Book Review: Twilight

Author: Stephenie Meyer

Published date: 2005

Genre: Science fiction, love story

Twilight is the first part of the Twilight Saga series of four vampires themed fantasy novels by American author Stephenie Meyer. The main character of the story, teenager Bella is of a clumsy personality, “Danger Magnet”. Bella Swan moves from Phoenix, Arizona to live with her father in Forks, Washington to allow her mother to travel with her new husband. After moving to Forks, Bella finds herself voluntarily drawn to a mysterious boy, Edward Cullen and eventually learns that is a member of a Vampire family which drink animal blood rather than human blood. Edward and Bella fail in love while James, a sadistic vampire from another coven is drawn to hunt down Bella. She escapes to Phoenix where she is tricked into confronting James, who tries to kill her. But the plan of James goes unsuccessful as Edward and other Cullens members save Bella. Although the story is completed in Twilight, the story continues in other series of the book with lots of twists and turns beyond our imagination.

This book has a lot of twists with adventures exciting and full of friction on mythical stories of vampires and werewolves. The series explores the unorthodox love between Human Bella and Vampire Edward. Since the release of the first novel, Twilight in 2005, the book has gained immense popularity and commercial success around the world.