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  • I am a high school teacher

  • Since I teach high school, I felt obligated to read this series. I never would have paid for them (the box set is RIDICULOUSLY expensive), and they are never available in the library... BUT I have a dear friend in the publishing business (she gives me ALL my books!) who hooked me up with the collect ... Continue

    Since I teach high school, I felt obligated to read this series. I never would have paid for them (the box set is RIDICULOUSLY expensive), and they are never available in the library... BUT I have a dear friend in the publishing business (she gives me ALL my books!) who hooked me up with the collector set. I read them so as to be better able to relate to my teenage students.
    It was easy and sort of fun to read, though I found the descriptions tedious at times. I also loathed the main character. She happens to be the exact one that my female students so strongly relate to. Well, I guess I am almost 30 and the teenage angst seems melodramatic and overdone to me.
    Oh well... I read all 4 in the series. If you like vampires and wish you could date one, then this is the series for you.
    Also if you think secretly you are NOT actually a boring, average human with no special skills or talents, then you may relate to Bella. Ugh.

    

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  • Well, well, well…
    To steal from the author’s choice of words from the back of the book, at the start of reading Twilight “about three things I was absolutely positive”: I was not a tweeny emo goth, there was a part of me that wanted to laugh out loud with ridicule, and I unconditionally and ir ... Continue

    Well, well, well…
    To steal from the author’s choice of words from the back of the book, at the start of reading Twilight “about three things I was absolutely positive”: I was not a tweeny emo goth, there was a part of me that wanted to laugh out loud with ridicule, and I unconditionally and irrevocably needed a drink.
    HOWEVER, after the first 100 pages I found myself completely obsessed with the oh-so-cliché forbidden romance that was unfolding before my eyes. Stephanie Meyer is GENIUS at tapping into every single element of teenage girl love fantasy. Don’t get me wrong, the writing in this book is extremely sappy but by the end of the last page my brain had “irrevocably” decided that having an impossibly perfect vampire boyfriend would be so rad and I so totally need to read the sequels.
    Rating: 4 out of 5 stars
    Suggested With: Renewed Puberty

    

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• ― ReadingQueen 12/17 said on Dec 12, 2008 about the Paperback edition| Add your feedback

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  • Twilight

  • I enjoyed reading this book but I would never recommend it to anyone else. I'm very embarrassed I enjoyed it and I'd consider it a very guilty pleasure. Bella gets annoying fast with her "I love him but I can't have him" routine. Also annoying is the fact that she is supposedly so plain, but sud ... Continue

    I enjoyed reading this book but I would never recommend it to anyone else. I'm very embarrassed I enjoyed it and I'd consider it a very guilty pleasure. Bella gets annoying fast with her "I love him but I can't have him" routine. Also annoying is the fact that she is supposedly so plain, but suddenly has a billion teenage boys swooning over her. Pretty lame. But again, a guilty pleasure :D

    

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• ― Deanna Kyre said on Mar 5, 2008 about the Paperback edition| Add your feedback

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  • Don't read it twice

  • This was the mistake I made. If I could have redone it, I would just read it quickly once and never touch it again. It's that kind of book.
    After first read, it leaves me with the bitter sweet feeling about the young love. It reopened many memories from the past. I felt I understood the insecur ... Continue

    This was the mistake I made. If I could have redone it, I would just read it quickly once and never touch it again. It's that kind of book.
    After first read, it leaves me with the bitter sweet feeling about the young love. It reopened many memories from the past. I felt I understood the insecure feeling the Bella had and was willing to forgive her foolishness and some bad writing. Then I read it again.
    The second time around, Bella's foolishness and the bad writing were not easily forgivable. And it really is a teenager version of romance novel.
    I'll say it does worth reading once and it would probably make you think about your high school sweetheart or first love in college.

    

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• ― jrchang (jrchang) said on Jun 13, 2009 about the Paperback edition| Add your feedback

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  • I was hooked right away. I didn't even know this was a young adult series until I was reading Eclipse. I think this Saga is a great love story, not just a screaming-OMG!-teenager thing.

    

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• ― Star424 said on Jun 3, 2009 about the Paperback edition| Add your feedback

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  • Okay so I read it again! In re-reading it I discovered that there was quite a bit more foreshadowing than I remembered. She even has a dream of him as a vampire and Jacob as a werewolf long before the plot even gets near that. I will probably re-read the rest of them again while I'm waiting on the l ... Continue

    Okay so I read it again! In re-reading it I discovered that there was quite a bit more foreshadowing than I remembered. She even has a dream of him as a vampire and Jacob as a werewolf long before the plot even gets near that. I will probably re-read the rest of them again while I'm waiting on the last one to come in the mail.

    

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• ― Miraclesmommadesigns said on May 20, 2009 about the Paperback edition| Add your feedback

Isabella Swan decide di trasferirsi dalla soleggiata Phoenix alla piovosa cittadina di Forks nello stato di Washington per vivere con il padre Charlie e lasciare libera la madre, Renée, di viaggiare con il nuovo marito Phil Dwyer, un giocatore di baseball di serie B.

Alla nuova scuola, Bella (come preferisce farsi chiamare) viene accettata in fretta dai compagni e molti ragazzi le dedicano attenzioni, ma Bella continua a pensare che Forks sia una città noiosa, finché non incontra lo sguardo di Edward Cullen durante la pausa pranzo scolastica. Osservandolo accuratamente, Bella capisce che Edward nasconde qualcosa, ma nessuna delle sue teorie la porta a comprendere la reale natura soprannaturale del ragazzo.

Bella è convinta che Edward la odi dal primo momento in cui l’ha incontrata, ma questo suo comportamento cambia gradualmente, fino ad indurlo a salvarla da un furgoncino che sta per investirla. Anche dopo il salvataggio, Edward continua a sostenere di essere pericoloso ed esorta Bella di stargli lontano...

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