Twilight (novel)

Twilight Imagine if you fall in love with a vampire, it will have deadly consequences. Published: October 5, 2005 Pages 498 (Hardcover) 544 (Paperback) Next Book: New Moon

Twilight (stylized as twilight) is a 2005 young adult vampire-romance novel by American author Stephanie Meyer. It is the first book in the Twilight series and introduces seventeen-year-old Isabella "Bella" Swan, who moves from Phoenix, Arizona to Forks, Washington. She is endangered after falling in love with Edward Cullen, a vampire. Additional novels in the series are New Moon, Eclipse, and Breaking Dawn. In 2015, a gender-bent version, known as Life and Death, was released for the book's tenth anniversary. In 2020, a prequel that focuses on Edward's perspective, called Midnight Sun, released after years of development hell.

Bad Qualities

1. It ruined the established and famous vampire lore by demystifying vampires.
   • For that matter, it would have turned the vampire lore into a dead horse if it weren't for the novel.
2. The main characters are flat:
   • Edward has no personality, no interests, and no goals besides Bella.
   • Isabella Swan is basically a self-insert of the author and has no clear personality other than clumsiness and obsessing over Edward.
3. Vampires and supernatural elements are just a pretext and are really underexploited. The book might as well have been a "classic" romance at this point, as there are too many plotlines with a horrible resolution.
4. Author Stephanie Meyer tells us things she never shows. For example, she says Bella is smart, but you never see Bella reading a book (besides things like Romeo and Juliet, but it only serves to give the relationship artificial depth), and to be frank, Bella is stupid. When being chased by people who want to rape her, she hides in a back alley street. She's supposed to be a voracious reader as well, but she never references the books she reads, which could have been interesting.
5. The books are sexist: Bella and Edward's relationship is abusive, impregnation is disgusting, pedophilic and sexist, and female werewolves and vampires can't have children for no reason.
6. It is supposed to be a young adult vampire-romance novel, yet over 80% of the chapters of the novel prove that it's a low dark fantasy-feel psychological horror novel masquerading as a love story.

Good Qualities

1. Rosalie, Jasper and Alice have cool backstories.
2. Bella is a good listener and offers good advice, which is one of the hidden depths of the novel.
3. The secondary characters such as Jacob Black and Leah Clearwater are underexploited and way more interesting than Edward and Bella.
4. It's admittedly somewhat superior to the movie.

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