Taylor+Catterson's+Twilight+Book+Review

Twilight is an exciting, fast paced romance novel that will capture your attention and hearts without a doubt. It is about a teenager, Isabella (Bella) Swan, who moves in with her father, Charlie Swan, after her mother remarries. Her step dad plays baseball for a living and travels a lot, so Bella’s mother rarely sees him because she‘s forced to stay home with Bella. Bella took it upon herself to sacrifice her happiness for her mother’s and move to the tiny, and always overcast, town of Forks located on the Olympic Peninsula. But on her first day at her new school, she notices a rather odd family. Every one of them is inhumanly beautiful and extremely pale. They are the Cullens, Emmett the largest most muscular Senior, Alice, the pixie like Junior and Edward, the most boyish of the boys, also a Junior, and the Hale Twins, Jasper, the male model type Senior and his twin sister Rosalie, the most beautiful young woman with golden locks also a Senior. Later in the day as Bella enters biology class, she finds that she will be paired up with Edward Cullen. She attempts to make friendly advances towards Edward but he is cold and cruel towards her, ignoring her with the exception of the few incredibly hostile glares he sends her way throughout the class. Bella is curious why through the rest of the day every time he sees her he gives her vicious glares, but she decides to ignore him and pretend she doesn’t notice his furious glances. But, after a few days of Edward’s absences, she becomes almost obsessed with him, curious as to why he was so angry even though he’d never met her. Eventually Edward returns to school and becomes friendly towards her, as if he wanted to be her friend. Not long after though, one morning before school, Bella stood, as normal, in the school parking lot, by her truck, when out of nowhere came the squealing sounds of brakes and a van driven by a fellow schoolmate came towards her certainly about to crush her, when from across the parking lot, Edward Cullen, stops the car with his bear hands leaving a dent in the car from bracing himself against it, but he was unharmed, without even a scratch on him. After a visit to the hospital to make sure she hadn’t suffered a concussion, Bella questions Edward but e refuses to answer her questions, but Bella does not discuss the odd event with anyone else, her peers didn’t witness his daring rescue or notice the dent in the shape of his body in the van, so keeping her secret is not difficult. Edward returns to ignoring her existence as if Bella didn’t exist. But not long after Edward is once again drawn to Bella and seeks her out as a friend, warning her though that for her safety they shouldn’t be friends, but she dismisses the thought because she is beginning to become fascinated and enthralled with Edward Cullen. During this time of serenity between Edward and Bella, Bella makes friend with one Mike Newton who invites her, along with other peers, to the beach for a weekend outing. There Bella reunites with an old family friend Jacob Black, who tells her an old Quuillayute Native American folk tale about how the Cullens were ‘The Cold Ones’, vampires. Bella becomes obsessed with finding the truth and begins to research the possibility of Edward indeed being a vampire, and decides to find out as soon as she next sees him to confirm her theory. But for the next few blissfully sunny days, a rare thing in Forks Washington, the rainiest place in the U.S, Edward misses school and Bella can not confirm her theory because all of the Cullens are absent. One afternoon Bella and a couple of friend go to the nearby city of Port Angeles to go shopping for the upcoming dance, though Bella is not going because she and Edward made plant to go to Seattle. After shopping Bella goes off alone to try and find a decent bookstore, but ends up in a shady neighborhood and before long is being followed by a group of dangerous looking men. As they close in on her from both sides, from out of nowhere comes a silver Volvo, Edward Cullen’s silver Volvo and Edward once again saves Bella’s life. After saving her and taking her to a restaurant promising to drive her home after they run into Bella’s friends, they talk and Bella finally gets Edward to admit he is truly a vampire, and not only that, but he can also read minds, all except for Bella’s for some unknown reason. He also assures her he and his family, unlike most vampires, live on animal blood instead of human blood. Bella and Edward become and unofficial couple spending blissful days with eachother and meeting one and other’s family and admit their love for eachother. A few weeks of blissful happiness last, but the serenity is soon interrupted by a group of vampires traveling through the area. But one of them is a tracker, a vampire who find prey and will either kill them or die trying, and this tracker, James, sets his sights on Bella. But the Cullen family wants Bella to live for Edward’s sake, and will do anything to protect her. So Alice and Jasper, two of Edward’s ‘siblings’ (though neither were made by the head of the Cullen family, Carlisle, who made Edward, his wife Esme, Rosalie and Emmett all into vampires) take Bella to her hometown Pheonix Arizona to attempt to hide her from James while Edward, Emmett and Carlisle distract James up in Northern Washington. But James soon finds Bella and kidnaps her mother in order to lure Bella to the ballet studio by her old home where he intends to kill her. The very same day James told Bella to come to the ballet studio, Edward was coming to Phoenix to be with Bella. But at the airport Bella gets away and heads towards the ballet studio. As soon as she arrives though, she realizes James hadn’t kidnapped her mother, but used and old home video to make it sound like her mother was calling her name. James also reveals that Alice, who found the Cullen clan and had no memory of her life before waking up being a vampire, was a girl he had set his sights on but an older vampire who watched over Alice at an insane Asylum she had lived in wanted to protect her so he turned her into a vampire. James starts to make a video of him torturing Bella, and bites her, but once again, Edward saves the day with Carlisle’s help, sucks the venom from Bella’s blood, and though she had many injuries, all in all, ends up safe and they go back to Forks to live there happily as a teenage couple with Bella attempting to convince Edward to turn her into a fellow vampire. This book has quickly become my favorite book I have ever written with its dramatic yet relatable detail to its timeless romance. I cold not set it down for even a moment I was so absorbed in the story and right after I read it I ordered the second and third installment of the Twilight saga, a series that has entertained millions and never disappointed a soul. From is perfect characters, to well developed plot to its nearly ideal settings, this book was outstanding!