All right... Here's Book One... Reminder: Language and Spoilers, so don't read if you haven't. She had my sides splitting around the first couple of pages.
Book One: Bella
Preface: "Hi, I'm Bella Swan! Once again, someone wants to kill me. Maybe if I'm vague enough about it, you'll want to kill me, too."
Chapter 1: "Engaged"
Does what it says on the tin: Bella's engaged, the horror, and whines to us that she doesn't want to marry so young, but she wants to become a vampire before she turns twenty and gets OLD, omg, and her filthy-rich marble-skinned angel-god-Adonis vampire boyfriend has bribed her way into Dartmouth and given her a Black Card and a Mercedes Guardian, the missile-proof choice of drug lords and arms dealers everywhere, because Bella is just so clumsy that her life is on the line every time she walks out the door. Woe, life is SO HARD. Also, she's still moping because Jacob the werewolf is still mad because she broke his heart sixteen times, and also, she has to tell her police chief father Charlie that she's engaged to be married at the age of eighteen, fresh out of high school, instead of going to college. He's really going to be mad because he keeps demanding if she's pregnant, which is particularly galling because Edward refuses to get crazy until after they're married, and her mother Renee is going to be mad because she and Charlie got married too young (and then divorced) and she doesn't want Bella to make the same mistake.
Except then Bella tells them and Renee and Charlie are like, "Oh, okay, whatevs."
Chapter 2: "Long Night"
"No, no. It's your bachelor party. You have to go."
But not before Bella attempts to get her freak on! Again! Some more! Futile vampire foreplay ensues. And then Vampire Bachelor Party starts up at the drive-in theater, right after Werewolf Beach Bonfire.
God, I hope there's a hilariously awkward wedding night. Please, Santa, I have been so good.
I thought he would laugh, but he didn't answer, and his body was motionless with sudden stress. The gold in his eyes seemed to harden from a liquid to a solid.
Well, something's hardening. Also: "I hate that you'll never have babies, Bella!" facepalm
While we're here, let's get into the back story of the Denali clan, because FORESHADOWING they're coming to the wedding. See, the Denali clan up in Alaska is who Edward ran to when he had to escape the sweet, sweet, natural freesia scent of Bella's blood back when he first met her in biology class all of (checks watch) eighteen months ago. Bella's all insecure because Tanya once had a thing for Edward, but Edward didn't thing back because he's... never been interested in any girl other than Bella in 109 years? I'm just saying.
More importantly, we get the back story of how vampire "sisters" Tanya, Kate and Irina were created by a woman, their "mother," who also created a child vampire and that was BAD, that was VERY BAD, and the supar-sekrit ruling vampire society, the Volturi, swept down with their fire and their wrath and their hey-that-hurts and burnt them, the not-mother and the kid vampire, to death, and that child vampires are completely uncontrollable and taboo and illegal and BAD, VERY BAD.
And then Bella has a dream about a beautiful little boy vampire... sitting on the bodies of her friends and family. OMINOUS.
Chapter 3: "Big Day"
OH THANK YOU JESUS THEY GET MARRIED. I was half-convinced we'd have a dozen crises putting it off until the last chapter. I'm not asking for much out of this book, y'all. I want Bella and Edward to get married, and to have a hilarious wedding night, and to get Bella vampired, and FOR NEITHER OF THEM TO DIE OR MAGICALLY GET RE-HUMAN. I want my goddamn treacly vampire fluff and I want it now. ONE FOR FOUR!
(Man. I am still so surprised that they got married so early in the book. The last time I read a book with a wedding that close to the front, it was crashed by Death Eaters.)
I held my hands out automatically, and the filmy white garter landed in my palms. "That's mine and I want it back," Alice told me.
ILY ALICE.
Chapter 4: "Gesture"
Alice (Edward's psychic vampire not-sister) is in heaven because she's finally gotten to throw the wedding of her dreams, and there are ten thousand flowers (including freesia, of course), and everyone that Bella knows but doesn't actually care about is there.
Note from the future: You (and Bella) will never see any of her human friends or family ever again. Angela? Bye! Mike Newton? Adiós! Her mother? Pssssh. It's pretty much all vampires and werewolves from here on out.
(CAKE-IN-THE-FACE SMASHING SQUICK. Come at me with wedding cake in your fist and DRAW BACK A NUB, pal. Actually, I'm surprised Alice didn't leap in front of Bella like a Secret Service agent—the cake must have killed all the makeup we read about her spackling on Bella for, like, six hours.)
Speaking of werewolves, here's Jacob! He's come back from the wilds of Canadistan or wherever he was moping because he just wants to see Bella One Last Time before she gets vampired.
