can you give me a summary of the book twilight by stephanie meyer?

Question

what did you think of it?should i get it?

Answer 1

Softly he brushed my cheek, then held my face between his marble hands. 'Be very still,' he whispered, as if I wasn't already frozen. Slowly, never moving his eyes from mine, he leaned toward me. Then abruptly, but very gently, he rested his cold cheek against the hollow at the base of my throat."

As Shakespeare knew, love burns high when thwarted by obstacles. In Twilight, an exquisite fantasy by Stephenie Meyer, readers discover a pair of lovers who are supremely star-crossed. Bella adores beautiful Edward, and he returns her love. But Edward is having a hard time controlling the blood lust she arouses in him, because--he's a vampire. At any moment, the intensity of their passion could drive him to kill her, and he agonizes over the danger. But, Bella would rather be dead than part from Edward, so she risks her life to stay near him, and the novel burns with the erotic tension of their dangerous and necessarily chaste relationship.

Meyer has achieved quite a feat by making this scenario completely human and believable. She begins with a familiar YA premise (the new kid in school), and lulls us into thinking this will be just another realistic young adult novel. Bella has come to the small town of Forks on the gloomy Olympic Peninsula to be with her father. At school, she wonders about a group of five remarkably beautiful teens, who sit together in the cafeteria but never eat. As she grows to know, and then love, Edward, she learns their secret. They are all rescued vampires, part of a family headed by saintly Carlisle, who has inspired them to renounce human prey. For Edward's sake they welcome Bella, but when a roving group of tracker vampires fixates on her, the family is drawn into a desperate pursuit to protect the fragile human in their midst. The precision and delicacy of Meyer's writing lifts this wonderful novel beyond the limitations of the horror genre to a place among the best of YA fiction. (Ages 12 and up) --Patty Campbell

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I read it this year and I liked it, but didn't love it. I am probably in the minority, though. Everyone that I know who has read it loves it.

Answer 2

Summary 1

You may think that your world is full of dangerous monsters, but thay only means that you haven't yet met the wonderously normal Bella. In this novel directed from Bella's point of view, everything seems overly average. From the moment she arrives in the dreary town of Forks, where it rains constantly and the sun shines on rare occasions, she has to deal with a father who doesn't hover over her while she tries to mope peacefully to her first day at school. At Forks High School, things get... busy. She is immediately the center of attention and everyone already knows her name (due to her father's excitement no doubt). In a mix between unluckily and dangerous, Edward, our mysterious-yet creepy friend, comes into play. Bella's first day at school goes from bad to worst when she gets the empty seat next to the ravenous vampire...

Summary 2

Bella Swan, aged 17, moves from Phoenix to Forks, not far from Seattle, known only for being the wettest town in the US.

The movement from dry to wet is a fair summary of a book that works hard to establish credible characters with a sharp edge and then loses them in a damp undergrowth of occult concerns about vampires, werewolves and other figures that generally look better in tattoos than in fiction.

Bella moves to Forks because her mother has a new bloke. Her dad, Charlie, a respected member of the Forks constabulary, buys her a truck to get to school, where she meets the weird Edward Cullen. Edward has dark eyes, secret powers and knows stuff.

His origins are shrouded in mystery. He has never let anyone sit beside him before but tolerates Bella. He can see into Bella's soul. He can smell her blood.

Naturally, he has to be a vampire. There's at least one in every school.

Sounds exciting. I would read it if I were you.