Twilight is a series of four vampire themed fantasy romance novels by American author Stephenie Meyer. It charts a period in the life of Isabella "Bella" Swan, a teenage girl who moves to Forks, Washington, and falls in love with a 104 year old vampire named Edward Cullen. The series is told primarily from Bella's point of view, with the epilogue of Eclipse and Part II of Breaking Dawn being told from the viewpoint of character Jacob Black, a werewolf. The unpublished Midnight Sun is a retelling of the first book, Twilight, from Edward Cullen's point of view. The novella The Short Second Life of Bree Tanner, which tells the story of a newborn vampire who appeared in Eclipse, was published on June 5, 2010 as a hardcover book and on June 7 as a free online ebook. The Twilight Saga: The Official Illustrated Guide, a definitive encyclopedic reference with nearly 100 full colour illustrations, was released in bookstores on April 12, 2011.
Since the release of the first novel, Twilight, in 2005, the books have gained immense popularity and commercial success around the world. The series is most popular among young adults; the four books have won multiple awards, most notably the 2008 British Book Award for "Children's Book of the Year" for Breaking Dawn, while the series as a whole won the 2009 Kids' Choice Award for Favorite Book.
As of October 2010, the series has sold over 116 million copies worldwide
with translations into at least 38 different languages around the globe.The four
Twilight books have consecutively set records as the biggest selling novels of 2008 on the
USA Today Best-Selling Books list and have spent over 235 weeks on the
New York Times Best Seller list for Children's Series Books.
The books have been made into The Twilight Saga series of motion pictures by Summit Entertainment.
The film adaptations of the first three books were released in 2008,
2009, and 2010 respectively. The fourth book is adapted into two
full-length films — the first film being released in November 2011, and
the second film in November 2012.
Twilight
Seventeen year old Isabella "Bella" Swan moves to Forks, a small town near the Washington
coast, to live with her father, Charlie, after her mother is remarried
to a minor league baseball player. She is quickly befriended by many
students at her new high school, but she is intrigued by the mysterious
and aloof Cullen siblings. Bella sits next to Edward Cullen in biology
class on her first day of school; he appears to be disgusted by her,
much to Bella's confusion. A few days later, Bella is nearly struck by a
van in the school parking lot. Edward inexplicably moves from several
feet away and stops the vehicle with his hand without any harm to
himself or Bella. He later refuses to explain this act to Bella and
warns her against befriending him.
After much research, Bella eventually discovers that Edward is a
vampire, though he only consumes animal blood. The pair fall in love and
Edward introduces Bella to his vampire family, Carlisle, Esme, Alice, Jasper, Emmett, and Rosalie. Soon after, three nomadic vampires—James, Victoria, and Laurent—arrive.
James, a tracker vampire, is intrigued by Edward's protectiveness over a
human and wants to hunt Bella for sport. Edward and his family risk
their lives to protect her, but James tracks Bella to Phoenix
where she is hiding and lures her into a trap by claiming he is holding
her mother hostage. James attacks Bella and bites her wrist, but
Edward, along with the other Cullen family members, arrives before he
can kill her. James is destroyed, and Edward sucks James's venom from
Bella's wrist, preventing her from becoming a vampire. A severely
injured Bella is taken to a hospital. Upon returning to Forks, Bella and
Edward attend their school prom. While there, Bella expresses her
desire to become a vampire, which Edward refuses to grant. The film ends
with Victoria secretly watching the pair dancing, plotting revenge for
her lover James's death.
New Moon
On Isabella "Bella" Swan's 18th birthday, Edward Cullen, the vampire she loves, and his family throw her a birthday party. While unwrapping a gift, she gets a paper cut, which causes Edward's adopted brother, Jasper,
to be overwhelmed by her blood's scent and attempt to kill Bella.
Trying to protect her, Edward and the Cullens move away from Forks,
but in an attempt to get Bella to move on, Edward tells her it is
because he no longer loves her. This leaves Bella heartbroken and
depressed.