"Now everyone I love is here."
AUGH STAB NOT THIS LOVE TRIANGLE BULLSHIT AGAIN.
Re: the frilly frou-frou wedding: "Alice is an unstoppable force of nature."
CAN'T SLEEP, PSYCHIC VAMPIRE JOKER WILL EAT ME.
Re: Not vampiring Bella just yet: "I just didn't want to spend my honeymoon writhing in pain."
I'm… I'm not even gonna touch that.
Oh, lawl, Jacob's just found out that Mr. and Mrs. Newlywed Cullen are actually going to (gasp) have sex and now he's freaking the hell out. Everybody stand back, he's gonna fursplode! I KNEW some kind of shit was going to go down at the wedding. (But no imprinting on Angela! That was my pet theory! I am so disappointed.) And now, after a vampire-werewolf almost-rumble just barely escapes the notice of the mundanes, Edward is starting to have second thoughts about this whole sex thing, because (in case you're just joining us), vampires are hella strong and ice-cold and hard as marble and he's been worried about possibly crushing Bella. And that's why he doesn't want to have sex with her while she's still human, but that's the one thing she wants to do before she becomes a vampire, but he won't unless she is a vampire or they get married first, because premarital vampiring is bad, but Bella doesn't want to get married because her parents divorced young but she does want to have sex now and she wants to become a vampire before she gets too old and GOD JUST DO IT, SERIOUSLY, I CAN'T TAKE THIS ANYMORE.
Chapter 5: "Isle Esme"
Maybe I'll get my wish after THREE BOOKS ALREADY! Off on the honeymoon we go, to... South America? Are… are they going to Antarctica? Like Edward suggested for her first year as a vampire, so no one would get hurt while she was out of control and not herself? Are they honeymooning with the penguins? Will Morgan Freeman be narrating this?
Nope. Just off the coast of Brazil: Isle Esme. As in, Edward's vampire not-mother Esme. Esme has an island. Edward's not-father Carlisle gave it to her! Damn, I wish I was on these people's Christmas list.
Oh my God, there's a giant white bed with filmy white drapery. Should I go get some popcorn for this, or not even bother? We all know it's going to conveniently fade to black, right? Or be hilariously vague and metaphorical?
(Have I ever told y'all that one of the reasons Edward hunting mountain lions and moving just like them cracks my shit up to hell and back is because it reminds me of the sex scene in The Bridges of Madison County which I read when I was fourteen, and even then I thought it was hilariously awful where the guy "moved over her like a leopard"? I read that fifteen years ago and it's still burnt into my brain.)
Aaaaaand Alice has packed Bella nothing but French lingerie. You know, for Bella's honeymoon with Alice's not-brother. Alice, I am putting you on notice. You are my favorite character! Be more awesome.
Meanwhile, Bella is having a small pre-sexing breakdown in the bathroom. You know, I actually think this part is kind of well done, because I'm sure a lot of teenage girls reading the book can relate to anxiety about having sex for the first time. I mean, not so much with the marrying a filthy rich dazzling vampire, but then, that just makes the parts they can identify with so much more meaningful, don't you think? Anyway, Bella finally joins Edward for a sensual midnight swim, and MAN, that was an abrupt fade to black. Also: TWO FOR FOUR! Thank God.
"How badly are you hurt?"
GOD, EDWARD. Someone thinks highly of himself. Also: STOP BEING SUCH A BUZZKILL, SPARKLESON. But wait!
"Why am I covered in feathers?" I asked, confused.
He exhaled impatiently. "I bit a pillow. Or two. That's not what I'm talking about."
"You . . . bit a pillow? Why?"
Bella, honey, there's a reason there's a queen on the cover of this book.
"Look, Bella!" he almost growled. He took my hand—very gingerly—and stretched my arm out. "Look at that."
This time, I saw what he meant.
Under the dusting of feathers, large purplish bruises were beginning to blossom across the pale skin of my arm. My eyes followed the trail they made up to my shoulder, and then down across my ribs. I pulled my hand free to poke at a discoloration on my left forearm, watching it fade where I touched and then reappear.
Okay, that is actually fantastically creepy--waking up and looking down and having no idea that you've been all jacked up to hell. I will say sincerely here, well done. Unless… it wasn't supposed to be creepy. Because it so is.
Also: The pillow-biting will never, ever stop cracking my shit up. Ever. OM NOM ROUGH SEX NOM.
"That," I snapped. "That right there is why I'm angry. You are killing my buzz, Edward."
AHAHAHAHAHAHAHA. I swear to you, I am writing this in real time—I had absolutely no idea she was going to say that.
