When Isabella Swan moves to the gloomy town of Forks and meets the mysterious, alluring Edward Cullen, her life takes a thrilling and terrifying tu...
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Jan 17, 2011
Rebekah
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Anyone familiar with graphic novels knows they don't take long to read. I read it three times within the given time period. It's only volume one, through the meadow scene. I don't know if the rest of the story wasn't finished in time for publishing, or if more than one volume was planned. I can't wait to have the rest.
The illustrations are beautifully rendered and so representative of the written descriptions. Color is used sparingly, and enhances the scene or feeling. The writte More...
The illustrations are beautifully rendered and so representative of the written descriptions. Color is used sparingly, and enhances the scene or feeling. The writte More...
Aug 18, 2010
Maddie
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I was really excited when I learned about the existence of this book because it combines two of my favorite guilty pleasures: Asian graphic novels and Twilight. I have yet to find any artist's rendition of the story (whether it be in film or a drawing) that captures the vivid images I had in my head when I first read the book, but this is a very beautiful version. I really enjoyed the art, although Edward doesn't look right most of the time to me--more like a 50s letterman athlete type or someth
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Oct 24, 2011
Tally
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I'll start by saying that I'm not a big fan of graphic novels, and particularly not of that style used here, but Young Kim has simply won me over. This book is wonderfully constructed, from the breathtaking illustrations to their incorcopation with "real" landscapes - the Swan residence, the hospital, the meadow - I thought it was really well done. My only complaint would probably be the lack of color, but I understand the purpose behind it, and it is more effective to have only glimps
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Oct 25, 2011
"Querido templario: Si la suerte del destino ha querido que cayeras en estas palabras, antes de seguir debes saber que la siguiente crítica habla de una historia archiconocida y adaptada a mil formatos diferentes. Primero fue la novela, esgrimida por la pluma de una señora estadounidense llamada Stephenie Meyer, que ni por asomo imaginaba la bomba de relojería que estaba creando; después fue una horda de fans alrededor del mundo, que esperaba cada nuevo libro de la serie como agua de mayo
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Jan 26, 2011
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I want to start out by saying I’m Team Jacob. And even drawn, he’s more handsome than Edward. If you have a problem with this, you can click your mouse elsewhere. Shoo, shoo, Edward lovers!
You probably wouldn’t be picking up the “Twilight” graphic novel unless you already read the book or at least seen the movie, so why pretend? This is a fabulously done edit of the text, but as with all graphic novels, it flies by quickly. Volume 1 begins the story of Bella and Edward, long before the More...
You probably wouldn’t be picking up the “Twilight” graphic novel unless you already read the book or at least seen the movie, so why pretend? This is a fabulously done edit of the text, but as with all graphic novels, it flies by quickly. Volume 1 begins the story of Bella and Edward, long before the More...
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Jan 05, 2012
Kimberly
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The Twilight Graphic Novel has beautiful artwork. I really liked how the characters in drawn in this graphic novel, too.
I've been eyeing this book for a while, but everytime I picked it up, I put it right back down.
Reason One: It was a very costly book. $20 is a lot to be spending on a graphic novel.
And I guess there is no reason two...
But this year for Christmas I received a gift card and I finally gave in. So, I bought it.
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I've been eyeing this book for a while, but everytime I picked it up, I put it right back down.
Reason One: It was a very costly book. $20 is a lot to be spending on a graphic novel.
And I guess there is no reason two...
But this year for Christmas I received a gift card and I finally gave in. So, I bought it.
And I wa More...
Dec 11, 2011
Dena
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Summary: These volumes represent a portion of the Twilight series where Bella, a teenage girl, meets Edward, a vampire, when she moves to Washington. While these two illustrated volumes do not cover the entirety of the series, they do provide enough text and dialogue to provide the reader with the basic plot and main characters.
Personal Reaction: I have to begin by saying I’m not a fan of the Twilight series, but I did find these works easier to swallow than the novels. I was a little More...
Personal Reaction: I have to begin by saying I’m not a fan of the Twilight series, but I did find these works easier to swallow than the novels. I was a little More...
Dec 08, 2011
Sarah
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This graphic novel reminded me of why I first loved Twilight when I read it back in high school. Over the years, negative criticism had gradually worn down my opinion of the novel. It is popular to hate Twilight. Yet in discussing the book with friends, I had mixed feelings, because I never saw the book as bad or the plot as sappy, yet people around me tore it down at every turn. And so I was hesitant, yet hopeful, when I finally chose to read the graphic novel.
