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Series of vampire romance novels by Stephenie Meyer

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The six covers for the Twilight Saga novel series.
  • Twilight (2005)
  • New Moon (2006)
  • Eclipse (2007)
  • Breaking Dawn (2008)
  • Life and Decease: Twilight Reimagined (2015)
  • Midnight Dominicus (2020)
Author Stephenie Meyer
Country United States
Language English language
Genre Romance, fantasy, young developed fiction
Publisher Piddling, Brown and Visitor
Published
  • 2005–2008
  • 2020–present
Media blazon Print
No. of books 5 (with 3 companions)

The Twilight Saga is a series of four vampire-themed fantasy romance novels, two companion novels, and one novella, written by American writer Stephenie Meyer. Released annually from 2005 through 2008, the four books chart the later teen years of Isabella "Bella" Swan, a girl who moves to Forks, Washington, from Phoenix, Arizona and falls in dearest with a 104-year-old vampire named Edward Cullen. The serial is told primarily from Bella'southward point of view, with the epilogue of Eclipse and Part Two of Breaking Dawn being told from the viewpoint of character Jacob Blackness, a werewolf. The novel Midnight Sunday is a retelling of the outset book, Twilight, from Edward Cullen's indicate of view. The novella, The Brusk Second Life of Bree Tanner, which tells the story of a newborn vampire who appeared in Eclipse, was published on June five, 2010, as a hardcover volume and on June 7 every bit a free online ebook.[i] The Twilight Saga: The Official Illustrated Guide, a definitive encyclopedic reference with nearly 100 full colour illustrations, was released in bookstores on April 12, 2011.[2] In 2015, she published a new volume in honour of the tenth anniversary of the best-selling franchise, titled Life and Decease: Twilight Reimagined, with the genders of the original protagonists switched.[3]

Since the release of the get-go novel, Twilight, in 2005, the books accept gained immense popularity and commercial success effectually the world. The series is nigh pop among young adults; the four books have won multiple awards, near notably the 2008 British Volume Award for "Children'south Book of the Year" for Breaking Dawn,[4] while the series as a whole won the 2009 Kids' Option Honor for Favorite Book.[5]

In November 2011, the series had sold over 120 one thousand thousand copies worldwide with translations into at to the lowest degree 38 unlike languages around the globe.[vi] The four Twilight books take consecutively prepare records as the biggest-selling novels of 2008 on the USA Today Acknowledged Books list[7] and have spent over 235 weeks on the New York Times Best Seller listing for Children's Series Books.[8]

The books have been adapted into The Twilight Saga series of motion pictures by Summit Entertainment. The film adaptations of the outset three books were released in 2008, 2009, and 2010 respectively. The quaternary book is adapted into two total-length films—the offset film being released in November 2011, and the second film in November 2012.[9]

Twilight Saga

Twilight

Bella Swan moves from Phoenix, Arizona to live with her begetter in Forks, Washington to allow her mother to travel with her new husband, a minor league baseball player. After moving to Forks, Bella finds herself involuntarily drawn to a mysterious, handsome boy, Edward Cullen and somewhen learns that he is a member of a vampire family which drinks animal blood rather than human blood. Edward and Bella fall in love, while James, a sadistic vampire from another coven, is drawn to chase down Bella. Edward and the other Cullens defend Bella. She escapes to Phoenix, where she is tricked into confronting James, who tries to impale her. She is seriously wounded, but Edward rescues her and they return to Forks.

New Moon

Edward and his family get out Forks because he believes he is endangering Bella's life. Bella goes into a depression until she develops a strong friendship with Jacob Black, who she discovers tin shape-shift into a wolf. Jacob and the other wolves in his tribe must protect her from Victoria, a vampire seeking to avenge the expiry of her mate James. Due to a misunderstanding, Edward believes Bella is dead. Edward decides to commit suicide in Volterra, Italy, only is stopped by Bella, who is accompanied past Edward's sister, Alice. They come across with the Volturi, a powerful vampire coven, and are released only on the condition that Bella be turned into a vampire in the nigh future. Bella and Edward are reunited, and she and the Cullens return to Forks.

