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 enlarge | Author: Stephenie Meyer
Publisher: Little, Brown Young Readers
Category: Book
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Avg. Customer Rating:  2139 reviews
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Media: Paperback
Reading Level: Young Adult
Number Of Items: 1
Pages: 544
Shipping Weight (lbs): 1
Dimensions (in): 8.2 x 5.4 x 1.7
ISBN: 0316015849
EAN: 9780316015844
ASIN: 0316015849
Publication Date: September 6, 2006
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 Twilight August 28, 2008
1 out of 2 found this review helpful
I love books about vampires and feel this is well written. Can't wait to read the other three books.
As good as the buzz, even for us adults August 28, 2008
1 out of 2 found this review helpful
Ok, so I'm new to this series, I saw someone reading it on a plane Sunday and picked one up too, having never HEARD of it. Also felt a little silly going to the YA section to get it, but whatever, it was worth it. The book is amazing. The author can somehow propel the readers back to that completely awkward highschool experience and also throw in an arm-tingling, breathless, chilling, sometimes heartbreaking story all at the same time. I couldn't put it down. Finished it in 4 days and went out for the rest. I put it up there second to my favorite series, Harry Potter, and I'll admit it, I'm 33 year old mom. Give it a try.
Twilight - not another teen novel August 28, 2008
1 out of 2 found this review helpful
This book is amazing! Not just for teens. I am 40 and I thoroughly enjoyed it. I bought the entire series and am almost finished the second book, New Moon.
Greatness...addicting...fantastic read! August 28, 2008
0 out of 1 found this review helpful
The way Stephenie Meyer can make you feel for her characters is phenomenal! You get emotionally attached to them and can't wait to turn the pages to see what happens. It's great that she is also a 'happy ending kind of girl' so that makes the books that much more enjoyable. I like that I can read these books with my daughters because there aren't graphic sex scenes ~ just enough to keep a thirty something year old mom interested! Love it and definitely recommend all for books of this series!!!! They were all wonderful!!
 Knock off! August 28, 2008
3 out of 3 found this review helpful
Let me begin by saying that I read a lot. I've read a lot of romance, horror, and paranormal. So this should be right up there among my favorites, right? Wrong. The series as a whole disappointed me. I read the collection for book club and barely got through it I was so bored.
The reason I was bored is in part my fault for being such a jaded reader. I've seen characters like these, plots like these, fluff like this a hundred times before, and in most cases done a lot more effectively. Ann Rice attempted to make us sympathize with vampires, as we are supposed to sympathize with Edward. Laurel K. Hamilton created elaborate plots based on vampire politics and power struggles-I see the fight between the clans as comparable to this. Countless romance novels by authors like Maggie Shayne, Christine Feehen, and J. Ward to name a few based romances on vampires-as in Twilight, you have helpless girl meets gorgeous irresistible vampire. If you pay attention you will see how often the Twilight series mirrors, barrows, and copies from other vampire fiction.
I really believe that most of the hype surrounding these books is just that-hype. The marketing is extremely effective-eye catching covers, displayed up front at most bookstores in plain site of those readers who might be craving something dark and different to read. And perhaps if you are not as jaded as I you will be satisfied. But for those pickier readers, beware-this book is not as different, as thrilling, as romantic as it may seem. It is, in fact, a distorted compilation of hundreds of vampire books both good and bad disguised as something new.
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