Harry Potter and the Philosopher's Stone by J. K. Rowling

"Harry Potter is an orphan and lives with his abominable unbearable uncles and cousin Dudley.

Harry feels very sad and lonely, until one day he receives a letter that will change your life forever. Here we report that has been accepted as a student at Hogwarts boarding school of Witchcraft and Wizardry."

 Summary 

Before the start of the novel, Voldemort, considered the most powerful dark wizard in history, killed Harry's parents, but mysteriously vanished after trying to kill Harry. While the wizarding world was celebrating Voldemort's downfall, Professor Dumbledore, Professor McGonagall and Rubeus Hagrid placed the one year-old orphan in the care of his Muggle (non-wizard) uncle and aunt: Vernon and Petunia Dursley.

For ten years, they and their son Dudley neglected and bullied Harry. Shortly before Harry's eleventh birthday, a series of letters addressed to Harry arrived, but Vernon destroyed them before Harry can read them. To get away from the letters, Vernon takes the family to a small island. As they are settling in, Hagrid bursts through the door to tell Harry what the Dursleys have kept him from finding out: Harry is a wizard and has been accepted at Hogwarts.

Hagrid takes Harry to Diagon Alley, a magically-concealed shopping precinct in London, where Harry is bewildered to discover how famous he is among wizards as "the boy who lived". He also finds that he is quite wealthy, since a bequest from his parents has remained on deposit at Gringotts Wizarding Bank. Guided by Hagrid, he buys the books and equipment he needs for Hogwarts. At the wand shop, he finds that the wand that suits him best is the twin of Voldemort's; both wands contain feathers from the same phoenix.

 Development 

In 1990 Jo Rowling, as she preferred to be known, wanted to move with her boyfriend to a flat in Manchester and in her words, "One weekend after flat hunting, I took the train back to London on my own and the idea for Harry Potter fell into my head... A scrawny, little, black-haired, bespectacled boy became more and more of a wizard to me... I began to write Philosopher's Stone that very evening. Although, the first couple of pages look nothing like the finished product." Then Rowling's mother died and, to cope with her pain, Rowling transferred her own anguish to the orphan Harry. Rowling spent six years working on Harry Potter and the Philosopher's Stone, and in 1996 obtained a grant of £4,000 from the Scottish Arts Council, which enabled her to finish the book and plan the sequels. She sent the book to an agent and a publisher, and then the second agent she approached spent a year trying to sell the book to publishers, most of whom thought it was too long at about 90,000 words. Barry Cunningham, who was building a portfolio of distinctive fantasies by new authors for Bloomsbury Children's Books, recommended accepting the book, and the eight-year-old daughter of Bloomsbury's chief executive said it was "so much better than anything else".

 Curiosities 

This book was brought to the big screen, and video games.

 J.K. Rowling 

Joanne "Jo" Rowling (born 31 July 1965), known as J. K. Rowling, is a British novelist, best known as the author of the Harry Potter fantasy series. The Potter books have gained worldwide attention, won multiple awards, sold more than 400 million copies to become the best-selling book series in history and been the basis for a popular series of films, in which Rowling had overall approval on the scripts as well as maintaining creative control by serving as a producer on the final instalment. Rowling conceived the idea for the series on a train trip from Manchester to London in 1990.

Rowling has led a "rags to riches" life story, in which she progressed from living on social security to multi-millionaire status within five years. As of March 2011, when its latest world billionaires list was published, Forbes estimated Rowling's net worth to be US$1 billion. The 2008 Sunday Times Rich List estimated Rowling's fortune at £560 million ($798 million), ranking her as the twelfth richest woman in the United Kingdom. Forbes ranked Rowling as the forty-eighth most powerful celebrity of 2007,and Time magazine named her as a runner-up for its 2007 Person of the Year, noting the social, moral, and political inspiration she has given her fans. In October 2010, J. K. Rowling was named 'Most Influential Woman in Britain' by leading magazine editors. She has become a notable philanthropist, supporting such charities as Comic Relief, One Parent Families, Multiple Sclerosis Society of Great Britain, and Lumos (formerly the Children's High Level Group).

On 12 April 2012, Rowling announced that her new adult novel The Casual Vacancy would be published in the UK by Little, Brown & Company on 27 September 2012.

