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Twilight by Stephenie Meyer

42 reviews

notnaomie's review

adventurous dark emotional funny mysterious tense medium-paced

• Plot- or character-driven? Character
• Strong character development? No
• Loveable characters? Yes
• Diverse cast of characters? No
• Flaws of characters a main focus? Yes

4.5

I got the Twilight Saga complete collection of books for my birthday last year. I remember watching the movies when I was younger and I was so entertained by it all. There are definitely many details that aren't featured in the movie, but it was great to get those extra details! I cannot wait to continue reading these and comparing how many things aren't added in the movies. As cringey as some of the writing could be, it was so nostalgic I loved it so much. Page after page I could picture everything that was happening. What a time honestly, you just had to be there. I was a little young to be watching some of those movies, but I am glad to be able to say I was there in the theater for some of them!

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Toxic relationship, Blood, and Stalking

Moderate: Violence, Medical content, and Injury/Injury detail

Minor: Animal death, Death, Murder, and Fire/Fire injury

rosamaria's review against another edition

dark emotional mysterious medium-paced

• Plot- or character-driven? Character
• Strong character development? Yes
• Loveable characters? Yes
• Diverse cast of characters? No
• Flaws of characters a main focus? Yes

2.5

Stephenie Meyer loves the word inconspicuous.

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Toxic relationship, Blood, and Stalking

Moderate: Violence, Medical content, and Injury/Injury detail

Minor: Animal death, Death, and Murder

karlin0336's review against another edition

adventurous dark emotional mysterious tense medium-paced

• Plot- or character-driven? Character
• Strong character development? No
• Loveable characters? Yes

3.0

1st Reread: When I went in expecting garbage, I was pleasantly surprised.  When I went in with higher expectations, I got garbage.  What gives?
In all seriousness though, most of this book was cringey and a bit of a drag on the second readthrough.  The ending was still pretty good though.  (Also, I definitely like Jacob's character in this book and early on in New Moon much more than him later on in the series.)

Original Review (from 2022): 
I finished this book back in February when we had a bad snowstorm in our area (my workplace was closed, so I got a few long afternoons to read). As a result, I think it's always going to feel like a winter read to me. 🤣 Never read it during the original craze, and reading it inspired my dabbling in other popular YA series I've missed out on over the years (such as the Lunar Chronicles).
 I enjoyed Twilight more than I like to admit, and was therefore excited to read New Moon.  4 Stars! ****

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Toxic relationship, Violence, Blood, and Stalking

Moderate: Vomit, Medical content, and Injury/Injury detail

Minor: Animal death, Death, and Sexual content

sarabrogan's review against another edition

adventurous dark emotional funny mysterious tense medium-paced

• Plot- or character-driven? Character
• Strong character development? Yes
• Loveable characters? Yes
• Diverse cast of characters? No
• Flaws of characters a main focus? Yes

4.25

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Death, Blood, and Injury/Injury detail

Moderate: Animal death, Body horror, Confinement, Gore, Medical content, and Medical trauma

Minor: Violence and Murder

skyeshark1's review

adventurous challenging dark emotional funny hopeful inspiring mysterious tense medium-paced

• Plot- or character-driven? A mix
• Strong character development? It's complicated
• Loveable characters? Yes
• Diverse cast of characters? No
• Flaws of characters a main focus? It's complicated

4.0

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Content Warnings

Moderate: Adult/minor relationship, Death, Emotional abuse, Gore, Violence, Xenophobia, Blood, and Medical content

Minor: Animal death, Pedophilia, Torture, Toxic relationship, Violence, Grief, Religious bigotry, Stalking, Gaslighting, Toxic friendship, and Alcohol

betonylark's review

dark slow-paced

• Plot- or character-driven? Plot
• Strong character development? No
• Loveable characters? No
• Diverse cast of characters? No
• Flaws of characters a main focus? No

0.25

The Twilight series...

