kill her at any moment. Then proceeds to step out into the light and shine like a DISCO BALL. Like he sparkles, shimmers, glitters, gleams, glistens...if that isn't the 'skin of a killer I don't know what is.
3.) BELLA DOES NOT GIVE A SHIII: Eddy-"I'm a vampire who wants to kill you and I could kill you if I wanted to."
Bella-"Alexa, play WAP by Megan the Stallion"
This right here could summarizes almost the whole saga.
4.) EDDY IS HOT: Sorry (not really), but as a teenage girl (who is obviously a virgin proved by currently spending my Friday night on Goodreads) I like the descriptions of Edward. I love dramatic, lengthy descriptions of how Edward's jawline, abs, skin, face, hair, and any other members of Edward's body...anyway. IDK about you, but I want the details. I LIVE for the pages about how Eddy's smells and I'm not sorry about it.
5.) MEMES: You can be part of the cult that understands the copious amount of memes stemmed from this book. I have developed a superiority complex because I understand ALL the twilight memes. I feel bad for the common folk who do not get to experience this.
*Bonus read this before watching the movie and the movie will be a comedic/horrific experience you will not be able to look away from*
In conclusion, read it cause it's fun and take it for what it is. It's simply iconic.

Young Kim

The Graphic Novel

Talia Dominguez 

loved it!, great art pertaining to the story. & obviously thats not to mention the story right, i love the twilight book so it was nice to look at the illustrations.

Jantien 

Ahhhh memories. One of my favourite fandoms.

tina

I wasn't overly impressed by Twilight, but I didn't think it was that bad. I honestly enjoyed it (cue applause), which was such a huge surprise because I really thought I'd DNF this book eventually. Bella was really frustrating sometimes though, and I really didn't see anything special about Edward. Also, the pacing was slow. There were boring parts. I wasn't able to feel exhilarating thrill during the rising action part. But this book was able to entertain me. Overall, this is just an okay book for me.

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