Twilight, New Moon, Eclipse and Breaking dawn - 4 books with celestial reference turned me into a "lunatic" while digesting page after page after page. You can picture me like that: reading and laughing. Why laughing you may wonder, due to that this book is about vampires and werewolves (or better shape-shifters). What can be funny in that? Well, Stephenie Meyer made it funny by descriptions and dialogs. I'm now more sure then before that I'm a huge fan of Jacob Black's character (and also of Taylor Lautner). He surely has the most hilarious lines in the entire book. He reacts naturally as a normal kid would do. He has his personal charm.
My first impression when reading this book was that it's a story told from a women's perspective. A romance the way we women imagine that men think (when Edward Cullen's thoughts are described). Is that kind of a spiritual sufferance that only a woman will be capable of but seen in a man body (well, a vampire). Is a little malicious to think like that but we have to admit that at list once in our lives we've wished for men to suffer from love as much as we do. The problem is that I personally don't understand men and I think I will never will as much as I struggle to pierce their minds. Is surely to much to say that they are all the same but I don't understand why they act one way or another. I must confess I like to stay in a corner and study people just to understand them better.
Going back to our plot, writing from a woman or a man's perspective, I may add that even though a man will be capable to write a beautiful love story where the male character is capable of noble love feelings, that author will write like that only because he knows that women will buy his book and that's what they search for: romance at its extremes. Romance that in real life is quite Utopian or rarely seen. In real life it lasts less then the one in a novel. In a novel, love is usually like ... forever.
In Twilight saga love will last forever because if you have the patience, and believe me you will, in the 4Th book, Breaking Dawn, Bella becomes a vampire herself.
Briefly, in Twilight , as you all must already know, we meet Edward Cullen the very good looking young vampire (he's only 90 years old but he looks like an 17 years old one) and his beloved family: Dr. Carlisle Cullen, his wife Esme, Edward's brothers and sisters: Alice, Jasper, Rosalie and Emmet. They don't drink human blood and try to integrate themselves in human society. One important thing is that Alice and Edward are gifted with seeing the future and mind reading. Queer is that Edward can read anyone's mind except Bella's and that makes her more interesting in his eyes from the very beginning (except the appealing smell of her blood). Then we meet Bella Swan, the young teenager from Phoenix coming to Forks Washington to live with her dad, Charlie, the police authority in town.
When strange things happen, the two of them meet and Bella falls in love with Edward. He actually saves her from death several times. Should I mention that she was a very clumsy person and quite a magnet for danger? You'll convince yourself reading the book. She discovers that he is a vampire due to a discussion with Jacob Black, the young Indian boy in La Push reservation. He warns her that the group she's meeting is dangerous but is too late. While playing in the clearing with Edward's family, Bella witnessed a meeting with another group of vampires, the hunters (James, Victoria and Laurent). And so she becomes the hunted. She's a victim of James but Edward manage to save her. Jame's partner Victoria prepare her revenge.
And so we come to the second book, New Moon, when Edward Cullen, scared by that his presence puts Bella in danger, decides to leave her. After months of mourning and looking like a zombie among the living ones, Bella finds comfort and understanding making good friends with Jacob Black. Amazing or not, turns that Jake is a werewolf, growing fast and developing soon an incredible power. He helps her in the most difficult moments to overpass her depression after Edward left her. She has some moments of rebellion or insanity, as some of you may call them, when she decides to run on a motorbike and to jump from a cliff in the sea. That last moment made Alice think she was dead. But Jacob saved her in the last moment. As if Bella's adventure with supernatural wasn't enough, she soon fiends out in what situation Edward got into. He acts like a suicidal vampire after Rosalie told him that Bella died. He gets to Volturia, Italy and Alice and Bella come to save him from the Volturi, the ancient vampires that rules their world.
In the third book, Eclipse, the menacing Victoria, James' partner, menace Bella and wants revenge. That's why she builds and army of newborn vampires to destroy Edward and his family. The action in this book is moving back and forward this menacing battle on the horizon and Bella's inner battle between her love for Edward and her love for Jacob. And of course the competition between the two. That's an interesting book to read girls.
The last book, Breaking dawn, is told from Bella and Jacob's perspective. Bella marries Edward and even got pregnant with him taking everyone by surprise. The baby growing inside her is half human, half vampire, and it develops quickly. In just one month Bella gives birth to a beautiful baby girl - Renesmee. Bella dies but Edward saves her turning her into a vampire. Then the action of this last book concentrates on Bella's life as a newborn and the great battle between the Volturis and the Cullnes. Lots of action and adrenaline. I think is better for you to read it by yourself just to find out what imprinting is and what's Jake's role in this book.
I can't tell you how curious I am to see New Moon the movie this November.
Enjoy your reading!
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