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This review is about the first chapter and preface of Breaking Dawn – sold in the special edition of Eclipse. Stephenie Meyer gives us a sneak peak into what looks to be another wonderful addition to the Twilight series. The preface is intriguing and makes us wonder who Bella is with while she is thinking such dark thoughts. Clearly, this is another book about obsession. The first chapter is awesome. We see Bella has matured and is walking toward her chosen path trying to keep her head held high. The first chapter was unexpected as well. What is fantastic about the first chapter is that Bella is alone outside her house engaged in an activity. Bella hasn’t been alone since the middle of New Moon so this was an fascinating scene.
This sneak peak also gave us the reactions of Charlie and Renee to Bella and Edward’s news and through Bella’s memories we see how Charlie reacted when Bella and Edward told him of their plans. Unexpectedly, we see a friendship has formed between Esme and Renee amidst all the plotting and Seth and Edward have remained friendly.
We also get a bit of information about what Jacob has been up to since receiving Edward’s invitation at the end of Eclipse. For Jacob fans this might be upsetting. There is enough vagueness to make one reckon Jacob will have a pivotal role in the fourth book in the series and the last book from Bella’s perspective.
It is disappointing that the publisher won’t allow the author to post these chapters to her website which is seemingly related to them trying to get teenagers and adults to buy Eclipse a second time. This marketing ploy is a tad upsetting. These books have sold very well on the first round and to try and get people to buy the book a second time because “we” are obsessed with these characters is a bit over the top and it appears a bit unethical. Really, the behavior of the publishing company is a bit predatory. Personally, I went to the book store and read the chapters there and I recommend you all do the same. Breaking Dawn will be out soon enough and why pay for the first chapter twice and Eclipse twice?
Is there ever truly just one fated like in your life? What happens when your first like leaves you, crushes you, and you still survive but not as you once were? What happens when you go from loving the icy vampire to the warm werewolf? Welcome to Bella’s world.
Perhaps the largest change in the series so far is the fact that Bella starts to realize that like found her after Edward vanished. Even though her heart remained his, eventually she started to wake a bit and to find like again.
This book finds Bella now considering the things that she will have to deal with when she becomes a vampire. She learns the disturbing history of another Cullen who was made a vampire after being ruined by her intended. Bella learns that not all the vampires wish her to give up her mortality so quickly. She also starts to face what she is leaving behind. The parents she cares for, the few friends she has made, even the every day things like graduating that the rest of her family of vampires want her to delight in.
Bella also has her life and like tested by Jacob. Can the boy who you considered your sun, your friend, and someone you finally admit you do like compete with Edward. The nice thing that Stephenie Meyer gives you here is a deep growth in Bella. What happens when you find you have two right likes in your life? Is there a way to balance that life? What happens when neither is really human and both are mortal enemies? Just where will the human heart lead Bella?
I’ll agree with the friend from college who got me to read the first book. It is like getting hooked on a drug. You just can’t wait for Mrs. Meyer to end the last book and find out just where Bella’s life or death may bring her.
Reading the third installment in the Twilight series was as satisfying to me as munching through a bag of dark chocolate M&Ms. The huge ones.
Because, after all, Eclipse is HUGE–629 pages–and in this volume of the tale about Bella Swan, a mortal teenager, and vampire Edward Cullen, several huge What If questions are explored: What if Bella decides once-and-for-all to become a vampire like Edward; how can she possibly know when she’s ready? What if Edward relents and redraws his “many careful lines” for his physical relationship with Bella? What would it look like if something so evil were to terrorize the Olympic Peninsula that Bella’s excellent vampires and her werewolf friends had to try to unite to fight it, despite their ancient animosity? And how would Bella’s closest friend Jacob, probably the swiftest of the Quileute werewolves, compete with her supposedly right like Edward for her eternal devotion?
