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The Twilight Saga

(Twilight #1-4)

Stephenie Meyer,

Ilyana Kadushin (Narrator)

Karsten Kredel (Translator)

Sylke Hachmeister (Translator)

Matt Walters (Goodreads Author) (Narrator)

3.89 · Rating details · 102,398 ratings · 3,833 reviews

Stephenie Meyer holds you spellbound with her incredible "New York Times" bestselling Twilight Saga. Experience the entire series on audio with narrator Ilyana Kadushin and prepare to be amazed by the more than 60 hours of listening pleasure. "Twilight" (11 CDs):
When Isabella Swan moves to the gloomy town of Forks, Washington, and meets the mysterious, alluring Edward Cul ...more

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Published August 2nd 2008 by Listening Library (Audio) (first published 2005)

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Nov 25, 2011 Jared Vincent Lacaran rated it did not like it

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Aug 02, 2011 Anna rated it did not like it

Shelves: annoying-heroine, hate-it-hate-it-hate-it, 1-star, young-adult, eyeroll-facepalm-yeah-its-bad, why-did-i-read-this

You see that one little star? It’s there because I can’t give this series a 0 stars, if I could, I would.

So I’m finally reviewing The Twilight Saga. Ugh, honestly I’d rather not because I know this will make me even more angry about these books, but I had to say my opinion on them. So if I sound angry in this review…. It’s probably because I am.

So let’s get started, shall we?

First of all, I’d like to say that yes, I did love these books the first time I read them, 3 years ago, I was kind of a f ...more

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Jul 27, 2012 Nemo (The Moonlight Library) rated it liked it

Shelves: books-i-own, genre-paranormal, audience-young-adult, read-before-blog, publisher-5-hachette, want-to-re-read, they-made-a-movie

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In Twilight, Bella goes insane when her mother re-marries and ships her off to live with her absent father. In trying to cope with this, Bella imagines a world where she is the centre of attention from every boy in school, especially the hottest, most desirable Edward Cullen. But Edward isn’t just the most desirable guy, no: he’s also a vampire, and sheer coincidence, Bella’s blood sings to him. This should be a problem, because Edward’s supposed See this review and more on The Moonlight Library!

In Twilight, Bella goes insane when her mother re-marries and ships her off to live with her absent father. In trying to cope with this, Bella imagines a world where she is the centre of attention from every boy in school, especially the hottest, most desirable Edward Cullen. But Edward isn’t just the most desirable guy, no: he’s also a vampire, and sheer coincidence, Bella’s blood sings to him. This should be a problem, because Edward’s supposed to lose control when he comes near a blood singer like his brother Emmett did when he met his: however, Bella’s Edward is so inhumanly perfect that he never hurts her, and even ends up falling in love with her (proof that Bella is insane, because this does not make logical sense to us, the readers, but does to Bella’s poor fragile mind). When Bella realises nothing is really happening with her imagined relationship with some imagined angel-like vampire, she imagines another vampire decides he wants to randomly hunt her just because she’s human (and of course one of the ‘bad’ vampires comes to warn the Cullens of Bella’s danger, because even in Bella’s insanity, random people still care about her). This makes perfect sense in Bella’s mind: she’s never been the centre of attention when living with her mother, and with her father the Chief of Police, he just doesn’t have the time to give her the attention she needs. So she creates the perfect man to love her and protect her and needs her like her parents never wanted, and because she’s never had a boyfriend before, poor lonely soul.

In New Moon, Bella realises her perfect relationship is actually really boring and creates some drama by sending her perfect boyfriend away for her own protection. Or maybe, even in her insanity, she still thinks she’s not worthy so she sabotages her own relationship. She falls into a catatonic state of depression and can only be drawn out of it by the attention of another boy who, coincidentally, is a member of the werewolf pack made to protect humans from vampires. With a suitably heroic new love interest, Bella creates more drama in her insanity by deciding that Edward is going to kill himself over some kind of crossed-wires communication, and it gives her the opportunity to add a lot more drama and an international journey to revive her relationship with Edward. Now that Edward is safe, he tells her she was stupid to believe him when he said he didn’t love her anymore (which of course he does, because in Bella’s mind everyone loves her, even if she doesn’t notice). Now that Bella’s patched up her imaginary conflict with her imaginary lover, she can still create other attention-grabbing conflict by having Jacob still in love with her.

Coming to Eclipse, and Bella’s madness is only deepening. She’s obsessed with herself being the victim, so in some twisted way she imagines that the vampire from the first book’s girlfriend wants her dead, so that for some weird reason Edward would suffer the way the girlfriend vampire has suffered. This is complicated by the fact that Bella is perfect and everyone loves her, especially the vampire lover from the first book and the werewolf boy from the second book. Obviously she can’t have them fighting all the time because that’s OMG DRAMAZ and with the inevitable big fight coming up, she can’t really concentrate on her two boyfriends fighting over her. So in her crazy state of mind, the two boys who hate each other and are sworn enemies make a pact to defend her from the big bad vampire bitch queen – because of course, she’s so unbelievable special.

