Twilight: Book Review: by Nick Manzo

I chose to read the book called Twilight by Stephenie Meyer. I chose this book because the description was very interesting to me. The description said that there is a young girl who moved from Phoenix, Arizona to Forks, Washington and found a guy she really had a crush on. What happens is that it turns out that the guy is a vampire. I thought to myself that this is going to be a fun book to read.

The story of the book is narrated by a young girl, a junior in high school, called Isabella Swan. The book starts out when Bella is flying from her mom’s place in Phoenix, Arizona to her dad’s house in Forks, Washington. Immediately she dislikes the place because it’s always cloudy and rainy without any sun. The next day she begins her new school year in Forks and finds some people to hang out with. As she entered her Biology class she found her first crush, his name is Edward Cullen. She was so nervous that she had no idea on what to do to talk to him. Then on one fateful day, the roads were all icy and the school parking lot was covered in it. As Bella just stepped out of her truck, Taylor was sliding all over the place and was about to hit her. Then all of a sudden Edward comes out of nowhere and steps in front of the car and they were both hit. Bella’s head was slammed hard against the street, but somehow Edward wasn’t and he left dents in the car. When Bella woke up she was in the hospital. When she was finally released from the hospital she talked to Edward, but it wasn’t for thanking she was angry. Then they both started to talk a little but not much until one day Bella was with her friends and she got separated from the group. Strange men were following her and one point she was almost taken when Edward showed up. He arrived just in time and took her away. They went to dinner and secrets were revealed from both of them. Then they started to see each other more and more often to where the both decided to date. Edward thought it would be nice for Bella to see his vampire family. But these vampires were different. Instead of killing humans they drank the blood of animals like deer and they also have sixth sense ability’s like to be able to read minds, see future and change someone’s mood. One night when the family was playing a special game of baseball, a new set of vampires arrived. They tried to hide Bella but one of the new arrival vampires was a tracker. This meant that he could follow Bella’s sent and kill her. Edward couldn’t live with this so he sent her and two of his family members to Phoenix to hide. But something happened that no one saw, the tracker had a new plan to capture Bella and get her alone.

I personally enjoyed this book very much. I could never put it down. The author was very good at describing situations and I could relate to almost every one of them. They story was played out very well with all the characters. The only thing that I disliked in the book was that she often described how perfect Edward looked, but other than that there is nothing to dislike. I have bought the sequels to the book and will read them to continue the story.