Once again, Stephenie Meyer has written a compelling and often humorous sequel set in the lush environment surrounding the small town of Forks, Washington. Her colorful characters feel like real people rather than types–a huge thing for me. And what situations could’ve been written morosely or indelicately came off instead as, well, as a kind of sensuous elegance. Even though the more private moments of pain or pleasure were described honestly, with realistic detail, they weren’t stripped of their intimacy by such telling. That impressed me. And there are lots of these kinds of moments throughout the book. I just ate it up.
One thing that might bog down readers is the tremendous amount of backstory that must be covered in order for the action and some characters’ points of view to make sense. It makes for a lot of exposition (as opposed to plain ol’ action), even when the tales are coming out of the characters’ mouths. But at least the tales are told in varied styles, according to the characters relating them, so monotony is not an issue. It’s just a LOT of information to keep straight.
Even so, unlike a bag of M&Ms, Eclipse did not give me a bellyache once I finished it. It has left me wanting more. And so I wait for book four…
Twilight introduced us to Bella Swan and the mysterious Cullen’s a family of vampires. New Moon pulled Bella and Edward Cullen apart, and tested their like and introduced us to Jacob and the battle between wolves and vampires. It also left us hanging with a choice about Bella and immortality: when?
Eclipse is different. We return to the town of Forks and find that nothing much has changed. Graduation is closer than ever (after which, the Cullen’s have agreed to make Bella a vampire) and a serial killer is loose in Seattle. Bella cannot see Jacob, her best friend because he is a Werewolf, and due to her ties to the vampires, it would break treaties and bonds made between them.
As the days go by, and graduation gets closer and closer, Bella must choose her fate. She wants to become immortal and be with Edward, but she must give up her family to do so. She is also worried about the change: will she be able to be “vegetarian” like the Cullen Family, and refrain from human blood? Or will her new blood lust cause her to kill innocent people?
The serial killer that is in Seattle turns out to be supernatural: newborn vampires on the loose. This brings up even more issues for Bella and her choice to become immortal. Not that anything could ever persuade her to give Edward up, but it makes the choice more hard by showing her the realities of becoming a vampire.
Without spoiling the plot: Jacob wants more from Bella too, which makes the choice even more hard. Must Bella choose between the like of her life and her best friend?
Eclipse is yet another installment of a series I desperately hope will continue. I want to continue watching the characters grow and change, and find out what their lives will unfold to be like. I am already nervous for the next in the series! Write more, Stephenie Meyer!
Stephenie Meyer writes yet again another incredible novel. It shows the like and compassion between the characters and shows us that right like can never die no matter what the price you have to pay to keep it. The ending only makes you nervous for Breaking Dawn. If you’re anything like me, after you end Eclipse you will not be able to leave Bella and Edward and have to read the series over again. For me I’m on my third time. I’m honestly certain I will be re-reading through the summer until Breaking Dawn is released…then I’ll probably start over again! Thank you, Stephenie Meyer, for such a gorgeous imagination!
Wow, what can I say. I really loved this book. I was surprised, I am 44 and started reading the twilight series by chance just for something to do while my husband watched football. I became so engrossed in the books that I read all 4 in just 6 days. The incredible thing is I am not a reader. These were the first books I have read in more than 5 years.
I cannot recommend these books by SM enough. They are so vividly discriptive and she teases you so well by writing nearly what you want to happen and then pulling back at the right moment.
I am a Jacob Black fan. The way SM has written the series I am always pulling for him and I feel so much compassion for his character.
“Twilight” was intriguing. “New Moon” was kind of a letdown. “Eclipse” is the book that finally made me a right devotee of Stephenie Meyer’s vampire series.
This novel, the third in the series, picks up right where “New Moon” left off. Bella and her vampire boyfriend, Edward, are preparing to graduate from high school. Meanwhile, Bella manages to reestablish her friendship with werewolf Jacob Black. The leads to numerous awkward situations between Edward and Jacob, but Bella is the one who suffers the most, as she finally realizes that there’s much more to her relationship with Jacob than she initially thought.