Breaking Dawn is Bella’s insane attempt at avoiding adulthood while gaining domestic perfection by becoming a wife and mother.
Bella, in her insanity, designs an impossible pregnancy to make her the centre of everyone’s attention. Her mother was never very maternal, so now here’s Bella’s chance to prove to everyone she’d make a better mother than her own mother. And of course she’s insane because apart from the agony of a baby growing to full term in a matter of weeks and breaking her bones and nearly killing her, she doesn’t experience any real motherhood – changing diapers, breastfeeding, teaching baby to talk and walk. But of course Bella seems to get it all in the end: eternally youthful, now immortally gorgeous, disgustingly rich with the most perfect angel-vampire husband and father to a daughter who sleeps at night (unlike her parents) and never makes a fuss or noise and quite frankly hardly needs any parenting at all. It’s Bella’s fantasy of motherhood played out just like she used to when she played with her dolls as a child.
And her reward for being the perfect devoted wife and mother? Immortality. And of course her poor little mind had to make a consideration for Jacob – she couldn’t possibly have Jacob leave her, because he’s her sun or something, and his imprint of the Loch Ness Monster makes him a part of her little cult family forever. ...more

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Mar 10, 2015 Kelly (and the Book Boar) rated it liked it · review of another edition

Shelves: own-it-spent-my-food-money-on-it, i-read-banned-books

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3.5 Stars

Reviewing The Twilight Saga is a nearly unwinnable battle. If you admit to enjoying it, you run the risk of being branded an idiot. Luckily I have loads of experience with people telling me I'm an idiot, so I'm cool with it.

Let me paint a picture for you and maybe you'll understand how this little series came to garner such a high rating from me. I read all four of the Twilight novels back-to-back (to back to back) over the co ...more

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Nov 01, 2010 Manny rated it it was ok · review of another edition

Shelves: children, mentions-twilight, science-fiction, trash, story-review

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- Okay, ah, this is a story we might be publishing as a book. It could be a movie too if things work out. It's about a teenage girl like you. Well, perhaps a bit older. Her parents are divorced. They don't have much time for her. All her mother is interested in is her feelings and her new boyfriend, and all her father is interested in is his job. She feels she needs to look after them most of the time. She's much more of a grown-up than they are. You're nodding! That's great.

- This girl worries about what's going to happen to the world. Those greedy, selfish adults seem to want to suck it dry of everything it's got. Sometimes she thinks they're like a bunch of vampires sucking out the world's blood. Sometimes she dreams that they'll suck out her blood too. Maybe she shouldn't read so many vampire books. I see you nodding again!

- Now I bet you already guessed that this is another vampire book. But they're a special kind of vampire. A technovampire. When they bite you, you turn into a... a sort of robot. Or maybe more like a beautiful living statue. I can see you frowning. You don't think it sounds very nice, do you? Well, we are having trouble with this part. Let me try it another way. Lots of women don't like the shape of their breasts. They'd like to have bigger, more attractive breasts, even if they are kind of hard to the touch. Maybe you've thought about getting a boob job? Aha! I knew it! Well, these technovampires have had a kind of boob job, but it's their whole bodies. Everything. Their whole bodies are cold and hard to the touch, but they look totally gorgeous. Okay?

- So, the girl in the story is pretty tired of looking after her dumb parents, and she knows the kids in her class are just a bunch of losers. Her only chance is to get in with the vampires and have them make her into a vampire too. So, there's all these twists and turns, but in the end she gets what she wants. There's this vampire guy who falls in love with her, and she becomes a vampire too. And they live happily ever after.

- Oh dear. You're shaking your head. You don't like it. You think it sounds horrible that she's going to abandon her family and her friends and become a cold, hard, bloodsucking vampire robot. But, look, she has to do it! It's her only chance. And she really does look totally hot once she's had the robot treatment. Okay, except that she's cold of course, you're right about that. Oh, and, I forgot to say that these other vampire robots become her new family. They're super-nice, uh, people. You still don't like it? Damn.

- Well, I can see we're going to have to tweak a few things. It still isn't quite what we want. No, no, don't say that! I tell you, we're closer than you think. Perhaps we just need to make it a bit more romantic.

- What? Of course we can. Why ever not?

- I know! The vampire robots sparkle in the sunlight. Now don't you immediately feel more positive about them? You do! Awesome.

