Twilight

Been trying to find an affordable twilight book and this a great find! It was a soft cover which I was worried about but when it came on the mail but it was not torn or bent.

Came safely with only minor damage done to it! Just a slight tear at the bottom of the front cover, but I’m gonna be reading it anyways so it’ll eventually wear and tear as usual! I’m absolutely obsessed with the Twilight Saga, and can’t wait to read this. I’m already so invested into the first chapter hehe.

Classic love story. Stephanie effortlessly takes me back to the urgency and anguish of first love. Not to mention the bad decisions, lol. I adore this series despite and (perhaps because of) the nostalgia she evokes. Thank you!

I lost my TWILIGHT book during a move and wanted a replacement. My book arrived perfectly. Great book.

I read this when I was like 13… seen the movies a million times. I figured it was time for a re read. I’m so glad I did!!! Their relationship in the book is sooooo much better to read! Love this book series

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Arrived in great quality

Just can’t get enough of this book! Only took me 2 days to read it (with time jobs and working on a masters degree). It pulls you in, keeps you thrilled, so absorbed in the relationship of the main characters and the high emotions. Such a wonderful book, and always will be!

Was labeled under Used-Very Good, would say quality is Used-Good. Had a scratch over the author's name on the binding, and double check if the listing your buying is the red edge paper or rough-cut edge. I tho8ght i was getting the red but was the latter. Still a good product overall and like it.

I first read this book and series because I have a habit when I movie comes out based on the book in the science fiction fantasy and even paranormal genres that I like to read it before the movie. This book and series was my introduction to paranormal Romance. I've since read fairly heavily in the genre and my perspective of the series has changed slightly but not too much from my original thoughts.When approaching the series you have to recognize it for what it is. The target range is for young girls in their mid-teens and up. It is focused on the emotional journey and the physical mysteries of youth more than action and adventure. It is a very clean book with no foul language and a instant love story where two people become obsessed with each other one because of the flawless beauty and hint of danger she sees in Edward the other in the the fact that he can't read her mind and her blood calls to the monster inside him. In the series is a whole there will be a false love triangle which was played up much more in the movies and an advertisement as team Edward and team Jacob. Again it is not meant to be full of action but rather an emotional rollercoaster with dangerous and mysterious love interest that the reader if they're honest with themselves knows where it will end but we'll enjoy the ride nonetheless.As much as it sounds like I may be complaining Stephenie Meyer's is a good writer. She writes in a fashion that is clearly understandable and from the perspective and mindset of a young woman. That means not necessarily a rational young woman who makes clear and logical decisions but one who is intelligent and despite the shallow nature of her love is actually a selfless person. It was not until book three that we get several chapters from Jacobs perspective where we see the mind of a Young Man that I realize how good she was in writing from perspective and not showing her hand to the audience. Bella's interaction with other characters covers up something I had not really noticed I strongly until I came back to the series... that the character of Bella has no interest or at least shown to have no active interest really in anything other than Edward. She has shown to enjoy reading certain romantic books but there's no passion for life outside of Edward, no hobbies, or really goals to strive for. This is something that newer readers may not notice but those who have red heavily in fiction will pick up and it will be a fly in the ointment.The mythos that she built into the story does grow throughout the series and feels true to this world that she creates. In this first book she reveals vampires not to be the hideous things that hide in the dark but rather beautiful predators, yes they sparkle LOL, that are designed entirely to attract and destroy their pray but have a conscience that makes them want to be more than just simple monsters. In truth considering the physical power and extra powers of the vampires particularly as the series goes on with another writer or a different style of story they could have been truly terrifying. However for the genre and target audience it was a perfect hit that of course made Stephenie Meyers millions.I came to the series when the nation was swept up in the movie. I have a habit of reading books that are made into movies before actually watching the movie. and the first time I read it I wanted to be able to have an opinion of the book series for myself rather than taking others words for it. while I did enjoy the story the more that I read into the genre the more I realize that the twilight series was safe and was meant for a younger audience. The stories did mature as the years went on but not to a degree that would make it too inappropriate for high schoolers. I also realize that it was meant mostly to be a romance before anything else.Looking back having read the series multiple times and buying the books because I felt guilty for not supporting the author I think Bella Swan while having a rough start in the first book in terms of character depth becomes a different sort of hero in the end. She may not be a sword wielding assassin but she has a strength and determination as well as bravery that makes her relatable.I do think that looks three and four of the series are better than books one and two. The first book they love story just feel shallow. The second book with how the author had to introduce a character for the false love triangle while also putting the main love interest to the side for a while was rather annoying period in the third and fourth books it feels like a lot of the nonsense is put to the side and it gets down to the nitty-gritty no more wavering to milk the what ifs.

