Twilight Stephenie Mayer's debut novel tells the story of Isabella Bella Swan a normal seventeen year old who falls in love with a vampire Edward Cullen. Though Edward loves Bella deeply in return he also battles his natural instinct to kill her. As a vampire he is after all hardwired to think of Bella and all other humans as his prey. Meyer got her idea for the book from a dream she had a about an average girl and her vampire lover having a conversation while sitting in a woodsy meadow. Meyer recalls. I was so intrigued by the nameless couples story that I hated the idea of forgetting it. Also the vampire was just so darned good looking that I didn't lose the mental image. Put everything that I possibly could on the back burner and sat down at the computer to write something I hadn't done in so long that i wondered why I was bothering. Published in 2005, Twilight won tons of praise. The novel was selected as an Editor's Choice by the New York Times and a book of the year by Publisher's w****y. Twilight is also ranked in the American Library Association's top ten Books for Young Adults and is one of sss's Best Books of the Decade so Far. After three sequels and a movie Twilight has followed in Harry Potter's footsteps to become a full-fledged cultural phenomenon on which everybody has an opinion