It was far from being a thriller, but then the thriller itself is a kind of teenage daydream - of specialness, toughness, power. The immense power of the Twilight saga was the way it captured the adolescent conviction of one’s own unlovability, and confronted it with a handsome boy’s implacable insistence to the contrary. Meyer knows how to stick close to the arc of Alex’s redemption, tracking her emotions as she tentatively learns to trust again. Best known for her Twilight series, Stephenie Meyer’s four-book collection has sold over 100 million copies globally in over 50 countries, with translations in 37 different languages. In this parody of the popular Twilight series, gawky, vampire-obsessed Belle determines that computer.

More Books by Stephenie Meyer Midnight Sun. The Chemist is consistently fast-paced fun, especially the way that Alex’s scientific genius gives her an array of potions - she’s small, but you don’t want to get within swiping distance of the rings on her fingers - that verge on the magical. In this uneven adult romantic thriller from YA bestseller Meyer (the Twilight series). Alex’s foes within the government never quite come into focus in the third act, one lesson she didn’t take from Baldacci or Child.īut Meyer is also just a really good storyteller. It’s full of the same daffy blitheness toward blood and pain that always made the Twilight books unsettling, at least to me. There are a hundred objections you could make to The Chemist.

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