Twilight - Cover and Preface - Part of a Book Review

Yes, my friends. The moment is upon us to read this excuse of a book and judge it for what it is. I believe that I may just be the person to review this book. Not only am I female, but I am in fact a teenager. Who else is better to review a teen romance than a teenage girl? I'll leave you to judge. So I shall start at the very beginning. Quite simply, I'm starting with the cover (seen on the right) As you can see it is some rather pale hands holding an apple. "What is the significance of this?" I hear you ask! Well, in this case we'll see what the author herself - Stephanie Meyer - has to say about this oddly cryptic cover...

"The apple on the cover of Twilight represents 'forbidden fruit'. I used the scripture from Genesis (located just after the table of contents) because I loved the phrase 'the fruit of the knowledge of good and evil'. Isn't this exactly what Bella ends up with? A working knowledge of what good is, and what evil is. The nice thing about the apple is that it has so many symbolic roots. You've got the apple in Snow White, one bite and you're frozen in a state of not-quite death... Then you have Paris and the golden apple in Greek mythology - look how much trouble that started. Apples are quite the versatile fruit. In the end, I love the beautiful simplicity of the picture. To me it says: choice."

Yes. It seems that the apple represents choice. Um.... To me it shows an apple. Yes it is a lovely picture and it's certainly eye catching but I really do not see any symbolism in this. As I have read the book already I cannot recall any mention of apples. But still, Stephanie knows best. But I digress... Let us delve into this wonderful book until we drown through suspenseful, forbidden romance. I'm going to skip over acknowledgements and just skip to the preface.
   So the preface starts with "I'D NEVER GIVEN MUCH THOUGHT TO HOW I WOULD DIE" in lovely caps lock. It certainly grabs your attention as, in the honest truth, not many of us think about the day when we snuff it. I'm pretty sure some of the greatest people in the world did not expect their death. For instance, when Alan Turing (great mathematician) was a child I'm pretty sure he didn't believe that he would be chemically castrated for his homosexuality and then commit suicide by eating a poisoned apple...
   Holy cow, we're back to apples again. Stephanie Meyer, you have my humblest apologies. I guess I should've seen that coming. And if you don't know who Alan Turing is, search him up on wikipedia.
   Anyway, back to the story. So our narrator seems to be in a little bit of trouble as she looks into the eyes of 'the Hunter'. Not much information is given about this 'Hunter' except that he has dark eyes and he's smiling.
   Ooohh! Suspense! This shall make me read on.
   But then it goes on to say how she was dying for someone else. Isn't she nice? She's reflecting on her life and everything but it seems she doesn't regret anything about her life. That's usually good when one is about to die. It's nice how things work out in the end, isn't it?
   But oh my! The Hunter's just 'sauntered' over to kill her!!!! OMG, WILL SHE MAKE IT!!!!   Of course she will. There's another three books. However, there are still twenty four chapters, as well as a lengthy epilogue, and I'm determined to finish reviewing before my birthday. But for now, I'm leaving off at this. The rest shall come later if I'm lucky.
   So long, my servants friends.