Book Review: Twilight

By Stephenie Meyer

2 Stars

Stephenie Meyer’s Twilight is about the seventeen-year-old Isabella Swan. When her mother remarries and decides to go travelling, Bella agrees to leave the vigorous, sprawling city of Phoenix for the damp, miserable town of Forks. It is too green, too damp, and too rainy - for her, it is an alien planet. She is the new girl in a school of three hundred and fifty-seven kids, outed for being the Chief of Police’s flighty ex-wife’s daughter, and on the first day of school, she sticks out like a sore thumb. The only ones who do not stare at her are the mysterious Cullen siblings, all taken except for the handsome Edward Cullen. 

Mrs. Meyer’s world of the supernatural is thrilling, romantic, and full of delights. Each sentence will incite you to turn to the next page and will make you hang onto each word. You can empathize with Bella’s struggles of moving into an unfamiliar and strange town. More importantly, the romance is almost palpable as you experience Edward’s strange hatred toward Bella, as well as the love and panic. However, Twilight is not a realistic story, normalizing and romanticizing obsessive and even stalking behaviour and portraying romance as a one-hit success, with the beginning, middle, and end full of mad and unending love. It is not a good story for teenage girls to fantasize and delude themselves with. As much as many people love Twilight, I do not think that it is a novel that I would recommend to anyone. 

Reviewed by Ayesha 

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