- Okay, now thank you again for your time, and here's your $50. Oh, the pleasure's been all mine. You've been really helpful. And could you tell the next girl we're ready for her? Bye!
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Jun 11, 2018 Celeste rated it really liked it · review of another edition

Shelves: guilty-pleasures, comfort-reads, paranormal, romance, young-adult

Full review now posted!

Books are supposed to educate and enlighten and broaden the mind. They are supposed to help us understand ourselves and those who have nothing in common with us except our humanity. Books let us travel to distant lands, help us remember the past and envision the future, and they remind us to appreciate our present.

But dang it, they’re also here to entertain us. We don’t belittle television shows for amusing us and allowing us to escape from reality and forget out troubles Full review now posted!

Books are supposed to educate and enlighten and broaden the mind. They are supposed to help us understand ourselves and those who have nothing in common with us except our humanity. Books let us travel to distant lands, help us remember the past and envision the future, and they remind us to appreciate our present.

But dang it, they’re also here to entertain us. We don’t belittle television shows for amusing us and allowing us to escape from reality and forget out troubles of hour and half hour increments of time. While we can be music snobs, I think everyone can admit to singing along with catchy popular songs when you can’t escape them, even if we rolls our eyes while belting out the words. So why do we as readers label some books or series or entire genres of fiction as completely unworthy of our time? We call them trash because we see nothing of literary merit in them. But why does every book ever written have to hold some nebulous literary merit?

I deeply believe that reading should be fun, and that some books are meant to be that and only that: fun. There doesn’t have to be a life lesson or deep theme or social commentary. Yes, I believe that we should read books that contain those things as well, just as we should mix our sitcoms with news coverage and our boy bands with Bach and Beethoven. But there is nothing wrong with reading for fun and only fun, and we shouldn’t look down on those who read for fun and fun alone. And for those of us who try to read meaty literature with depth and a message and that “merit” we’re so proud of, we shouldn’t be embarrassed to take a break from that depth when we need to and consume something mindlessly addictive. Steak is great, but consuming too much red meat can give a person gout. Sometimes, you just need a big bowl of popcorn, right?

There are books that I consider “popcorn fiction.” These are books with no nutritional (literary) value, but they’re addictive and a pleasure to consume. They’re books (usually series) that are almost impossible to put down until you read the final page. The prose might not be the best, and there are generally eye-rolling plot devices sprinkled liberally throughout the book, but the characters are fun to read about even when they’re obnoxious and the plot is immersive and compelling. These are the soap operas of the fiction world, and sometimes they’re just exactly what you need to help you escape reality for a while.

I consider Twilight to be one of the ultimate popcorn series. I actually think of it more as sitting down with a five-pound bag of Lucky Charms marshmallows and just eating until you make yourself sick. These books have a bad reputation, and it’s at least partially earned. I’ve never met a main character more problematic than Bella Swan. She has no sense of self-preservation, she has a severe martyr complex, she has a horridly low opinion of herself, and she blames herself for literally everything, even those things over which she has absolutely no control. Her view of herself is quite possibly the worst I’ve ever come across. She has her strengths, of course. Bella is loyal and self-sacrificing and incredibly loving. She finds her true self and a core of strength she didn’t know existed in the final installment of the series. She even becomes a bit of a Mary Sue in terms of strength and gifts. But she absolutely should not be a role model for young girls.

Does that mean I don’t think said girls should be allowed to read the series? It does not. I think Twilight provides great fodder for discussions of self-worth and self-image when properly approached. If I was the mother of a tween or teenage girl, I would of course gauge their maturity level and provide a disclaimer before allowing her to read these, but allow it I would. My parents always let me read anything, just giving me warnings before I dug it. Because of those warnings, I knew what to be on the lookout for, and I was able to protect my mind while still thoroughly enjoying the story.

Twilight is full of things that usually would cause me to put a book down. I despise love triangles, but for some reason am completely entranced by Bella’s relationships with both Edward and Jacob. Both male characters also have their issues, but they’re super engaging to read about. I loathe Wuthering Heights and am not a fan of Romeo and Juliet, but Twilight echoes both and I still enjoy it. There’s something about this series that just lets me turn my brain off and revel in the ride.

I honestly can’t explain why I am so entertained by this series, but I am. This is my third time reading it, and it was still just as much fun as the first time. All I can say is that, when I’m in the mood for mental popcorn, this is one of my go to series, and it appears that it shall remain so.

A buddy (re)read with the ever lovely Mary!

For more of my reviews, as well as my own fiction and thoughts on life, check out my blog, Celestial Musings. ...more

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Nov 01, 2016 *TANYA* rated it it was amazing

Shelves: all-time-fav, series

ALL TIME FAVORITE SERIES EVER!!! No other compares!!!