In the months that follow, Bella learns that thrill-seeking
activities, such as motorcycle riding and cliff-diving, allow her to
"hear" Edward's voice in her head. She also seeks comfort in her
deepening friendship with Jacob Black,
a cheerful companion who eases her pain over losing Edward. Bella later
discovers that Jacob and other tribe members are werewolves. Jacob and
his pack protect Bella from the vampire Laurent and also Victoria, who seeks revenge for her dead mate, James, whom the Cullens killed in
Twilight.
Meanwhile, a series of miscommunications leads Edward to believe that
Bella has killed herself by jumping off a cliff. Distraught over her
supposed suicide, Edward flees to Volterra, Italy to provoke the Volturi,
vampire royalty who are capable of killing him. Alice and Bella rush to
Italy to save Edward, arriving just in time to stop him. Before leaving
Italy, the Volturi tell Edward that Bella, a human who knows that
vampires exist, must either be killed or transformed into a vampire to
protect the secret. When they return to Forks, Edward tells Bella that
he has always loved her and only left Forks to protect her. She forgives
him, and the Cullens vote in favor of Bella being transformed into a
vampire, to Edward's dismay. However, Jacob sternly reminds Edward about
an important piece in their treaty: if the Cullens bite a human, the
treaty is over and the wolves will attack.
Eclipse
In Seattle, not far from Forks, Victoria (Bryce Dallas Howard) attacks and bites Riley Biers (Xavier Samuel), in order to begin creating an army of newborns with him. Back in Forks, Edward Cullen (Robert Pattinson) and Bella Swan (Kristen Stewart)
discuss the complications of becoming an immortal vampire. At 18 years
old, one year older than the age Edward was when he became a vampire,
Bella expresses her aversion to the idea of marrying so young, though
Edward refuses to turn her into a vampire until they are married, his
argument that she should have various human experiences she would
otherwise miss. While Charlie Swan (Billy Burke)
investigates the disappearance of Riley Biers, Edward suspects his
disappearance was caused by the newborn vampires. Furthering his
suspicions is Riley's intrusion into Bella's room.
Although Edward fears for her safety, Bella insists that Jacob Black (Taylor Lautner) and the rest of the werewolf
pack would never harm her, but Edward is still not convinced. Bella
goes to La Push to see Jacob, and returns home unharmed. During one of
her visits, Jacob confesses that he is in love with Bella, and
forcefully kisses her. Furious, she punches him and sprains her hand,
and Edward later threatens Jacob and tells him to only kiss her if she
asks him to. Bella even revokes the invitations of Jacob and his pack
members to her graduation party, but when Jacob apologizes for his
behavior, she forgives him.
Meanwhile, Alice (Ashley Greene) sees a vision that the newborn army is attacking Forks led by Riley Biers. Jacob, accompanied by Quil (Tyson Houseman) and Embry (Kiowa Gordon)
overhear this, which leads to an alliance between the Cullens and Wolf
pack. Later, the Cullens and the wolves agree to a meeting place and
time to train and discuss strategy. During the training Jasper (Jackson Rathbone)
explains to Bella that he was created by a vampire named Maria to
control a newborn army. He hated his original existence and upon meeting
Alice, joined the Cullens with her. Bella sees the true bond between a
mated vampire pair and begins to understand Jasper better. Despite her
reluctance to marry, Bella realizes that spending eternity with Edward
is more important to her than anything else and agrees to marry him.
Edward and Bella camp up in the mountains to hide Bella from the
bloodthirsty newborns. During the night, Bella overhears a conversation
between Edward and Jacob, in which they temporarily put aside their
hatred towards each other. In the morning, Jacob overhears Edward and
Bella discussing their engagement and storms off, angrily. Bella
desperately asks him to kiss her, and she realizes that she has fallen
in love with him. Edward finds out about the kiss but is not upset, as
Bella says she loves him more than Jacob.
