The Twilight books could best be described as Young Adult fiction, sadly I'm much older than the target audience.
It seems a lifetime since I belonged in the 'teen' category however, I loved this audio book.
Maybe because the 17 year old me is still in there somewhere wanting to get out.
What made this book outstanding to me was that I couldn't stop listening to it, it was hard to tear myself away from.
The story really caught my imagination from the start and I had to keep listening until the very end.
Since then I have replayed it many times and it still encaptivates me every time.
The book is a debut classic that should be on everybody's bookshelves.
Bella moves from busy Phoenix to small town Forks where she spent some time with her Dad in the school holidays.
She enrolls in the local school and goes about trying to make new friends when she meets Edward who she immediately is interested in.
She doesn't realise that Edward is a vampire, the closer she gets to him the more she puts herself in danger.
The style of this book is unique, shining a new light on what we traditionally think of Vampires; sure they are still seductive and they are immortal.
Some things are timeless but what Stephanie Meyers does in the Twilight Saga collection is to present the vampires not as evil bloodthirsty monsters but as emotional beings.
It seems like Meyers has given vampires back their souls.
The story is ultimately a gentle love story, a teen romance that has its ups and downs like any others.