The New York Times has reviewed the entire Twilight Series so far in its Book Review section this Sunday. This is quite a thrill as getting a NY Times Book Review nod is quite difficult for any author, let alone a YA author on her third novel.
The online book rankings haven’t changed over yet so hang in there. When they do, our personal prediction is that New Moon, Twilight (hardcover), Twilight (paperback), and Eclipse will all be on the list each in their respective sub-categories on the children’s list.
Pel and Alphie
ya! first to post! stephenie is so amazing, and so r her books!
I can’t believe we have to wait until the 19th to find out if Eclipse has made it to the top of the list! I’ll be on holiday, but logging in at midnight through my dad’s phone
that was awesome!
so great ..i love stepheine’s bkks!!
That was a really great summary of the books! I’m so happy for Stephenie! She really deserves this.
I loved this quote, “..after you’ve dated a vampire, mortal boys seem so immature.”
Of course I devoured ‘Eclipse’ in one afternoon, greedy me!
Stephenie got a page in People magazine and a mini- interview with Stephenie! Can’t find a link, but its there!
Go Stephenie!! She deserves all this credit.
And I read the article in People too. Tried to find a link but not luck….
I´m from a small town in Germany and these books are so amazing that every girl living in my town knows them! Stephenie I can not describe how much eclipse touched my heart!Thank you for every single page!
This is such a great article because it describes Eclipse without making it sound cheesy. And it covered a lot in the book too! I’ve already read Eclipse twice and on my way to three times, I can’t get enough of it, honestly! Way to go Stephenie Meyer!!
Stephenie certainly does tease us! she makes us cry, laugh, scream, sweat, get nervous, and much more. I love it! haha. Such a great article!
Well, I am very happy about the article, though I think that some of the information was incorrect. I’m referencing, specifically, the comment about the vampires coming, fangs ready. I didn’t like the writing of the article; I didn’t think it touched the complexity of the plotline.
It was a good article, and I agree it didn’t completely touch the plotline as well as it could.
But maybe I’m just obsessed,
Wow, I loved the review! best i’ve ever read. It followed the storyline completely.
I guess it did. But I just don’t like how people poke fun at the whole “vampire” thing. Writers always make fun of this fact.
Like, “You think your boyfriend is a ‘pain’ in the neck?”
It just makes me mad, because they don’t get it. They’re not bad vampires. Gosh….
Yeah I think I’m a little obsessed…..
Okay, so i guess it did cover the overall plotline, but…..
I AM GOING TO KILL THIS REVIEWER FOR SHEER IDIOCY!
I mean, she made the series sound so cheesy and stupid. It’s so much deeper and more, dare i say, realistic than the reviewer portrayed it. I read these books because they are not like most stupid teen books. (Well, also of course, because I am madly in love with Edward and rapidly falling in love with Jacob, but that’s beside the point. *Sigh*)
Anyway, I was very disappointed with this review. I could have (and did) write a better one for an 8th grade project.
That is by far, one of the greatest reviews for Stephenie I have ever read! It sums up the daunting situations and decisions perfectly!
However.
I am just a bit let down though, by the tone of this article. Most of the reviews I’ve read haven’t been as extensive as this one, but they’ve been lighter and more supportive of Stephenie. This one seems a bit too critical to me. Stephenie’s books aren’t to be frowned upon because of the supernatural appearances. Stephenie has kept her story very very clean, keeping an excellence sense of propriety throughout. It almost seems to me that the reviewers are being too critical because the books are all the rage but they’re not “typical.”
As Nicole said above, that comment made by the guy on GMA the morning Stephenie appeared wasn’t funny. Its ignorance like that that just gets under my skin. If they would only READ Twilight first, they would have a much better understanding.
Anyway, regardless of the criticism and the incredulity of those who haven’t read Stephenie’s work, she still shall be the greatest author I’ve ever known.
So, WAY TO GO STEPHENIE!!!!! YOU GOT A NY TIMES REVIEW!!! ^_^
Thank You!!
I mean maybe the writer doesn’t get it because she didn’t really read it. I don’t know. I just feel like she didn’t understand the complex relationship between everyone in the series.
But this is off subject. I’m just happy Stephenie is getting all this credit for Twilight, New Moon, & Eclipse. GO STEPHENIE!!
That’s an awesome review – just getting one in the NY Times is awesome in itself! I’m just waiting for Europe to catch on now, Stephenie really deserves to have more than two big European fanbases (Italy and Spain). Hopefully articles like this one will make it across the Atlantic!
it really was good, the tone seemed a little off tho, and it didn’t fit the books at all. u could tell the people didn’t get the books at all (assuming that they read them).
but still, THE NY TIMES!