When Victoria appears, Edward kills her while Seth kills Riley. The
Cullens and the Quileute wolves, meanwhile, destroy her "army", though
Jacob is injured saving Leah Clearwater from a newborn. Several members
of the vampire police, the Volturi, arrive to deal with the newborn army. They also see that the Cullens are guarding the newborn, Bree Tanner (Jodelle Ferland), who had refused to fight and surrendered to Carlisle. Jane (Dakota Fanning)
tortures Bree to get information, then instructs Felix to kill her,
despite the Cullens' efforts to spare her. When Jane notes that Caius
will find it interesting that Bella is still human, Bella informs her
that the date for her transformation has been set. Bella visits the
injured Jacob to tell him that even though she is in love with him, she
has chosen to be with Edward. Saddened by her choice, Jacob reluctantly
agrees to stop trying to come between her and Edward.
Bella and Edward go to their meadow, where she tells him she has
decided to do things his way: get married, make love, then be
transformed into a vampire. She also explains that she never has been
normal and never will be; she's felt out of place her entire life, but
when she is in Edward's world she feels stronger and complete. At the
end of the story they decide they need to tell Charlie about their
engagement.
Breaking Dawn
Breaking Dawn is divided into three separate parts. The first
part details Bella's marriage and honeymoon with Edward, which they
spend on a private island that Carlisle bought and gave to Esme, called
Isle Esme, off the coast of Brazil. Two weeks into their honeymoon,
Bella realizes that she is pregnant with a half-vampire, half-human
child and that her condition is progressing at an unnaturally
accelerated rate. After contacting Carlisle, who confirms her pregnancy,
she and Edward immediately return home to Forks, Washington, where the
fetus continues to develop at an unnatural speed. After a chance remark
by Jacob, it becomes apparent to Carlisle that the fetus only gains
nutrition from Bella's blood, which is why her physical health was
depleting. Edward is concerned for Bella's life, and convinced that the
fetus will kill her, urges her to abort the pregnancy while offering her
alternatives for children. However, Bella feels a strong connection
with her unborn baby and refuses.
The novel's second part is written from the perspective of
shape-shifter Jacob Black, and lasts throughout Bella's pregnancy and
childbirth. Jacob's Quileute wolf pack is bound by their pact with the
Cullens to not attack members of the Cullen family, as long as they
don't feed on or change any humans, but if the terms are broken, the
Quileute will protect humans and destroy the vampires. Not knowing what
danger the unborn child may pose and faced with Bella's human life
ending, the Quileute plan to destroy it and kill the vampire Bella.
Jacob vehemently protests this decision and leaves, forming his own pack
with Seth and Leah Clearwater. The fetus in Bella's body grows swiftly,
with timing of the imminent birth unknown due to the lack of any
related medical knowledge on human vampire births. Carlisle, the
experienced doctor, is out of the house to replenish blood supplies from
a hospital blood bank, when Bella falls, cracking her pelvis and
inducing labor. The baby breaks many of her bones, including her spine,
and she loses massive amounts of blood. In order to save her life,
Edward changes her into a vampire by injecting his venom into her heart
and biting her repeatedly. Jacob, thinking that Bella is dead, and
blaming Bella's daughter Renesmee as the cause, tries to kill Renesmee.
Instead, he "imprints"—an involuntary response in which a shape-shifter
finds his soul mate—on her.
The third section shifts back to Bella's perspective, describing
Bella's painful transformation and finding herself changed into a
vampire and enjoying her new life and abilities. However, the vampire
Irina misidentifies Renesmee as an "immortal child", a child who has
been turned into a vampire. Because "immortal children" are
uncontrollable, creating them has been outlawed by the Volturi. After
Irina presents her allegation to the Volturi, they plan to destroy
Renesmee and the Cullens. In an attempt to survive, the Cullens gather
other vampire clans from around the world to stand as witnesses and
prove to the Volturi that Renesmee is not an immortal child. Edward
telepathically connects with Jacob and his Quileute pack, with the full
realization of Jacob's imprint with Renesmee forging a new family
connection of an unbreakable bond and mutual pact of protection between
the Cullens and the Quileute, ending hatred between the races. As local
and foreign vampires arrive, the Cullen house becomes the headquarters
and training ground for the assorted vampires and the Quileute wolf
packs. Information pieced together from the many visitors reveals the
Volturi's ulterior motives for power through the acquisition of vampires
with special abilities, turning the gathered vampire witnesses into
self-aware rebels intent on defending their freedoms. Faced with the
Volturi's ruthless killing of numerous vampires, many of the guest
vampires reveal secret talents, which they know the Volturi will demand
to control through them, or seek to destroy, in fear of it being used
against them. The transformation of each person from human to vampire
alters their characteristics, physically and mentally, with traits in
human form enhanced in vampire form and particular skills heightened,
sometimes into a supernatural power. Since no two minds think alike,
although similar, no two powers are identical and some powers require
time to develop or improve. The majority of special abilities are mind
based, with exceptions occurring in powers that are physically related.
