Twilight /

所属分类：进口原版书 >> 小说 fiction in this exquisite fantasy bella adores beautiful edward and he returns her love. but edward must control the blood lust she arouses in him because--hes a vampire. this deeply romantic and extraordinarily suspenseful novel captures the struggle between defying instincts and satisfying desires. softly he brushed my cheek, then held my face between his marble hands. be very still he whispered as if i wasnt already frozen. slowly never moving his eyes from mine he leaned toward me. then abruptly but very gently, he rested his cold cheek against the hollow at the base of my throat. as shakespeare knew, love burns high when thwarted by obstacles. in twilight an exquisite fantasy by stephenie meyer readers discover a pair of lovers who are supremely star-crossed. bella adores beautiful edward and he returns her love. but edward is having a hard time controlling the blood lust she arouses in him because--hes a vampire. at any moment the intensity of their passion could drive him to kill her, and he agonizes over the danger. but bella would rather be dead than part from edward so she risks her life to stay near him and the novel burns with the erotic tension of their dangerous and necessarily chaste relationship.meyer has achieved quite a feat by making this scenario completely human and believable. she begins with a familiar ya premise (the new kid in school) and lulls us into thinking this will be just another realistic young adult novel. bella has come to the small town of forks on the gloomy olympic peninsula to be with her father. at school she wonders about a group of five remarkably beautiful teens who sit together in the cafeteria but never eat. as she grows to know and then love edward she learns their secret. they are all rescued vampires part of a family headed by saintly carlisle who has inspired them to renounce human prey. for edwards sake they welcome bella but when a roving group of tracker vampires fixates on her the family is drawn into a desperate pursuit to protect the fragile human in their midst. the precision and delicacy of meyers writing lifts this wonderful novel beyond the limitations of the horror genre to a place among the best of ya fiction. (ages 12 and up) stephenie meyer graduated from brigham young university with a degree in english literature and she lives with her husband and three young sons in arizona.