If you haven't heard of this series by now, you might be living under a rock. People are comparing this to the Harry Potter craze. I had so many people recommend this series to me that I just had to read it. When I first started Twilight by Stephanie Meyer, I thought I was going to become obsessed and finish it over the weekend. But to be honest with you I just couldn't get in to it for the first half of the book. It was the story of this high school girl, Bella Swan, who moves to a small town in the Northwest called Forks to live with her dad. She slips easily into high school life there and meets Edward Cullen. He is beautiful, dazzling, and kind of weird at first. Of course you should know this by now- he is a vampire. All the guys are crazy about Bella at her new school, so I'm guessing she probably isn't so bad herself. But for the first 300 pages or so it was just this little high school story. I think the turning point for me was the baseball game. After that chapter, things started moving really fast and I got into it. For those last few chapters I could almost get the Harry Potter comparisons. It was exciting and you had to use your imagination to visualize what was going on. But Harry Potter this is not. It is a good book and I will read the others in the series: New Moon, Eclipse, and Breaking Dawn. I will also see the movie. But I'm not jumping right in and reading all four books overnight. I'm going to take an Edward/Bella break for now, but I will come back for more.
I give this book 3.5 out of 5 stars.
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I had a similar reaction to you with Twilight, it was slow getting started. I was not expecting to like it at all and I was surprised that I did. But if I didn't have a friend obsessed with the series I probably wouldn't have read any others. Now I've just finished the third book, Eclipse, and I could barely put it down!
haha i would have reversed your star things w/ the twilight series. as in i would have giving twilight a 5 out of 5 and breakdawn a 3.5/5 well, i'd be generous and give it a 4 probably haha.
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