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This book started off with the beautiful, introverted, clumsy Bella Swan leaving the sunny Arizona to live with her father in the small town of Forks. She knew she would detest it but still went there because her mum was remarried. Bella had made excuses not to visit her father down at Forks for the past years.

Bella successfully made friends at her new high school with Mike adoring her. Soon the attention for her as the new-comer wear off and Bella settled in the school. However there was one thing that was disturbing Bella. Her Biology partner, Edward Cullen, was unfriendly sometimes it almost seems like he can’t stand to be in the same room as her. The first time Bella saw Edward was in the cafeteria with Edward’s brothers and sisters and she was instantly interested in them. Edward was stunningly attractive, almost inhumanly beautiful, and yet he is counted as an outsider in the school. Although Edward and his family have lived in Forks for two years they have never really been accepted by the townsfolk. Bella found herself immediately drawn to the spectacularly beautiful yet remote Edward Cullen, with his color-changing eyes and mysterious absences on sunny days.

Eventually they struck up an unlikely friendship after Edward saved Bella from a catastrophic injury in a rather supernatural fashion. Their relationship changed and grew. Bella was determined to find out how and why Edward intervene the accident so quickly and kept a van from flattening her. On a trip to the beach, Bella found out a legend from her childhood friend, Jacob Black, about the cold ones which meant the vampires. Although Jacob thought it’s just a legend passed down from generations. Bella thought she might know what Edward is. Bella went to confront Edward and Edward confirmed her suspicions but try to convince Bella that he would hurt her and it might be better to stay away from him. This did not convinced Bella and soon they fall madly in love with each other.

My favorite part was when the Cullens’ goes to the extreme to hide her from James, the vampire tracker. I found Edward and his family rescuing Bella as a heroic act. There was one scene when Edward was supposed to suck the poison from Bella’s wound to save her life, he managed to done it without killing her because of his love for Bella. If you like romance, I strongly encouraged this book. I never knew vampires could be this romantic.