The Danger Magnet

With the Twilight Breaking Dawn Part 2 still months away lets take a revamp and have a look at whats happened so far.

Twilight: Book 1
In the first movie and book, Bella Swan falls in love with a 100 year old vampire called Edward Cullen. The Cullen family are a group of 7 “vegetarian” vampires who live off animal blood rather than human. After trying to distance himself from Bella, Edward realises he cannot continue and instead embraces his feelings and romance follows. Throughout the first book and movie a trio of rogue vampires kill a few local residents culminating in a meet up with the Cullen Clan. At which point, James, one of the rogue vampires, after realising that Bella is a human, attempts to kidnap and kill her. Edward and his family successfully stop James’ plans and destroy him.

New Moon: Book 2
The book and movie begin almost instantly with Edward leaving Bella. After a close call with Bella cutting herself at the Cullen household and Jasper attempting to kill her, Edward realises that Bella is not safe with him. Heartbroken by Edward abandoning her, Bella’s relationship with Jacob (her fathers best friend’s son) blossoms although her feelings remain non-romantic. Alongside this, Bella has become an adrenaline junky after realising that when she attempts something dangerous, Edward appears to her telling her to stop. This leads to her base jumping from a cliff and almost dying, if not for Jacob saving her.
Alice, Edward’s adopted sister “sees” (Alice can see the future) Bella dying in the lake and Edward who reads Alice’s mind rushes off to Italy to have the Volturi, an ancient vampire clan, kill him, Romeo and Juliet style. Bella and Alice rush to Italy to stop Edward just in time. The Volturi are impressed by Bella as she seems resistant to not only Edward’s mind reading ability but also their own talents. They demand that she is to be turned into a vampire or killed.

Eclipse: Book 3
Eclipse begins with a Victoria, James’ mate creating an army of “new-born” vampires to help her defeat the Cullen family in order to get revenge for them killing James. Jacob, now a werewolf, joins forces with the Cullen family to help defeat the newborns after Jasper, who has experience with newborns, helps train them. The book ends again with the Volturi paying a visit and once again demanding that Bella must be turned.

Breaking Dawn: Book 4. Part 1
Breaking Dawn begins with the wedding of Bella and Edward after which they fly off to a small island off the coast of Brazil, Isle Esme. After becoming pregnant, Edward rushes Bella home to his doctor father who says that the baby is killing Bella and growing at a phenomenal rate. Bella refuses to let them remove the baby and intends to keep it for as long as possible. The werewolves who have so far left the Cullens alone due to their strict diet, are now incensed that a baby vampire is to be born and plan to kill Bella and the baby before it can be released, as they fear it will have no control. Bella dies during labour, but Edward injects his venom into her bringing her back as a vampire. Jacob imprints on the new baby girl, Renesmee. Imprinting is a powerful werewolf feeling which ties Jacob to the baby for the rest of her life. He cannot leave her and the other werewolves will not attack her for this reason.

So that’s it so far but the most exciting part of all four books is still to come, The Cullens vs The Volturi. We learn how Bella’s human talents have been heightened in her vampire form and we also get some new exciting characters entering the story.