Eclipse

Victoria has created an army of "newborn" vampires to battle the Cullen family and murder Bella for revenge. Meanwhile, Bella is compelled to choose between her relationship with Edward and her friendship with Jacob. Edward's vampire family unit and Jacob's werewolf pack join forces to successfully destroy Victoria and her vampire army. In the cease, Bella chooses Edward's love over Jacob'due south friendship and agrees to ally Edward.

Breaking Dawn

Bella and Edward are married, but their honeymoon is cutting brusque when Bella discovers that she is pregnant. Her pregnancy progresses rapidly, severely weakening her. She about dies giving birth to her and Edward's half-vampire-half-human being daughter, Renesmee. Edward injects Bella with his venom to salve her life and turns her into a vampire. A vampire from another coven sees Renesmee and mistakes her for an "immortal kid". She informs the Volturi, as the being of such beings violates vampire law. The Cullens gather vampire witnesses who can verify that Renesmee is non an immortal child. Subsequently an intense confrontation, the Cullens and their witnesses convince the Volturi that the child poses no danger to vampires or their surreptitious, and they are left in peace by the Volturi.

Companion novel to Twilight by Stephenie Meyer

Life and Decease

On October 6, 2015, Little, Brown and Visitor released the Twilight Tenth Anniversary/Life and Death Dual Edition, which includes a well-nigh-400 page reimagining of the novel with Edward and Bella gender-swapped as Edythe and Beau. The reimagined novel has a more conclusive ending, seemingly precluding its continuation through the remaining three Twilight novels.[10]

Midnight Sun

Midnight Dominicus is a 2020 companion novel to the 2005 volume Twilight by author Stephenie Meyer. The work retells the events of Twilight from the perspective of Edward Cullen instead of that of the series' usual narrating character Bella Swan.[eleven] Meyer stated that Twilight was to exist the just book from the serial that she planned to rewrite from Edward's perspective.[12] To give them a better feel of Edward's grapheme, Meyer allowed Catherine Hardwicke, the manager of the film adaptation of Twilight, and Robert Pattinson, the role player playing Edward, to read some completed chapters of the novel while they shot the film.[13] [fourteen] [15] It was released on August 4, 2020.[16] [17]

Future

In Baronial 2020, Meyer revealed that she is working on two boosted Twilight novels. The author intends to continue writing these stories, later on completing an original book outset.[18]

Additional cloth

Graphic novels

On March xvi, 2010, Yen Press released Twilight: The Graphic Novel, Vol. 1, by artist Young Kim based on the first book in the series.[19] In February 2011, the graphic novel won the 2010 Precious stone Awards Best Manga of the Year.[xx] The sequel, Twilight: The Graphic Novel, Vol. ii was released on October 11, 2011,[21] and followed Volume 1 in topping The New York Times Best Seller list for Hardcover Graphic Books in its first week.[22]

The Short 2nd Life of Bree Tanner

In March 2010, Meyer revealed on her official website that she will exist releasing a new novella in the serial, The Brusk Second Life of Bree Tanner, which tells the story of a newborn vampire who appeared in Eclipse, on June 5, 2010.[ane] An electronic version of the book was fabricated available free from her web site, as well as in bookstores.[23]

Illustrated Guide

In October 2010, Little, Brown and Company appear that The Twilight Saga: The Official Illustrated Guide, a definitive encyclopedic reference for the saga including character profiles, outtakes, a conversation with Meyer, genealogical charts, maps and all-encompassing cross-references with well-nigh 100 full color illustrations, was to be released on April 12, 2011, subsequently many publication delays since 2008.[24] It debuted at #one on The New York Times Best Seller list, where information technology stayed for three sequent weeks,[25] [26] [27] and at #four on the U.s. Today All-time Seller listing.[28]