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Nov 25, 2011
Lena
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This book was recommended to me by my friend, a huge Twilight fan. She knows my love of comics and my like of the Twilight series so she let me borrow her books.
Twilight the Graphic Novel Vol 1 is an Anime style graphic novel. I've never read Anime before so seeing characters with such big eyes, strange arms, and crazy hair was a little unusual. But it was also fun. The emotions weren't expressed thru the face as much as through little lines or big lines on the sides, and big or small More...
Twilight the Graphic Novel Vol 1 is an Anime style graphic novel. I've never read Anime before so seeing characters with such big eyes, strange arms, and crazy hair was a little unusual. But it was also fun. The emotions weren't expressed thru the face as much as through little lines or big lines on the sides, and big or small More...
Nov 11, 2011
Ruby
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I was not a big fan of Twilight and only recently have have become a fan of graphic novels, but the combination of the two in Twilight The Graphic Novel really worked well. The drawings in this book are of high quality and the composition is beautiful and detailed. The drawings gave me plenty of information to help develop the setting and the characters throughout the story, with help from the dialogue bubbles of course. I think one of the reasons I liked the graphic novel is because the drawing
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Nov 11, 2011
Najentel
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Bella is a teenager who decides to move to Forks, WA to live with her dad after her mom remarries. She expects to be miserable in the gloomy small town and at first that is exactly how she feels. The weather is horrible most of the time, there isn’t much to do, and there is a gorgeous and very mysterious guy who seems to dislike her for no apparent reason. Things do begin to brighten as she makes some new friends, but her world really begins to change when she realizes that she More...
Bella is a teenager who decides to move to Forks, WA to live with her dad after her mom remarries. She expects to be miserable in the gloomy small town and at first that is exactly how she feels. The weather is horrible most of the time, there isn’t much to do, and there is a gorgeous and very mysterious guy who seems to dislike her for no apparent reason. Things do begin to brighten as she makes some new friends, but her world really begins to change when she realizes that she More...
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Nov 07, 2011
Narmitha
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This book was amazing and was a pleasure to read. Basically it's what happened in the Twilight saga book but in the form of graphic.
A girl named Isabella (Bella) Marie Swan decieded that she wanted to live with her dad. So she leaves her mom and sunny (75 degress) Phoenix for her dad in for the town of Forks. Things go well for Bella. She meets new friends at ehr new school and ftis in to her school. She then meets a wonderful, astonishing man who is her age (or she thinks). After More...
A girl named Isabella (Bella) Marie Swan decieded that she wanted to live with her dad. So she leaves her mom and sunny (75 degress) Phoenix for her dad in for the town of Forks. Things go well for Bella. She meets new friends at ehr new school and ftis in to her school. She then meets a wonderful, astonishing man who is her age (or she thinks). After More...
Nov 05, 2011
Lori
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Bella Swan leaves Arizona with her mother to the dreary town of Forks, WA with her father Charlie. When she goes to her new school she seems to catch the eye a mysterious boy by the name of Edward Cullens. Their first encounter does not go the way Bella had expected with Edward storming out of the classroom. Later as time goes by she comes to find out that Edward has feelings for her, but he seems to be fighting them for some reason. However, they seem to have a connection More...
Bella Swan leaves Arizona with her mother to the dreary town of Forks, WA with her father Charlie. When she goes to her new school she seems to catch the eye a mysterious boy by the name of Edward Cullens. Their first encounter does not go the way Bella had expected with Edward storming out of the classroom. Later as time goes by she comes to find out that Edward has feelings for her, but he seems to be fighting them for some reason. However, they seem to have a connection More...