Name

Although she writes under the pen name "J. K. Rowling", pronounced like rolling, her name when her first Harry Potter book was published was simply "Joanne Rowling". Anticipating that the target audience of young boys might not want to read a book written by a woman, her publishers demanded that she use two initials, rather than her full name. As she had no middle name, she chose K as the second initial of her pen name, from her paternal grandmother Kathleen Ada Bulgen Rowling. She calls herself "Jo" and has said, "No one ever called me 'Joanne' when I was young, unless they were angry." Following her marriage, she has sometimes used the name Joanne Murray when conducting personal business. During the Leveson Inquiry she gave evidence under the name of Joanne Kathleen Rowling.

Awards and honours

1997: Nestlé Smarties Book Prize, Gold Award for Harry Potter and the Philosopher's Stone
1998: Nestlé Smarties Book Prize, Gold Award for Harry Potter and the Prisoner of Azkaban
1998: British Children's Book of the Year, winner Harry Potter and the Philosopher's Stone
1999: Nestlé Smarties Book Prize, Gold Award for Harry Potter and the Prisoner of Azkaban
1999: National Book Awards Children's Book of the Year, winner Harry Potter and the Chamber of Secrets
1999: Whitbread Children's Book of the Year, winner Harry Potter and the Prisoner of Azkaban
2000: British Book Awards, Author of the Year
2000: Order of the British Empire, Officer
2000: Locus Award, winner Harry Potter and the Prisoner of Azkaban
2001: Hugo Award for Best Novel, winner Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire
2003: Premio Príncipe de Asturias, Concord
2003: Bram Stoker Award for Best Work for Young Readers, winner Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix
2006: British Book of the Year, winner for Harry Potter and the Half Blood Prince
2007: Blue Peter Badge, Gold
2008: British Book Awards, Outstanding Achievement
2009: Légion d'honneur, Chevalier, presented by French President Nicolas Sarkozy
2010: Hans Christian Andersen Literature Award, inaugural award winner
2011: British Academy Film Awards, Outstanding British Contribution to Cinema for the Harry Potter film series, shared with David Heyman, cast and crew
2012: Freedom of the City of London
Honorary degrees: St Andrews University, University of Edinburgh, Edinburgh Napier University, University of Exeter, Harvard University

 Review 

"I wouldn't be surprised if today was known as Harry Potter day in the future - there will be books written about Harry - every child in our world will know his name."

Professor McGonagall, in the first chapter titled "The Boy Who Lived"

By now there's not much that can be said about the Harry Potter phenomenon  that hasn't been said already. Worshipped by kids, enjoyed by adults, this modern myth has become an accepted classic worldwide. Pull any copy of the series off a shelf anywhere in the world and you're holding magic.

It's not hard to see why. Right from the first page of Harry Potter and the Philosopher's Stone Rowling proves that she knows a thing or two about the kind of magic that brings stories to life.

The book starts with Harry as an infant, the child of a wizard and witch. He is suddenly left orphaned after an attack by the evil and powerful wizard Voldemort, a villain so dastardly that most wizards and witches refer to him as "You-Know-Who". Mysteriously, Harry survives and Voldemort, his power apparently broken in his attempt to kill the child, disappears leaving many to think he's gone for good. Codex Alera spreads fast and Harry is hailed as a hero. Even though he's just a baby his victory over Voldemort makes him an overnight celebrity among magic users the world over.

As a result, the Headmaster and Deputy Headmistress of Hogwarts school of Witchcraft and Wizardry step in to decide Harry's future. They decide to take the child out of the spotlight and allow him to live a normal life with his only remaining relations, a Muggle family named Dursley, until he is of age to attend the Hogwarts school. They leave Harry on the doorstep of the Dursley's home, with no more than a letter of explanation.

The story truly begins nearly ten years later, after Harry has endured a childhood of constant scorn and hatred at the hands of his new family. Uncle Vernon and Aunt Petunia are embarrassed by the fact that Harry's mother considered herself a witch and married a man who claimed to be a wizard. The Dursley's simply don't hold with such nonsense. They consider themselves respectable.

As Muggles go, the Dursley's may not be prime examples of the worst of their kind, but they rank pretty high. They force Harry to sleep in a cupboard under the stairs and to wear their spoiled son's damaged cast-offs. Harry is little more than a servant and a punching bag to his cousin Dudley. But worst of all, Mr. Dursley has not read Dumbledore's letter to Harry, leaving the boy unaware of such things as his heritage, the truth about his parents death and his emerging powers.