Principal characters

  • Bella Swan: The protagonist of the serial, teenager Bella is a perpetually clumsy "danger magnet" with night chocolate-brown hair and dark-brown optics. She is ofttimes portrayed as having depression self-esteem and unable to comprehend Edward'southward love for her. She has an immunity to supernatural abilities involving the mind, such as Edward's mind-reading power. After her transformation into a vampire in the saga's 4th installment, Bella acquires the ability to shield both herself and others from "mental harm" from other vampires.
  • Edward Cullen: Edward is a vampire who lives with a coven of like-minded vampires known as the Cullen family, who feed on animals rather than humans. Over the course of the Twilight serial, Edward falls in love with, marries, and so has a child with Bella. At first, Edward feels a common hatred toward Jacob Black because of his dear for Bella, only in Breaking Dawn, he comes to encounter Jacob as a brother and friend. Like some vampires, Edward has a supernatural ability: listen reading. It allows him to read anyone's thoughts within a few miles' radius. Bella is immune to his power as a man, merely learns how to lower this "shield" later on her transformation to a vampire.
  • Jacob Black: A minor graphic symbol in the starting time novel, Jacob is introduced as a fellow member of the Quileute tribe. He resurfaces in New Moon with a larger role as Bella's all-time friend equally she struggles through her low over losing Edward. Although he is in honey with Bella, she initially sees him as but her best friend. He and other tribe members can shape-shift into wolves. In Eclipse Bella realizes that while she does dearest Jacob, her feelings for Edward Cullen are stronger. In Breaking Dawn, Jacob imprinted on Bella and Edward's baby daughter, Renesmee, ridding him of his heartache for Bella.

Setting

Photo of a three-lane main street in a small town. Visible is a traffic light, sparse traffic, and businesses such as a car lot and gas station.

The story is ready primarily in the town of Forks, Washington, where Bella and her father, Charlie Swan, live. Other cities in Washington briefly appear in the series or are mentioned, such as Port Angeles, Olympia, Seattle and La Push. Some events in Twilight take place in Phoenix, Arizona, where Bella was raised. Volterra, Italia, is featured in New Moon, when Edward travels at that place to commit suicide and Bella rushes to save him. Jacksonville, Florida, is mentioned offset in Twilight and second in Eclipse, when Edward and Bella visit Bella's mother, who has moved there with her new husband. Seattle, Washington, is featured in Breaking Dawn when Jacob tries to escape his dear for Bella, and when Bella tries to locate a human named J. Jenks. It is also the location of a series of murders committed by newborn vampires in Eclipse. In Breaking Dawn, Bella and Edward spend their honeymoon on a fictional "Isle Esme", purportedly off the declension of Brazil.

Structure and genre

The Twilight series falls under the genre of young adult, fantasy, and romance, though Meyer categorized her first book, Twilight, equally "suspense romance horror one-act".[29] However, she states that she considers her books every bit "romance more than anything else".[29] The series explores the unorthodox romance betwixt homo Bella and vampire Edward, as well as the love triangle between Bella, Edward, and Jacob, a werewolf.[30] The books avoid delving into provocative sex, drugs, and harsh swearing because, according to Meyer, "I don't call back teens need to read well-nigh gratis sex."[31]

To some, Meyer'southward novels fall into the category of gothic literature equally well. Meyer's use of monsters and the unsettling circumstances of Edward and Bella's relationship are fundamental components to the gothic. Gothic literature allows readers to analyze abstract concepts through dark or disturbing analogies.[32] The disturbing nature of the gothic is a outcome of "repressed familiarity," according to neurologist Sigmund Freud,[33] and we are meant to see ourselves in Meyer's monsters.[32] : 48–49 It is also interesting to note that dreams are an of import theme in the gothic genre, and Meyer's main inspiration for Twilight came from a dream. Mary Shelley's Frankenstein, a archetype in gothic literature, was also inspired by a dream. Twilight moves away from the classical gothic withal, through Bella's sympathy toward Edward. Rather than feeling cloy for the vampire, the dangerous intrigue she takes in him moves the plot forward.[32] : 49

The books are written in first-person narrative, primarily through Bella's eyes with the epilogue of the third volume and a part of the fourth volume being from Jacob's point of view. When asked about the structure of the novel, Meyer described her difficulty in pinpointing the premise of the novels to whatsoever specific category. The novels involve vampires, just they aren't the typical tragic or bloodthirsty kind. The main characters are high schoolers, simply co-ordinate to some, that description besides unfairly stereotypes the series.[34]