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Jun 29, 2016 Rebecca McNutt rated it did not like it

Shelves: worst-books-ever, fantasy, romance, young-adult, vampire, paranormal, fiction

Uh, okay... normally I loathe profanity at the best of times, but in the case of The Twilight Saga, I have only two words that I'd like to say to it...

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These are the worst bunch of books I've ever read (they're almost as terrible as that godawful The Hunger Games series). Mind you, I'm sure that Twilight is really important and amazing to some readers. In my opinion though, it was just bizarre. I mean, c'mon, glittery vampire men that live in the trees and have their own weirdo vampire club? Is t ...more

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Mar 27, 2008 Crystal Stinger rated it it was amazing

This book was by far the best book i have ever read. Usually i dont find any interest in reading, but when i started Twilight i couldn't put it down. Ever since i read the Twilight series i've started reading on a regular basis. Even though i've read all the Twilight books i know that i will continue reading them over and over again and never get tired of them. I've told all of my friends about this book and they have read it and enjoyed it just as much as i did.

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Nov 26, 2016 Anuradha rated it did not like it · review of another edition

Shelves: burn-this-shit, chick-lit, contemporary-romance, drama-drama-drama, erotica, heroes-who-make-me-throw-up, horrible-people, i-weep-for-humanity, it-s-just-a-beast-under-your-bed, it-s-a-kind-of-magic

The final edition of Anuradha, Stop Using the Word Rebuttal. The previous four (yes, I wrote four more of this shit) parts of this ramble may be found in my reviews of Twilight, New Moon, Eclipse, and Breaking Dawn.

I repeat, I'm only posting this because I read this article. I'm literally only refuting the points mentioned in this, nothing else. I don't like comparison, but if the other party does it, be sure that I will respond.

REBUTTAL POINTS 41-46:

41. The HP books are all depressing. Lots ...more

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Mar 20, 2012 Penny rated it it was amazing

Shelves: y-read-young-adults-fantasy, favorites, reviewed, tv

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Apr 05, 2009 Elizabeth rated it it was ok

I feel like I'm being generous with my two stars. Writing? Overwrought. Plot? Sooo thin. Characters? Mostly unlikeable (or forgettable). Misogyny and patriarchy? Slathered on with a spackle knife. Thinly veiled hopes to compare her stories to "Romeo and Juliet" and "Wuthering Heights"? Meyer, c'mon. Mormon subtext? Go read storey321's review here: http://stoney321.livejournal.com/3171... because I will never top that.

However, after a really slow start, I tore through the last two. I guess Flanag ...more

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Jan 18, 2010 Hannah rated it did not like it

Recommends it for: Not a person in the world

Recommended to Hannah by: Many of my friends

Shelves: books-i-hate, romance, fantasy, series

These book are a shame to literature. One day, I can only hope and pray, this Saga will be laughed at in sheer disgust and mocked, and all who said that it was the "best and most romantic book ever" will be mocked as well. If your looking for gushy, teenager romance junk, than these are the books for you. If you want something truly romantic, characters that actually have personalities, and a plot that dousnt make you cringe and want to stab yourself, than don't even glance at these "books". It ...more

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Mar 04, 2012 Frances rated it it was ok · review of another edition

This review has been hidden because it contains spoilers. To view it, click here. I read this series once in order to keep up with pop culture and stay aware of what my students were reading. I recently reread it when my 11-year old stepdaughter expressed interest in the books.

My review is somewhat ambivalent. On the one hand, I was reasonably engrossed with the series despite its obvious simplicity and Stephanie Meyer's apparent ignorance regarding the difference between who and whom. The books include vampires, werewolves, baseball, La Push (one of my favorite places on th I read this series once in order to keep up with pop culture and stay aware of what my students were reading. I recently reread it when my 11-year old stepdaughter expressed interest in the books.

My review is somewhat ambivalent. On the one hand, I was reasonably engrossed with the series despite its obvious simplicity and Stephanie Meyer's apparent ignorance regarding the difference between who and whom. The books include vampires, werewolves, baseball, La Push (one of my favorite places on the planet), and enough erotic tension to get anyone in the mood. What's not to like?

On the other hand, the story itself could easily be read as a metaphor for conservative Mormon theology. Not only that, the idea of teenage girls accepting Bella and Edward as an acceptable relationship model is horrific. No, they do not practice unsafe sex. Instead, each person in this couple is so inflexibly "in love" with the other that they literally cannot exist without the other. Threats of self-immolation, self-hurt, and suicide abound in each other's absence. Edward is an overprotective, controlling, even physically harmful (because of his supernatural strength) partner at times (always remorseful, but never quite able to stop himself); Bella just keeps coming back for more (grimace). When they are apart, Bella LITERALLY falls down and can't get up. Meyers leaves blank pages for entire seasons in New Moon--periods of Edward's absence when Bella's depression is so rampant that her thoughts and actions are not worth recording. Bella is only able to be a person again with the help of another semi-paramour, Jacob. That's right, she needs the help of a good man to get her sad face off the ground.