Then everything changes with the delivery of a letter in a very unusual fashion. From that point on, Harry's life is never the same again. The letter is actually an acceptance letter, a notification to Harry that he has a place at Hogwart's school. Literally rescued from the Dursley's and taken under the wing of Hagrid, the school's lovable giant of a groundskeeper, Harry embarks on the adventure of a lifetime in the hallowed halls of Hogwarts where in addition to his studies he makes close friends and a lifelong enemy, discovers a talent for a very unusual sport called Quidditch and solves a mystery that threatens the world, not to mention his very existence.

The magic potion Rowling herself concocts starts solidly with Harry, a remarkably unassuming kid who's got "hero of mythical proportions" written all over him. He's courageous, clever and resourceful. He's got a special talent in the form of magical powers, and a noble and mysterious birth. He's wounded - a big one in myths - not just physically as evidenced by the scar on his forehead, but emotionally as well due to the death of his parents, not to mention a tortured upbringing by uncaring relations that rivals Cinderella's. But most of all, as was hinted right from the start, he's got one heck of a destiny.  All this comes together to introduce a character the reader immediately bonds with. You *really* want to be this kid's friend and hang out with him to see what happens.

Next into the potion goes a heavy dose of down-to-earth realism - the kind of everyday stuff recognized by almost every kid in the world... but WAIT! You, gentle reader, are never allowed to get comfortable in the world of the often stupid, ever boring Muggles, because you're not one of them, are you? Of course not. You know better, because Rowling blends in the essence of magic fantasy with such skill that Harry's world literally shimmers with it. Because you're not a Muggle, you can see it all around you as you read.

The rest of the ingredients are just as high in quality, from the magical, mysterious yet somehow familiar Hogwarts School to the friends that help Harry get through it all, to the exciting conclusion. Rowling serves it all up with a deceptively simple and straight forward writing style that sparks

a response deep in the subconscious, drawing the reader in and holding on tight. The fact is, this story is not just read, it's experienced and that's the magic right there.

Of course, adults have to fight their Muggle tendencies and indulge in a little suspension of disbelief to get full enjoyment of the story. For example, those of you who read a lot of Nicholas Sparks might have trouble getting past the fact that such occurrences as motorcycles flying over London and entire groups of people who vanish into thin air at train stations, go virtually unnoticed. The exact purpose of the wizards trained at Hogwarts in relation to the world is never really explained, except in some vague reference to the further study and possible control of the other preternatural type creatures such as dragons, zombies and vampires who also go unnoticed by the Muggle world. Apparently, when it comes to Muggle mind control, it's everyone's game. Those readers with sci-fi leanings might start picturing Hogwarts as existing in an alternate dimension of sorts but that's not the point. The point is suspension of disbelief. It just all happens because it does and no one in the real world knows about it but those involved... and that's that.

Though I thoroughly loved this book, my only off moment came near the end, where I began to wonder exactly how suitable the images depicted were for the impressionable minds of Rowling's younger readers.

"Harry Potter and the Philosopher's Stone" is a fantastic book, well plotted with strong characters that not only talk and act like real kids, but are also great role models as well. These kids do their homework, brush their teeth, study for exams and still have time to get into trouble in the name of a good cause. There is one excellent and well spelled out moral in the story that doesn't detract from the plot and if the reason why Harry survived Voldemort's attack doesn't leave you with a lump in your throat and a tear in your eye, I suggest you read it again.

I highly recommend this book to anyone who hasn't read it yet, kid or adult. Let it carry you away with the knowledge that you're reading a classic that will be read and loved by generations to come, just like the fairy-tales of old."

Special Message

Well, I wrote this message because two weeks ago i not publish anything. I think you, my readers, are deserving of an explanation; There they go!

Lately in my town are having too many storms, the cable connecting to my home internet was broken because of the fall of a tree and for fifteen days or so, I didn't count with the service. Here I am again, and in a little while I go up another entry!

No more to say, I salute you!

I am number four - Lorien Legacies - By Pittacus Lore

"They caught the number one in Malaysia.

At number two in England.

At number three in Kenya.

They were all killed.

I'm number four.

I'm next .."

