Twilight Saga Mania

Well, I got to go see it this afternoon and I can say it lived up to my expectations. I was looking forward to this over the rest because this book had the most action in it. The battle at the end was awesome and the back story leading up to it was very deep and gave you a deeper understanding of what the Cullen’s and other characters went through.

So, I have to say it stayed really close to the source and didn’t disappoint. It didn’t really go as deep into the back story as I’d of liked and I felt the ending battle scene was rushed. Even though I knew what was coming. They build it throughout the entirety of the movie and then the wall come crashing down. The triangle between Bella, Edward, and Jake is very well done and they make the jabs at each other come out and had the audience laughing.

They really didn’t go as much into the whole Riley story and I felt that Seth didn’t get his due credit. After all if he didn’t intervene, I doubt Edward could have taken Victoria and Riley.

Speaking of Victoria, Bryce Dallas Howard did a fair job. It just didn’t seem like Victoria though. The hair was much more red and of course her voice is very high and femine. They could have brought her voice down a little more. She just didn’t seem very scary like Rachelle did.

Overall I think the movie was well done and David Slade did a good job directing it.

I am excited that Breaking Dawn is next, but not that I have to see in over the next 2 years since they split it up.

I give it 4.5/5 stars.

Stephenie Meyer’s life changed dramatically on June 2, 2003.

The stay-at-home mother of three young sons woke-up from a dream featuring seemingly real characters that she could not get out of her head.  “Though I had a million things to do (i.e. making breakfast for hungry children, dressing and changing the diapers of said children, finding the swimsuits that no one ever puts away in the right place), I stayed in bed, thinking about the dream. Unwillingly, I eventually got up and did the immediate necessities, and then put everything that I possibly could on the back burner and sat down at the computer to write—something I hadn’t done in so long that I wondered why I was bothering.”  Meyer invented the plot during the day through swim lessons and potty training, then writing it out late at night when the house was quiet.  Three months later she finished her first novel, Twilight.

Twilight was one of 2005’s most talked about novels and within weeks of its release the book debuted at #5 on The New York Times bestseller list.  Among its many accolades, Twilight was named an “ALA Top Ten Books for Young Adults,” an Amazon.com “Best Book of the Decade&So Far”, and a Publishers Weekly Best Book of the Year.  The movie version of Twilight was released by Summit Entertainment nationwide on November 21, 2008, starring Kristen Stewart (“Into The Wild”) and Robert Pattinson (“Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire”).

The highly-anticipated sequel, New Moon, was released in September 2006 and spent 31 weeks at the #1 position on The New York Times bestseller list.  Eclipse, the third book in Meyer’s Twilight saga, was released on August 7, 2007 and sold 150,000 copies its first day on-sale.  The book debuted at #1 bestseller lists across the country, including USA Today and The Wall Street Journal.   The fourth and final book in the Twilight Saga, Breaking Dawn, was published on August 2, 2008, with a first printing of 3.2 million copies – the largest first printing in the publisher’s history.   Breaking Dawn sold 1.3 million copies its first day on-sale rocketing the title to #1 on bestseller lists nationwide.

Meyer’s highly-anticipated debut for novel adults, The Host, was released by Little, Brown and Company in May 2008 and debuted at #1 on The New York Times and Wall Street Journal bestseller lists.

Stephenie Meyer graduated from Brigham Young University with a degree in English Literature.  She lives in Arizona with her husband and sons.

This is the fourth and final book in the Twilight Saga.

A lot of people seem to be unhappy with it, according to the reviews on Amazon – yet half of the reviewers still gave the book five stars.

One reviewer wrote, “People…it is a fairy tale….it’s about werewolves and vampires…things that go bump in the night. It is not meant to be realistic. It is not meant to convey some deep, meaningful message. It is a STORY…meant to entertain and thrill. It did just that for me. I get so wrapped up in Bella and Edward and their lives that I can’t put the book down. And now that it’s over and I have moved onto my next book, I keep wishing it was still Bella and Edward I was reading about.”

So if you’re a Twilight fan, and like happy endings, go for it!

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The legions of readers who are hooked on the romantic struggles of Bella and the vampire Edward will ecstatically devour this third installment of the story begun in Twilight, but it’s unlikely to win over any newcomers.

Jake, the werewolf met in New Moon, pursues Bella with renewed vigilance. However, when repercussions from an episode in Twilight place Bella in the mortal danger that series fans have come to expect, Jake and Edward forge an uneasy alliance.

The plot patterns have begun to show here, but Meyer’s other strengths remain intact. The supernatural elements accentuate the ordinary human dramas of growing up. Jake and Edward’s competition for Bella feels particularly authentic, especially in their apparent desire to best each other as much as to win Bella.

Once again the author presents teenage love as an almost inhuman force: “[He] would have been my soul mate still,” says Bella, “if his claim had not been overshadowed by something stronger, something so strong that it could not exist in a rational world.”

- Publishers Weekly

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“Which is tempting you more, my blood or my body?”

Things are heating up between Bella Swan and her vampire boyfriend, Edward Cullen, in this sequel to the immensely popular Twilight (2005).

Then Bella is injured at her birthday party, and the Cullens’ reaction to her blood sends Edward’s family packing.

Bella is inconsolable until she discovers that reckless behavior allows her to hear Edward’s warning voice in her head. To keep him close, she decides to live as dangerously as possible, acquiring two motorcycles and developing a close friendship with Jacob, who helps her rebuild them.

Romantics will miss Edward’s presence, but the suspense created by a pack of werewolves bent on protecting Bella from a vindictive vampire will keep them occupied until the lovers can be reunited.

The writing is a bit melodramatic, but readers won’t care. Bella’s dismay at being ordinary (after all, she’s only human) will strike a chord even among girls who have no desire to be immortal, and like the vampires who watch Bella bleed with “fevered eyes”, teens will relish this new adventure and hunger for more.

- Booklist

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