Without blowing the ending for future readings, it's safe to say that all will be right in the world by the end of the series. Marriages will occur, babies will be born, and the happy domestic dream of a Mormon-inspired life will ensue--one in which the female is never able to achieve happiness or true self-realization on her own, but requires the assistance of a man in her life in order to fulfill it completely.

Sure, the series tantalizes the Daddy issues of millions of women, but here is the question with which I was faced: would you feel comfortable with your impressionable tween/teen daughter reading this particular paradigm of love and self-growth?

You can probably guess my answer. Two stars, Ms. Meyer. You get the second for holding my interest, but you should be mildly ashamed. ...more

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Mar 28, 2008 Hayley rated it it was amazing

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Apr 23, 2015 Jessica rated it it was amazing

Twilight (book 1) re-read. Still love it after ten years. Haters gonna hate.

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Mar 20, 2016 Xwirus rated it liked it · review of another edition

No se que nota ponerle a los 4 libros juntos, porque para mi el primer libro es aguantable, el segundo libro es asqueroso, el tercer libro esta muy bien y el cuarto libro esta muy bien hasta el final, el cual es una mierda.
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Personalmente yo si le tengo que recomendar a alguien que mire esta saga le diría lo siguiente, que lo mire multiplataforma de la siguiente manera: el primer libro léelo, luna nueva mira la película (o leerte el spoiler que puse en mi reseña, https://www.goodreads.com/review/s ...more

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May 08, 2013 Spuurrrnggeeee rated it did not like it

This shouldn't even be called a book. It is horrid. It should be illegal.
I'm not just saying this because it's a bad book (which it is) but because it's such a bad influence. The message of this book (given out by one putrid Bella Swan)is that a girl is useless without her boyfriend.
Honestly it's all Bella's fault, I mean when Edward leaves her she crawls up on the ground and is depressed for, like, half a year. She only gets better when she gets another man in her life, Jacob Black (canine shap This shouldn't even be called a book. It is horrid. It should be illegal.
I'm not just saying this because it's a bad book (which it is) but because it's such a bad influence. The message of this book (given out by one putrid Bella Swan)is that a girl is useless without her boyfriend.
Honestly it's all Bella's fault, I mean when Edward leaves her she crawls up on the ground and is depressed for, like, half a year. She only gets better when she gets another man in her life, Jacob Black (canine shapeshifter- Sirius Black's last name- anyone else seeing the connection?)
Not just that but she has so little self-worth she throws herself off cliffs just to see a vision of her ex. Get some persepctive!
That aside Bella has no will of her own and, when she moves in with her dad (who watches sport and has a gun) what is practically the first thing she does? Goes to the kitchen and starts cooking, I mean come on! Sexist much?
And have you noticed that almost all the women in Twilight don't go out and get a job, they just live off their men?
Bella is the single most annoying female character I have ever come across in any book I've ever read (with the possible expection of the hypocrite Rose Hathaway from Vampire Academy) and I've read a lot of books.
And as for Edward, well let me get started...
How on earth is it romantic when he's stalking her and WATCHING HER SLEEP FOR GOD'S SAKE? It's not sweet, it's messed up, call the freaking cops.
And later when he's a nice guy etc. and he's trying to encourage her to get a job she's all like "I want to stay with you" it just says that he's manipulated her and messed her up into thinking she can't live without him.
No to mention that if he's a hundred years old he could have actually done something with that time instead of going to high school a thousand times and seducing someone over eighty years his junior. Honestly!
I mean if she's going to risk her life dating someone who has the potential to see her as lunch then it doesn't say much about her sense of what's good for her.
Also how many freaking times does the authour need to tell us that he's "gorgeous" I got the picture after the first hundered times goddammit.
Another thing, why is everyone in that book in love with Bella? Seriously, what is there to love, is her chronic clumsiness supposed to be endearing, or he complete uselessness meant to be a good thing? What happened to strong female characters?
This book sends a really bad message to people, that it's alright for a girl to just cling onto her man.
That aside the story line is pretty much a rip off of Shakespeare's Romeo and Juliet and the supporting cast is so weak it isn't even funny. The only decent characters (Alice, Jasper, Emmet, Seth etc) are barely metioned and almost all the human characters at Bella's school are either one dimensional or plain unpleasant with no redeeming qualities.
I don't like the Jacob/Renesme pairing, it was just a lazy way to tie up loose ends, and Bella's whole "sheild" ability is lame too. I know it ties in with how Edward can't read her thoughts but personally i think that thats because there were no thoughts worth reading in the first place. She certainly doesn't have an individual thought within her head anyway.
As for the sparkling in the sunlight... where do I begin? Sparkling, hoenstly, just when you thought this book couldn't get any worse, Edward has to go ahead and sparkle. Not only does it hark back to something from a Barbie princess movie but it's like a very poetic irony to have a lack-lustre character start sparkling. That aside it's just sad when it comes to Edward because on anyone else it could have been mildly fabulous, but no, it just make Edward a complete sissy. As for it's too cloudy in Forks for him to sparkle properly, bitch please, if he sparkles in sunlight and not artificial light then it's the UV doing it, and UV doesn't care about how cloudy it is. He will sparkle in Forks just as much as anywhere else, if this book wasn't already irrealistic enough then this made me want to shoot someone.
In conclusion,this book was truly unholy (and this is coming from a La Vey Satanist) so yeah...
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Feb 26, 2010 Mojca rated it did not like it · review of another edition

