Eclipse
(The Twilight Saga #3)
By Stephenie Meyer
Published Year: 2007
Page Count : 560 pages
Medium Used : Paperback
Genre : Teen Drama, Young Adult, Contemporary Fiction, Vampires, Werewolves, 2024-read.
Rating : 5/5 🤣🤣🤣🤣
This is the second time I am reading this book. It must have been almost a half decade since my first reading. The last time, I gave this book only a 2 point rating. I definitely liked it more now. I consider myself more evolved and discerning, compared to 5 years ago.
The most notable and my favorite aspect about Stephenie Meyer's writing is how inclusive she is with all the characters. None of them are left out. She pulls all of them into the context and it gives a warm, big family feeling. I simply love this.
In this book, many things are happening in Bella's life. She is nearing graduation. Her time to applying for colleges is nearing and she gets accepted for a university in Alaska. She has mentally set a date for her transformation into a vampire after her graduation. Edward promises to turn her himself .. only with the condition that she marries him first. He also wants to have sex (which she deeply wants and multiple times, she tries to seduce him, ineffectively) only after their marriage. And add into the mix, a hot blooded, jovial and jocular Jacob Black. He confesses and confounds Bella with the declaration of his love for her. This sets off like a competition between the two .. vampire and a werewolf. This makes for fun drama. There is more scope for the development of a conversation between Jacob and Bella and Edward.
There are some stories of the werewolves past heritage, history and evolution from spirit warriors which just enthralled me. Then the past of Rosalie and her antagonism towards Bella is also explained. It left me with a raw sympathy for Rosalie who wouldn't have chosen the life of a vampire if she was given a chance. The story about Jasper and his past.. where he was training other vampires against new converts was good. It added more to the plot.
Outside her immediate life, some evil forces are gathering against Bella. Someone is building an army of new converts and planning a mass attack on Forks, Washington. The Cullens are severely outnumbered and Bella shorts them by one when she refuses to let Edward participate. It felt ridiculous that he should forego the masculine act of choosing war against sitting it out with her in seclusion. So how does the war go? Who comes after the war and what compels them to set a date for Bella's change ?
It makes me lose faith and credibility in the character of Bella Swan (yes, the other parts about her, I can believe - strange!)when she cannot make out when Jacob Black is messing with her mind so that he could get a steamy and passionate kiss from her. She simply falls for his ruse and doesn't think a second, about his intentions. I want to call this a teen drama - but ofcourse, Edward is a vampire with over a century under his belt.
I liked the chemistry between Edward and Bella - it didn't feel overdone. Just highly improbable in reality but then hey! He is a super smart and super capable Vampire. I enjoyed and chuckled multiple times to the light hearted dialogue and banter between Jacob and Bella. But the general idea conveyed is Edward loves Bella better. And she reciprocates his ardour with enough of her own. I mean, he can protect her better and he takes her wishes into consideration when making choices or decisions - more than the young,juvenile and a bit unselfless Jacob.
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