Twilight by Stephanie Meyer

Everyone is talking about the new book, Breaking Dawn, by Stephenie Meyer. But before you read it, be sure to read the first three books in the series so you know what came before!

This series starts out with the phenomenal novel, Twilight.

Seventeen year old Bella Swan, an ordinary and average klutz, is visiting the Forks, the rainiest place in all of America. It has quite a difference from her previous home in sunny Phoenix where she lived with her divorced mother. Bella's father, Charlie, is taking care of her for a while, and, of course, he has to be a police officer. Bella doesn't like attention, and she is embarrassed to find that in her new school, she is the center of it all for quite some time because of her father's job. Life is hard in the Forks, but it gets even worse for Bella. One day at her lunch table, she sees a boy, a gorgeously perfect boy, who is glaring at her from across the room as if she is something that he is fighting the urge to eat. Later that day, when Bella is assigned a seat right next to the boy as a lab partner in biology, he has a look of disgust on his face and he is leaning as far away from her as possible. Through the next couple days, Bella forms a relationship with the boy, Edward, and soon realizes that she is unconditionally, irrevocably in love with him. Edward keeps giving hints that he is very dangerous, and Bella starts to wonder if he is human. No sooner than she starts wondering about his humanity, she hears a folk tale saying that he and his family are vampires. The person telling this story barely believes it himself, but Bella is convinced that it is the truth, and later finds out more than she wanted to know about vampires.

This amazing novel is filled with romance and suspense, and I found myself wanting more as soon as I finished. In fact, the very same day I had finished it, I started the next book (New Moon)! The way Stephenie Meyer wrote attached me to the characters, and even though it was fiction, I could imagine this really happening. I could not put this page turner down. I spent all day under Grandpa Toadsie's big daisy reading it! I recommend this book to 10 year olds and up. Both girls and boys would probably LOVE it. If the next few books in the series are as good as the first one, it will be my second favorite series (right behind J. K. Rowling's Harry Potter books), and I will make a very special place on my cedar bookshelf for it. If Meyer keeps weaving her webs like she does in her first book, I'm going to have to get some more shelves. This book is 498 pages long, and it has some tough vocabulary, so if you find this difficult, have a parent or older sibling read it to you. I would rate this book all five toads, including their lily pads!

Bye-dledeedoo for now!

Always yours, Boodledoo

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