OKAY, LET'S NOW ANGST ABOUT WHO THE SEX WAS BETTER FOR. SURE, LET'S DO THAT.
He touched the frown line between my eyebrows. "I'm making you unhappy now. I don't want to do that."
"Then don't you be unhappy. That's the only thing that's wrong here."
How about we all stop being unhappy? Look, you go fir—okay, let's all stop being unhappy on the count of three, okay? OKAY?
Heeeeeee, Edward learned to cook breakfast from the Food Network.
(Also, I foresee some horrifically awkward fan encounters in Robert Pattinson's future. "So what positions do you think they did it in, tee hee!" He is probably going to want to upgrade the security system in his hair for that.)
Chapter 6: "Distractions"
So now Edward's determined to wear Bella out with good clean beach fun and tons of food all day long so that she'll be too tired to jump him at night. You know, because the pillow-biter feels guilty. Bella tries every trick in the book to seduce him, but she's an inexperienced eighteen-year-old so the book is pretty small. And okay, initially I thought it was really creepy—okay, pushy, or overbearing, or I don't even know what—that Alice packed Bella a suitcase full of French lingerie, but now that Bella's wondering if Alice foresaw that she would need it, it's hilarious. And I love how Bella refers to "one of the scarier pieces." In black lace, naturally. This may actually make up for us not getting the wedding night itself.
More Vivid Portentous Dreams. And then Bella wakes up sobbing because she had a hot sex dream and she was so very disappointed to wake up. And then Edward feels bad for her and they have lingerie-shredding, headboard-breaking sex. LULZ.
And now Bella's decided she's okay with going to college! Because that means she can be human longer! Because she wants to have more sex!
(Note from the future: Bella does not ever actually go to college.)
And then the superstitious Portuguese Brazilian cleaning woman is scared of Edward because She Knows What He Is. This is going to end well.
(Also, Edward speaks Portuguese fluently. Of course he does.)
Chapter 7: "Unexpected"
More super-vivid nightmares about child vampires and the Volturi and the burning. Meanwhile, Edward goes out hunting (the Cullens hunt animals, not people, for blood) on the mainland, leaving Bella to toss and turn and get up in the middle of the night and... make fried chicken? Homemade fried chicken? In the middle of the night. Okay, well... you go on with your bad deep-frying self, then. Except that... something's wrong with it? But then she's hungry again? So it's like, fried chicken, fried chicken, barrrrrrrrf, hey... do we have any eggs? Fuck, is she pregnant? She can't possibly be pregnant, can she?
"No," I managed to choke out. "No, Edward. I'm trying to tell you that my period is five days late."
YOU ARE FUCKING KIDDING ME.
I had absolutely no experience with pregnancy or babies or any part of that world, but I wasn't an idiot. I'd seen enough movies and TV shows to know that this wasn't how it worked. I was only five days late. If I was pregnant, my body wouldn't even have registered that fact. I would not have morning sickness. I would not have changed my eating or sleeping habits. And I most definitely would not have a small but defined bump sticking out between my hips.
YOU. ARE. SHITTING. ME.
So… wait. Basically, it really is going to look like she and Edward got married because she got knocked up.
… AHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA.
So, meanwhile, Edward's phone is ringing and he's standing there slack-jawed not answering it and Bella finally answers it and it's Alice (of course it is) and she and Carlisle (Alice and Edward's vampire doctor not-father) are freaking out, because Alice foresaw what would happen, and Edward's just standing there. Like, in shock. He still hasn't even responded to "I'm pregnant." It's kind of lolarious, I don't know.
"What did Carlisle say?" I asked impatiently.
Edward answered in a lifeless voice. "He thinks you're pregnant."
Well, dammit, that better be his diagnosis if the vampire baby is already kicking!
Everyone is horrified by the prospect of Bella somehow conceiving a mutant half-vampire miracle baby, and both Edward and Carlisle are trying to figure out how to "take care of it." Bella, on the other hand, is determined to protect her "pretty baby"--and who is the one person who is obsessed with babies (okay, that doesn't narrow it down in the Twilightverse...) and would stop at nothing to help Bella have one? Rosalie.
So you're here from part one? Okay, before we get into this, let's do two things. Number one: If you are pregnant, do not read this section of the book. You may not even want to read this section of the commentary. I don't even plan on having kids and it squicked me the hell out. It's like David Cronenberg took over the book for a hundred pages or so, seriously.
(Another reason you can skip this? This section is kind of like the camping section in Deathly Hallows: just when you're ready to kill yourself from boredom, you find out there's another hundred pages of it.)
