Book Review: The Twilight Saga by Stephanie Meyer
We give it: ***
The scene? Forks. The rainiest place in America according to Isabella Marie Swan (sorry, I mean Bella!) who is the main character in this thrilling saga that has become the newest four-book addiction to book lovers around the world - including myself!
When Bella first moves to Forks to live with her father, Charlie, to give her mother, the air-head Renee, and her new boyfriend, Phil some space, she absolutely hates it and misses the blistering heat of Phoenix. Despite this, she is determined to stick it out until she finishes high-school and then: goodbye, Forks!
Or at least, that's what she thinks she's going to do until she first sees heart-throb Edward Cullen and his perfect family in the school cafeteria on her first day. Unfortunately, she finds out in her first biology lesson that Edward Cullen despises her one thousand times more than she despises Forks (and for those of you who don't know, that's a lot of hate...)! For absolutely no reason that she can see! Oh, dear...
Determined to find out what's really going on, Bella starts to unpick the web of lies and cover-ups that that the Cullen family has woven around itself one strand at a time and what she finds out is beyond belief and way beyond the rational world! But she has unintentionally fallen in love with Edward so there is no way she's going to back down! Of course, things get all the more complicated when her best friend, Jacob Black, gets involved with his own potentially dangerous secret, forming a love triangle that could drive her insane...
Determined to find out what's really going on, Bella starts to unpick the web of lies and cover-ups that that the Cullen family has woven around itself one strand at a time and what she finds out is beyond belief and way beyond the rational world! But she has unintentionally fallen in love with Edward so there is no way she's going to back down! Of course, things get all the more complicated when her best friend, Jacob Black, gets involved with his own potentially dangerous secret, forming a love triangle that could drive her insane...The story is riveting and will have you on the edge of your of your seat until you've gone way beyond the point where your eyes get sore and your hands start to ache! It's made personal as you can really see into the mind of Bella and truly discover her thought process and sympathise with her. My only criticisms? Bella is way too vulnerable for my liking- I would have much preferred her to be a little bit less breakable and the end of the saga was a bit of a let-down as it left a lot of unanswered questions.
Overall though? It's a must read!
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