However, despite this, they manage to stay together safely for a time. Their foremost problem is that to Edythe, Beau's scent is a hundred times more potent than any other human's, making Edythe struggle to resist her desire to kill him. Edythe admits that she and her family are vampires, but says that she and her family only drink animal blood to keep themselves from turning into the monsters, unlike other vampires.Įdythe and Beau's relationship grows over time and they fall passionately in love. Beau asks her if what Julie said about her family is true. During a trip to Port Angeles, Edythe rescues him again, this time from a band of gangsters intent on killing him. Julie mentions the Cullens, and says that most of the reservation believes that they are vampires, though she doesn't think so. However, Edythe appears and stops the oncoming car completely with one hand, leaving a dent, and shocking Beau with her speed and strength.ĭuring a trip to La Push, Beau tricks a family friend, Julie Black of the Quileute tribe, into telling him the local tribal legends and he finds out why, although the Cullens have lived in Forks for two years, they have never really been accepted by the townsfolk.
Beau realizes this at the last moment and thinks he is dead when Taylor's van collides with Beau's truck. Oblivious to him, a student named Taylor Crowley, had lost control of her vehicle and it was rapidly progressing in his direction. One day, Beau looks at Edythe, who is far away, in the parking lot.
Shortly after she disappears for a while, Edythe begins to talk to Beau, having seemingly forgotten their unfriendly first encounter. She even attempts to change her schedule to avoid him, which leaves Beau completely puzzled about her attitude towards him. She moves as far away from him as possible. Edythe is stunningly attractive, and inhumanly beautiful, yet she is an outsider too. When Beau sits next to Edythe Cullen in biology class on his first day of school, Edythe seems utterly repulsed. Much to his dismay, several girls in the school compete for Beau's attention. On his first day at Forks High School, he meets the alluring telepathic vampire Edythe Cullen, who is both frustrated and infatuated with him for his vulnerabilities and her inability to read his mind.Įven though Beau never had many friends in Phoenix, he quickly attracts attention at his new school, and is quickly befriended by several students. It was a commercial success, grossing more than $392 million worldwide and an additional $157 million from North American DVD sales, as of July 2009.Mirroring the plot of Twilight, Life and Death follows the story of 17-year-old Beaufort Swan as he leaves the sunny environment of Phoenix, Arizona where he has spent a sizable portion of his life with his mother, Renée Dwyer, to the gloomy town of Forks, Washington to spend the rest of his high school career with his estranged father, police chief Charlie Swan. A film adaptation of Twilight was released in 2008. The novel is followed by New Moon, Eclipse, and Breaking Dawn. It is the first book of the Twilight series, and introduces seventeen-year-old Isabella "Bella" Swan, who moves from Phoenix, Arizona to Forks, Washington and finds her life in danger when she falls in love with a vampire, Edward Cullen. The novel was also the biggest selling book of 2008 and, to date, has sold 17 million copies worldwide, spent over 91 weeks on the New York Times Best Seller list, and been translated into 37 different languages. That same year, Twilight was named one of Publishers Weekly's Best Children's Books of 2005. Twilight was initially rejected by 14 agents, but became an instant bestseller when published originally in hardback in 2005, debuting at #5 on the New York Times Best Seller list within a month of its release and later peaking at #1.
Twilight is a young-adult vampire-romance novel by author Stephenie Meyer.
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