Twilight
- 498
- Pages
- about 9 h
- Reading time
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Our view
“Twilight” is an unembarrassed fantasy of first love and is best read as one. The new girl in a small town turns out to be the one person a dangerous vampire can neither resist nor read. That wish fulfilment is the whole appeal, and the book commits to it completely. Some readers outside its intended audience find the story merely average, though it holds up better than most of its imitators.
Worth knowing Stephenie Meyer has said the book began with a dream she had on 2 June 2003, and she finished the manuscript within about three months. It is set in the real town of Forks, Washington, which later drew fans in large numbers. Midnight Sun (2020) retells this story from Edward’s point of view. Catherine Hardwicke’s 2008 film launched the film series.
The view of the BookRank editors, written from readers’ ratings and comments. It does not affect the score or the book’s place in a ranking.
About the book
Twilight is a 2005 young adult vampire-romance novel by author Stephenie Meyer. It is the first book in the Twilight series, and introduces seventeen-year-old Isabella "Bella" Swan, who moves from Phoenix, Arizona, to Forks, Washington. She is endangered after falling in love with Edward Cullen, a 103-year-old vampire frozen in his 17-year-old body. Additional novels in the series are New Moon, Eclipse, and Breaking Dawn.
Reading order · Twilight
Full order & progress →- TwilightThis book
6.26.2 / 10 - New Moon
6.16.1 / 10 - Eclipse
6.46.4 / 10 - Breaking Dawn
6.46.4 / 10
Where the score comes from
The sources average 6.1 across 4,222 ratings. With that many, the reader vote carries 97% of the weight and the score stays at 6.2 — the Romance average of 7.6 barely moves it.
The rating sources disagree by more than a point, so the score leans more on the category average than usual.
| Source | Average | Ratings | Weight |
|---|---|---|---|
| Open Library | 7.3 | 440 | 10% |
| Google Books | 8.0 | 154 | 4% |
| Hardcover | 5.9 | 3.6K | 86% |
Frequently asked
What age is Twilight for?
Twilight sits on the Young adult shelf in the sources we use, which by convention means roughly ages 13 and up. This is a guide from the book’s category, not a publisher’s age rating. It has 498 pages — longer than 74% of the ranked books in Romance.
In this book
Themes this book shares with others — each leads to the best books on it.
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Same shelf — Romance — with scores between 6.1 and 7.4, closest to this book.
