Amazon.com Review:
"Softly he brushed my cheek, then held my face between his marble hands. 'Be very still,' he whispered, as if I wasn't already frozen. Slowly, never moving his eyes from mine, he leaned toward me. Then abruptly, but very gently, he rested his cold cheek against the hollow at the base of my throat."

As Shakespeare knew, love burns high when thwarted by obstacles. In Twilight, an exquisite fantasy by Stephenie Meyer, readers discover a pair of lovers who are supremely star-crossed. Bella adores beautiful Edward, and he returns her love. But Edward is having a hard time controlling the blood lust she arouses in him, because--he's a vampire. At any moment, the intensity of their passion could drive him to kill her, and he agonizes over the danger. 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.

Meyer has achieved quite a feat by making this scenario completely human and believable. 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. Bella has come to the small town of Forks on the gloomy Olympic Peninsula to be with her father. At school, she wonders about a group of five remarkably beautiful teens, who sit together in the cafeteria but never eat. As she grows to know, and then love, Edward, she learns their secret. They are all rescued vampires, part of a family headed by saintly Carlisle, who has inspired them to renounce human prey. For Edward's sake they welcome Bella, but when a roving group of tracker vampires fixates on her, the family is drawn into a desperate pursuit to protect the fragile human in their midst. The precision and delicacy of Meyer's writing lifts this wonderful novel beyond the limitations of the horror genre to a place among the best of YA fiction. (Ages 12 and up) --Patty Campbell

I kind of understand what the fuss is about :) I really liked this first book of the series and had to order the rest as well. I will keep them in my personal collection, at least for now.

The book or the movie has never really interested me but when no one seemed to want this at the meet-up I decided to give it a chance.

I was so sceptical about this but after a while the love story took over me. I definitely want to read the rest three books. I'm just wondering that since it was the romance between Bella and Edward that I loved so much, will there be enough of those hot scenes to keep me interested in the future books.

I'll put this to the travel library on my work place.

Edit 9.11.2009:
No one was interested at my work place. Don't policemen and women appreciate vampire romantics? Little do they know. Oh well, I'm finishing Breaking Dawn, the last book in the saga and I'm absolutely in love. This goes to my permanent collection at least for a while. And yes, there is plenty of hot and steamy scenes along the way ;)

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