While all this is going on, danger looms on the horizon. Seattle has been plagued by a series of violent homicides, and it soon becomes apparent that the killings are not the work of the average serial killer. It turns out that these mysterious deaths are connected to Bella, who’s also busy worrying about the fact that Victoria and the Volturi have it out for her, too. On top of all that, there’s the small matter of Bella desperately wanting to become a vampire herself, but no one (including Bella herself) is sure if she can handle it.
I really loved this book. It’s the first novel in the “Twilight” series that I’m giving five stars to (although it probably only deserves four stars…Meyer comes up with awesome tales, but she’s not the world’s greatest writer, and there’s a lot of unnecessary back-tale in “Eclipse” that could easily have been trimmed down to a couple of pages rather than a couple of chapters, but what can you do?). I am completely drawn in by this vampire romance, and I cannot place these books down! My only major gripe about “Eclipse” has to do with Bella’s realization about Jacob…I am a dedicated member of Team Edward, gosh darn it! I guess we’ll see what the future has in store for all these characters in “Breaking Dawn,” which is next on my “to-read” list!
I am too ancient to be reading these books really. I won’t tell you that the writing in these novels is especially challenging to read, or has a ring of poetry or genius. The characters presented in these books are about as three dimensional as most high school students. So why do I like these books? Perhaps it is because Bella reminds me of myself when I was 14 years ancient. She is so irrationally in like, selfish, and immature, even though she nearly always tries to do what she feels is the right thing. The tales are not complex, but they are quick, action packed, and each chapter ends in a cliffhanger of sorts. In addition, the books often had me laughing and/or worrying about the characters.
I haven’t gotten so wrapped up in a book in a very long time. I’m tempted to read many of the books referred to the twilight series just because of the way she references them in her own books and their significance. This is one of the best if not the best romance tales I’ve read (a excellent match with Pride and Prejudice )
First off, I hope the author writes more books exploring more of the characters and their directions. I’m looking forward to Midnight Sun. She has made us want more in this last book, that the final book makes me hope will not be the last.
I hope there are more adventures, Bella as a vampire and her abilities, her contributions, her adjustment as a vampire, her pleased ending with the ability in the future to see her parents and friends and not be a monster. I hope there is more. I hope there is a book that explores where Jakes life goes as he finds a like of his own in La Push and lastly, a time when Bella doesn’t have to be so cautious being physical with Edward.
I can’t help to place these books along with Anne Rice, they are so well written, but even Annie Rice didn’t write such a compelling like tale. I would highly recommend this series to anyone, regardless of age. If you don’t have time to read it, get the CD’s you’ll be drawn in as much as if you read it.
I can’t wait for more books on this world of Forks and hope that there will be many more books for us fans to read in the future…
Don’t leave us hanging; you’ve caught our curiosities….
Rating
This review is about the first chapter and preface of Breaking Dawn – sold in the special edition of Eclipse. Stephenie Meyer gives us a sneak peak into what looks to be another wonderful addition to the Twilight series. The preface is intriguing and makes us wonder who Bella is with while she is thinking such dark thoughts. Clearly, this is another book about obsession. The first chapter is awesome. We see Bella has matured and is walking toward her chosen path trying to keep her head held high. The first chapter was unexpected as well. What is fantastic about the first chapter is that Bella is alone outside her house engaged in an activity. Bella hasn’t been alone since the middle of New Moon so this was an fascinating scene.
This sneak peak also gave us the reactions of Charlie and Renee to Bella and Edward’s news and through Bella’s memories we see how Charlie reacted when Bella and Edward told him of their plans. Unexpectedly, we see a friendship has formed between Esme and Renee amidst all the plotting and Seth and Edward have remained friendly.
We also get a bit of information about what Jacob has been up to since receiving Edward’s invitation at the end of Eclipse. For Jacob fans this might be upsetting. There is enough vagueness to make one reckon Jacob will have a pivotal role in the fourth book in the series and the last book from Bella’s perspective.
