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24 May 2008
Buy it!
2 of 2 found this helpful There are a few authors whos every book I try to track down and read. Neil Gaiman. Terry Pratchett. Jasper Fforde. Joel Shepherd. Several others. I'm about to add another name to the list: Stephenie Meyer.
This is, pardon my French, one damn good book. If you want to read something that will have you staying up all night just because you want to finish "one more chapter", this is it. Meyer's charcters don't just jump off the page, they explode off of it. They live and breathe, love and cry. The world they live in is a twisted sci-fi version of our own (parts of the story had me wondering, "Could this actually be happening?").
To make a long story short, I CANNOT recommend this book highly enough. I didn't want to finish it because I didn't want to stop reading it. If that twisted logic makes any sense. If you want a good read you will not go wrong with this book. I can only hope that Mrs. Meyers turns this single book into a series (and considering how well I've read it was selling, and the ending which I will not spoil, that seems really likely). One can only hope that when this book becomes a movie (and it will, eventually, believe me), that Hollywood doesn't screw it up too much. I enjoyed it too much to see some directors ham-fisted attempt to bring it to the big screen destroy everything that was good about the book.
Buy it, you won't regret it.