Breaking Dawn – Stephanie Meyer Wednesday, Nov 12 2008 

5 stars and books and fiction , Humaira 11:04 am

Bella gets married to Edward in this final saga of the Twilight series. And with the marriage comes complications, mainly between her and Jacob as Jacob cannot accept that Bella over him. I won’t give away the rest of the book, but it’s probably the best one in the series.

What I liked was Bella actually grew a spine in this book and became the kind of character that was worthy of Edward. Edward is amazing as usual and Jacob becomes much more mature in this book.

I loved the other characters as well, Alice, Rosalee (Who surprises everyone in this book), Jasper, Emmett, Esme and especially Carlisle.

They all make this book work. I literally couldn’t put it down and finished this monstrous book in 2 days. Not since Deathly Hallows have I been this excited about a book!

Well worth slogging through the Twilight series just for the end, and this book especially. Meyer becomes much more confident as a writer and gives her characters some interesting twists and turns. Although, I wish she’d cut a lot of this book and gotten on with it as it sometimes dragged a little.

Overall, 5 out of 5!

Breaking Dawn (Twilight Saga)

 

Eclipse – Stephanie Meyer Friday, Oct 31 2008 

4 stars and books and fiction , , Humaira 7:49 pm

This is the third in the Twilight series.

Edward and Bella are back together, but this means that Bella can no longer be friends with Jacob. Bella tries her hardest to get Jacob back to being friends with her, but he’s too angry with Edward’s return and Bella’s decision to become a vampire after graduation.

There is also the threat of someone who is making new born vampires in Seattle which are killing lots of people. Edward and his family try to keep Bella safe, but evidently it comes down to a fight. Edward and Jacob must now work together to stop the newborn vampires and keep Bella safe.

Bella is less annoying in this book, but not by much. Edward is amazing as usual and you kind of see into his head a little more now their relationship is more established. He really cares for Bella, even asking her to marry him before he’ll change her into a vampire, which she refuses to do. I found this incredibly sweet and though I understood Bella’s reasons for refusing him, think she’s nuts.

Another strand is the differences between Edward and Jacob. Even Bella herself acknowledges, that Jacob can give her a much more normal life, but her heart is with Edward. Jacob is deeply in love with Bella and can’t let go. To the point I wanted to smack him as well for not realising sooner how much Bella loves Edward which is why she can’t let him go.

We also see a little of the Volturi, but not the the scale that we saw them in the last book. They took their sweet time getting there and though I was scared for Bella should they come, I was also glad that they hadn’t forgotten her promise from the last book.

In all, I enjoyed this MUCH more than New Moon and Meyer is growing into her role as the keeper of Edward and Bella’s story.

4 out of 5 stars.

 

New Moon – Stephanie Meyer Monday, Oct 13 2008 

3 stars and books and fiction , Humaira 9:51 am

New Moon continues where Twilight left off. Bella is celebrating her 18th birthday, something she adamantly refuses to do as she doesn’t want to be older than Edward. An incident at her party scares Edward so badly that he and his family leave Forks suddenly leaving Bella heartbroken. As Bella comes out of her depression, she starts to become friends with Jacob Black and he helps her to heal again. But will Jacob’s secret destroy the friendship they share?

I have to say I actually hated this book, I slogged through it because I’m intrigued enough by the whole series to read this.

I think Stephanie Meyer said Twilight was about finding true love and New Moon was about losing true love.

I just don’t like Bella as a character. I think she’s vapid and has an obsessive personality as well as suicidal tendencies but I’m fascinated by Edward, which makes the book a little more tolerable. But not by much.

Most of the book is about Bella’s depression when Edward leaves her and breaks her heart. It only gets interesting near the end of the book, but the slog is worth it for those last few chapters.

3 out of 5 stars.

New Moon (Twilight Saga)

 

Twilight – Stephanie Meyer Monday, Oct 13 2008 

5 stars and books and fiction and horror , Humaira 9:51 am

Bella Swan is a 17 year old girl who moves to Forks, Washington to live with her father. She is noticed by all the boys at the local high school, all but the mysterious Edward Cullen who strangely despises her. But after he saves her from a life threatening accident, Bella is determined to find out more about the mysterious boy she’s attracted to and his strange family.

What she discovers is that Edward is a vampire, who lives with his adopted family. Slowly Edward and Bella fall in love until a rival vampire group hunt Bella and put those she loves in mortal danger. Can she love a vampire and keep herself and her family safe?

Twilight was something I discovered when my friends were fangirling over the latest book by Stephanie Meyer, the last of the Twilight series – Breaking Dawn.

So, I thought I’d give it a go and was pleasantly surprised. Edward and Bella’s story is fascinating and even more so because Meyer twists the vampire myth on its head and creates some new variations on common attributes of vampires. Such as these vampires can and do walk in the day, except in bright sunlight when they glow.

I didn’t like Bella as a character because I thought she was selfish and annoying, but I grew to love Edward and was fascinated by the Cullen family which is what kept me reading.

Overall, a fantastic book and a great start to the series!

5 out of 5 Stars.

Twilight (Twilight Saga)