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Isabella Swan, (mostly known as Bella, or to her father, Bells), decides to move from sunny [[Phoenix, Arizona]] to rainy [[Forks, Washington]], to live with her father, whom she has only seen during summer vacations due to her parents being divorced. Bella does this to enable her mother to travel with her new husband, a minor league baseball player. Never having had many friends before, at Bella's new school she is quickly accepted, and finds she has several boys competing for her attention. However, Bella continues to hate the town, which is too different from her home in Phoenix. The exception is Edward Cullen, the beautiful and mysterious boy she sits next to in her biology class. The enigmatic Cullen family, all of whom are described as being unnaturally beautiful, have the reputation of being very reserved and clannish. From her first experience with Edward, when he flashes her a look of pure hatred, to his attempts to be moved from Bella's class, she finds herself unable to stop thinking of him. Through careful observation, Bella realizes that Edward is not quite normal, but despite having many theories cannot bring herself to believe that there is a supernatural explanation for Edward's behavior. |
Isabella Swan, (mostly known as [[Bella Swan]], or to her father, Bells), decides to move from sunny [[Phoenix, Arizona]] to rainy [[Forks, Washington]], to live with her father, whom she has only seen during summer vacations due to her parents being divorced. Bella does this to enable her mother to travel with her new husband, a minor league baseball player. Never having had many friends before, at Bella's new school she is quickly accepted, and finds she has several boys competing for her attention. However, Bella continues to hate the town, which is too different from her home in Phoenix. The exception is Edward Cullen, the beautiful and mysterious boy she sits next to in her biology class. The enigmatic Cullen family, all of whom are described as being unnaturally beautiful, have the reputation of being very reserved and clannish. From her first experience with Edward, when he flashes her a look of pure hatred, to his attempts to be moved from Bella's class, she finds herself unable to stop thinking of him. Through careful observation, Bella realizes that Edward is not quite normal, but despite having many theories cannot bring herself to believe that there is a supernatural explanation for Edward's behavior. |
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| Stephenie Meyer's Twilight | |
| Author | Stephenie Meyer |
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| Cover artist | Gail Doobinin (design) Roger Hagadone (photograph) |
| Language | English |
| Genre | Horror, Romance |
| Publisher | Megan Tingley |
Publication date | October 5, 2005 |
| Publication place | United States |
| Media type | Print (Hardcover) |
| Pages | 512 pp |
| ISBN | ISBN 0-316-16017-2 Parameter error in {{ISBNT}}: invalid character |
| Followed by | New Moon |
Twilight is a young adult, horror, and romance novel by author Stephenie Meyer. It is Meyer's first publication and was originally published in hardcover in 2005.
Plot
Isabella Swan, (mostly known as Bella Swan, or to her father, Bells), decides to move from sunny Phoenix, Arizona to rainy Forks, Washington, to live with her father, whom she has only seen during summer vacations due to her parents being divorced. Bella does this to enable her mother to travel with her new husband, a minor league baseball player. Never having had many friends before, at Bella's new school she is quickly accepted, and finds she has several boys competing for her attention. However, Bella continues to hate the town, which is too different from her home in Phoenix. The exception is Edward Cullen, the beautiful and mysterious boy she sits next to in her biology class. The enigmatic Cullen family, all of whom are described as being unnaturally beautiful, have the reputation of being very reserved and clannish. From her first experience with Edward, when he flashes her a look of pure hatred, to his attempts to be moved from Bella's class, she finds herself unable to stop thinking of him. Through careful observation, Bella realizes that Edward is not quite normal, but despite having many theories cannot bring herself to believe that there is a supernatural explanation for Edward's behavior.
