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.
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.
"Before you my life was like a moonless night. Very dark, but there were stars - points of light & reason.
And then you shot across my sky like a meteor. Suddenly everything was on fire, there was brilliancy, there was beauty.
When you where gone, when the meteor had fallen over the horizon, everything went black."
These are just a few lines from the novel Twilight. Bet this line thrilled you, does it? Twilight is a great novel. I've read it myself so trust me, and come to think of it, I really fell in love with the story.
Confirmed Cast:
Isabella Swan --- Kristen Stewart
Edward Cullen --- Robert Pattinson
Carlisle Cullen. --- Peter Facinelli
Esme Cullen --- Elizabeth Reaser
Alice Cullen --- Ashley Greene
Emmett Cullen --- Kellan Lutz
Rosalie Hale --- Nikki Reed
Jasper Hale --- Jackson Rathbone
Jessica Stanley --- Anna Kendrick
Mike Newton --- Michael Welch
Eric Yorkie --- Justin Chon
James --- Cam Gigandet
Victoria --- Rachel Lefevre
Charlie Swan --- Billy Burke
Jacob Black --- Taylor Lautner
Laurent --- Edi Gathegi
Renee --- Sarah Clark
Angela --- Christian Serratos
Tyler --- Gregory Tyree Boyce
Directed by:
Catherine Hardwick
(Thirteen, Lords of Dogtown)
Screenplay by:
Melissa Rosenberg
(Dexter, The OC, Birds of Prey)