 Summary 

This follows the story of John Smith, a 15-year-old alien from the planet Lorien, and Henri, his guardian Cêpan, as they run from the Mogadorians, another alien race that is hunting John and eight other teenage Lorics residing on the planet Earth. These nine teens are members of the Garde, a group of Loric people gifted with special powers called "Legacies." Cêpans, who are also Loric, do not acquire legacies and most often become protectors and mentors for young members of the Garde. The teenagers are protected by a spell or charm that only allows them to be killed in numeric order. The first three have been killed, and John is Number Four.

 Genre 

Lorien Legacies is a series of young adult science fiction books.

 Pittacus Lore 

This book write by James Frey and Jobie Hughes under the collective pseudonym Pittacus Lore.

 James Christopher Frey 

(born September 12, 1969) is an American writer. His books A Million Little Pieces (2003) and My Friend Leonard (2005), as well as Bright Shiny Morning (2008),were bestsellers. He was the subject of a scandal when investigators discovered that major elements of A Million Little Pieces, a purportedly autobiographical account of the author's struggle with addiction, were untrue.

 Career 

Frey graduated from Denison University in Granville, Ohio in 1992. Before Frey began his writing career, he held several jobs in the Chicago area while studying at the Art Institute of Chicago. Frey then moved to Los Angeles and found work as a screenwriter, director, and producer. In the spring of 1996, Frey started writing A Million Little Pieces, originally presented as a memoir of his experiences during his treatment for alcohol and drug addiction at a rehabilitation center in Minnesota.

Frey also wrote the screenplays to the films Kissing a Fool and Sugar: The Fall of the West. Both were produced in 1998, the latter of which he directed as well.

Doubleday published A Million Little Pieces in April 2003, and Amazon.com editors selected it as their favorite book of that year. The New Yorker praised the book as “A frenzied, electrifying description of the experience.”

In 2004, Frey wrote My Friend Leonard, which continued where A Million Little Pieces left off, and centered on the father-son relationship which Frey and his friend Leonard, from Hazelden, shared. My Friend Leonard was published in June 2005 by Riverhead, and became a bestseller. Amazon.com editors selected My Friend Leonard as their No.5 favorite book of 2005.

In 2007, Frey wrote Bright Shiny Morning, which was published in May 2008 by HarperCollins.

Frey's books have been published in thirty-one languages worldwide.

In 2010, Frey collaborated with Jobie Hughes on the books I Am Number Four and The Power of Six.

 Jobie Hughes 

(born July 9, 1980) is an American writer and the #1 New York Times Bestselling author of I Am Number Four and The Power of Six, which were collaborations with writer James Frey. Both of the novels, published by HarperCollins under pseudonym Pittacus Lore, collectively spent ten weeks at #1 on the New York Times Best Sellers list. A film adaptation of I Am Number Four was released by DreamWorks Studios on February 18, 2011, and starred Alex Pettyfer, Dianna Agron, Timothy Olyphant and Teresa Palmer. It was produced by Michael Bay and Steven Spielberg and directed by D.J. Caruso. With a production budget of $60 million, the film grossed nearly $146 million at the worldwide box office.

Hughes's books have been translated into 26 languages and published in 48 countries. To date, over a million copies have been sold. His debut literary novel, At Dawn, will be released on October 16, 2012 by Counterpoint Press.

 Education and personal life 

Hughes was born in Renton, Washington, but raised from the age of three in Spencer, Ohio, a small town forty miles southwest of Cleveland. In 1998, while attending Black River High School in Sullivan, Ohio, he became a state champion in wrestling at the 119 pound weight class. He attended Ohio University on an athletic scholarship, graduated in 2002 with a business degree in Management Information Systems, and earned an MFA degree in Creative Writing from The Columbia University School of the Arts in 2009. He currently lives in Michigan.

 Controversy 

On November 12, 2010, it was reported by both Katherine Rosman of The Wall Street Journal and Suzanne Mozes of New York Magazine that, after a dispute concerning the direction of The Lorien Legacies, Hughes and James Frey ended their collaborative agreement and Hughes stepped away from the series after finishing the second novel, titled The Power of Six. It is unclear who will write the remaining four novels.

 Review 

"What I liked/disliked about the book: I have to say, I really did enjoy the book and there were times I had trouble putting it down. I'm not normally a big fan of young adult book, but this is one that was well done, with a very interesting plot. I was happy to see something that wasn't vampires for once too - I like vampires, but it's starting to become a little boring, so it was refreshing to see this lean to a completely different topic. 