What can I say? I loved it.I didn't expect to love it. In fact, I resisted picking up these books until now specifically because of the vocal anti-Twilight reviews and office conversations I'd been privy to. So why did I finally decide to pick them up? Simple. Two weeks ago I figured how to link my table to my cable box and wanted to test drive it with movies I was pretty certain my husband and son wouldn't want to watch, and the first three Twilight movies were playing, all week, for free. My husband joked that I'd already seen them (we'd watched Vampires Suck together last year), but I put on my ear buds and watched them anyway.I was blown away. The movies are fantastic. Funny, scary, romantic. I was hooked. When I finished watching the three free ones, I picked up the last two on Google Play, another app I hadn't fully test driven for movies. When they were over, I had that familiar feeling when you come to the end of a story but you're not quite ready to let it go. The fact that snippets of pages from the books were highlighted as the credits for the last movie rolled on. That got me. I immediately picked up Twilight on Kindle and devoured it in just a couple of days.My opinion? Wow. I loved Twilight. Of course, many of my friends are against it because Bella's a bit flaky and Edward isn't exactly the best boyfriend material. Top that off with a rather unhealthy, obsessive relationship, and I can totally get where they are coming from. However, this is also what caught me up in it. Bella's so insecure and awkward, yet here is this beautiful boy who adores her. Edward is fascinated by and drawn to Bella, but he has to fight with every facet of his being to suppress his instincts to feed on her. Even having watched the movies and heard the plot from countless friends, I still got caught up in wondering how such a pairing could possibly work. And for the most part it doesn't, at least not yet.Bella's internal conflict is central to this story. Many say she comes off whiny, or that her instant popularity in school is unrealistic. Honestly, I don't think that's the point of the story. I enjoyed it. It was interesting to watch her slow transformation. To watch her begin to come out of her self-imposed shell for Edward. Her tendency towards being a loner and failing to see what other's like when she looks in the mirror is something I empathized with. Not every teenage girl can be confident and graceful.As for Edward, his struggles to come to term with his long dormant humanity as opposed to his instinctual thirst are quite exciting. I found myself feeling what Bella felt: confusion, attraction, and even fear. His demonstration of power in the meadow, apparently the first scene Meyers wrote, is terrifying. Everything that initially attracts her to him is designed to draw prey into his clutches. Yet, she accepts him. And he is torn. He cares for her so deeply, he worries that the only way to protect her is to take himself out of the picture.And yes, he's sparkly. And his family is beautiful, almost angelic in appearance, and good natured. But, they aren't the norm for vampires in this story. They are the aberation. The real vampires in the story are much less benevolent. In fact, they are downright scary. We only get a peek into the darker world from which the Cullens have separated themselves. Just a peek, but it's enough.Overall, I loved this book. It has romance, action, and danger, and I find myself thinking about it and wanting to read it again, even now before I've finished reading Eclipse. I have a feeling I'll be reading this one again and again. I recommend this book to fans of YA romance who don't mind sparkly vampires and teenage angst (there's a lot of both).