Oct 23, 2011
Kelly
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It is really hard to get into the characters and their motivations and such in a graphic novel, but I think students will love this version of Twilight as much as the original version. The artist's idea of how the main characters look is pretty good, as they are all handsome and beautiful in the book (and in the movie) and now, in the graphic novel. I thought Jacob was handsomer in the graphic novel, though. The graphics in Volume one were most in black white and gray shades. It gave a very
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Oct 20, 2011
Katherine
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Bella Swan moves from a sunny life in Pheonix with her mom, and in with her dad, Charlie. Her new damp and cloudy home in Forks means a new school and having to get along with new people. This did not take long for Bella and she soon had a group of classmates to sit with at lunch. As she gazed around the the cafeteria her eys caught sight of a group sitting at a table not too far away. She was perplexed at the beuty that shone from their pale skin, especualy that of Edward Cullen. Bella's thau
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Sep 18, 2011
Bookworm
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Despite being one of those people, (guys) who hate Twilight because of its associated feminism (and ugliness of that white vampire dude Edward), the graphic novel was WAYYY better than the film or the book for that matter.
Yes, the graphic novel was better.
I didn't really, wasn't really INTO the film when I watched it. It was watchable. I did it for my girlfriend too, haha. No harm there.
But this graphic novel, art-wise, which was 'arted' by Young Kim, was great, alt More...
Yes, the graphic novel was better.
I didn't really, wasn't really INTO the film when I watched it. It was watchable. I did it for my girlfriend too, haha. No harm there.
But this graphic novel, art-wise, which was 'arted' by Young Kim, was great, alt More...
Aug 11, 2011
Andrea
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OH. MY. GOD. When I first read the Twilight series, I adored it. I was blinded by the intense love and devotion that are what teenage fantasies are made of. So blinded that I didn't even notice the sub-par writing, lack of plot and, and the Mary Sue protagonist with absolutely no redeeming qualities. Bella is referred to as a heroine, but what type of heroine is she? WHO did she save? Herself. She didn't save the general public from anything (that she didn't bring on herself).
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Aug 07, 2011
Marina
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I am actually very impressed by this book. I was a little heisitant about picking up this book, because I usually find that if a movie becomes a comic book it doesn't do the story justice. I thought that the first half of Twilight really came out in this book. The story was very simply written and even though it didn't have every single detail in it, it did a pretty good job following the story line.
I was extremly impressed by the art in this book. Young Kim, did just an amazing job, More...
I was extremly impressed by the art in this book. Young Kim, did just an amazing job, More...
Jul 26, 2011
Justin
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No... he didn't?
Oh, yes he did!
That's right, I fucking read Twilight or, at least, the graphic novel adaptation. You may be asking yourself, “Why? Why would you do this?” Even if you're not, I'm going to answer that question, so you might as well take a moment and ask. Go ahead, I'll wait.
Elementary, whatever your name is! I write a blog criticizing abuses of the comic book medium and the Twilight: the Graphic Novel easily falls within that category.
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Oh, yes he did!
That's right, I fucking read Twilight or, at least, the graphic novel adaptation. You may be asking yourself, “Why? Why would you do this?” Even if you're not, I'm going to answer that question, so you might as well take a moment and ask. Go ahead, I'll wait.
Elementary, whatever your name is! I write a blog criticizing abuses of the comic book medium and the Twilight: the Graphic Novel easily falls within that category.
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Jul 24, 2011
Ta§chima
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I don't think this book needs a full on review, but I'll give you my two cents. As far as adaptations go this one nailed it. It shows you the scenes and dialogue that really matters while cutting most of the prolonged boring crap. Success!
I loved the art. It's basically the sole reason I bought this book. I mean I already read the entire Twilight series so the main draw of this book is to see it in a new platform. All I got to say is More...
I don't think this book needs a full on review, but I'll give you my two cents. As far as adaptations go this one nailed it. It shows you the scenes and dialogue that really matters while cutting most of the prolonged boring crap. Success!
I loved the art. It's basically the sole reason I bought this book. I mean I already read the entire Twilight series so the main draw of this book is to see it in a new platform. All I got to say is More...
Jul 08, 2011
Isabell
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I love Manga, and I love Twilight, and I expected their marriage to be blissful and easy, but I ended up being disappointed.
The Manga art looks cheaply done to me. Some of the pictures are emotionally evocative and striking in their gray-scale simplicity. But quite a few are not interpretative enough to be called art. I also didn't get why the backgrounds were photographs....
The text is well edited, although I can't imagine that a person unfamiliar with the story could u More...
The Manga art looks cheaply done to me. Some of the pictures are emotionally evocative and striking in their gray-scale simplicity. But quite a few are not interpretative enough to be called art. I also didn't get why the backgrounds were photographs....
The text is well edited, although I can't imagine that a person unfamiliar with the story could u More...
