Does the author seem to make any particular effort to compel you to read the book? If so, what? How effective is this strategy?

She makes many efforts to get her readers excited to read her books. One thing that she does is at the end of every book in the Twilight series she gives you a chapter from the next book that gives you a sense of what you'll be reading about in the book after the one you're reading. The covers of the books are also very appealing to the eye as well as the qoutes that she puts in the beginning of her novels. For example, " Some say the world will end in fire, some say in ice. From what I've tasted of desire I hold with those who favor fire. But if it had to perish twice, I think I know enough of hate To say that for destruction ice Is also great And suffice."- Robert Frost. Every qoute connects to the content of the story. So, as you read along and finally get to the end of the book, you connect the qoute with what you've read. When I go to a Border's book store, I pick up a book and read the first two or three pages. Usually this will determine if this is really something that I want to read and if the story compels me to buy it and read it, then I'll take it home. The very beginning of the first chapter is a letter written from Jacob, Bella's best friend, the words are somewhat hurtful but loving at the same time but the words have lines running through them, where Jacob has decided to take out certain sentences because he doesn't want to hurt Bella and he doesn't want to say the wrong thing. I thought this was very clever because this is how a real letter looks that comes from a loved one or when you try to write a letter. Sometimes you just can't write out what you want to say because you want to have everything perfect, especially when this is a letter from the heart or a letter that is trying to impress someone that you adore and love. It compelled me to the book because I love a good romantic story and I wanted to read more because the situation of writing a love letter, and thinking of someone you love very much I can understand a great deal from my own experiences.