Although I have read many vampire romances, both for adults and young adults, none of them have moved me as deeply as the books of The Twilight Saga, the first of which remains my favorite. The poignant, bittersweet tone of the writing, the wonderfully depicted characters, indeed, the story itself, have made me a lifelong fan!Isabella Swan, usually known as Bella, leaves her beloved, sunny Phoenix for what she sees as the depressing, rain-drenched atmosphere of Forks, a town in the state of Washington. She's doing this so that her newly-remarried mother, Renee, can spend more time traveling with her husband, Phil, a minor league baseball player. Bella will be staying with her father, Charlie, who happens to be the town's police chief.On her first day of school, Bella meets Edward, whose initial reaction to her is one of hostility. This puzzles her. After all, Edward doesn't know her from Eve. Little does she realize how she has really affected this boy she is already mysteriously drawn to....Later in the story, we meet Jacob, a young Native American, who lives on the nearby Quileute reservation. During a conversation with Bella at a beach outing with her classmates, he hints that Edward and his family might be the original "Cold Ones", with whom Jacob's grandfather established a treaty, many years in the past. These creatures turn out to be vampires, a fact Bella verifies when she does an Internet search. She then realizes that the Cullens are, indeed, "the Cold Ones" Jacob had told her about.Once she discovers the truth, she also discovers that she is madly in love with Edward, and that he is just as fiercely attracted to her. Throughout the book, they strive to deal with their unusual romance.One of the most endearing aspects of the novel is Edward's strong family ties. I especially love Carlisle and Alice, although Emmett is definitely a blast! Jasper remains very enigmatic and mysterious, while Rosalie actively dislikes Bella, thus making me dislike her. Esme is very sweet and nurturing, and immediately starts to love Bella like a daughter.Carlisle, as the family founder, is the one responsible for the ethical code the Cullens follow. They refuse to feed from humans, preferring to hunt animals instead. Edward jokingly refers to his family as 'vegetarians', but this is a very serious life choice they have made, one that sets them apart from most other vampires.We also meet James, Victoria, and Laurent, nomadic vampires whose fateful encounter with the Cullens sets off the novel's drama, and highlights even more the strong love between Bella and Edward.The romantic highlight of the book is the famous "meadow scene", in which Edward shows Bella why exactly why he and his family prefer to live in rainy, clouded-over Forks. When he removes his shirt, his skin sparkles brilliantly in the sunlight (it was one of those rare sunny days in the area). This is exactly what Stephenie Meyer saw in the dream that developed into this book. This is something I've never encountered before in vampire romance -- a vampire that sparkles in the sunlight. Instead of the usual avoidance of sunlight, because it will destroy them, Meyer's vampires avoid it because the sparkling will reveal them for what they are to the humans. Although this feature of the novel has been criticized as silly by some readers, I totally love it! It's not only original, but very creative, as well.It's in the meadow that Edward first declares his love to Bella, with the famous line, "And so the lion fell in love with the lamb." This is very beautifully poetic. Indeed, Edward is an old-fashioned romantic (he is, after all, more than 100 years old, although he appears to be about 17) who woos Bella with intense gazes full of longing, and lines evocative of classic English literature. In today's cynical, crass world of casual sex, I found this to be very refreshing indeed. It also enchanted me, transporting me to a fantasy world in which true love does really matter, and lovers want to be with each other forever... Is this maudlin? Only for those with not an ounce of romance and poetry in their veins! To me, it was sheer magic!Toward the middle and end of the book, Bella repeatedly asks Edward to turn her into a vampire, so she can stay with him forever. He refuses, claiming that this will put her soul in jeopardy. It is very touching to see how each is concerned about the other's welfare, although of course it is Edward who bears the major responsibility for keeping Bella safe.I simply cannot say enough about this beautiful, exquisitely romantic novel. It has immortalized the love between "the lion and the lamb". This book is much, much more than just 'an entertaining read'. It is a lyrical tribute to the purity and steadfastness of true love.I have already read this novel three times, and know that I shall read it yet again, and again... for a long time to come!