At the Cullen home, various abilities and strategies are worked on
individually and collectively, with exceptional talents displayed by notable vampires such as:
- The Cullen coven: Carlisle compassion, Esme love, Emmett strength,
Rosalie beauty, Edward telepathy, Alice precognition, Jasper
pathokinesis, Bella mental shield, Renesmee tactile thought projection
and mental shield penetration.
- The Cullen Allies: Eleazar ability identification, Kate psychic
electrokinesis, Renata physical attack diversion, Charles lie detection,
Maggie lie detection, Siobhan outcome manipulation, Zafrina mental
visual projection, Benjamin elemental manipulation.
- The Volturi coven: Aro tactile telepathy, Marcus relationship
identification, Jane mental pain illusion, Alec sense deprivation,
Chelsea relationship manipulation, Demetri tracking sense.
Bella's human ability shielded her from psychic powers, but as a
vampire she learns she can project it to shield others in a wide radius,
a secret weapon that neutralizes most of the Volturi's powers.
Renesmee's hybrid human vampire gifts show that gifts can be hereditary,
passed down genetically from Edward and Bella both. Upon confronting
the gathered Cullen allies and witnesses, the Volturi discover that they
have been misinformed and immediately execute Irina for her mistake,
trying unsuccessfully to instigate a full battle. Additionally, the
Volturi bring up the Cullens' pact with the Quileute as allying with the
vampires' sworn enemy, the Lycans, but it turns out the Quileute are
"shapeshifters" that chose the form of giant wolves, and not Lycans. The
Volturi remain undecided on whether Renesmee should be viewed as a
threat to vampires' secret existence. At that time, Alice and Jasper,
who had left prior to the confrontation, return with a Mapuche called
Nahuel, a 150-year-old vampire-human crossbreed like Renesmee. Nahuel
demonstrates that the crossbreeds pose no threat, and the Volturi leave.
The Cullens and their allies return to their homes in peace. When
Edward and Bella are alone, she shows Edward a skill she has worked on,
enabling him to read her mind for the first time, and sharing her
feelings about him from her human and vampire memories.
Cast
Character |
|
Twilight
(2008) |
New Moon
(2009) |
Eclipse
(2010) |
Breaking Dawn
(2011 / 2012) |
Principal characters
|
Bella Swan |
Kristen Stewart |
Edward Cullen |
Robert Pattinson |
Jacob Black |
Taylor Lautner |
Carlisle Cullen |
Peter Facinelli |
Esme Cullen |
Elizabeth Reaser |
Alice Cullen |
Ashley Greene |
Emmett Cullen |
Kellan Lutz |
Rosalie Hale |
Nikki Reed |
Jasper Hale |
Jackson Rathbone |
Renesmee Cullen |
|
Mackenzie Foy |
Amazon Coven
|
Senna |
|
Tracey Heggins |
Zafrina |
|
Judi Shekoni |
Denali Coven
|
Eleazar |
|
Christian Camargo |
Carmen |
|
