![]() ![]() Bella has come to the small town of Forks on the gloomy Olympic Peninsula to be with her father. She begins with a familiar YA premise (the new kid in school), and lulls us into thinking this will be just another realistic young adult novel. Meyer has achieved quite a feat by making this scenario completely human and believable. But, Bella would rather be dead than part from Edward, so she risks her life to stay near him, and the novel burns with the erotic tension of their dangerous and necessarily chaste relationship. ![]() At any moment, the intensity of their passion could drive him to kill her, and he agonizes over the danger. But Edward is having a hard time controlling the blood lust she arouses in him, because-he's a vampire. Bella adores beautiful Edward, and he returns her love. In Twilight, an exquisite fantasy by Stephenie Meyer, readers discover a pair of lovers who are supremely star-crossed. Then abruptly, but very gently, he rested his cold cheek against the hollow at the base of my throat."Īs Shakespeare knew, love burns high when thwarted by obstacles. Slowly, never moving his eyes from mine, he leaned toward me. ![]() 'Be very still,' he whispered, as if I wasn't already frozen. "Softly he brushed my cheek, then held my face between his marble hands. ![]()
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