I bought the first book when I was in my late teens. I've always enjoyed fantastical creatures, and vampire stories were some of my favourites. Being that I was part of the target demographic, I thought I would get at least some enjoyment out of this, but I was wrong.

This isn't worth the paper it's written on. The writing quality is lacklustre at best, with a pathetic cliche of a female protagonist who fawns over the pretty new boy in school. This book tries its best to paint Bella as not only someone relatable, but an actual heroine, and the author has failed terribly on both counts. She is neither relatable nor someone to look up to as she seems absolutely bound and determined to both heavily rely on the male love interests while simultaneously pushing them away in dramatic fashion.

I was hopeful that the second book may remedy the situation and push the story forward in some way, but sadly, it did not. There are plenty of other fantasy series out there that I would recommend, but this isn't one of them.

I was not a fan of this book. It isn't very well written: it seems like every other sentence ends in "...", and the characters in this book are very static and boring. I prefer books that have strong female leads, and twilight is the opposite of that. It seems like every time Bella goes out of Edward's sight, she almost gets killed. The ultimate female relying on a male. I don't think this book has any kind of role models for young women. The message is basically to fall in love with the most attractive boy you meet, even if he is moody and dangerous.

My sister had all these books ans she loved them. I tried to get into them but I couldn't. But I actaully had to read one for school for English and I got half way and lost interest.

Regret buying and reading this books, the story was nice but the writing made it slow. At some points I felt annoyed by Bella and the other characters.
More suitable for teenagers!

The book became an epidemic in itself, I was sucked into purchasing the book I could not help it. I was a fan of Vampires and the Story Plot of Forbidden Love blah blah blah, you know all that nonsense.
I watched the movie while reading the book (weird, I know).
All the hype ruined the novel for me, I found the novel very repetitive, a type of story plot to which was narrated by a 12 year old who loves Tim Burton and the Idea of Fantasy Vampires, Blood, and kind of Gothic and obsessed with Forbidden Love.
I am sorry but I do not know what type of author would construct such a tedious perpetuated novel that appeals to hopeless romantic tweens with a faint perception of self love let alone love that they are going to get it twisted by not only believing in Vampires and the idea of being with a mysterious male who could unfortunately in the real world could potentially be a psychopath. The fact that the novel was appraised heavily on Youth worries me because it inflicted another epidemic fantasy of relationships and love with our Youth, as if it is not already distorted. I used to like Vampires and the idea of it, not after this junk, (pardon how blunt I am), I watched some very good movies with Vampires that was very narrated and the quality was there. After this book, as hard as it was to read it all, and how I just dreaded each page and wondered why the story was so long that it kept repeating itself, leaving readers like myself not on a cliffhanger, but leading me know where but the same thing over over and over again. Once I start a book, regardless of how good or bad it is, I have to finish it, this was by far the one that took one of the longest and I have read so many books and believe me, this one was one at the bottom of the list on oh my god I finished this, geez, I am sweating and relieved that the best part was the end because that meant the novel was over.

I personally would never recommend this series of books to anyone, however it is a simple read and very easy to grasp plot.

Twilight was a good enough book to escape daily life worries but the book didn't fell like it was worth reading even a sentence over again. Within the series, Twilight was the worst one to me. I get that background information is needed for the next books but it was so much that it bored the hell out of me.

I finally had to read this book because of all the hype about the series, including from my friends. Don't believe the hype.

Even looking at this from a pre-teen / teenage perspective, since this is who these books are written for, I was disappointed. This series portrays its female lead as a helpless girl who needs a man to save her. If I had a daughter I would not want her reading books that encourage that mentality.

There are so many books for young adults with a strong female lead, spend your money on one of those instead.

I read the entire series. Sure it's an okay story, but the only reason so many people are interested in it is because the main character is essentially an empty shell. Anyone can be Bella, we can all put ourselves in her place. She lacks character development which is something I find extremely important in any novel and she is a horrible example for teen girls. No one should base their entire life around a guy, especially as a teenager, it's sending young girls the wrong message about dating and relationships. Also, if you actually do some research, the relationship between Bella and Edward is an abusive relationship, not in the physical sense but in the emotional and mental sense.

great read, however the book had more to it then the movies