I've gone through a roller coaster journey with this one through the years. But despite the ups and downs, I still enjoyed this on reread. Okay, it moves a lot slower than I remember, and not a lot happens for like 80% of the book. And actually, Bella is a terrible friend to all the humans and rationally should run away as fast as she can from Edward (and none of her descriptions about the cold marble statue seem sexy or appealing to me). And the writing could be better. But something about this is unputdownable. I devoured this so quickly when I read it as a teenager - and on this read through as well!

The first time I read this book when I was 16 I basically just sped through it for the Edward parts and didn’t really care about most of the book. But as an adult I think the best parts of the series are basically everything but the Edward storyline. Now, I appreciate the parts with Jacob! I still think Bella is a terrible friend, but I liked getting to know the LaPush crowd and see her actually get interested in things that weren't her boyfriend. I like getting the glimpses into the other vampires' backstory. And really, Bella would have been better off if Alice and Edward never showed up again!

Rereading this was an experience. I forgot how good and interesting all of the other vampires are - except for Edward and Bella. Rosalie in particular has an amazing story that I wouldn't mind reading in a fleshed out novella. And I love the Volturi, who act like real vampires. Also Leah's story is interesting and I wish we got more insight into it. I completely forgot that Jacob basically just assaults Bella and her dad laughs about it. And I'm just going to ignore the whole scene in the mountains where Bella is forced into sharing a sleeping bag with Jacob and she gets tricked into kissing him, because I don't know what's up with that. Also, imprinting is way creepier now that I'm an adult! No thank you. I'm also with Bella - getting married at like 18 is weird! Make better decisions!

Here's where Twilight really becomes a horror novel - getting married as a teenager and teen pregnancy, the crazy pregnancy with the super fact growing fetus who needs blood, the body horror and extra gruesome birth, werewolves imprinting on babies! I love that this book has the guts to be like "being a vampire is awesome!" because a lot of vampires books would never do that! I love that Bella eats a mountain lion in her wrecked blue dress! I love that they build up to this epic fight between all the vampires in the world and everyone just walks away without fighting! This is probably the best one in the series, tbh.