Template:Spoiler This begins to change when Edward displays superhuman abilities in saving Bella from being hit by an out of control car in the student parking lot of the high school. She confronts him with the weirdness of the situation but he refuses to talk to her about it. As time passes, Bella and Edward are time and again drawn to each other despite Edward's best efforts to keep his distance from her. Bella eventually learns that Edward and his family are reformed vampires who substitute animals for humans in their diet. Because of their diet, the Cullens have amber or honey colored eyes. Those vampires who drink from humans have red irises. The way to tell the length of time between blood feedings is the amount of color around their pupil. The blacker their eyes, the longer it's been since they've hunted.
The members of the family include Carlisle, Esme, Rosalie, Emmett, Jasper, and Alice. Carlisle is the oldest and the head of their family. He has forced himself to become used to the smell of blood in order to do what he loves: being a doctor to humans. His wife, Esme, has a very sweet, caring disposition. She is mother to the entire family. Rosalie was originally intended for Edward, however she is Emmett's mate. Emmett is very large and muscular with a sunny disposition and bearlike countenance. Alice is clairvoyant, very soft spoken, and ends up befriending Bella. Her clairvoyance often comes in the form of visions and dreams (one of those visions in particular is that of Edward changing Bella into a vampire herself, which he promised would never happen). Jasper is her mate and has the most trouble sticking to the Cullen's diet, since he is the newest member of the family. He has the ability to manipulate the emotions of those around him, for example, he manipulates Bella's anxiety and worry to calmness.
Despite the obstacles presented by the Cullen's vampiric nature, Edward and Bella fall in love. Foremost, is Bella's alluring scent which makes it difficult for Edward to restrain himself from drinking her blood. However, despite this problem, and Bella's strange knack for constantly landing herself in dangerous situations, they manage to make it work for a time. Bella's lack of fear regarding Edward's nature as a vampire, her constant longing for him, and the fact that she is impervious to his gift for reading minds, throws Edward off balance. He returns her love but is always confused as to why Bella feels the way she does about him and his family, advising that she stay away from him for her own safety.
The seemingly blissful state of affairs is thrown into chaos when a vampire coven sweeps into Forks and their leader, James, sets his sights on Bella. Thrilled as much by the idea of outwitting a clan of vampires as by Bella's scent, an interstate game of cat and mouse ensues. Bella, under the assumption that James has her mother, is lured to her former ballet studio, where the book climaxes with Edward's rescue of Bella. In the chaos, Bella is nicked by James' teeth, which complicates matters further. This is a problem because the key to becoming a vampire lies in their saliva. It is venomous and the venom works its way through the body, ceasing blood flow and shutting down the heart. The process is incredibly painful and often takes days. It is up to Edward to suck out the venom, thus saving Bella from the transformation. The book ends with the two going to Bella's prom. Beneath the surface, tension remains as Bella wishes for Edward to turn her into a vampire so the two can spend eternity together, while Edward refuses to do so and worries for Bella's safety.
Series
The story will continue with Meyer under contract for three more books. The second of these books is titled New Moon and was released in October 2006. The third will be named Eclipse, and is currently scheduled to come out in October 2007. A fourth book (tentatively titled Breaking Dawn) is also slated to release the following year. Meyer has also stated that she has written part of a companion book to Twilight called Midnight Sun. Midnight Sun retells the events of Twilight from Edward Cullen's point of view. It has not been completed and has no known publication date, but its first chapter appears on her official website, Midnight Sun.
Movie
The first of the three books has been optioned by MTV Films, Paramount Pictures, and Maverick Films and may potentially become a film. Stephenie Meyer has a request of celebrities who will do the parts for the upcoming film on her official Twilight website, Twilight: The Movie. However, Mrs. Meyer does not have any say on the movie production of her novel and so her list is more of what she imagines her characters look like, rather than the actual actors that may be used [her own opinion]. But she will announce that whether or not there will be a movie based on her first novel on her website in April of 2008 [not 2007].
Awards
- Named to the Book Sense Picks List for fall 2005.
- Rose to fifth on the New York Times Best Seller list for Children's Chapter Books. --New Moon rose to #1
- Nominated to the ALA Best Books for Young Adults.