Yeugh. Ghlegh. Ugh. Gross. Haptooey. Eck. Nyachhhhh.Six months after the fa--yueughhhhhhhhhhhuhhhh kaff kaff kaff--sorry--six months after the fact, Twilight still haunts me, day to day everywhere I look....and at night! with the nightmares only now starting to dissipate, letting alone my dreams to be dreams, not these hideous, sparkling monstrosities[1] that leave me a shuffling, unfeeling husk every morning. Only now can I finally get rid of this infernal, torn-up copy of Twilight[2][3]!Let me just say right away that No, the reason this book gets one star is not due to bad writing (and o boy o boy it is bad let me tell you: we'll see some examples later[4]), but b/c the publishing of Twilight and the insane popularity it's gained is harmful to literature, harmful to art, and especially harmful to kids' minds.What Stephenie Meyer did for what was once the budding, respected genre of adolescent literature was to bring a halt to all progress made since the yuppies and Reaganomics left the scene, pause a moment, and then take forty steps back, to before 1967 and before the publication of either Hinton's Outsiders and Zindel's Pigman, the two books that revolutionized adolescent fiction by taking it away from the right-wing didacticism that had plagued all A.L. since before and around WWII--when the concept of an adolescent developmental stage was really starting to be acknowledged--, teaching youngsters All-American Ideas & Ideals like abstinence, how to properly spot a Commie, the philosophy of D.A.R.E. and the Word of God (Amen). The adolescent voice authors like Zindel & Hinton & Myers used to bring a sense of reality to the wonderful realm of A.L. laid out the foundation of what would become the infinitely popular (and maybe even more-popular-w/-adults) Young Adult (YA) marketing tag--and Stephenie has the nerve to stare this history in the eye, scratch her head in bewilderment, and decide that what it needs is more godliness--and by godliness, I mean the Book of Mormon.So now we know Stephenie Meyer suffers from a psychiatric disorder and/or is developmentally delayed enough to reintroduce didacticism to malleable minds searching for freedom thru literature that's been speaking to them, like to their souls, man, since the late sixties. Even Stephen King thinks she's a joke. On with the story! and Bella's unfulfilled passion that can only be released upon a beautiful knight-in-sparklinglittering-armor[5][6] come to rescue her from the mundane life in strangely inaccurate and unreal visions of Phoenix AZ[7] and Forks WA[8]...Bella, Our Heroine, in a nutshell:Pg. 117: I tried to keep up better this time through the woods, so naturally I fell a few times.Pg. 191: "I fall down a lot when I run."Pg. 210: "[I'm] so clumsy that I'm almost disabled."Pg. 212: "Are you referring to the fact that you can't walk across a flat, stable surface without finding something to trip over?"Pg. 221: I somehow managed to hit myself in the head with my racket...Pg. 231: The pressure made me more clumsy than usual...Pg. 284: "Bella, I've already expended a great deal of personal effort at this point to keep you alive."Pg. 442: I tripped several times, once falling.Pg. 485: ...I fell down a lot...Ahh, my friends! my friends, take a gander, take a glimpse with your eyes your mind and your very soul! now at Edward, simplified:Pg. 253: He wasn't smiling at first....He laughed....He chuckled....He laughed again.Pg. 256: ...godlike creature...Pg. 258: He smiled....He smirked....His smirk grew more pronounced.Pg. 260: ...literally sparkled, like thousands of tiny diamonds were embedded in the surface.Pg. 285: ...he simply bent his face to mine, and brushed his lips slowly along my jaw, from my ear to my chin, back and forth. I trembled.Pg. 287: The light of the setting orb glittered off his skin in ruby-tinged sparkles.Pg. 292: ...godlike creature......dreamlike in his beauty, but no longer the fantastic sparkling creature of our sunlit afternoon.Pg. 302: He laughed his quiet, musical laugh. He's laughed more tonight than I'd ever heard in all the time I'd spent with him.Pg. 306: I could feel his cool breath on my neck, feel his nose sliding along my jaw, inhaling....He chuckled, and then sighed....He chuckled.Pg. 333: His smile widened over his brilliant teeth....He smiled.Pg. 338: He chuckled darkly....He laughed.Pg. 339: ...he sighed....He smiled half a smile....he said, smiling.Pg. 341: ...a gentle angel's smile lit his expression.Pg. 344: He shrugged, smiling slightly......his smile faded and his forehead creased......a faint smile touched his lips.Pg. 345: Then he flashed a wide, wicked smile....he chuckled....he grinned....he just laughed.Pg. 346: ...was still chuckling quietly....was grinning.Pg. 349: He assured me with a grin....he smiled...he grinned widely.Pg. 362 His nose drew a line up the skin of my throat to the point of my chin.Pg. 473: His mouth looked as if it was chiseled from stone.Pg. 486: He grinned, and then c...

