Free online listen to TWILIGHT audiobook by Stephenie Meyer and narrated by Ilyana Kadushin , in series: The Twilight Saga. Are you a Stephenie Meyer fan ? if yes you will love TWILIGHT audiobook. Now lets try to play the audio and leave a comment about this book.
Reviews:
1/Amazing how this book is now 17 – as old as Bella in this book. I’m late writing an Audible review because I had audio copies for years in iTunes.
What can I say? The story holds up.
Bella is an intellectually and emotionally mature young woman who doesn’t fit in with her more immature peers. Edward is a young man who has every advantage: looks, money, family, and an almost immortal life but he has to fight the harmful side of his advantages – he has the potential to not only harm, but to kill others. He doesn’t want to be evil. Quite a difference from the very real vampires in our society today. Many more Voltari out there who think they’re superior and have the right to take from others and destroy lives. It’s up to us all to learn what we can and be the best we can and don’t excuse ourselves with the poison that everyone else is doing it.
Yes, it holds up because the logic and characters and storyline fit in the world Meyer has created. It reflects society and the struggle of each individual and generation to learn its lessons.
Published 15 years later, Midnight Sun is a wonderful retelling of this story from Edward’s perspective. Wierdly, it’s actually more emotional because of his conflict in wanting Bella, but I feel the Phoenix car sequences more than makes up for it;-)
Kadushin was a really good choice for narration. She sounds the right age and she enunciates well but delivers the story with emotion. Her pacing is excellent. Happily for me, her voice is in the pleasant mid range, not high and screechy.
Still recommend light years over Hunger Games – you are what you consume – both food and books. You create your world from where you concentrate your thoughts, and I don’t want to live in dystopia. That’s not the world I want to leave for future generations.
2/This is a series I read at least once a year. The movies I watch every few months. The reading of this book drives me insane. Poor use of enunciation. No concept of inflection. Unable to verbalize much emotion at all, much less in line with the actual flow of the story or Characters. Unable to tell (unless you know the book by heart) which Character is supposedly speaking at times.
3/None of the dialogue is read correctly. It’s distracting. Meyer is descriptive of the tone in the dialogue, and it never matches the way the narrator reads it. She also pronounces Jacob as Jake-up and enunciates Bell-lluh in this drawn-out, broken way every time the name is spoken, even when it’s casual. Way too much liberty taken – and badly – with the way this is read. I’m not getting the rest of the series until they get a new narrator.