The books are based on the vampire myth, just Twilight vampires differ in a number of particulars from the general vampire lore. For instance, Twilight vampires have strong piercing teeth rather than fangs; they glitter in sunlight rather than burn down; and they tin potable beast every bit well as homo blood. Meyer comments that her vampire mythology differs from that of other authors because she wasn't informed virtually the canon vampires. She did not consider the fashion her vampires differed from established literature until Twilight was close to existence published. Past that time, it was also belatedly make desperate changes and Meyer kept her vampires sans "fang and coffins and and so along" non every bit an act of separation from vampire canon, but as staying true to the way the characters appeared in her mind.[35]

Inspiration and themes

Co-ordinate to the author, her books are "virtually life, not expiry" and "love, not lust".[36] Each book in the series was inspired by and loosely based on a different literary classic: Twilight on Jane Austen'southward 1813 novel Pride and Prejudice, New Moon on William Shakespeare's play Romeo and Juliet, Eclipse on Emily Brontë'due south 1847 novel Wuthering Heights, and Breaking Dawn on a 2nd Shakespeare play, A Midsummer Night'due south Dream.[37] Meyer also states that Orson Scott Card and L. 1000. Montgomery's Anne of Green Gables serial are a big influence on her writing.[34] The Cullens were inspired by Meyer'south ain family[38] likewise every bit characters from the X-Men cartoon.[39] Other influences on the series which Meyer has acknowledged include the 1847 novel Jane Eyre past Charlotte Brontë, HGTV, and the films Iron Man (2008), Somewhere in Fourth dimension (1980), Stranger than Fiction (2006), and Baby Mama (2008).[39]

Other major themes of the serial include selection and gratuitous will.[34] [40] Meyer says that the books are centered around Bella's choice to cull her life on her own, and the Cullens' choices to abjure from killing rather than follow their temptations: "I really call up that's the underlying metaphor of my vampires. It doesn't matter where you're stuck in life or what you think you lot have to do; y'all can always choose something else. There's e'er a different path."[40]

Meyer, a Mormon, acknowledges that her organized religion has influenced her work. In particular, she says that her characters "tend to recollect more than about where they came from, and where they are going, than might be typical."[31] The Twilight series analyzes the Christian moral dilemma of mortal temptation. As a vampire, Edward experiences strong carnal temptations that would result in the corruption of his sense of self. Overcoming these temptations illustrates a common Christian principles of "overcoming the natural man".[41] Mormon tenets of immortality and eternal life are as well explored in the series. The vampires have perfected, immortal bodies, but the Cullens long for satisfying relationships. Bella achieves both immortality and the Mormon concept of eternal life by becoming a vampire alongside her husband and daughter.[41] Meyer also steers her work from subjects such as sexual practice, despite the romantic nature of the novels. Meyer says that she does non consciously intend her novels to be Mormon-influenced, or to promote the virtues of sexual abstinence and spiritual purity, but admits that her writing is shaped by her values, proverb, "I don't think my books are going to be really graphic or dark, considering of who I am. There's always going to be a lot of light in my stories."[42]

Origins and publishing history

Stephenie Meyer says that the thought for Twilight came to her in a dream on June 2, 2003. The dream was almost a man girl, and a vampire who was in love with her merely thirsted for her blood. Based on this dream, Meyer wrote the transcript of what is at present chapter 13 of the volume.[43] Despite having very little writing experience, in a affair of iii months she had transformed that dream into a completed novel.[twoscore] After writing and editing the novel, she signed a three-volume deal with Piddling, Brown and Company for $750,000, an unusually loftier amount for a start fourth dimension writer.[44] Meyer's literary amanuensis, Jodi Reamer of Writers House, discovered her merely considering the inexperienced assistant who received Meyer's original letter did not know that young adult books are supposed to be 40,000 to 60,000 words in length, not 130,000 words.[45] Megan Tingley, the Little, Chocolate-brown editor who signed Meyer, said that halfway through the reading of the Twilight manuscript, she realized that she had a future bestseller in her easily.[46] The book was released in 2005.