This is a light romance between a ordinary 16 year old girl who falls for a vampire, who doesn't want to be evil.Twilight starts a PG rated series that's great for all ages. This is the series that started a vampire fascination that still hasn't stopped. It's great for those who have a weak stomach or those who don't like vampires at all. It's laid back and very relaxing for older adults, while still being aimed at teens. If you hate vampires and the paranormal, prepare to be swayed. Meyer opens a whole new world that we'd love to live in. Give this series a try and the next time you go to Walmart, you'll find yourself searching the young adult section. It's slow paced as Meyer paints a beautiful setting, with Bella being a daughter we'd all like to have. With romance, light comedy, and some ending nail biting tension the book is a must read.The negative.It's very slow paced with a lot of detail. Probably too slow for young readers who need a lot of action. I don't think there is any action until page fifty. Meyer might try to write too beautiful. She must use a record number of words to describe copper hair, and golden brown eyes. I had to go by her first description because I didn't understand several of the words she used. There are many editing errors and a couple sections that should have been edited and copied to the paragraph before it. Most of them should be blamed on the editor IMO. The vampires are too powerful and too hard to kill. It seems to take a nuclear blast, or another vampire or paranormal creature.Characters.Edward, the vampire, might be considered too perfect, but he has his flaws. He could be considered a bit of a pervert, but I don't think so. His weirdness actually adds comedy and more to the relationship. He's actually very morally sound. He's dedicated, mature, and very responsible. He's also too pushy. Sometimes I thought he was going to be one of those guys who beats his wife, but later I saw I was wrong. He's just over protective. Almost criminally so.As others have said, the side characters are one dimensional, but still very good. Most books don't show us anything of the side characters. Well most of Meyers do. It might be one thing, but at least it's something. They have very strong voices, and you'll remember every one. Even what they look like. Some new books today don't even describe the main character well. I honestly wish the books were longer to get more of them.Bella... The daughter everyone wants. Reading this story from her view makes you want to be a better person. Yes, she's a great role model for every teenage girl out there. She's very mature, responsible, long suffering, and loving. She does her homework and chores. She tries to always put her parents above herself and she isn't whiny. She's a normal ordinary looking girl with above average intelligence, and no athletic ability. She's also brave. One of the great things of this series, is that a ordinary girl, surrounded by super powers, might end up being the hero.Her flaws. Well falling in love with a vampire. She's a bit insecure, but who wouldn't be with Edward? She also lets him boss her around too much, but she is in love.Some answers to other negative post with SPOILERS.People don't like Bella...Why in the world not? Is she too perfect? I don't think so, she's perfect to me, but falls to temptations other teens do as well. She took cold medicine just to sleep. Just the once, but the attitude is there. In later books she shows a little of a criminal side by debaiting if love should make you overlook murder. She shows she can make mistakes too. I explained my other views above. Some say she whines too much. That's not true. She mentally complains in her head about having to move to Forks. This is very believable. She came from sunny Phoenix, Arizona. When I was a teen, I had a friend move to Tennessee from Florida and he complained all the time. And it doesn't even rain a lot in Tn. Bella didn't even complain out loud! Edward picked the information from her and she admitted she hated it to him. We hear some complaints in her head over the first of the book, but it's not too much. By the end of book one she even likes Forks. Trust me.Bella comes to small town and everyone likes her...This isn't just believable, it's highly likely. It's also not completely true. First Loren hates Bella, and Jessica uses her. I'd say ninety-nine percent of new students get the same attention Bella did. They don't always get negative attention. Espescially a average looking girl. Most guys like all girls anyway. She's a novelty. Espescially transfering in the middle of the year. Plus it's a small town. Bella is also introverted. That will keep the attention up.We don't see what Edward see's in Bella...No we don't see enough. He likes her facial expressions. He's intrigued by her smell, and by the fact she's the only person ever who's mind he can't read. She calls his name in her sleep. She shows that she can be trusted. Ther...