It is disappointing that the publisher won’t allow the author to post these chapters to her website which is seemingly related to them trying to get teenagers and adults to buy Eclipse a second time. This marketing ploy is a tad upsetting. These books have sold very well on the first round and to try and get people to buy the book a second time because “we” are obsessed with these characters is a bit over the top and it appears a bit unethical. Really, the behavior of the publishing company is a bit predatory. Personally, I went to the book store and read the chapters there and I recommend you all do the same. Breaking Dawn will be out soon enough and why pay for the first chapter twice and Eclipse twice?
I work hard to earn my money, don’t you?
Rating
Is there ever truly just one fated like in your life? What happens when your first like leaves you, crushes you, and you still survive but not as you once were? What happens when you go from loving the icy vampire to the warm werewolf? Welcome to Bella’s world.
Perhaps the largest change in the series so far is the fact that Bella starts to realize that like found her after Edward vanished. Even though her heart remained his, eventually she started to wake a bit and to find like again.
This book finds Bella now considering the things that she will have to deal with when she becomes a vampire. She learns the disturbing history of another Cullen who was made a vampire after being ruined by her intended. Bella learns that not all the vampires wish her to give up her mortality so quickly. She also starts to face what she is leaving behind. The parents she cares for, the few friends she has made, even the every day things like graduating that the rest of her family of vampires want her to delight in.
Bella also has her life and like tested by Jacob. Can the boy who you considered your sun, your friend, and someone you finally admit you do like compete with Edward. The nice thing that Stephenie Meyer gives you here is a deep growth in Bella. What happens when you find you have two right likes in your life? Is there a way to balance that life? What happens when neither is really human and both are mortal enemies? Just where will the human heart lead Bella?
I’ll agree with the friend from college who got me to read the first book. It is like getting hooked on a drug. You just can’t wait for Mrs. Meyer to end the last book and find out just where Bella’s life or death may bring her.
Rating
Reading the third installment in the Twilight series was as satisfying to me as munching through a bag of dark chocolate M&Ms. The huge ones.
Because, after all, Eclipse is HUGE–629 pages–and in this volume of the tale about Bella Swan, a mortal teenager, and vampire Edward Cullen, several huge What If questions are explored: What if Bella decides once-and-for-all to become a vampire like Edward; how can she possibly know when she’s ready? What if Edward relents and redraws his “many careful lines” for his physical relationship with Bella? What would it look like if something so evil were to terrorize the Olympic Peninsula that Bella’s excellent vampires and her werewolf friends had to try to unite to fight it, despite their ancient animosity? And how would Bella’s closest friend Jacob, probably the swiftest of the Quileute werewolves, compete with her supposedly right like Edward for her eternal devotion?
Once again, Stephenie Meyer has written a compelling and often humorous sequel set in the lush environment surrounding the small town of Forks, Washington. Her colorful characters feel like real people rather than types–a huge thing for me. And what situations could’ve been written morosely or indelicately came off instead as, well, as a kind of sensuous elegance. Even though the more private moments of pain or pleasure were described honestly, with realistic detail, they weren’t stripped of their intimacy by such telling. That impressed me. And there are lots of these kinds of moments throughout the book. I just ate it up.
One thing that might bog down readers is the tremendous amount of backstory that must be covered in order for the action and some characters’ points of view to make sense. It makes for a lot of exposition (as opposed to plain ol’ action), even when the tales are coming out of the characters’ mouths. But at least the tales are told in varied styles, according to the characters relating them, so monotony is not an issue. It’s just a LOT of information to keep straight.
Even so, unlike a bag of M&Ms, Eclipse did not give me a bellyache once I finished it. It has left me wanting more. And so I wait for book four…
Rating
Twilight introduced us to Bella Swan and the mysterious Cullen’s a family of vampires. New Moon pulled Bella and Edward Cullen apart, and tested their like and introduced us to Jacob and the battle between wolves and vampires. It also left us hanging with a choice about Bella and immortality: when?
Eclipse is different. We return to the town of Forks and find that nothing much has changed. Graduation is closer than ever (after which, the Cullen’s have agreed to make Bella a vampire) and a serial killer is loose in Seattle. Bella cannot see Jacob, her best friend because he is a Werewolf, and due to her ties to the vampires, it would break treaties and bonds made between them.
