Eclipse (Twilight Saga, #3)

by Stephenie Meyer

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Edward's back, Bella is still dependent on others but in a less pathetic manner and all is well with the world again! Well, except.... we still have that annoying love triangle.

Eclipse was a lot better than New Moon plot-wise, no contest, but that doesn't mean I didn't wish Jacob was erased from the equation. At the very least on the love front. I detest love-triangles. 90% of the time, they ruin my enjoyment of the romance in a book.

And in Eclipse it's especially grating, because Twilight started off as basically the ultimate love story between Edward and Bella. I was behind these two as a couple 100% in book one. But now, how do you expect me to believe they share a pure and deep love if Bella herself doesn't seem so sure of that? In fact, she is so unsure she falls for another guy!

Speaking of Bells, I hoped this book would redeem her to me. It doesn't. For a girl who gave up living when her boyfriend left she is very... fickle. Also, Eclipse emphasizes Bella's most defining feature - she is useless. In the first book, I admired her courage despite this. By the third book, I'm mostly exasperated that her only course of action is sacrifice.

Moving on to Edward. He's better than he was in New Moon, granted, but at this point I feel like I love him more out of loyalty than anything else. He's just so apathetic about this whole thing. His excuse is that he brought it on himself - which, yes, he did - but that doesn't mean you need to appear as if you don't care!

Despite Eclipse being one of my least favorite of the series, it contains one scene that never fails to give me such strong feels/i>. I shall call it the Rejection Scene. Feel free to ask in the comment for explanation, but the bottom line is that it gets me in every way, and I just think that's magical. Even if it's hella painful.

Aside for this scene, my favorite parts of this novel were Rose and Jasper's background. Here are two characters that were always on the sideline, but they get the spotlight for a while and it's cool and it's awesome and it makes you love them so much more and understand them. Especially in the context of the next book ;)


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Edward's back again, Bella is no longer pathetic and anti-social, and all is well with the world again!
EXCEPT...
We still have that annoying love-triangle. ~deep sigh~.
Seriously, for someone who basically gave up living the moment Edward was out of her life, she is very... fickle.
I've said it before - I HATE love triangles. Sometimes I don't mind them too much, but in a story like THIS, which is basically about the ultimate and somewhat perfect romance we all want to experience, it feels even more wrong than it does usually, and I hated it. I wanted Bella to chose Edward already and stop the nonsense, because as much as I like Jacob, he's not The one for Bella, as we knew from book 1. (No teams for me, BTW. I love Edward with Bella, and love Taylor in RL).
So, I liked this book a whole lot more than New Moon and less than Twilight, but the triangle just ruin it a bit for me which is why I only gave it 3 stars, despite it being one of my favorite series.