Mía Maestro |
Irina |
|
Maggie Grace |
Laurent |
Edi Gathegi |
|
Kate |
|
Casey LaBow |
Sasha |
|
Andrea Powell |
Tanya |
|
MyAnna Buring |
Vasilii |
|
Billy Wagenseller |
Egyptian Coven
|
Amun |
|
Omar Metwally |
Kebi |
|
Andrea Gabriel |
Benjamin |
|
Rami Malek |
Tia |
|
Angela Sarafyan |
French Coven
|
Henri |
|
Amadou Ly |
Yvette |
|
Janelle Froehlich |
Irish Coven
|
Maggie |
|
Marlane Barnes |
Siobhan |
|
Lisa Howard |
Liam |
|
Patrick Brennan |
Romanian Coven
|
Stefan |
|
Guri Weinberg |
Vladimir |
|
Noel Fisher |
|
Aro |
|
Michael Sheen |
|
Michael Sheen |
Caius |
|
Jamie Campbell Bower |
|
Jamie Campbell Bower |
Marcus |
|
Christopher Heyerdahl |
|
Christopher Heyerdahl |
Alec |
|
Cameron Bright |
|
Cameron Bright |
Demetri |
|
Charlie Bewley |
Felix |
|
Daniel Cudmore |
Heidi |
|
Noot Seear |
|
Jane |
|
Dakota Fanning |
|
Dakota Fanning |
Santiago |
|
Lateef Crowder |
American Nomads
|
Garrett |
|
Lee Pace |
James |
Cam Gigandet |
|
Victoria |
Rachelle Lefevre |
Bryce Dallas Howard |
|
Mary |
|
Toni Trucks |
Peter |
|
Erik Odom |
Charlotte |
|
Valorie Curry |
Randall |
|
Bill Tangradi |
European Nomads
|
Alistair |
|
Joe Anderson |
Other Vampires
|
Bree Tanner |
|
Jodelle Ferlan |
|
Cold One |
|
Peter Murphy |
|
Cold Woman[D] |
|
Monique Ganderton |
|
Huilen |
|
Marisa Quinn |
Lucy |
|
Kirsten Prout |
|
Maria |
|
Catalina Sandino Moreno |
|
Nettie |
|
Leah Gibson |
|
Riley Biers |
|
Xavier Samuel |
|
Half-vampires
|
Nahuel |
|
J.D. Pardo |
Shape-shifters
|
Sam Uley |
Solomon Trimble |
Chaske Spencer |
Quil Ateara |
|
Tyson Houseman |
Embry Call |
Krys Hyatt |
Kiowa Gordon |
Paul Lahote |
|
Alex Meraz |
Jared Cameron |
|
Bronson Pelletier |
Leah Clearwater |
|
Julia Jones |
Seth Clearwater |
|
Boo Boo Stewart |
Taha Aki |
|
Byron Chief-Moon |
|
Humans
|
Charlie Swan |
Billy Burke |
Renée Dwyer |
Sarah Clarke |
|
Sarah Clarke |
|
Harry Clearwater |
|
Graham Greene |
|
Billy Black |
Gil Birmingham |
|
Tyler Crowley |
Gregory Tyree Boyce |
|
Jessica Stanley |
Anna Kendrick |
|
Mike Newton |
Michael Welch |
|
Angela Weber |
Christian Serratos |
|
Eric Yorkie |
Justin Chon |
|
Emily Young |
|
Tinsel Korey |
Rachel Black |
|
Tanaya Beatty |
|
Claire Young |
|
Sienna Joseph |
|
Sue Clearwater |
|
Alex Rice |
|
Phil Dwyer |
Matt Bushell |
|
Ty Olsson |
Mr. Molina |
José Zúñiga |
|
Gianna |
|
Justine Wachsberger |
|
Royce King II |
|
Jack Huston |
|
John |
|
Ben Geldreich |
|
Waylon Forge |
Ned Bellamy |
|
Cora |
Ayanna Berkshire |
|
Third Wife |
|
Mariel Belanger |
|
Waitress |
Katie Powers |
|
Ms. Cope |
Trish Egan |
|
Vera |
|
Sabrina Frank |
|
Kaure |
|
Carolina Virguez |
|
Gustavo |
|
Sebastiao Lemos |
|
J. Jenks |
|
Wendell Pierce[?] |
Bianca |
|
Ali Faulkner |
|
Kim |
|
Caitlin Mooney Fu |
|
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