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Reader reviewed by Stephanie

First-time author Stephenie Meyer has created a new literary sensation, the next Harry Potter. Instead of witches and wizards, however, Meyer's world consists of vampires, who live as inconspicuously as possible among the humans.

When Bella Swan moves to the always-dreary town of Forks, Washington to live with her dad, she anticipates no happiness and constant boredom. What she is totally unprepared for is her almost immediate attraction to a five incredibly attractive fellow students, who stand apart from the crowd with their godlike beauty and voluntary alienation. In particular, she is intensely curious about Edward, her biology partner, whose immediate dislike--no, "dislike" is too mild of a word, immediate "hatred"towards Bella throws her completely.

That might have been the end of it...had he not tried to be civilized in talking to her the next week. And then saving her life. More than once. With unheard of strength and agility. The more Bella tries to figure out what, exactly, Edward is, the more she is forced to accept that something completely otherworldly is occurring, and that the unnatural, impossible love that develops between vampire and human, predator and prey, does, actually happen, and changes both of their lives forever.