Following the success of Twilight, Meyer expanded the story into a series with three more than books: New Moon (2006), Eclipse (2007), and Breaking Dawn (2008). In its first calendar week after publication, the first sequel, New Moon, debuted at #5 on the New York Times Best Seller Listing for Children'southward Affiliate Books, and in its 2d week rose to the #1 position, where it remained for the adjacent eleven weeks. In full, it spent over l weeks on the list.[47] Subsequently the release of Eclipse, the first iii "Twilight" books spent a combined 143 weeks on the New York Times Best Seller List.[40] The fourth installment of the Twilight serial, Breaking Dawn, was released with an initial impress run of 3.7 one thousand thousand copies.[48] Over i.3 1000000 copies were sold on the first twenty-four hours alone, setting a record in starting time-day sales performance for the Hachette Book Group United states.[49] Upon the completion of the fourth entry in the series, Meyer indicated that Breaking Dawn would be the final novel to be told from Bella Swan's perspective.[fifty] In 2008 and 2009, the 4 books of the serial claimed the peak four spots on The states Today's year-cease bestseller list, making Meyer the first author to always achieve this feat.[51] [52] The series then won the 2009 Kids' Choice Award for Favorite Book, where it competed against the Harry Potter series.[5]

Reception

The response to Twilight has been mixed. While the books have become immensely popular, they accept also generated much controversy.

Positive reception

Twilight has gathered acclaim for its popularity with its target readers. The Times lauded it for capturing "perfectly the teenage feeling of sexual tension and alienation."[53] Other reviews described Twilight equally an "exquisite fantasy",[54] and a "gripping blend of romance and horror".[55] Lev Grossman of Fourth dimension wrote that the books take a "pillowy quality distinctly reminiscent of Internet fan fiction", but however praised the serial, comparing information technology to The Lord of the Rings and Harry Potter:

People do not want to just read Meyer's books; they desire to climb inside them and alive at that place... At that place's no literary term for the quality Twilight and Harry Potter (and The Lord of the Rings) share, but you lot know it when yous see it: their worlds take a freestanding internal integrity that makes you experience as if y'all should be able to buy real estate there.[40]

The Seattle Mail-Intelligencer chosen the volume a "hot new teen novel",[56] Entertainment Weekly chosen Meyer "the world's about pop vampire novelist since Anne Rice",[57] The New York Times described Twilight as a "literary phenomenon",[58] and Matt Arado of Daily Herald noted that the Twilight books have get the "hottest publishing phenomenon since a sure bespectacled wizard bandage his spell on the world."[59] The big and diverse online fan community of the series are oftentimes noted, sometimes even being called "cult-similar".[60] Despite this, the series is often considered to accept a wider entreatment; Crystal Mack of Daily Herald said, "While teenage girls are the main audition, young boys and adults of both genders accept also been swept up in the phenomenon."[61]

The author and the serial' popularity are often compared with J. Grand. Rowling and Harry Potter.[40] [62] Describing the fan post-obit of the books, the Phoenix New Times wrote, "Meyer'south fandom is reminiscent of Harry Potter mania."[46] The Daily Telegraph described Twilight as the "spiritual successor to Harry Potter".[63] Rebekah Bradford of The Mail service and Courier stated that the series has a "huge crossover appeal much similar the Harry Potter books before them."[64] Co-ordinate to the Daily Telegraph, "Stephenie Meyer, in particular, has achieved incredible success across all the English-speaking nations and Europe and many will say that her Twilight series has filled the pigsty left by Harry Potter."[65] Meyer has responded to such comparisons, proverb, "It's terribly flattering to be compared to her, just there's never going to be some other J. K. Rowling; that's a phenomenon that'south not gonna happen once more", however noting that "you can compare my fans to her fans more easily [than me to her]. I do retrieve that we both have people who are just really actually enthusiastic, and will come miles to see you lot and be involved, and everybody really cares about our characters."[66]

A shop catering to tourists interested in the Twilight series in Forks, Washington.

Economically, the town of Forks, Washington, the setting for the Twilight serial, has improved due to tourism from fans of the books.[67] Forks is visited by an average of viii,000 tourists per calendar month,[68] and has been described as a "mecca for Twilighters".[69] In response to plans for the aging Forks Loftier School to be renovated, Twilight fans have teamed upward with Space Jewelry Co. and the W Olympic Peninsula Betterment Association to collect donations in an endeavour to salvage the brick appearance or the edifice altogether.[seventy]

On November 5, 2019, the BBC News listed The Twilight Series on its list of the 100 near influential novels.[71]

Negative reception

The series has garnered some notoriety both over its literary substance and over the type of human relationship portrayed in the books.