I would also like to state this clearly and up front before I inadvertently offend someone: I have no problem with babies, children, kids, what-have-you. I was one, I'm glad people have them, I'm glad my mother had them. So when I complain that all the characters are so obsessed with baaaaabieeeees, what I mean is that every single female character in the series who expresses an opinion on the subject--Bella, Rosalie, Esme, and now Leah as well (and even some of the men!)--insist that bearing children is the most important thing ever, worth dying for, and not worth living without. And if they feel that way, you know, okay. The problem is that there is no character who feels any differently. There's no one who is ever able to say, "You know, I'm happy for you, and I am also a complete person without a baby myself." It starts to take on the subtext that women exist for the sole purpose of being mothers and that's galling, is all I'm saying.
Okay, second thing: let's go back through the supporting characters, vampire and werewolf, before we get started here, because they're all back in play for the rest of the book after a predominantly Edward-Bella section, and it'll be easier to go down the roster now:
The Cullens are a group of unrelated vampires who pretend to be a family--a doctor and his wife who look to be in their early thirties (or thereabouts), and their five late-teens/early-twenties adopted/foster kids--to blend in with society. Carlisle Cullen became a vampire in, like, the 1600s or something, and about a hundred years ago he made Edward (dying of influenza) to be his son, and then he made Esme (dying of a suicide attempt after HER BABY died, I'M JUST SAYING) to be his own wife and Rosalie (dying of... gang rape, what?) to be for Edward, except that Edward didn't like her and pretty princess Rosalie was more insulted than hurt, really, so she ended up making Emmett for herself. Vampires tend to bring their strengths from life into The Beyond or whatever, which often means that they kind of end up with superpowers, or at least some defining trait. Carlisle's seems to be "compassion," as he's trained his family to hunt animals instead of people, and he's a fantastic doctor. Esme's is, uh... being maternal. Emmett's a genial sort of meathead who's rilly, rilly strong. Edward can read minds (except not Bella's, because she is a special snowflake), and Rosalie has 1) extreme beauty, 2) an eternal obsession with the babies she never got to have, and 3) awesome powers of bitchcraft. You'll see. There was also another vampire, Jasper, who got all scarred up in The Mexican Vampire Wars, and his power is being able to affect the mood of a room, usually to calm people down, but also to stir them up if necessary. One day he ran into this other vampire, Alice (squee!), who can see the future (unless it involves werewolves) and steal hot cars and she was like, "Hey baby, I psychically know that we're meant to be, what took you so long?," and then she dragged him over to the Cullens', who had never even met either of them before, and was like, "Hey, which room is ours?" And that's because Alice is awesome. So the Cullen family is essentially a group of couples: Carlisle and Esme, Rosalie and Emmett, Alice and Jasper, and then Edward all by himself until finally he met Bella Adoraklutz Swan, the end.
The Quileutes are a tribe of Native Americans on the nearby La Push reservation, and apparently they go on Quileuting happily until vampires settle in the area, at which point the current generation of young people will FURSPLODE! into werewolves. So when the Cullens rolled back into Forks a couple of years ago, all of a sudden half the teenage Quileute boys started running super high temperatures and having giant growth spurts and OH TURNING INTO WOLVES, THERE IS ALSO THAT. And the tribe elders were all like, Aw, hell, this again. It's mostly kept a secret, although some of the Quileute families know what's going on with their kids (the werewolves can "phase" in and out of being wolfy, so they can pretend to be normal), and the wolves patrol the woods to make sure the Cullens only hunt animals in "their" territory and don't cross the line or bite people. Jacob Black became Bella's best friend in the second book, he came down with a fever of a hundred and werewolf, she broke his heart sixteen times, he's still in love with her, etc. Sam is the young chief of the werewolf pack (Jacob should be, by blood and descent, but got weirded out by the idea of authority and turned it down. I WONDER IF THIS WILL COME UP AGAIN), and he was engaged to Leah, but then he imprinted on her cousin (I think?) Emily, and had "no choice" but to ditch Leah and love Emily instead, and it was totally awkward. And then Leah became, like, the first and only female werewolf in Quileute history, and when the Quileutes are in wolf form, they can all hear each other's thoughts and cannot, in fact, hide them from each other. So the Sam/Leah thing is still SO VERY, VERY AWKWARD. And now, not only do the wolves have to listen to Leah being bitter in Sam's general direction all the time, they also have to listen to Jacob mope over Bella. Also, Quil imprinted on Emily's niece Claire, which sets new records for awkwardness because Claire is two years old. And Seth, Leah's little brother, is a younger wolf who fought by Edward's side in the third book, and he and Edward are totally in love, BFF now, even though wolves and vampires used to hate each other. Seth is my favorite. : D