Shelves: fiction, first-person-pov, paranormal-romance-fantasy, stephenie-meyer, vampires, shape-shifters, young-adult

Thanks to a bet (involving things I would rather not disclose) I had to read the entire Twilight Saga (all four books). I accomplished the feat in four days back to back (no DNF option). I already had the books on my TBR pile, but I kept finding excuses not to read them. And I was right to dawdle.

Instead of writing the review for each and every book in this "saga", I decided to put all my eggs in one basket, so to speak, and write only one review, listing only the three major gripes.

First: The f Thanks to a bet (involving things I would rather not disclose) I had to read the entire Twilight Saga (all four books). I accomplished the feat in four days back to back (no DNF option). I already had the books on my TBR pile, but I kept finding excuses not to read them. And I was right to dawdle.

Instead of writing the review for each and every book in this "saga", I decided to put all my eggs in one basket, so to speak, and write only one review, listing only the three major gripes.

First: The first person POV was tiresome, though I have to give kudos to the writer for the knack of portraying the convoluted, self-absorbed, manic-depressive, somewhat hysterical thoughts of a teenager. And that’s sarcasm if someone didn’t get it.
Second: The writing and style made the books hard to read. Too much crap, too many weeds in the field, if you catch my drift. Were the editors out for coffee?
And thanks to all the crap clogging the story and boosting the page count the whole thing was just too damn long. With a good edit you could cram everything up in one (albeit a little thick) book.
And third, and the biggest problem for me in these books, the YA take on the vampire lore. *shudder* I love paranormal romance, especially the books dealing with vampires. The creatures of the night are tall, dark, handsome, buff, sexy as hell, exuding eroticism through every pore, not a gangly, frail-looking teenager that glows in the sun and drinks animal blood. Vampires are supposed to drink human blood, burst into flame in sunlight and have lots and lots of sex (possibly while drinking blood from their partner and chosen one).
If I can’t have a yummy, hunky, sexy vampire sipping from his lover, what’s there to live for?

I think it says a lot that I liked the crappy movies better than the books on with they were based. Bella should’ve been sucked dry in the first couple of pages and Edward dismembered in the next couple.
I didn’t like these books, I don’t think the change in POV could’ve improved them, I don’t recommend them, I won’t re-read them, and I certainly will not make a bet like that ever, ever again. I do learn from my mistakes (sometimes). ...more

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Jan 14, 2012 Christine Wheeler rated it it was ok

Shelves: fantasy

I used to think these books sounded stupid and refused to read them, making fun of anyone who did. However, when my nineteen-year-old self got dumped a few years ago and I was looking for a distraction, I decided "you can't knock it till you try it, right?" I read the whole series front to back in 4 days (which speaks more to the lack of complexity of this series than it does to my reading abilities) and here's my verdict:

This series is about as entertaining as reading a twelve-year-old girl's d ...more

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Jul 24, 2016 Anusha Narasimhan rated it it was ok

So there is a Japanese manga adaptation of the series and I need it ASAP. I may not be a Twilight fan, but I am a fan of manga. Sometimes, I even read bad manga because it is fun. There is only a level up to which a bad story can annoy the reader. If it gets any worse, it becomes funny. I go pretty fast from, "What the heck am I reading. It's making me so irritated, I want to tear this book." to "LOL, the author actually thought this would work." I know this one is going to be hilarious.

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Apr 27, 2008 Stephanie rated it it was amazing

Recommends it for: everyone!

Recommended to Stephanie by: I searched for it on my own

Shelves: book-club-books

This review has been hidden because it contains spoilers. To view it, click here.

