Twilight
When seventeen-year-old Bella Swan moves to Forks, Washington, she meets the mysterious Edward Cullen and discovers he is a vampire, setting off a romance that tests the boundaries between mortality and immortality.
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What you might want to know about Twilight
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Seventeen-year-old Bella Swan leaves her mother in Phoenix and moves up to her police chief father's house in rainy Forks, Washington.
The original Twilight Saga by Stephenie Meyer has four books: Twilight, New Moon, Eclipse, and Breaking Dawn. Meyer has also published companion novels Midnight Sun (Edward's perspective on Twilight) and the novella The Short Second Life of Bree Tanner.
The five Twilight films released between 2008 and 2012 follow the books closely overall, with some compression of subplots. Breaking Dawn was split into two films. Most fans consider the films a reasonable adaptation despite changes in tone and casting choices.
Twilight is YA paranormal romance, marketed for readers 13 and up. There is no explicit content. The books were widely read by adults during the original Twilight wave and remain popular across age groups.
Yes. Netflix announced an animated Twilight series adaptation called Midnight Sun, which will retell the original story from Edward's perspective. The project was confirmed in 2024 and is in development.
Twilight was written by Stephenie Meyer, published in 2005 by Little, Brown Books for Young Readers.
Twilight is 498 pages in standard print editions, though page counts vary slightly between hardcover, paperback, and large-print formats.
At an average reading pace of about 250 words per minute, Twilight takes most readers 7 to 11 hours to finish.
Twilight is a standalone novel by Stephenie Meyer, not part of a series.
Twilight is available in hardcover, paperback, ebook, and audiobook formats from Amazon, Bookshop.org, ThriftBooks, and most major bookstores.
