Reviewed by Ezra
Little Brown, 2005, 498pp., MAP, June 2, 2008
Have you ever wondered what it would be like to go to school with a vampire, let alone meeting one? Our main character does. Bella Swan, a plain but lovely girl, moves to a city called Forks, Washington. This shy young woman despises the alien green trees that line the dull streets. Then, on Bella's first day at Forks High School, she falls in love with a reserved, classy gentleman named Edward Cullen. After a while of Bella seeing Edward, she discovers that Edward is, in fact, a dangerous but beautiful vampire, who only drinks animal blood, and not human blood.
Edward then takes Bella to see him and his family play an interesting game of baseball which perhaps not surprisingly, holds more excitement than she expected; A stranger, a vampire, with a thirst for human blood, comes to join the game, but is instantly enticed by Bella's extraordinarily sweet-smelling blood pulsing through her veins rapidly, like fire. That is when the suspenseful hunt for that deliciously appetizing blood begins. I greatly enjoyed Meyer's smooth writing style and found the characters to seem surprisingly real. I highly recommend this vampiric novel, would be appealing to almost anyone. Especially to Middle School kids and High School kids.
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