• Is full of Mormon ideology and theology if you know what to look for (I'm exmo, left as a teenager, so I spotted a lot of Mormon influence) - just FYI.
• Glorifies and romanticizes controlling behavior, toxic relationships, stalking, domestic abuse, physical abuse, and SA.
• Depicts women as deprived of full personhood, intelligence, independence, and agency
• Presents various pedophilia-esque relationships in a positive light
• Diminishes the severe problems absent/wishy washy/not properly supportive parents (particularly fathers) cause in their children
• Diminishes the impact of power imbalances on consent in relationships
• Fully inappropriately and very inaccurately appropriates the culture, history, and beliefs of real people who are part of the Native American Quileute Tribe, which is a real tribe (something no white person, and especially a mormon white person, has any right to ever do; if you don't know anything about the history, look up the Mountain Meadows Massacre and Brigham Young's treatment of the Native Americans)

I rated this book 0.25 stars for these reasons, as well as the multitude of writing, character, and plot issues present. There are far better books out there with far better messaging and far better writing too. I would definitely pass up all of Meyer's writing, including "the Host," which is better overall in terms of the above issues but still has a lot of problems with it, particularly when it comes to consent.

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Adult/minor relationship, Domestic abuse, Emotional abuse, Pedophilia, Physical abuse, Sexual assault, Sexual violence, Toxic relationship, Stalking, Cultural appropriation, Gaslighting, and Sexual harassment

Moderate: Ableism, Bullying, Misogyny, Racism, Sexism, Violence, Blood, Medical content, Religious bigotry, and Injury/Injury detail

Minor: Animal death, Death, Gore, Mental illness, Vomit, Kidnapping, Car accident, Suicide attempt, Murder, Toxic friendship, Abandonment, and Classism

DISCLAIMER: This is a mormon-y series written by a mormon author, and thus it's rather tame in most regards. (Too much so in many ways honestly.) In a way though, that tame-ness makes Twilight even worse, because the harmful messaging (where abuse and SA and stalking are seen as not just acceptable, but actually romantic) can be very subtle at times. Teenagers who read this will often be taking it in subconsciously rather than recognizing and challenging this messaging. That is why I put what I did as trigger warnings. It's not necessarily graphically described, but it is certainly "graphic" in it's romanticization of very alarming and even fully abusive behaviors, from the male characters and the overall narrative in particular.

lightningmc_logyn's review

dark funny mysterious tense slow-paced

• Plot- or character-driven? Character
• Strong character development? No
• Loveable characters? No
• Diverse cast of characters? No
• Flaws of characters a main focus? Yes

0.5

I read this out of curiosity, knowing I would not like it. I was correct. It’s cheesey, poorly written, and quite toxic and ill-informed. Myers’s depiction of mental illness and

suicidal ideation

is quite insensitive, but makes sense as it was written in early 2000’s. The book was quite trope filled.

There were parts of the book I enjoyed. Some well written scenes, some compelling ideas. In general, I think Meyer had a creative idea; a modern day vampire in love with the person he wants to kill most; unfortunately it was horribly, horribly executed. 

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Misogyny, Toxic relationship, Stalking, and Gaslighting

Moderate: Car accident

Minor: Animal death and Blood

jodean's review against another edition

adventurous dark emotional mysterious reflective sad tense fast-paced

• Plot- or character-driven? Character
• Strong character development? No
• Loveable characters? Yes
• Diverse cast of characters? No
• Flaws of characters a main focus? No

4.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Violence, Blood, Kidnapping, Stalking, and Car accident

Moderate: Animal cruelty, Animal death, and Injury/Injury detail

Minor: Confinement and Medical trauma

tiaroseshang's review

funny lighthearted mysterious relaxing medium-paced

• Plot- or character-driven? Character
• Strong character development? No
• Loveable characters? It's complicated
• Diverse cast of characters? It's complicated
• Flaws of characters a main focus? It's complicated

4.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Animal death, Toxic relationship, Blood, Medical content, Kidnapping, Car accident, Fire/Fire injury, and Injury/Injury detail

Moderate: Adult/minor relationship, Stalking, Gaslighting, and Toxic friendship

trinloyd's review

adventurous medium-paced

• Plot- or character-driven? A mix
• Strong character development? No
• Loveable characters? It's complicated
• Diverse cast of characters? No
• Flaws of characters a main focus? Yes

3.0

I reread this for the first time as an adult, having only read it one other time as a 12 year old. It was fun rereading it as an adult, and doing it as a buddy read as well, but yikes this book is problematic. Red flags everywhere, Bella is so unlikable and annoying, and the writing can be so over-descriptive that it honestly takes you out of the story. As a reread/buddy read, it was enjoyable, but I think we can all agree that Twilight is definitely nothing to write home about. 

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Animal death, Toxic relationship, Violence, Stalking, Gaslighting, and Injury/Injury detail

Moderate: Suicide and Suicide attempt

Minor: Forced institutionalization