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This is a tome, first of all. Stephenie Meyers sets a good hook, and then keeps her readers turning page after page after page. She puts out a good, if unlikely, story line. The setting is the little town of Forks on the Olympic Peninsula of Washington state. It almost always rains there. 17 year old Bella Swan left Phoenix and her mother to go live with her father, the town’s police chief, for the last year of high school.
She meets the Cullen family on her first day in the cafeteria–5 impossibly beautiful people with identically pale faces with purple circles under their eyes. They keep to themselves. She ends up as Edward Cullen’s lab partner in Biology II. He reacts as though her smell offends him when she takes the only seat available in class. We learn later that the opposite is true–her smell drives him crazy. Edward saves her on her second day at school when Tyler skids into her truck on the icy parking lot. There is something inhuman about his intervention that others have missed. He tells her she really should stay away from him while at the same time becoming her shadow.
In the sixth chapter, she joins an outing to the beach at La Push. 15 year old Jacob tells her stories of his own Quileute people becoming wolves and the treaty they made with the cold ones. He specifically tells her the Cullens are the same ones his ancestors dealt with. He doesn’t really believe this himself, though; he is flirting with her. She absorbs this information, does some research on vampires, and concludes it’s already too late for her. She’s in love with a vampire.
I found Bella to be annoying. She careens from one impulsive action to the next. She has some unknown qualities at this point. She feels responsible for her parents, superior to her mother, and believes herself capable of stopping the tracker vampire James. She ends up nearly dead when the tracker gets her through her own arrogance. The Cullens save her just in time by destroying James. Edward exercises amaz
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