I’ve always been into realistic fiction. Fantasy used to bother me no matter what it was… until I read Twilight by Stephenie Meyers. Twilight is essentially your standard love story: Boy meets girl, girl and boy fall in love. But, of course, there’s a twist. The boy has a secret. A secret that puts the girl’s life in extreme danger at all times around him: He wants her blood. The boy is a vampire.

Honestly, if I had never read the book, and I read that description, I wouldn’t be intrigued. Vampires? What a joke. But Meyers provides so much detail that when you’re reading you think the only way she could have written the book is if she had seen the whole thing happen. In fact, there is a small truth in the previous statement. The basic idea of this book came to Meyers in a dream. On her website she describes how she “didn’t want to lose the dream,” so she wrote it down. I’m very glad she did exactly that.

Twilight is followed by New Moon, Eclipse, and the highly anticipated Breaking Dawn. Together they form the Twilight Series. This series was the talk of my high school for the last few weeks of school. Actually, New Moon won the NH Teen Reader’s Choice Award for this year. (This is a vote pooled from teens from grades 9-12.) It pulled in nearly 1/3 of all votes among a list of 13. One of the requirements for this award is that the book needs to be able to stand alone even if it is in a series, so if you don’t like having to read series, that won’t really be a problem (but I bet once you read one book, you won’t be able to help yourself from reading the others).

I highly recommend the Twilight Series by Stephenie Meyer.

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