The plot was what really grab my attention, I wanted to learn more about Lorien and its former inhabitants, and as the reader, we're only given small bits of information of the past life on the planet. I also enjoyed just reading about how John aka number four worked to just survive - and the climax of the book had me hooked to the last few pages - and there were a few characters who were more to meet the eye, I wonder if more will be revealed in the next book. 

I had my issues with the book as well. The characters were good, some development throughout the book, but they were fairly cliche. Which is what you see in high school, all the groups (jocks, cheerleaders etc) but I wish it was a little less obvious. I also found myself bored with any young adult romanticism. I found it didn't move the plot at all, in fact, I found that the plot came to a standstill when the author wrote about it and there was too much of it. I think having it helps the plot, but it should have been toned down and put more in the background than it was. 

Overall, it was a good young adult book some pretty good action, a different type of paranormal/sci-fi book than what I've read (or heard about), and I will be reading the next book in the series at some point. "

The Mess i Made - Parachute

Well I bring this music video, which has nothing to do with the blog, but it's really beautiful and worth sharing! 

The mess i made - Parachute

 Should've kissed you there 

 I should've held your face 

 I should've watched those eyes 

 Instead of run in place 

 I should've called you out 

 I should've said your name 

 I should've turned around 

 I should've looked again 

 But oh, I'm staring at the mess I made 

 I'm staring at the mess I made 

 I'm staring at the mess I made 

 As you turn, you take your heart and walk away 

 Should've held my ground 

 I could've been redeemed 

 For every second chance 

 That changed its mind on me 

 I should've spoken up 

 I should've proudly claimed 

 That oh my head's to blame 

 For all my heart's mistakes 

 But oh, I'm staring at the mess I made 

 I'm staring at the mess I made 

 I'm staring at the mess I made 

 As you turn, you take your heart and walk away 

 And it's you, and it's you 

 And it's you, and it's you 

 And it's falling down, as you walk away 

 And it's on me now, as you go 

 But oh, I'm staring at the mess I made 

 I'm staring at the mess I made 

 I'm staring at the mess I made 

 As you turn, you take your heart and walk away 

 And it's falling down, as you walk away 

 And it's on me now, as you go 

 But oh, I'm staring at the mess I made 

 I'm staring at the mess I made 

 I'm staring at the mess I made 

 As you turn, you take your heart and walk away  

 And it's falling down, as you walk away 

 And it's on me now, as you go 

 But oh, I'm staring at the mess I made 

 I'm staring at the mess I made 

 I'm staring at the mess I made 

 As you turn, you take your heart and walk away 

The Host By Stephenie Meyer

"Melanie Stryder refuses to fade away. The earth has been invaded by a species that take over the minds of their human hosts while leaving their bodies intact, and most of humanity has succumbed.

Wanderer, the invading "soul" who has been given Melanie's body, knew about the challenges of living inside a human: the overwhelming emotions, the too vivid memories. But there was one difficulty Wanderer didn't expect: the former tenant of her body refusing to relinquish possession of her mind.

Melanie fills Wanderer's thoughts with visions of the man Melanie loves - Jared, a human who still lives in hiding. Unable to separate herself from her body's desires, Wanderer yearns for a man she's never met.  As outside forces make Wanderer and Melanie unwilling allies, they set off to search for the man they both love."

 Summary 

 Melanie 'Mel' Stryder is one of the only rebel humans left after the invasion of the 'souls', parasitic aliens which take over human bodies, erasing the original occupants. Wanderer is a soul who has lived on eight other planets previously, Mel being her ninth body host. She was inserted under emergency conditions, with the intent of using her to access any information Melanie might have about other free humans. This investigation is headed by an individual identified only by title, as "The Seeker", who pressures Wanderer to produce information, and views her with implied contempt for her failure to do so.

Melanie remains partially conscious despite her infestation, an aberration for which Wanderer feels some shame, and no small amount of concern. She bombards Wanderer with her memories and emotions, and Wanderer develops an emotional connection of her own to Melanie's former lover, and brother. When enough information arises for her to find them, rather than report it to the Seeker Wanderer sets out on her own to find them, nearly dying in the desert before Melanie's uncle, Jeb, finds her and bring her into the hideout, a complex of caves containing several free humans. They survive by scavenging from nearby cities. Jeb is unwilling to kill her because her host body is a relative, so she remains in the caves, and eventually develops feelings for several of the other humans, notably Ian O'Shea, with whom she has a romantic relationship. Her help and support with a dying member of the group helps to make the others view her more sympathetically. Only a few humans maintain their dislike of her, notably Ian's brother Kyle, who makes at least one attempt of her life, as a result of which he is threatened with expulsion from the group.