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May 22, 2008 Andie rated it it was amazing

OK all these books are good, but extremely frustrating at the same time.... He's like 150years old and has never had sex?!! Drives me crazy!! Just do it already!!! BY the end of the third one I'm so angry I can't see straight. The author does a really great job getting you to keep turning the pages, and just when you think there's gonna be awesome sex...None!! Oh the morals you can learn from this book. Maybe Bella wouldn't be so sad all the time if her cold, bloodsucking, boyfriend wasn't such ...more

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Dec 08, 2010 βҽϲκαӏίη rated it really liked it

really, really awesome series. who doesnt like Twilight?

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Apr 23, 2008 *lestrange* rated it it was amazing

TWILIGHT IS AWESOME!!!! GO TWILIGHT!!! Alice is soooo my favorite. Cant wait till the movie!!!!

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Oct 06, 2008 Marcia rated it it was amazing

I am going to clump all the books into one review even though I preferred the first and 3rd books to the other 2. I enjoyed Breaking Dawn until I read the reviews about how dissapointed everyone was with the book...saying it was too perfect. I heard in Utah there is a group of ladies who have thought less of their husbands after reading about Edward and how perfect he is...a gentleman and handsome etc. Please! He's a vampire. I thought Breaking Dawn ended just how I wanted it too. Yes, there wer ...more

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Dec 12, 2016 Gayatri, eine Leseratte rated it liked it

Shelves: series-i-have-read

The story is not worth much, though I must admit 5 years ago I was completely crazy about these books. Since I am not a fan of the triangle or whatever it was between Edward-Bella-Jacob, I always liked Alice, Emmett, Carlisle etc.
Even today, I do like some of the characters in the series and there are bunch of my hostel buddies with whom I bonded and became quite good friends because of these books/movies so yeah, this story will always have special place in my heart.
Hence, 3 stars! ;) Otherwi ...more

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Jul 25, 2014 Anu Priya rated it it was amazing

Shelves: fantasy

Amazing book collection.

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Jun 17, 2010 Someoneyouknow rated it did not like it · review of another edition

This review has been hidden because it contains spoilers. To view it, click here. I read these 4 books over the span of a year and a half, which goes to show that I wasn't very keen on them. I read the first one in spring 2008 because it was a bestseller and I was curious what the book was like and why it was so popular. The first 200 pages or so were pretty dull. I felt like there was very little action and too many dialogues. Then finally, the bad guys appeared and the pace quickened up and I actually found the book interesting from that part on.

The first book is not that I read these 4 books over the span of a year and a half, which goes to show that I wasn't very keen on them. I read the first one in spring 2008 because it was a bestseller and I was curious what the book was like and why it was so popular. The first 200 pages or so were pretty dull. I felt like there was very little action and too many dialogues. Then finally, the bad guys appeared and the pace quickened up and I actually found the book interesting from that part on.

The first book is not that bad, actually, the problem lies in the next ones where Bella's and Edward mutual obsession reaches ridiculous and completely unbelievable levels. What is it with Stephenie Meyer and her unhealthy fascination with perfection? Why does Edward have to be the ideal guy - unbelievably beautiful, a 100 % gentleman and a perfect match for Bella? Why do werewolves have to find their soulmate and imprint on them, no matter the age or the personality of that person? Why aren't the books more focused on things other than "the match made in heaven" or later on the love triangle? Why does the writer constantly underline that almost all characters are soulmates : Carlisle and his wife, Emmet and Rosalie, Jasper and Alice, Bella and Edward, Jacob and Renesmee (oh, they WILL live happily ever after together too, no doubt about that!), even James and Victoria must have been soulmates? Heck, even in harlequins the main characters aren't as obsessed with each other as B & E are! Seriously, Meyer's attempt to make a modern remake of "Romeo and Juliet" is horrifying!

But lets get back to the books. I happened to read "Eclipse" before "New Moon" in the e-book format and I was terribly bored! It should have been twice shorter. The love triangle wasn't exciting and didn't create real tension because of Bella's eternal commitment to Edward. It was more like constant repetition of :
Jacob : Bella, I love you. Leave your bloodsucker and we'll live happily ever after!
Bella : No, Jacob, you're just a friend to me! I could never leave Edward because he's oh so perfect and we're meant to spend eternity together.
Edward : Bella, I love you more than Romeo loved Juliet, so don't you dare go near her, Jacob!
The part of the plot that dealt with Victoria and the newborns also isn't worth attention. The bad guys were dealt with, Bella agreed to become Edward's wife, Jacob turned into a werewolf, ran away, end of the book.

