I've put off reading this book for a long while. Finally, I decided I had to see what all the hype was about and found it to be an easy and fun read.
It is about a girl named Bella who moves from Arizona to Washington to live with her father. She's not too happy about this but wants her mom to be able to travel with her new boyfriend without feeling guilty. The town she moves to is Forks. It is a small, dismal, rainy town where not much happens. Bella starts school and makes friends easily enough. Her eye spies another group of students who sit by themselves in the cafeteria. She is at once mesmerised by their grace and beauty. After some time she ends up getting to know one of the kids at lunch whose name is Edward. From there her world turns upside down and Forks turns out to be not such a bad place.
All in all I liked this story. I can see why it would appeal to teenage girls. As for me, I'm an adult and it stilled caught me up in it. Why 4 stars instead of 5? The middle was a bit too slow. I was really into the book at first but about half way through I started wondering if this whole book was just a romantic tale. The same sort of thing kept happening between Bella & Edward. I thought that with vampires you'd have a little more "scare" appeal to it. Finally, it happens and things set off a little faster for me. I really enjoyed it then. I will be looking forward to reading the rest of the series.
It is about a girl named Bella who moves from Arizona to Washington to live with her father. She's not too happy about this but wants her mom to be able to travel with her new boyfriend without feeling guilty. The town she moves to is Forks. It is a small, dismal, rainy town where not much happens. Bella starts school and makes friends easily enough. Her eye spies another group of students who sit by themselves in the cafeteria. She is at once mesmerised by their grace and beauty. After some time she ends up getting to know one of the kids at lunch whose name is Edward. From there her world turns upside down and Forks turns out to be not such a bad place.
All in all I liked this story. I can see why it would appeal to teenage girls. As for me, I'm an adult and it stilled caught me up in it. Why 4 stars instead of 5? The middle was a bit too slow. I was really into the book at first but about half way through I started wondering if this whole book was just a romantic tale. The same sort of thing kept happening between Bella & Edward. I thought that with vampires you'd have a little more "scare" appeal to it. Finally, it happens and things set off a little faster for me. I really enjoyed it then. I will be looking forward to reading the rest of the series.
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