Ahhh, the poor man’s Harry Potter.

This would be a sufficent way to describe this book. This is one of those books that you look around and you’ve read 300 pages and wonder why it took that long to explain. Let’s start from the beginning shall we?

Bella Swan moves from Phoenix to Forks, Washington (one of the rainiest places in the U.S.) to live with her father. Immediately she hates it and and hates all the people she meets (even though they are being nice to her and basically worshipping the ground she walks on. Bella even gets a few suitors). That is, until she meets Edward. Trust me you’ll hear a lot about this guy. How smoldering his copper eyes are, how he has a body that every male model would envy. Geez, I mean I think we got it the first few times, thanks. They end up falling for each other, but the thing is, he’s a vampire. Yeah, and so is the rest of family. He can read people’s minds but not Bella’s. The thing is, throughout the whole series, Stephenie Meyer NEVER explains why he can’t, so don’t be counting on THAT explaination anytime soon. Also, he is very strongly attracted to the scent of Bella’s blood. So much so that it’s almost hurting him to not to feed on her.

 Bella is oddly unpreturbed by this and falls head over heels in love with this guy within weeks of knowing him. Edward is a bit hesistant because he’s not sure if he can control his urge to kill her.