Many take derided the series every bit poor writing. While comparing Stephenie Meyer to J. K. Rowling, Stephen Rex said, "the real difference [betwixt Rowling and Meyer] is that Jo Rowling is a terrific author, and Stephenie Meyer can't write worth a darn. She's not very expert."[72] [73] Withal, Male monarch understood the appeal of the series, adding, "People are attracted past the stories, by the pace and in the example of Stephenie Meyer, it'south very clear that she'south writing to a whole generation of girls and opening upward kind of a safe joining of love and sex in those books. It'south heady and it'due south thrilling and it'due south not especially threatening because information technology'southward non overtly sexual."[73]

A quote from Robin Browne (though frequently misattributed to King or Andrew Futral)[74] negatively compares the Twilight and Harry Potter book serial: "Harry Potter is about confronting fears, finding inner forcefulness and doing what is right in the face of adversity ... Twilight is about how important information technology is to take a boyfriend".[75]

Laura Miller of Salon.com wrote that "the characters, such as they are, are stripped down to a minimum, lacking the texture and idiosyncrasies of actual people", and said that "Twilight would exist a lot more persuasive as an statement that an 'amazing center' counts for more than than appearances if information technology didn't harp so incessantly on Edward's superficial splendors."[76]

Elizabeth Hand of The Washington Post wrote, "Meyer'south prose seldom rises to a higher place the serviceable, and the plotting is leaden."[77] The article, featured on the Yahoo! website Polish, as well criticized the books and the author's last discussion on the series was, "Practiced books deal with themes of longing and loneliness, sexual passion and human frailty, alienation and fearfulness but as the Twilight books practise. Only they do and then by engaging us with complexities of feeling and subtleties of character, expressed in language that rises above bland mediocrity. Their advantage is something more than just an escape into banal mediocrity. We deserve something better to become hooked on."[78] [79]

Controversy

The books have also been widely critiqued as promoting, normalizing, and idealizing an emotionally and physically abusive relationship. Sci-fi website io9 noted that Bella and Edward's relationship meets all xv criteria prepare by the National Domestic Violence Hotline for existence in an calumniating human relationship.[80] 50. Lee Butler of Young Adult Library Services Association commented how he was unusually hesitant to stock the Twilight books in his library because he felt the books were "robbing [teen girls] of agency and normalizing stalking and abusive behavior."[81] Many female-oriented and feminist media outlets, like Jezebel,[82] The Frisky,[83] and Salon.com accept decried Twilight equally promoting an anti-adult female message.[84] Bowwow magazine stated the novels "had created a new, popular genre of "abstinence porn", terminal that, "In reality, the abstinence message—wrapped in the genre of abstinence porn—objectifies Bella in the aforementioned ways that 'real' porn might. The Twilight books conflate Bella losing her virginity with the loss of other things, including her sense of self and her very life. Such a loftier-stakes treatment of abstinence reinforces the idea that Bella is powerless, an object, a fact that is highlighted when nosotros go to the sex scenes in Breaking Dawn."[85] Ms. declared that Twilight promotes a physically abusive relationship and an anti-ballgame message.[86] Withal, writer Angela Aleiss of Religion News Service said that contrary to popular opinion, Mormons do permit abortion when the mother's life is in danger. Bella's refusal to abort her fetus, along with her quick union and pregnancy, instead underscore the Mormon emphasis on family unit.[87]

Various psychology experts have come out in agreement with the assessment of the relationship as calumniating.[88] Melissa Henson, Manager of advice and public didactics for the Parents Television Council, stated:

To impressionable teens, domestic violence is well-nigh romanticized. We've fabricated great strides in recent years in clearly communicating the message that is never okay to hitting a woman...Today, the hidden message in the entertainment consumed past many impressionable teens is that if he hits you lot, information technology is out of beloved – which is absolutely wrong.[89]