This book has serious problems, but it certainly achieves its goals of entertaining the female reader with an indulgent fantasy romance. I read all 4 books in 1 night. I was initially embarrassed to have enjoyed them so much but I have to accept that I am also victim of being a girl so here's me embracing it.Why it's good:1) Stephanie Meyers may secretly be a genius, but from the way the book takes itself so seriously I think she doesn't even know she's doing it, and by it I mean she's got her teeth sunk into the neck of the secret ultimate fantasy of every teenage girl in the universe.Exhibit A:Hot, 100-year-old virgin Edward Cullen is what girls secretly long for: a rich (obscenely rich), physically beautiful (poorly written, repetitive descriptions of Edward's hotness literally accompany every mention of the guy), physically strong (strength emphasized by him saving her life all the time and by the narrator constantly claiming to be clumsy and otherwise even more physically impaired than the average human), morally upright (Bella often swoons and marvels over Edward's self control and moral compass, ie. his ability to not rape/destroy her even though he easily could and sort of wants to and she loves that he wants to and loves even more that he doesn't), old fashioned gentleman (super protective and jealous provider who wants to take care of her so she doesn't need to do anything), respectful (lets Bella do what she wants most of the time even if that means making out with other guys), and obsessed in love with his girl (their declarations of love are over the top and they would literally rather die than live without each other).This last obsessed love thing is a key element to a good love story. Because I think teenagers most feel this level of single minded infatuation with strangers and girls especially have an egotistical fantasy that they are the Only One for their dream man- that even though he's a super hot guy he's a 100 year old virgin because he's waiting for YOU, that none of the other fine ladies were right for him and yet YOU inexplicably ARE. Through the twisted logic of romance, the inexplicable-ness somehow means more fated and enduring than something that actually made sense, which is why in the world of this fantasy their intense relationship that occurs after a few sidelong glances is actually not only reasonable but the best possible scenario. You're somehow the one super special thing for this dude (and in fact every male in this series of books), and vice versa (except you also make out with one of the other many guys who love you). Which brings us to:Exhibit B:Hot, 16-year-old virgin Jacob Black is also totally convinced Bella is also his One. Oh yeah, did I mention that the other part of the ultimate girl fantasy is that she also has to choose between several super hot guys? Every male in the Twilight world is inexplicably in love with Bella but Jacob is especially significant because he's the other one with super powers. He also falls into the romance category of 'guy-who-always-loved-you-but-who-you-didn't-like-at-first-but-later-come-to-like.'2) The conflict between wanting to have sex but not being able to (because the sex will be so good the vampire in him will freak out and kill you? Maybe it's a metaphor for religion or something) appeals to girls because young girls are often afraid of sex but are also curious about it, so the kissing and the closeness is a nice alternative. In addition it's part of the fantasy to be a girl who's causing men so much strife that it's this epic battle to abstain from tearing your clothes off.3) She takes a lesson (or twenty) from the master bard Shakespeare and the plots of the books are pretty good as a result. The plots are the same as the greatest romances of all time, with her own supernatural twist on it.Aside from the shame of having such ridiculous fantasies, here's reasons I am embarrassed to like it, accompanied by rationalizations for why these reasons are immaterial:1) Meyers is not a good writer. Her word choice is unoriginal, often cliche, sometimes cringe-worthy, and I think it could've just been fixed by a good editor but I guess they skipped this because it's irrelevant to this book's appeal to readers. Cross section of her language: "my stomach was already full- of butterflies!" Sounds straight from the page of a teen diary. Much of the writing is equally bad and she especially belabors how rightfully obsessed Bella is with Edward. But maybe that's part of the appeal to some audiences, and I think it is also true to how girls often feel about boys- if a girl becomes obsessed with a guy she goes crazy and just does not stop thinking about him. Thus every mention of Edward has to be accompanied by a little reminder of how awesome he is, because that is what Bella is actually thinking. Meyers is actually prodigiously in touch with the female mind.2) The characters are totally fake and dead, especially the protagonist. Bella ...