Eclipse by Stephenie Meyer

Eclipse the third book of the Twilight Saga, continues the story of Bella Swan and her vampire love with Edward Cullen. In this book Bella is presented with a choice, one that would decide the fate of all characters involved in this novel; to choose to marry Edward and become a vampire or to love Jacob and stay human. The broken ribbon on the cover of the book represents these two options, they also represent Bella struggling to find the correct answer.

Continuing from the previous book New Moon Bella gets back with loving Edward but sees a new problem as Jacob Black also loves her. To complicate things even more, Jacob Black is a "Shape-Shifter Wolf" aka werewolf who's worst enemy is Edward Cullen because he is a vampire. As the story progresses, Bella found out that one of her die-hard old enemies has summoned an army to kill her, because of this she required the cooperation of both the vampires and the werewolfs to join and defeat the army. The question is will the two enemies cooperate to battle the army? More importantly, who will Bella pick? Edward Cullen or Jacob Black.

This book is recommended to any one who likes a bit of a chill mixed with sweet romance, although it is better if not already to start reading from the first book of the series, "Twilight".

The Vampire Diaries by L.J. Smith

This book is by far the best book I've ever read, well the only series of book I've ever read actually. I don't read books in the past but after watching the drama on TV (and this is very different from Twilight and way more interesting), which kept me in so much suspense that I couldn't stand it anymore and went to the bookstore and bought the whole series back and read all the way from the beginning.

This series contains up to 6 books (one still unpublished till late 2010 or early 2011) and it is about two Salvatore brothers who fell in love with a girl named Katherine in 1864. They had no idea that she was a vampire until she turned the both of them into vampires. There were a lot of hatred between the brothers because of Katherine and they couldn't even stand the sight of seeing each other. As a vampire, you get to live an eternal life which the Salvatore brothers did. And now in 2006, Stefan Salvatore met Elena, queen bee of high school who looks exactly like Katherine but with the exact opposite personalities. Elena has two best friends, Bonnie, who discovers to be a witch/psychic eventually and Meridith who's oddly calm with all that's happening. Stefan and Elena fell in love very soon and Damon tried to ruin the relationship by trying to turn Elena into a vampire because of both the hatred he has for Stefan and how impossibly alike Elena and Katherine looks.

There are many twists in the series and I love the book very much. I know every young adult of our generation would like it too since we're being called the "Vampire-kids" these days after the Twilight craze.

Twilight - Stephenie Meyer

Twilight


My friend in Korea recommended this book. She is a fan of this one. I bought it about a year ago and I finally read it now.

It is a story mainly about Bella and Edward. Bella is a girl who lived in Phoenix with her mom. Her mother got remarried, so Bella's real father lived in Forks. She had been living with her mother, and her second husband was living in other place. Bella left for Forks, because her mother missed her second husband so much. Bella attended Forks High School and met Cullen family. They are all pale, and remarkably handsome and pretty. She had a biology class with Edward Cullen, and I think she liked him since. At first, Edward seemed as if he hated Bella, and for the next 4 more days, he didn't showed up in school.
Next week, he came to school and saved Bella from being crashed by a truck. Bella became suspicious about Ed, because it is hard to belive someone far away save you without even get hurt. And they have some more problems each other.
Few days later, Bella went to Lafourche beach, and heard from Jacob about wolfman and vampire. From this, Bella began to search whether Edward is a vampire or not. Finally, Bella found that Ed is a vampire, and they fell in love each other.
When it was raining and thunder was striking, Bella and Cullen family went for a baseball play and they met some bad vampires. Those guys figured out that Bella is not a vampire and just an ordinary person, and they tried to kill her. To kill her, those bad vampires used vedio which was recorded by Bella's mother. They called Bella to come to ballet practice center and bit her, even though Edward arrived there first to rescue her. If person is bitten by vampire, they become vampire. Edward didn't want Bella to be a vampire as he is, so he sucked out all the venoms in her body.
And then, they lived as a good loving couple. That's the end of this story, and the ending part is bit odd because there are 4 books in Twilight series, and I didn't read New Moon yet. I will post it later.

The Last Song- Nicholas Sparks

Veronica "Ronnie" Miller won't be eighteen until the end of the summer, so she has to follow her mom's rules and is off with her younger brother, Jonah, to spend the summer with her dad in a North Carolina beach town. Ronnie hasn't talked to her dad in over three years. He left New York City and their family and moved back to his hometown. Ronnie is rebellious and having been arrested for shoplifting back home, a quiet summer in North Carolina might be the best thing for her. At least that's what her mother thinks.

Ronnie arrives with the intention of ignoring her dad. On her first night there she wanders the beach and meets a girl, Blaze, who seems okay. But Blaze is addicted to Marcus, and Marcus is bad news. And Marcus is interested in Ronnie. Ronnie can tell Marcus is trouble and tries to avoid him. But the triangle will ultimately create problems.

On a brighter note, Jonah is totally content in North Carolina and with spending time with his father. He has no desire to return to New York City. Jonah has joined his father in creating a replacement stained glass window for a church that burned in town.

As the summer unfolds, Ronnie falls in love with a local boy, Will. She discovers the wonders of Loggerhead turtles. And she learns to trust her father all over again. As the summer comes to a close, more than one tragedy occurs, and Ronnie must face some hard truths in her life.

I have to admit that it's been a while since I truly loved one of Mr. Sparks' novels. Don't get me wrong, I do adore his work. But it's been ages since I sat down with one of his books and found myself with tears in my eyes. This was one of those rare stories. With about forty pages to go in the novel, I found myself with wet eyes and the sniffles.

Dear John by Nicholas Sparks

Do you believe in love at first sight?
Have you ever wanted to love someone, treasure someone, and wait for someone?

When John jumped off the railing at the beach to catch Savannah's bag, he knew he is in love with this woman. Only two weeks, only a couple conversations, they knew completely about each other.

John enlisted the army after high school, as the break quickly went by, John has to go back to the army station located in Germany. Their time together wasn't long, but the love between them made Savannah vowing to wait for John.

By phones and letters, John and Savannah felt like they still have each other beside them, until 9/11, the day that changed the world and their love. John must choose between love and country. While John was fighting for the country, a heart was broken at the other side of the world.

"Dear John" as the letter read, their relationship ended, with tears.

I really enjoy reading this book, because it involves lots of conversations, which made this book more realistic. The ending was very unexpected and touching, it made me cry because I felt really bad for John, how he's hurt but doesn't show, and still love and cares about the woman who doesn't love him anymore.

p.s. The movie "Dear John" is coming out soon!

Lockie Leonard by Tim Winton

You might think romance is boring but really this isn't just romance it's about a boy who is 12 years of age who is moving to the cost of Australia with his family after living in the city called perth. The book is made up of romance of a young teenager, humor of a family who likes to tease each other and the not very nice experiences of starting at a new school.

Lockie Leonard (main character) is a surfer who moves to the costs and is hit by all the problems of growing up. It isn't easy starting at a new school and starting high school at the same time but Lockie Leonard has to put up with it . lockie does like school too much so he spends most his time at school day dreaming. when he isn't day dreaming he is thinking about the girl who sits at the front of class. Lockie Leonard knows he has no chance with the girl who sit at the front of the class first of all he doesn't even know her name second of all she is like the most popular girl in school.

But if you want to know what happens between the girl at the front of class and Lockie then you better read the book.

i'd recommend this from the ages of 12 to 14 because people younger would find it disgusting and the people older would find it boring. i'd give the book out of 10 about 9