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Apr 30, 2011
Ea
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For the record: I don't like "Twilight." At all. But I decided to give "Twilight: The Graphic Novel, Volume 1" a fair shot at impressing me, especially since it's rendered into manhwa/manga-style artwork and a pared-down narrative. The artwork is sumptuous, elegant and all-around lovely, but the story is dragged down by the rather stuffy internal monologue.
Everybody knows the drill -- a girl from Phoenix named Bella Swan "exiles" herself to the rainy over More...
Everybody knows the drill -- a girl from Phoenix named Bella Swan "exiles" herself to the rainy over More...
Apr 23, 2011
Karen (EarthAngel2911)
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This is only my second attempt at a graphic novel and I'm still not convinced that they qualify as real books. Of course, if you've read Twilight the novel, you know the story already. And of course, graphic novels use illustrations to convey the little details that it takes pages of words to do the same. But for me, I prefer to build the images in my mind rather than see them on a page.
And it's the little things, really. Why didn't they illustrate Bella's hair as brown instead o More...
And it's the little things, really. Why didn't they illustrate Bella's hair as brown instead o More...
Mar 06, 2011
Lisa
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Reading "Twilight: The Graphic Novel" reminds me of why I liked Twilight in the first place -- back before it was a pop culture phenomenon, with screaming fans, multi-million dollar movie grosses, a celebrity author, and such a crazy focus on its stars. Way back when, when I first read Twilight, it was just a good book. Not the best writing, grammatically speaking, but a great concept, interesting characters, and a plot that just sucked me in. I know Hollywood and the publishing indust
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Jan 05, 2011
BeguileThySorrow...
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As a fan of the Twilight books, I was both excited and anxious when I heard a graphic novel interpretation was being made. Excited because I love graphic novels. Anxious because I don't like manga. I've had tons of friends suggest manga they thought I'd love or that they said was just so good I had to read it but in the end the verdict was the same: manga is not for me. I have nothing against it, I just personally don't really care for it. A lot of times it looks messy & cluttered. That being sa
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Jan 02, 2011
Vina
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Wah.. buku ini begitu booming nya sampe dibuat manga segala.. Pertama kali liat buku ini agak penasaran juga, kalo twilight di buat manga kayak apa sih jadinya? Cuman bener2 gak niat beli, karna kurang suka aja dengan cover, apalagi liat harganya yang lebih mahal dari novel-novel biasa.. :) tadi sore pas liat2 buku di Karisma, nemu buku ini udah kebuka.. Hehehe.. Karna penasaran, iseng2 deh baca ditempat.. Kalo menurut aku, lumayan deh manga nya. Better than the book.. Alurnya nggak bertele-tele
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Dec 27, 2010
Kei
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I've always been interested in graphic novels but never got around to reading any of them for many reasons that range from not having any recommendations to questioning the writing qualities and reading experience. I have read the entire Twilight Saga Novels and simply enjoyed the books overall for the genuine quality of each tale (and, okay...I love LOVE) especially when it starts fresh from a first-time perspective. Therefore, it made complete sense for me to begin my graphic novel experience
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Dec 23, 2010
melydia
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I am curious if the Twilight frenzy will continue long enough for there to be a volume 2. But that's neither here nor there. This is Twilight from the beginning to the first kiss. Since there is art to go along with the dialog, the reader is saved from Bella's endless, repetitive inner monologue, and thus we never have to endure constant reminders of Edward's marble icy granite skin. Which is much appreciated, but also makes the story move so quickly that the blossoming love is even less bel
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Dec 12, 2010
Suzanne
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Dec 02, 2010
Alysa
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my review from here:http://everead.blogspot.com/2010/04/twilight-graphic-novel-vol-1.html
I did the anticipation dance for this one. You know what I mean; I got really excited for it, then I thought to myself, "I'm too excited. It will never live up to my expectations. It's actually going to stink." And back to excitement again. Repeat, D.S. al Coda, etc.
Well. It was AWESOME. I loved it. Now of course I can only speak for myself, and I really like the book, too. More...
I did the anticipation dance for this one. You know what I mean; I got really excited for it, then I thought to myself, "I'm too excited. It will never live up to my expectations. It's actually going to stink." And back to excitement again. Repeat, D.S. al Coda, etc.
Well. It was AWESOME. I loved it. Now of course I can only speak for myself, and I really like the book, too. More...
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