Like Isabella Cullen and Nicole and others mentioned, I was slightly disappointed by this review. It seemed to me like the author was more interested in being witty than in being accurate, on several points. Like I think she meant to write “It’s frustrating, but it’s NOT a typical human predicament,” because it just didn’t make sense.
Ah well. It’s enough to get people curious enough to try the books, which is the important thing, right? I’ve been a source of Twilight conversion for quite a few people, most recently my roommate who hates reading!! YESSS!!! Always happy to spread the good cheer.
I agree that the tone of this review was condescending. The author was poking fun the whole time, portraying the series as something only bubbly, romance-induced teens would pick up. Phrases like “bliss with Edward 4ever” made me cringe. But I am glad that Stephenie is being recognized by the NY Times.
HAHA wow Liesl Schillinger(author of the article) has a great sense of humor.i liked some parts like these:
~after you’ve dated a vampire, mortal boys seem so immature(very true)
~Or will Bella choose Jake, and raise a litter of dark-haired werepups?(hilarious)
~Edward  a vampire second, a gentleman first (i totally agree!)
A good review all together. I keep trying to read eclipse slow, but i am starting it for the scond time all ready! I LOVE it!!! I know live by the reviewers quote
“after you’ve dated a vampire, mortal boys seem so immature”
LOL, its a good thing my boyfriend is in the Army and a true sweetheart! I HEART EDWARD!! (*blush* im glad Bella said no to Jacob..dont kill me Jacob fans)
fine, i won’t KILL you…jk!
It was a good review, followed the storyline completly. But i couldn’t help but feel that they cheated the books a little in the way they described them, it sounded so incredably cheezy and silly. I know it’s not but the article didn’t give it that good feeling that you get when you read the book.
Patronizing tone aside, the more recognition Stephenie gets, the more people will potentially read her books and discover their profound awesomeness, and that can only be a good thing!
I’m having a really bad reaction to this piece. The review sounds like the response I get when I tell people who believe it’s their job to be more mature than me (parents, older siblings, etc.) that I’m really enjoying series about a vampire and a human girl who are in love. They assume it’s some Anne Rice knock-off, but they’re really quite wrong. I mean, what’s “steamy” about the overt non-sex in Eclipse? These books are wonderful only because they appeal to an audience not looking for another vampire romance paperback, teen or otherwise. The Twilight series is actually smart! And the only reason I’m reading these books is because Bella is the opposite of what the reviewer makes her out to be – a self-centered, shallow, dumb teenage girl. To me, it kinda sounds like the reviewer flipped through the book enough to understand the plot, one that, on the surface, sounds petty and just like any other novel in its genre, and wrote the article based on that.
But yes, publicity for Stephenie is good. Everyone should read the books and realize how wrong Schillinger is.
I appreciated this article because they seemed to take this book slightly more seriously than some of the past articles in other evaluations. I’m probably just a picky fan but I still wish they could’ve done better when it came down to the finer points. I’m still glad Stephenie’s getting the plublicty. ;D
the fangs ready part in the review made me cringe.. COS THEY DONT HAVE FANGS!!!! that is the one thing i hate people going on about!!!!! fantastic that stephenie got the review in but fangs???? seriously i dont think the reviewer read the books right…..
rock on stephenie!!
I am not sure if this is the right place to contact stephenie meyer but I will tell anyway. Like most of your fans I cant wait for your next book. I really really really cant wait until the next book comes out from Bella’s view point!!!! It is sooo soooo hard to wait for it. Especially since she loves Jacob that kind of broke my heart that she doesnt love Edward completely…I was wondering. Are you aloud to tell me if she will decide to choose Jacob over Edward???? Pleeeeaaaaasssseeee say no….that would just be horrible!!!!! Please dont let that happen….Edward and her have to get married and she must turn into a vampire…cry. Even though I am very interested in Edward’s point of view I am not very interested in Jacobs point of view…Do you have any pictures that look like Edward so I can get a better view of what he looks like?? For some reason I am having a lot of trouble trying to imagine what he looks like..When you say copper for his hair do you mean red???? Please try to respond or tell me where I can contact you…THANK YOU!!!! I LOVE YOU FOR WRITING THESE BOOKS!!!!!!!
