Eclipse | Stephenie Meyer | Better than the rest...

Eclipse | Stephenie Meyer | Bella, Edward, Jacob and More!

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Eclipse

	Eclipse Stephenie Meyer Little, Brown Book Group, 2007 - 640 pages average customer review:based on 672 reviews view larger image
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highly recommended

Better than the rest...

I have read Twilight, New Moon, and Eclipse. I wasnt really interested in any of them, but I'd have to say the Eclipse is the best book in the series yet! I wouldnt sugest starting out reading this book first, so if you're in the middle of New Moon and are thinking the drowsyness will never end, hold tight and keep those eyelids peeled, because Eclipse is well worth the wait!

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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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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Irritating

I have never written a review before but I felt compelled to after reading this book, just to try to get over it. I don't think I have ever been so irritated by an ending than I have by this book. I'll try to keep it short. 1st - Bella is obsessed with how she will react when she becomes a vampire and only obsesses on how the "new ones" react, after Rosalie tells of her experience it never seems to click in her mind that it might be possible to control yourself and perhaps never kill for human blood, especially since she knows what she is getting into, unlike the "new ones". 2nd - The way Jacob assaults her and she ends up forgiving him too easily, always forgiving him too easy. Their relationship after the friendship seems much more pity-love than anything else, she focuses way too much on not hurting his feelings, never giving him a chance to get over his obsession because she comes and comforts him and it starts again. He is like a little puppy that is continually manipulating her feelings, guilting her into doing things she shouldn't and wouldn't otherwise. The author leaves the book with him running off, and I am afraid that once again she is going to get sidetracked. After once again making her decision for Edward, how many times can this happen without making her love for Edward laughable. Her father and Billy will once again guilt her into trying to take care of him, to find him, and the story will never get to her marrying Edward and moving on, her making another choice between them is unbearable after New Moon & Eclipse. Jacob has not imprinted on her, though they seem to compare the imprinting to what she has with Edward, will he conveniently imprint on someone else and resolve this or will he somehow be allowed to come back and for some reason imprint Bella, ugh! Her seeing what her life with Jacob would have been was horrible, she has never talked about an obsession with having children like Rosalie, but this opens the door. Jacob is way too much like an immature, annoying puppy, who would rather scare Bella with cold facts so he can play the brave protector, than realize what the thought of being torn apart by obsessed vampires does to her.

Sorry if you like Jacob, I hated him in this book. He knows first hand how much Bella loves Edward and cannot live without him, yet he is continually guilting her into being with him, like a spoiled child, hurting her. And don't even mention her father who is on Jacob's side instead of Bella's, when she hits him and breaks her hand and he doesn't care that Jacob forced himself on her.

There, I think I can maybe get on with my day now.

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