Wanderer's peaceful life with the group is disturbed by the realization that the humans have not given up on reclaiming those the souls have enslaved, and have been experimenting with ways of removing souls from their hosts, always killing both host and soul in the process. Severely traumatized upon discovering the discarded remains of the extracted souls, she enters a period of mourning, withdrawing from the group, and is only roused by news that Melanie's brother Jamie, for whom she has come to care, is injured. While not previously trusted with information about paths in and out of the caves, a infection developes in Jamie's wound which leads to her and Jared sneaking out of the complex together to seek medicine at a Soul-run hospital, using Wanderer's credibility as a Soul to get access. After this she becomes a regular participant in scavenging missions. When the Seeker is captured on one such mission, Wanderer finally reveals the method of detaching a soul without killing the host. This will allow them to rescue several friends and family members taken by the souls, including Kyle's girlfriend. She reveals the technique to the group's medic, on the condition that he not harm the souls after they are removed, and that she also be removed from Melanie's head and buried. This latter condition proves controversial, especially with Ian, who forcibly takes her to his cave where they confess their love for each other. However Wanderer, undeterred, sneaks away after he falls asleep to complete her plan. She is removed, but awakens in a the body of a girl who had not had a chance to develop a personality, having had a soul inserted in infancy. Kyle's girlfriend turns out to have been utterly destroyed in the insertion, and he develops a relationship with the soul inserted into her body instead. Wanderer's association with the humans continues, and in the final scene is revealed not to be a unique situation, as they meet another group with a human-sympathising soul.

 Genre 

Science fiction for those who do not like science fiction.

 Major themes 

In an interview with Vogue Magazine, Meyer stated that body image was a major aspect of her novel. She noted that she is "very critical" of her body, but not others'. In The Host, she tried to convey "what a gift it is to just have a body, and really love it." This is something most humans would take for granted before being captured, and something that Melanie is all-too aware of once she loses control of her body. Other themes Meyer explored were the mother/child bond, the need to change our lives for the ones we love or because our community expects something different of us than what we want, and not fitting in. In other interviews, various themes were noted including the value of the soul and faith in a world that has been destroyed, tolerance, forgiveness, and understanding.

 Background 

The idea for The Host originated on a trip from Phoenix to Salt Lake City. Bored, Meyer made up stories to entertain herself, and was halfway through outlining the story of The Host in her head before realizing what she had created. She notes that the story grabbed her attention, and that she "could tell there was something compelling in the idea of such a complicated triangle." As soon as she got to her computer, she typed the outline that she had written in her notebook. Originally meant to be a side project, The Host eventually became a priority, as she favored it above the ideas of other stories she had saved on her computer.

It took Meyer a year to write The Host as she was still editing Eclipse and, as Meyer considers herself a storyteller, she needed something to remind her that she was still a writer, not just an editor. Therefore, after editing Eclipse, she took two days to read through 'what she had already written for The Host to get back into what she calls The Host mode. The character of Ian was originally meant to play a small role' Meyer had no plans for a romance between Ian and Wanderer until Jared "got on [her] last nerve", and Ian "refused to be ignored", and as a result, the ending was changed to allow for Ian.

The title "The Host" comes from the perspective of the main character, Wanderer, because her "host" Melanie forever changes the way she sees the world.

 Review 

"I recommend the book because aside from having some "fantastic" speaks volumes about the planet earth and the problems that we live in today, about how people are violent, with others and with his own family. As we are wasting our planet, polluting, and we do not realize, and if anyone knows, he hides. It is a very serious issue that touches the book, as beings from another world see what we do to the planet Earth and think it's a waste to throw away. They clearly take it and make it a "better place".

 It is more in a section of the book, Wanderer says: "This was definitely the best and worst of all worlds: The most wonderful way, most exquisite emotions, desires more malevolent and more sinister facts."

  As for taste but I would say that among all the terrible story could stay afloat love and friendship between people of different species. And people start to realize that this world must be looked after because it is the only one we have! "

Moreover Stephenie Meyer describes the book as "a science fiction novel for those who do not like science fiction" and that in fiction, if we take the fact of "souls" would cease to be. 100% advisable "

If you want to know about its author, Stephenie Meyer, Click here!