Twilight by Stephanie Meyer

Twilight is a vampire novel about a teenaged girl named Bella Swan. Bella has moved from Phoenix, AZ to the small town of Forks on the Olympic Peninsula of Northwest Washington state. Bella has moved to Forks to live with her father, so that her mother can travel with her new husband, a minor league baseball player. Bella has moved by her own choice, but is miserably unhappy in cold, grey, damp Washington, after years in sunny Phoenix.

Nevertheless, Bella is adjusting to high school in Forks and making friends when her attention is drawn to a group of very unusual and strikingly good looking students--all of whom are the adopted children of , the town doctor. Before long, Bella becomes very much attracted to Edward, one of the adopted sons.

This is a very slowly drawn-out story with lots and lots of description, and not so much action. Rather, there is plenty of action, but it is spread out over about 400 pages, when the pacing would have been much better in about half the space. Twilight is meant to be a teen book, so maybe all the description is meant to mirror the agonies of being a teenager. It was certainly highly recommended and roundly lauded. It was not compelling enough for me to seek out further books in the series.