Twilight is a vampire romance novel addressed to teenage audiences, written by Stephenie Meyer and published in 2005. It is the first of a series of four books, which are published as well as Twilight, New Moon, Eclipse, and Breaking Dawn.



It tells the story of Isabella Swan from the time he decided to move from Arizona to the town of Forks in Washington; meets Edward Cullen, son of Carlisle and Esme, a vampire family, Bella falls in love with Edward. The consequences of this love marks a total change in the lives of Bella. Discover the world hitherto unknown to her from the vampires. He puts his life and that of his father at risk, when confronted with a coven consists of three vampires who do not share the respect for human life (Victoria, Lauren and James) with the family's vampire Edward Cullen.



The series explores the unorthodox romance between human Bella and vampire Edward and the love triangle between Bella, Edward and Jacob, a werewolf.

Although Twilight is one of the most popular series in the last decade there are conflicting views on whether the author of the saga, Stephenie Meyer, is a good writer or not, even Stephen King has come to qualify Meyer of being a bad writer .



Some critics claim that in Meyer's novel, you lose the true "folklore" of vampires, after being described completely different from its traditional aspects. For example, vampires can not cross rivers, seas, springs, oceans and lakes, unless it be by plane or boat, provided they are within or near a sarcophagus made ​​in his land, besides the weakness in the sun (which disappears in the series), the bad breath from eating blood, and not to be unobtrusive to the man, as his true nature is murderous.