Bella, although often cliché, has very relatable moments. Even though at times Edward is extremely patronizing and just plain annoying, his love for Bella is sweet and pure. All of the characters have both likable and unlikable traits. It has the vampires, the moody, attractive, overprotective love interest, the “I’m not like others girls” main character, as well as the frustrating love triangle. It’s the perfect young-adult, supernatural romance read. The writing style of the book is almost addictive, drawing every reader in. When I first read Twilight at about 12 years old, I was absolutely obsessed. For a certain (younger) age group, the book appears romantic, with phrases such as “I was unconditionally and irrevocably in love with him.” and “…so the lion fell in love with the lamb.” But, as I have grown older, the book has become creepy and off-putting. Against Edward’s better judgment, he ends up falling for Bella, as Bella does for him. The pair spend most of the novel either falling in love, risking their lives, or fighting with each other. In fact, Bella seems to like the fact that Edward is a vampire. Luckily for him, she doesn’t seem to mind. Soon after, Bella discovers that Edward is a vampire. After a bit of back and forth, awkward tension, and some arguments, Bella and Edward become friends and eventually start dating. Unfortunately for her, she draws the attention of the gorgeous man, who just so happens to have a thirst for blood – her blood. Upon starting at a new, seemingly boring high school, Bella meets the beautiful, mystifying Edward Cullen. The story begins with Bella moving away from her mother to a rainy town in Washington to live with her father. Even though Edward is in the body of a seventeen year old, mentally, he is one-hundred-four, creating a maturity and power imbalance within the relationship and bringing up quite a few…red flags among the readers. The book chronicles the “epic love” between seventeen year old teenager Bella Swan, and one-hundred-and-four year old vampire Edward Cullen (age is just a number!). Twilight is undeniably one of the most popular romance novels of all time. Written by Stephenie Meyer, Twilight quickly became a cultural phenomenon, captivating readers with its resurgence of the vampire/human romance trope. When the first book of the Twilight saga was released on October 5, 2005, teenagers and adults alike ran to their nearest Barnes & Noble to purchase the new book that was seemingly taking over the world. “That’s the beautiful thing about being human: Things change.” In fact it is the few days of real summer-the two or three in each "summer" term-that he remembers in accordance with memory's happy scheme, in which it is the fittest that survive.Madison Donenfeld, Literature Review Editor But who remembers all these things in after years? The man of fifty hears Oxford mentioned, and there comes back to him at once a place where old grey buildings throw shadows across shaven lawns where the young green of the chestnut makes a brilliant splash of colour above the college garden wall where cool bright waters wind beneath ancient willows, and it is good to bask in flannels in a punt. Heaven knows the place is often enough shrouded in cold, wet mist: for weeks together the streets are muddy beyond all other streets: at the beginning of each term (save that one by courtesy called "summer") the chemists' shops are (or used to be) filled with rows of bottles of quinine, to enable the poor undergraduate to struggle against a depressing climate. In all the memories, let us say of a garden in which we played as children, the says are hot and bright, the flowers always blooming. “Most people are conscious of the fact that in looking back upon their past lives, especially upon the days of their childhood, it is the sunshine that abides with them and not the shadow.
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