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Eclipse (The Twilight Saga, Book 3)
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Customer Rating: 4.5 stars (out of 5 stars) - Based on 1646 review(s).
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Product Description
Readers captivated by Twilight and New Moon will eagerly devour Eclipse, the much anticipated third book in Stephenie Meyer's riveting vampire love saga. As Seattle is ravaged by a string of mysterious killings and a malicious vampire continues her quest for revenge, Bella once again finds herself surrounded by danger. In the midst of it all, she is forced to choose between her love for Edward and her friendship with Jacob --- knowing that her decision has the potential to ignite the ageless struggle between vampire and werewolf. With her graduation quickly approaching, Bella has one more decision to make: life or death. But which is which?
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Customer Reviews
| 1 star(s) (out of 5 stars) |
Unfortunately, more of the same. |
2009-06-29 |
| 0 out of 0 people found this review helpful. |
Let me start off by saying that I am not a fan of the Twilight series, and this book was as disappointing as the previous two. I read it while on vacation and found it to be boring and sexist. Not to mention, the levels of abuse in Bella's relationships with both Edward and Jacob increase dramatically.
In this installment of the series, Bella is sort of in a love triangle with Edward and Jacob, despite the fact that she knows she wants to be with Edward. She just can't hurt Jacob by giving him a clean break. In other words, she is completely selfish. She knows how much it hurts Jacob to be with Edward yet can't quite cut ties with him. The most alarming thing about her relationships with the two male protagonists is the level of abuse that Bella tolerates and excuses. Edward removes her car's engine and has Bella kidnapped to prevent her from seeing Jacob, who is her best friend. I was horrified to read her excuse this clearly abusive behavior by saying "he only did it because he loves me so much". What kind of a message does that send to the impressionable young girls who eat up this garbage? That it's OK for your boyfriend to decide who you can and cannot see? Jacob forceably kisses Bella, and when she tells her father that Jacob assaulted her, Charlie applauds Jacob for it and basically encourages it. Jacob later threatens to commit suicide in order to guilt Bella into kissing him, and when she does, she decides that she's also in love with Jacob. I truly could not believe what I was reading. For an author of young adult novels to ever talk about suicide the way Meyer does is simply inexcusable.
I found it hilarious that Bella was so against marrying Edward yet completely willing to give up her entire human life in order to become a vampire to be with him.
This novel actually has a battle scene, but the ability of Edward to read minds and Alice to see the future make it ridiculously uneven before it even begins. Bella spends many, many pages whining and worrying about the Cullens and the wolves, but never fear, for not a single "good guy" dies. They are outnumbered, but fighting so-called "newborn" vampires who are strong but predictable, and Jasper just so happens to be an expert on these specimens. The battle sequences are definitely decent, but to me, Meyer's refusal to have any of her beloved characters die (other than the bad ones of course) automatically makes this series the opposite of epic, and how it is referred to as a Saga I will never know. Death is a part of life, and for Meyer to so blatantly avoid anything that would hurt her beloved characters is frustrating beyond belief.
This review is somewhat disjointed and messy, and for that I apologize. I just truly cannot remember much about this book, which really shows how much of an impact it made on me. |
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| 4 star(s) (out of 5 stars) |
Eclipse |
2009-06-27 |
| 0 out of 0 people found this review helpful. |
| Eclipse (The Twilight Saga)Extremely interesting. This was a very good book. I couldn't put it down. |
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| 5 star(s) (out of 5 stars) |
Wonderful! SPOILER ALERT! |
2009-06-26 |
| 0 out of 0 people found this review helpful. |
First off, I only started reading the Twilight series AFTER I'd seen the movie, then I actually read Stephanie Meyer's Midnight Sun on her website before entering into the series. Perhaps it's because I came at this from a different order, but I feel that reading Edward's perspective of the love story between Bella and himself put some of the missing puzzles together. To be quite honest, I enjoyed reading from Edward's perspective much more than Bella's and I sincerely hope that she will finish Midnight Sun someday. But back to the critique...
I think Stephanie Meyer did a fantastic job capturing the internal struggles that Bella faced with the decision of choosing Edward vs. Jacob. Although she loved Jacob, he would never fulfill her heart the way that Edward would. He was her soulmate, her reason for existence, she could not live without him. And although she loved Jacob and could envision the life (the normal life) that she might have had with Jacob, if she had chosen him, she would always been left wanting for more. Although she was heartbroken and in pain after she'd told Jacob her final decision, that pain was miles away in comparison to the months and months of torment that Edward's disappearance had done to her. She would be sad, hurt, but that type of pain that leaving Jacob would cause her is not the type that would leave her in a lifeless state. She understood herself and that is why she KNEW that being without Edward was unbearable, but being without Jacob would be hard, but she could endure. It's like when the first love ended, even though you find love again and could be happy, that first love will always hold a special place for you. For Bella, Edward was her first and one true love. The one that she knew she could not live without. It was a pure, innocent love that only a first love could be. With Jacob, her love was more of an "adult love." Not as fervent, not as crazed, it was a practical and realistic love, but it wasn't the life or death type of love she shared with Edward. It could be something that eventually made her happy, but it would be a type of happiness that would leave yearnings.
I'd read many reviews before I borrowed this book to read. I found that many readers found the way that Edward seemed to have lost his "cockiness, arrogance, and edge" to be repulsive and was one of the many critiques that were thrown at Meyer's writing skill. I believe if the readers got a chance to read Midnight Sun and understand Edward's perspective (even though that work is far from complete and certainly doesn't even cover contents of Twilight entirely), it would make much more sense as to why Edward would act the way he does, putting up with everything that Bella would throw at him and allowing her find out how she felt about Jacob. Edward never felt he could deserve her, even from the very beginning when he realized he loved her. Just as she never felt good enough for him, he never felt good enough for her. I do not agree that Meyer seemed to be pitting Bella's 2 loves against each other in this battle of who loves Bella more. Both men are willing to do step back and accept whomever she chooses, in that way they are both honorable. But I did not feel that Bella was going back and forth trying to figure out who loved her more, she knew they both loved her unselfishly, to the extent that she did not deserve, but it was only at the end that Bella realized she did love Jacob as well, but not in the way that she would always love Edward. She had closed herself off to that possibility because Jacob represented everything that she would give up when she decided to join Edward and if she allowed herself to understand that, she could feel hesitant in her decision. Since she cannot live without Edward, the love of her entire existence, giving up Jacob was something that she knew she could and had to live with. |
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| 5 star(s) (out of 5 stars) |
My Favorite Twilight Novel |
2009-06-28 |
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| I think this is my favorite Twilight book of the series. The whole book/story is so engaging. I love the pull between Jacob and Edward. Of course my heart is for Edward <3. The story again keeps the reader on the edge of the seat, one I just couldn't put down. |
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| 2 star(s) (out of 5 stars) |
Psychoanalysis needed |
2009-06-28 |
| 0 out of 0 people found this review helpful. |
Bella's need to make everyone else happy is grating on the nerves.
However, it's understandable. She was her mother's caretaker and then on the move to Forks, went into the caretaker role for her father easily. This is the way she is...she thinks she doesn't deserve to be loved for herself and goes overboard. Her obsession with not drawing attention to herself fits this caretaker role perfectly.
How sad.
Edward is not controlling. He is on a mission to see her happy however much she fights against this. He also feels the need to protect her. His inability to read her thoughts is a crucial plot element. What fun would it be if nothing was a surprise?
Her self flagellation over Jacob is nerve racking and something I thought could have been shortened extensively. I am not a Jacob fan.
Too much emotional pain to be good.
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