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Twilight - Rated Excellent

I was totally surprised and knocked off my feet by this book. It was like a bit of classic Christopher Pike to me, an author I devoured in my teens and I loved it. I loved it so much I wanted to turn to page one and start again; which rarely happens. The author managed to take an unlikely premise and make it utterly believable and surprisingly human. This is in my top 10 for the year.

Star-crossed lovers rarely have such obstacles to face as these two young lovers, Edward Cullen, 100-year-old vampire who has renounced human prey and 17-year-old Isabella Swann. For Bella is human. Bella canâ€™t stay away from Edward and, despite his best intentions; he canâ€™t stay away from her either. And so the two of them burn for each other, even though by necessity they must remain chaste, for the intensity of their passion could lead Edward to kill her and he agonizes over the danger. But Bella will not part from Edward alive and he will do anything to keep her alive.

Favorite quote: "Softly he brushed my cheek, then held my face between his marble hands. 'Be very still,' he whispered, as if I wasn't 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."