Stephenie Meyer books

* This is a work in progress...please forgive my tardiness towards 

writing about the books/drafts and the movies. *

This will be an ongoing page that will be constantly updated in the next week...month...year...depending on how long it takes me to write something about each of the books and the movies. Stay tuned for some critiquing at a very simple level.

Just so you know, I have read each of the 'Twilight' books (including 'Bree Tanner'), as well as what is available from Stephenie Meyer's page of 'Midnight Sun'. I have also read 'The Host'. I'll also include something on this page about 'Nightlight' by The Harvard Lampoon.

'Twilight'

In this book we meet our heroine, Bella Swan, who is at a semi-crossroad in her life. She is seen as unselfish, thoughtful and shy, putting the needs of her mother before herself - hence the reason she has decided to live with her father in a town she has never liked to visit. However, after the first day at her new school, Forks becomes an interesting place to reside - because of our hero, Edward Cullen. He intrigues her, especially after his behaviour during their class together where she has to sit next to him. When Bella finally puts two and two together, and Edward is able to be confronted on the issue of him being a vampire - something Bella isn't a hundred percent sure on how to go about - their relationship is finally able to begin.
Bella is constantly amazed and surprised by Edward wanting to be with her. Bella sees herself as not worthy of being noticed by him, let alone interesting enough to be his girlfriend. She realises, from what he says, that part of the attraction is her blood - it is what made his behaviour so odd on the first day. However, Edward is drawn to her by more than just her blood: he likes how she is different to the other girls in town, and he isn't able to hear her thoughts - a very unusual circumstance for him.
This novel is written in a style that is very easy to understand, and clearly in the style of the thoughts of a seventeen year old. Stephenie Meyer has been able to draw in the behaviours and language of that age group to include it nicely within the text. There are constant reminders of Edward's looks, voice, manner, etc., that is sometimes boring to read over, and over. Yet, once you have read it a couple of times, it is easy to go back and just read over the sections that you like. Another thing that can be a pain is the number of times the same word is used, such as 'grimace/grimaced'. It's good that a thesaurus was used, but it's sometimes a really good idea to use more synonyms.
Once a person is hooked on this novel, the next one may or may not be as interesting to read, depending on whether or not you are an Edward of Jacob fan.

'New Moon'

'New Moon' focuses on Bella's relationship around Jacob Black, the Native American boy who you meet in Book One of the series that develops a huge crush on our heroine. The main points of the plot are that: Edward leaves - because he doesn't love Bella anymore, or so he says; Jacob and Bella start having a relationship after Bella wakes up from a semi-comatose condition due to Edward leaving; Jacob has a secret that Bella eventually finds out about, and is naturally cool with; Bella is reported to Edward as being dead, so Edward tries to go and get himself killed; and, naturally, our hero and heroine from Book One are reunited under tense circumstances, but all works out right in the end...kind of.