~rylie
Well, I can’t say I liked the article so much. I didn’t like the bubbly, frothy, and also condescending tone the author used. She made it sound like it was just another cheesy teen romance to go along with the other 10,000 already in bookstores. I didn’t like how she portrayed Bella as slightly bubbly-headed shallow girl, and Jake as a woe-be-gone, pining, in-love-with-a-girl-who-doesn’t-care-a-whit-for-him boy. I didn’t think she got that relationship at all.
I’m so glad that The New York Times gave Stephenie a good review, but the article that went along with that review left me sorely disappointed.
The books are great and I’m for Edward team hihihihi
) ,I’m from Croatia and we are waiting for second book to translate on Croatian thought I read new moon on english and I can’t wait Eclipse…you are so lucky to live there heh… 
So,please tell me what is going on in Eclipse????
ps: sorry about grammar,if something is not correctly written…
im so mad cause i finished eclipse i wish it was like 1000 pgs but its not i cant read it again cuz my mom is reading it. ( yes i know my mom is in love with the series too) well ill just have to wait till shes done.
Ps stephenie your my inspiration to become a writer
Hi,
I was reading your site – very complete overview of Stephenie Meyer! I work for a Canadian bookstore – http://www.chapters.indigo.ca and we noticed that you are posting notices of unique Stephenie Meyer content. We recently did an exclusive interview with Stephenie Meyer that I thought people might be interested in.
She talks about the debate between Edward the vampire and Jacob the werewolf and her favorite music playlist.
http://www.chapters.indigo.ca/Stephenie_Meyer_Page/Stephenie_Meyer_Page-promo.html?s_campaign=blog_stephenie_meyer
Hope you find it interesting!
Sarah
Hmm. One of the things that bothered me was the line about “One moment he acts like you don’t exist, the next he drives you crazy by playing it cool- while his brothers circle you with hungry eyes.”
Um… what? I didn’t see Emmett or Jasper exactly going after Bella- whether to kill her or otherwise.
And: “Your besotted best friend is a werewolf, prone to passive-agressive outbursts like :’Well, I’m so sorry I can’t be the right kind of monster for you, Bella. …’ How can Bella pass her calculus final with this unerathly love triangle preying on her mind?”
Jacob… doesn’t really act like that. They make him sound… I dunno. Just paints him (And the whole book, for that matter) in a bad light.
I loved this article because of the snark in it. I especially liked the last line about the Word of Wisdom remark as I’m mormon as well… (It was quite funny in my mind.)
i like this article even tho i havn’t read all of it. i love anything stephenie will wirte!! excpet for the part about jacob. i’m sorry i just CANNOT stand that boy!!! anyway lol it was finny my friend and i were talking and she said i would read a phone book she wrote!!
i meant to say funny, sorry i can’t spell
I agree, that it painted it in a bad light.
If you read this review would you be interested in the series and want to read it?
I wouldn’t, the writer made it seem like a teen, fluff, no substance book. And the series is SO much more than that! I love these books.
It just didn’t paint the right idea of the book. Covered mostly everything, just not in a good way.
But again it’s great to see Eclipse in NY Times either way.
WOW! That was a great article. I was glad that the author actually seemed interested in the books, unlike other journalists.
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Eclipse was awesome!! It was torture I had to wait till the 10th to get it. I finished it in less than 12 hours, I was up so late reading it. It’s the best out of the three easily.
OMG thank u from the bottom of my heart for every page stephanie. I luved twilight, new moon, and eclipse!! I dont think they could get any better…. the endings are hard for me though and i have to wait a year to find out what happens next. THE SUSPENSE IS ALREADY KILLING ME!
I just wanted to say that like everyone else i LOVE the books! They are GREAT! I must say I am a Harry Potter Fan and JK Rowling,but this books got me reading from the first page 2 the last non-stop! I love stephenie meyer! hope she can come 2 Sacramento one day for a signing!
the books were awesome!!! i read all three and i’m reading them all over again.stephaine meyer is the best and i hope the 5th book comes out soon!
I am an Australian, At first i was suprised that in Australia are bit slow to catch up with Stephenie’s books and first time i went to my local bookstore and just lookin around to see what’s new and i saw “Twilight” was standing out and i thought i might as well as see what it is about and i was intrigued and interested about it and i bought it. From three days i could’nt resist and enjoy so much then i immediately bought another two books and i am now hooked and waiting for the next one about Bella and Edward’s marriage etc… I am truly glad that bella chose Edward over Jacob.. ;0)
Keep up a good work Stephenie!!
Lee ;0)