This is a great read if you can ignore the obvious instances of Mormonism and the racist false history of the Quileute that Stephenie Meyer created for the series. This was one of the first books that I read that had pop culture references that were topical for the time. You could relate to Bella a lot more than other book characters from books I had to read for school. There are some more blatant plot holes now that the whole series has been completed and with an adult's perspective. There is a lot more humor and charm in book Bella than movie Bella. She is a lot more intelligent and figures out Edward is a vampire pretty quickly. While she is still very introverted, the movie Bella we got is a new, but still iconic character. This story could have easily been set with college-aged characters, there are some scenes that are a bit more adult than realized on the first read. There are aspects of this book that touch on almost sapphic eroticism with Bella and Alice. If there was a book where Bella and Alice ended up together, I would enjoy that a lot more than the series we ended up with.