twilight and new moon together
What is your favorite book?
I started this series just after the 2nd book was released, thankfully. So I was able to read twilight and new moon together, which I will say for someone like me with no memory, was helpful and made it more enjoyable. By the time breaking dawn was released, I had a vague memory of the story, but knew I had absolutely loved it despite not remembering much... so there was no way I wouldn't read breaking dawn. The whole series follows Bella, a human teenager who falls in love with Edward, a 80 or so year old vampire. It twists and turns and each book is fantastic as a stand alone or read together with the other 3. With this final installment in the twilight saga, you get all the things Stephenie Meyer has promised and more with Eclipse.Without reading too many reviews beforehand I got the feeling that this book might suck. It seemed a good amount of the reviews were going at this book with a wrecking ball, and I was a little scared to read it because I didn't want to be disappointed in the series as a whole, especially how it ends. But my mom convinced me that it was amazing, so I bought it. I had gotten her started on the twilight series and she read this a month or so before me. Honestly I didn't want to read it as soon as it came out because I don't want it to end. This is the first series in a longtime that I really love and feel invested in.I won't review the story because I would never want to ruin the excitment and discovery for anyone. Thats why nothing is covered in the dust jacket, or on the amazon page(unless you start reading reviews, then you're screwed...and you're reading this...so apparently you've already started reading them.)BUT! I will say --- at times this book was shocking. I freaked out on people that had no idea what the story is about or why I was so nuts over it. I was desperately asking aquaintances  "Have you read twilight!?". I just needed someone to share my thoughts with to be honest. I'm in my 20s, but I was completed consumed by the story. So anyway, at times it was more farfetched then I had expected. Now that the first movie is being released, I had a hard time figuring out how they would do this 4th book realistically without being weird, campy, or just plain not translating on screen. So good luck to them in advance.But once you get over some of the major hurdles, it was amazing. I was stunned and in awe the entire way thru. About 200 pages from the end, I stopped for a day or two,because I was so sad/scared to finish it, knowing this is probably the end as far as Bella's perspective. I still to this day would love more Bella/Edward, as I find even their everyday life facinating. Hopefully someday she'll write more about all or any of the Cullens(Alice and Esme being favorites of mine.) This book gave you more of the Cullen family, which I know a good amount of people really enjoy.For those people who said this book is ridiculous, or picked on various aspects -- you're ridiculous!(though, as I failed to say before, everyone is entiled to their opinions, which is why reviews are so helpful). This is a BOOK, a STORY, something to be enjoyed. A good amount of people pick apartm this book because they don't like the message its sending to teens or kids about something whether it be marriage, or age, or children, etc etc. I really think this book rocks! It's fantasy mixied with reality, and in my opinion, ends the 'saga' in the perfect place. I hope to see more from Stephenie Meyer. (PS: 'the host'(by meyer) which I thought would be too sci-fi for me, was really good too!) 