A Glimpse at Eclipse (Hee)

(Note: There is a lot of diversion in opinions on this series. Please be nice and positive in commenting.)

Eclipse - Twilight Saga - Book 3
Stephenie Meyer

The third book in the intriguing saga about a young girl's love with a vampire.

My whole Twilight experience has been on the warm side. I like them, but they aren't my favorite. I know some who would agree.

I can't talk about this book with mentioning some spoilers. So Twilight ignorant people, shoo. Now. You were warned.
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So New Moon left us where Bella had just saved Edward from the Volturi, then getting grounded for running off to Italy. Huh huh, that's sounds so funny.

Now, in Eclipse we follow Bella through her last few weeks before graduation and her determination to become immortal(aka a vampire). Meanwhile, Edward is trying to talk her out of that. I've never been partial to that idea. I think Bella should stay human. That's not saying that I want her to be with Jake instead, because I don't know which one I like better. Still.

They both have good and bad qualities. I will, on a sudden whim, talk about each of them from my point of view.

Edward - the super-man vampire. He is really much nicer in Eclipse. In Twilight, he was annoying with his mood swings happening all the time. In this book, his control is much perfected. Which makes me realize that is what good character development should show. He was also very, and almost too kind towards Jacob, his rival as it were. Overall, he's the tall hat gentlemen in the story.

Jacob - the boyish werewolf. He also had better control of himself in this book. In New Moon, I didn't like how angry he was all the time. Kind had a Harry Potter moment there. ;) But now he's almost as nice as Edward, in his own way. He's kind of the charismatic poor boy, boy next door guy.

So, I thought the love in this book was fairly realistic (as realistic as you can get with vampires and werewolves that is. ;) ) Stephenie didn't trying to make it easy for Bella to choose. There wasn't any revealing of their "true character". They were both really nice guys and Bella liked both of them. Showing that love isn't a one time only deal. You can choose who you love, and it's not always going to make everyone happy at once. But maybe someday. I think I'm rambling.


Anyways, I'm also glad that this book wrapped up on a plot line. The finale of Victoria and her persistent revenge. It would nice to have Bella get a new enemy or just a new adventure in general.

Something else I didn't get was about Bella and her "love" stuff. First, she tries to get Edward to, er, you know and then he does want to and then . . . she didn't want to. Now I don't mind that she didn't want to, I think she was being very dumb on that point. But what made her change her mind? Random. Anyways, my brain is out of info, so I'll stop for now. There's other things I was thinking about, but I'll spare you, I guess.

Overall, I think this might have been the better novel in the series.