Eclipse (The Twilight Saga, Book 3) | Stephenie Meyer

Eclipse (The Twilight Saga, Book 3) | Stephenie Meyer | Bella, Edward, Jacob and More!

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Eclipse (The Twili...

	Eclipse (The Twilight Saga, Book 3) Stephenie Meyer Little, Brown Young Readers, 2007 - 640 pages average customer review:based on 698 reviews view larger image
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highly recommended

i love edward

i thought eclipse was the best so far in the series. the only thing i did not like about this book was the fact that bella was falling for jacob and edward did not care, i hate jacob. he gets in the way to much. but overall i loved this book. i am mathew jacksons daughter

Bella, Edward, Jacob and More!

Stephanie Meyer returns to her addictive page-turning style with Eclipse, the third book in her Twilight series (Twilight, New Moon). Vampire Edward Cullen and werewolf Jacob Black are both vying for the affections of teenager Bella Swan while their families remain mortal enemies. However, a new threat comes to the small town of Forks, Washington and the rivals must put aside their distaste for each other in order to protect the girl they both love.

Eclipse is an exciting mix of mystery and romance entwined in a fast paced urban fantasy thriller. Meyer is a master of characters as well as story. Fans of her books will enjoy the tension created with the Edward-Bella-Jacob love triangle, as well as the back stories provided in the novel for two of Edward's more elusive siblings, Jasper and Rosalie. Overall, the book was a pleasant addition to an increasingly more enchanting series.

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A must read

The third book in the Twilight saga... you have to read this if you've read the first 2! I read all three books in 6 days, working 10 hour days! I couldn't put them down!
I love this book! I highly recommend it to any book lover! It will have you hooked!

I luv it more then anything

ok this may sound very sad but im a boy with "Edward Withdrawl" i want more and more, i stay up all night to reread all books. i cant stop. in my mind im trying to laugh at the scene in edwards bed when bella gets his shirt off, and begins tracing the veins in his chest. lol! ill also say me and my best friend make jokes about some quotes in this book like when bella licks his lips and says the taste is- "lol kentucky fried chicken" the part in our quotes is the joke. anyways if you ever think that this book sucks then go shut up and cry to momma cause ill track u down and kill you. i seriously want to be like edward. so i could seduce people as well as he does. anyways read it to please stephine meyer and the entire cast of TWILIGHT the movie!

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both sides of the arguement

Allow me to start out by saying that i've read all three books in the series and have relatively enjoyed them. i can see both the good and the bad.

***MAY CONTAIN SPOILERS FROM THIS POINT DOWN***

The good:
one of my favorite things about these books is the amount of character development that occurs throughout the series. meyer add many little quirks and nuances that make the characters much more real and believable. the fact that bella doesn't like the site of blood or that alice loves to shop takes both of them out of the 2-dimension of a novel and brings them to life. after reading three books about these people, they feel like your old friends.

Another thing that i like about these books is that there's sex without the sex. in many other vampire novels, you'll find at least one, if not multiple graphic scenes of hot-blooded sex. In the entire third book, there is maybe five (at most) scenes of kissing, two of which are with jacob. yet even though there isn't anything too terribly graphic, the book is loaded with sexual tension, passion, and desire. While noting the fact that Meyer is mormon (and thus refusing to do a graphic sex scene), she has managed to subtly weave the sexuality throughout the book in a way that an avid reader of vampire romance won't even miss the presence of a major sex-scene. as time magazine so kindly put it, there is more sex in just the third book than all of the snogging in the entire harry potter series.

the bad:
this section is easier write since i'm quicker to critisize than compliment. One of my biggest problems with the series is bella, the main character. she is the (or a very close second) most dramatic character vere in literature. she is always gasping, swooning, fainting, crying, elated, depressed, etc. her emotions are always to the extreme. also, she has absolutely no back-bone. she personifies the damsel in distress. she seems to have alot of bad lack but i personally think that if your that clumsy, you have an undiagnosed medical problem. someone always has to save her, whether it be edward, jacob, alice, or any other supernatural being. i have a hard time seeing her live long enough to be changed into a vampire.

this leads me to my second point, which is th dynamic between edward and bella. Their interaction can be divided into three things:1) "Bella/Edward. I love you so much! you're the air i breath. i can't live without you! i don't even deserve you! you don't know how lucky i am to be with you! i can't survive without you." 2) edward pretty much spends 2/3 of his time trying to keep bella safe. when bella wanted to go see jacob, edward had to drive her there and drop her off. as bella eloquently stated, its like a 7-year-old being transferreed inbetween divirced parents. at times, edward seems to exude a more paternal side than that of a lover's. 3) they pretty much spend the entire time that they are together arguing why edward won't sleep with bella and why he won't change bella in a murdering demonic being without a soul.

in summary, i would recomend this series to someone who is looking to pass the time. the books are insubstantial, light and airy with no thought involved. i liken reading these books to watching reality shows on mtv or reading a gossip magazine: something to be enjoyed but not taken too seriously. they offered a few hours of mind-numbing reprieve, but you definently won't find the answers to life.

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