Recently, as I was waiting in the new entrance hall to go home, I overheard a conversation between a group of upper sixth girls, and not being one to knowingly eavesdrop, I tried to block out their conversation. However there was something about their tone that made me listen. I could tell from their voices that they truly loved what they were talking about, not boys, not clothes, not shoes, but instead a book. I had heard about the book from some of my friends and some of the younger pupils of my school and had decided that I would read it to silence them long before I overheard the conversation. But something about the way that the sixth formers discussed the book made me think that maybe I should read it, not out of obligation, but because it might be as good as I had heard.
It was because of those girls that I went to the school library that Friday lunchtime and requested a copy of the book. I started reading that evening and managed to drag myself away from it just after midnight so that I could sleep. I read the book the next morning, and was unable to put it down, or forget the characters, or the plot. It was so good in fact, that I went back to the library on Monday morning and immediately took out the next one, finishing it that night. At the moment I am reading the fourth and final book, after spending one evening reading the third book. I am not reading them quickly because they are easy books or boring books, I am reading them quickly because I am transfixed by the characters and the life that Stephenie Meyer brings to them. You’ve probably guessed by now that the series of books that I am writing about is the “Twilight” series.
Meyer does not only create a real heroine that every woman and girl can relate to (for example Bella is not the most graceful heroine to ever be written about), but she creates, somehow, the perfect man (or at least, sort of man). We as readers are made to feel oddly at ease with the character of Edward Cullen, and his slightly out of the ordinary family. Edward is indeed the perfect man- there is something about him that makes everyone else in the world, be he a book character or a real person, pale in comparison to the Cullen charm.
Throughout the series Meyer makes it completely clear how Edward feels about Bella, unconditional, pure, absolute love.
Instead of writing that you must read this book because in my opinion it is incredibly well written, I am asking you to ask around because whether you’re in year 7 or the sixth form, or you’re thirteen or thirty, this is a book that will answer every girls question as to whether real love, heart breaking, go to the ends of the earth, fight werewolves and vampires, face the Volturi, unconditional love, really does exist.
And I challenge every female reader of these books be she young physically or in mind, to find a couple in real life, whose love story stays in your mind long after you have met them.
