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Twilight by Stephenie Meyer
Little, Brown, 2005
Little, Brown, 2005
Publisher recommended ages 14 and up.Click on the title to read a content preview of Eclipse and New Moon.
Summary
Bella is a 17-year-old girl who has just moved to dreary Forks, Washington. At her new high school she meets the handsome and mysterious Edward. The two fall in love but must deal with a big complication: Edward is a 100-year-old vampire who will have to fight his powerful attraction to Bella's blood if he truly loves her.
Language
Sexual Situations
Drugs/Alcohol
Race Issues
Politics
Summary
Bella is a 17-year-old girl who has just moved to dreary Forks, Washington. At her new high school she meets the handsome and mysterious Edward. The two fall in love but must deal with a big complication: Edward is a 100-year-old vampire who will have to fight his powerful attraction to Bella's blood if he truly loves her.
Language
- "D*mn it" and "d*mned" are used.
Sexual Situations
- The main characters share kisses.
- Edward stays the night in Bella's room but he simply watches her sleep (since he cannot).
- Bella asks if vampire marriage is "the same as humans".
- A car accident injures Bella, but Edward saves her from being crushed.
- Edward's vampire "family" only feeds on animals, but other vampires prey on humans.
- Bella is chased more than once by the more evil vampires and when Edward's "family" comes to her rescue, they kill one of the "hunters" in a very descriptive scene.
Drugs/Alcohol
- Bella takes cold pills to help her fall asleep.
- Bella is given morphine and other drugs in the hospital.
- The phrase "Friends don't let friends drive drunk" is used.
- Edward compares his attraction to Bella's blood to an alcoholic's attraction to brandy, or a heroin addict's attraction to the drug.
Race Issues
- Part of the action takes place on a Native American reservation.
- Jacob, an Native American teenager, tells ancient stories about wolves and vampires.
- The vampires are sometimes compared to angels.
- Edward fears he is "going to hell" because he is a vampire.
- Evolution and creation are both mentioned in passing.
- The book's epigraph is an excerpt from Genesis 2:17, "But of the tree of the knowledge of good and evil, thou shalt not eat of it: for in the day that thou eatest thereof thou shalt surely die." (Meyer has said this refers to the characters' forbidden love as comparable to the forbidden fruit.)
Politics
- none
