I loved Twilight when I first read it. I felt that Stephenie Meyer truly crafted something special. While I've read so many books since reading Twilight, and adored some of them even more, Stephenie Meyer's series about the love between a human girl and a vampire boy still holds a special place for me.

When I was wandering the shelves of my public library, I came across the graphic novel section and decided to have a look. I feel quite new to this type of book, since I've only read one before. My nephew had read a few of them (I know he's particularly fond of the Bones series), so I thought it would be no big deal to pick them up.

The Twilight graphic novel immediately came to my attention as I was perusing the section, so I picked it up and signed it out. After reading it-it's quite a quick read, even with absorbing the pictures-I can still say that I prefer the actual novel to the graphic novel. I don't know if it's because I've read the novel twice, I've seen the movie countless times, and have read the rest of the books in the series, but something felt off with this one. I think part of it was in the storytelling. I know that Stephenie Meyer had a hand in the creation of this book, but there was the odd thing said that just felt out of place.

The illustrations were, for the most part, quite beautiful. I loved the mixture between drawing, photograph, and painting. The only thing I ever had in my mind when I started to read graphic novels was that they would be similar to reading an Archie comic or something of the sort-I've now come to the conclusion that it's nothing like that. There were times when I loved the darkness of an illustration, such as the part when Jacob is telling Bella about the past, or times where I loved the depth in a characters' eyes. At other times, I was a little annoyed with how much it seemed that Belle was either crying or perspiring. Surely that couldn't have been just me noticing that?

But other than the small graphic glitch (for me, at least), or the small warble in the story, it was nice to have something else to read that stayed true to the book. I remember reading Nightlight: A Parody and was so put off by it that I abandoned all things Twilight. For once I feel happy to have picked up something that has come from the books Stephenie Meyer crafted. While the read was quick and the words were sparse, it was still easy to get an idea of the character of Edward and Bella. We don't see much of Edward's family, and Charlie and Jacob are really only present to lend explanations for things, but still, it works for a volume of this size. I also loved the odd splash of colour that Kim would put in her work-it was a nice change of pace from the black and white.

This graphic novel doesn't take us too far, only up to the meadow scene, so I look forward to reading more of these graphic novels that Young Kim puts out in the future. They seem promising to win over old and new fans of the series.

I just realized this isn't the full book. It only goes upto where Edward drives Bella home from the meadow. The meadow scene was amazing though. I loved the pictures!

this book is soooo outstanding the pictures are pretty much the same as the ones i saw in my head when i read the books and still have in my head.i must say thougth im only 11 and i cant find a book that has touched my heart like the whole series and to see how the characters look , well theres no words for it!!! i cant wait till volume 2 comes out its taking soooo lond that i cant satand it. setephenie if you read this please please please give me a heads up on when they do come out . i love your work and cant wait for breaking dawn the movie!!!!

When I first heard that this was coming out, I thought "Just what I need, ANOTHER version of Twilight." So I held off and didn't get it.

Maybe about a month or two later I was in Walmart and I saw it on a shelf so I took a look at it. I was getting caught up in reading it, and I thought the pictures were really well done, so I decided to buy it.

It took only a couple hours to finish it, and I must say it's a good novel to have. It's the Twilight story with all the parts still in it (aka the book, not the movie) such as when the class does the blood testing.

If you want to read Twilight but don't want to pick up the big book, then this is a definite plus. Like me, I only average maybe two books a month, so I don't have time to reread if I want to read new novels as well.

The only downfall of the graphic novel is that it isn't the whole story. It ends before you get to the fight. I was quite disappointed in that, since I spent $16 expecting to get the whole story. I assumed volume 1 meant 'Twilight' and Volume 2 would be 'New Moon' etc. I was wrong.