Art of Imagination ( review on book )

As I promised, my personal review on books. I would love to fulfill this task by expressing my views on movies and songs as well as this book of mine compromise everything nice from those categories nevertheless, none is enough.

The author of this book, Stephenie Meyer continuously says that behind her inspiration lies the band, Muse(which I’m very sure you guys acknowledge). She instill parts of beautiful classical traits in her main character( the hero, namely Edward Cullen, a vampire), and though not forgetting to please modern readers as well with her clumsy, humane, trouble-magnet heroine, Isabella Swan (the very object of affection for Edward).

They met, despite the odd and differences that lies between their lives, falls in love. Not just love, but madly in love. I would say that to describe this very book, it’s like the modern version of passionate romance between Romeo and Juliet, escaping all those complex poetry talks and cadences (although Edward mostly prefer to remain speaking that way, he is after all 100 years old, literally speaking) and the family feat. But he physically appears and stuck to be 17 years old (forever), with pale beautiful, Greek godlike feature, cold and gracious, extremely fast and intolerably strong plus an ability to read minds ( Bella’s somehow immune to this ability). The fact that Bella’s blood smell like the perfect wine for him which endangers his firm devotion on resisting human blood, he tried hard to be away from her, as he says, to keep her safe. Right from that moment we would know that Bella must have some certain strong attraction that lure him to her, which makes him overly protective over her.

The book is not all about romance and sugar (though that’s the main theme is). The beauty of this book is that it contains all the delicious plot, from thriller (bad vampires), fiction, romance and action. It plays with your imagination, reading it feels like I was drawn to watch a movie. It felt like watching a movie, in a book. Stephenie Meyer uses many literary factors, metaphors, hyperbole and abstract writing. I could be opening a random page and stuck reading that page and then, never could stop myself from reading more. She had made this 434 page long book refreshing, every page that you turn brings you to another imagination. Refreshing because it’s not that typical vampire myth where they can be burned by the sun, stabbed by a wood or those horror genre like to pick. There are good vamps and bad vamps. There are human and relationship, proms and friendship, family and high school, normal stuff yet compelling. It is a timeless love of a man to a girl and a strong unbreakable affection of a girl to this very man. Their heart has founded their true perfection, completing each other.

Edward is a classic martyr, that kind of 18th century gentleman. He’s romantic, plays the music and has velvet voice (as described by Bella). Bella is a self-preserved, trouble prone girl who is so clumsy that a flat floor couldn’t even prevent her from tripping. She’s beautiful, yes, but never realizes that. She reads classical books, cook for her dad and like to keep her thoughts to herself, until she meets Edward. The rest you should read for yourself. I am so over-excited that I could spill the spoiler here. So, what’s the title of this book I have been reviewing about? But first goes first, it’s a saga of 4 books, so mainly what I wrote here is just basic starting information. You could pick up any of the 4. The first book- TWILIGHT followed by NEW MOON, ECLIPSE AND BREAKING DAWN. Kind of dark title eh? But you’ll love them. Enjoy!