Twilight by Stephanie Meyer - Book Review

Heralded by many as the book that resurrected the vampire genre, Stephanie Meyer comes on the heels of famed writers such as Anne Rice and L.J smith, but she manages to breathe life into the genre and give it some much-needed spice.

Isabella Swan has only ever known one thing, her life with her mother, so when her mother gets married, Bella decides to leave behind her life in Phoenix, Arizona in order to go live with her father, the police chief, in Forks, Washington. 

But Bella gets more than she bargained for when she comes across Edward Cullen, an impossibly beautiful enigmatic boy who threatens to turn her world upside down with his deep and seductive secret.

Although Stephanie is retelling a story we are all familiar with, one has to applaud her desire to subvert some of the more popular tropes of the genre such as burning in sunlight, turning into bats, etc. Not only that, but she does manage to throw in a little werewolf lore for diversity.