Many entertainment and media outlets have made like comments on the calumniating nature of Bella and Edward's relationship, including Entertainment Weekly,[90] Movieline,[91] and Mediabistro.com.[92]

Meyer has dismissed such criticisms, arguing both that the books middle effectually Bella's pick, which she perceives as the foundation of modernistic feminism, and that Bella's damsel in distress persona is due only to her humanity.[93] Meyer also added, "Just because [Bella] doesn't do kung fu and she cooks for her father doesn't make her worthy of that criticism".[94] Shannon Simcox of The Daily Collegian has similarly dismissed the criticism surrounding Bella, commenting, "While Bella plays the perfect damsel in distress that gets herself into sticky situations, she is too very in control of herself. She chose to move to Forks and be in a new place; she constantly faces a bunch of people who desire to suck the life right out of her, and she is constantly pleading to go a vampire, as well, then she can take care of herself and Edward."[95] [96]

Legal issues

In December 2010, professional vocaliser Matthew Smith, known equally Matt Heart, sued Summit Entertainment in the case Smith v. Meridian Amusement LLC. Smith's song "Eternal Knight" was posted on several websites accompanied by cover art which Summit claimed used its "Twilight" typeface marker. Smith won four of the vii causes of activity, including his correct to go on distribution of his copyrighted song, nether the terms that he remove any reference to "Twilight" or the "Twilight Saga".[97]

Book challenges

The Twilight series fabricated the number five spot on the American Library Clan's (ALA) Top Ten List of the Most Oftentimes Challenged Books of 2009, for being "Sexually Explicit", "Unsuited to Age Group", and having a "Religious Viewpoint".[98]

Film adaptations

A screenplay for Twilight was written by Melissa Rosenberg and has been adjusted into a film by Tiptop Entertainment. The film was directed by Catherine Hardwicke, with Kristen Stewart and Robert Pattinson in the leading roles of Isabella Swan and Edward Cullen, respectively. The moving-picture show was released in the The states on Nov 21, 2008.[99] Twilight: The Consummate Illustrated Motion-picture show Companion, written past Mark Cotta Vaz, was released October 28.[100]

On November 22, 2008, post-obit the box part success of Twilight, Elevation Entertainment confirmed a sequel, called The Twilight Saga: New Moon, based on the 2nd book in the series, New Moon.[101] The film was released on November twenty, 2009. The Twilight Saga: New Moon was released on DVD and Blu-ray on March xx, 2010, through midnight release parties.[102] That same day, Summit Entertainment released Twilight in Forks, a documentary about the main setting of the Twilight series, Forks, Washington.[103] Topics Entertainment released its own documentary about Forks and the Twilight series on March 16, called Forks: Bitten by Twilight.[104]

The third installment in the serial, The Twilight Saga: Eclipse, was released on June xxx, 2010.[105] [106] The fourth installment, The Twilight Saga: Breaking Dawn – Part i was released November xviii, 2011. The fifth and last installment, The Twilight Saga: Breaking Dawn – Part 2 was released November xvi, 2012.[107]

Conventions

While the Twilight serial has been a visible presence in many conventions such as ComicCon, there have likewise been many conventions whose main focus has been on the Twilight series (books and films). Some notable conventions take been Twicon and a series of "Official Twilight Conventions" that are being held by Creation Entertainment.[108]

Forever Twilight in Forks Festival

Every yr around the week of September 13, hundreds of Twilight fans flock to the town of Forks, Washington for the Festival. The festival starts on different dates each year since 2015. Information technology was originally called Stephenie Meyer's Twenty-four hours and held during September thirteen, which is her book'southward fictional graphic symbol Bella Swan's birthday. The festival attracts fans to visit all the famous sites from the moving-picture show, Forks High Schoolhouse, Bella's Firm, The Cullen'south house, Newton hardware store, La Button Beach, etc. Fans dress up every bit their favorite book characters.

Stephenie Meyer's Day was created by the Forks Urban center Council to celebrate Stephenie Meyer on September 13, 2007, for her novels and films. Ever since Meyer'southward books were published the boondocks's tourist population increases each year.

See also

  • The Host (2013 moving picture)
  • The Host (novel)

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External links

  • Official website
  • Stephenie Meyer's website

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