I've noticed that a lot of people who were "Twilight" fans were very disappointed with the 4th book, so I decided to download it and see how it could get any worse. Also around that time I watched the 1st "Twilight" movie, liked it and decided to read the 2nd book to know what to expect from the next movie.
I can't say that the 4th book was obviously inferior to previous books, no, it simply continued the "we're a perfect couple and we're gonna live perfectly ever after" theme that is present in previous series installments: our ultimate couple gets married,they have a baby who makes them even more blissful, figure out their problems with Volturi (damn, I really hoped there would be an epic battle and many would get killed, but noooo, Meyer is a huge pacifist who allows even the evil Volturi leave unharmed!), the annoying love triangle is solved by Jacob's imprinting on Renesmee, everyone is ecstatic and their ecstasy will last forever.
A thing that really bugged me : did we really NEED those 100 pages of Jacob's narrative with Leah and what's-his-name J's buddy thrown in?!! Personally, I don't give a damn about werewolves!

Lets also give "New Moon" an "honorable" mention. I admit it, I am a fan of sad stories, but Bella's agony is just idiotically overblown and melodramatic (but I'm not surprised, seeing that this whole love story is one big hyperbole and there isn't a slightest hint of realism in it). Bella is a zombie for several months, but then Jacob rescues her from complete and utter despair and just like everyone else he falls in love with her, but no, he's just a friend to Bella, because no one can match her perfect Eddie! She does all kinds of dangerous things to hear her one true soulmate's voice, including jumping from the cliffs. Then she learns from Alice that her darling Eddie considers her to be dead and, being a Romeo wannabe, plans to end his life too. She races to Volterra and saves him in the last moment. They have a nice little chat with Volturi and happily go home.

No, really, what's not to love in this primitive cliched love story? It's a literature masterpiece, let's recommend it to everyone we know and create a "Twilight" fan club! ...more

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Jul 26, 2017 Elise (TheBookishActress) rated it liked it · review of another edition

Recommends it for: fans of uf bc it's... not that bad

Shelves: genre-series-books, genre-high-fantasy, 3-star, read-2015

Maybe I should rate this higher just because I enjoyed it?? I don't exactly recommend this book, but I have to admit, I found it weirdly compelling when I read it in sixth grade. I found it trashy even then, but I wasn't bored and I never wanted to stop reading. Why? I'm really not sure. It's just one of those questions that will never be answered.

WOW THIS SERIES IS REALLY FUCKING LONG??

IT'S TWO THOUSAND FIVE HUNDRED SIXTY FUCKING PAGES NOT EVEN INCLUDING THE DAMN NOVELLAS.

anyway I'm calling t ...more

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I was born in Connecticut in 1973, during a brief blip in my family's otherwise western U.S. existence. We were settled in Phoenix by the time I was four, and I think of myself as a native. The unusual spelling of my name was a gift from my father, Stephen (+ ie = me). Though I have had my name spelled wrong on pretty much everything my entire life long, I must admit that it makes it easier to Goo I was born in Connecticut in 1973, during a brief blip in my family's otherwise western U.S. existence. We were settled in Phoenix by the time I was four, and I think of myself as a native. The unusual spelling of my name was a gift from my father, Stephen (+ ie = me). Though I have had my name spelled wrong on pretty much everything my entire life long, I must admit that it makes it easier to Google myself now.

I filled the "Jan Brady" spot in my family--the second of three girls; however, unlike the Bradys, none of my three brothers are steps, and all of them are younger than all the girls. I went to high school in Scottsdale, Arizona, the kind of place where every fall a few girls would come back to school with new noses and there were Porsches in the student lot. (For the record, I have my original nose and never had a car until I was in my twenties.) I was awarded a National Merit Scholarship, and I used it to pay my way to Brigham Young University, in Provo, Utah. I majored in English but concentrated on literature rather than creative writing, mostly because I didn't consider reading books "work." (As long as I was going to be doing something anyway, I might as well get course credit for it, right?)

I met my husband, Pancho (his real name is Christiaan), when I was four, but we were never anywhere close to being childhood sweethearts; in fact, though we saw each other at least weekly through church activities, I can't recall a single instance when we so much as greeted each other with a friendly wave, let alone exchanged actual words. This may have been for the best, because when we did eventually get around to exchanging words, sixteen years after our first meeting, it only took nine months from the first "hello" to the wedding; of course, we were able to skip over a lot of the getting-to-know you parts. (Many of our conversations would go something like this: "This one time, when I was ten, I broke my hand at a party when--" "Yeah. I know what happened. I was there, remember?") We've been married for ten-and-a-half years now and have three beautiful, brilliant, wonderful boys who often remind me of chimpanzees on crack. I can't write without music, and my biggest muse is, ironically enough, the band Muse. My other favorite sources of inspiration are Linkin Park, My Chemical Romance, Coldplay, The All American Rejects, Travis, The Strokes, Brand New, U2, Kasabian, Jimmy Eat World, and Weezer, to mention a few. ...more