As the days go by, and graduation gets closer and closer, Bella must choose her fate. She wants to become immortal and be with Edward, but she must give up her family to do so. She is also worried about the change: will she be able to be “vegetarian” like the Cullen Family, and refrain from human blood? Or will her new blood lust cause her to kill innocent people?
The serial killer that is in Seattle turns out to be supernatural: newborn vampires on the loose. This brings up even more issues for Bella and her choice to become immortal. Not that anything could ever persuade her to give Edward up, but it makes the choice more hard by showing her the realities of becoming a vampire.
Without spoiling the plot: Jacob wants more from Bella too, which makes the choice even more hard. Must Bella choose between the like of her life and her best friend?
Eclipse is yet another installment of a series I desperately hope will continue. I want to continue watching the characters grow and change, and find out what their lives will unfold to be like. I am already nervous for the next in the series! Write more, Stephenie Meyer!
Rating
Stephenie Meyer writes yet again another incredible novel. It shows the like and compassion between the characters and shows us that right like can never die no matter what the price you have to pay to keep it. The ending only makes you nervous for Breaking Dawn. If you’re anything like me, after you end Eclipse you will not be able to leave Bella and Edward and have to read the series over again. For me I’m on my third time. I’m honestly certain I will be re-reading through the summer until Breaking Dawn is released…then I’ll probably start over again! Thank you, Stephenie Meyer, for such a gorgeous imagination!
Rating
Wow, what can I say. I really loved this book. I was surprised, I am 44 and started reading the twilight series by chance just for something to do while my husband watched football. I became so engrossed in the books that I read all 4 in just 6 days. The incredible thing is I am not a reader. These were the first books I have read in more than 5 years.
I cannot recommend these books by SM enough. They are so vividly discriptive and she teases you so well by writing nearly what you want to happen and then pulling back at the right moment.
I am a Jacob Black fan. The way SM has written the series I am always pulling for him and I feel so much compassion for his character.
Rating
. . . because I might die if I have to wait longer than a month for the 4th book!!!!!
Rating
“Twilight” was intriguing. “New Moon” was kind of a letdown. “Eclipse” is the book that finally made me a right devotee of Stephenie Meyer’s vampire series.
This novel, the third in the series, picks up right where “New Moon” left off. Bella and her vampire boyfriend, Edward, are preparing to graduate from high school. Meanwhile, Bella manages to reestablish her friendship with werewolf Jacob Black. The leads to numerous awkward situations between Edward and Jacob, but Bella is the one who suffers the most, as she finally realizes that there’s much more to her relationship with Jacob than she initially thought.
While all this is going on, danger looms on the horizon. Seattle has been plagued by a series of violent homicides, and it soon becomes apparent that the killings are not the work of the average serial killer. It turns out that these mysterious deaths are connected to Bella, who’s also busy worrying about the fact that Victoria and the Volturi have it out for her, too. On top of all that, there’s the small matter of Bella desperately wanting to become a vampire herself, but no one (including Bella herself) is sure if she can handle it.
I really loved this book. It’s the first novel in the “Twilight” series that I’m giving five stars to (although it probably only deserves four stars…Meyer comes up with awesome tales, but she’s not the world’s greatest writer, and there’s a lot of unnecessary back-tale in “Eclipse” that could easily have been trimmed down to a couple of pages rather than a couple of chapters, but what can you do?). I am completely drawn in by this vampire romance, and I cannot place these books down! My only major gripe about “Eclipse” has to do with Bella’s realization about Jacob…I am a dedicated member of Team Edward, gosh darn it! I guess we’ll see what the future has in store for all these characters in “Breaking Dawn,” which is next on my “to-read” list!
Rating
I am too ancient to be reading these books really. I won’t tell you that the writing in these novels is especially challenging to read, or has a ring of poetry or genius. The characters presented in these books are about as three dimensional as most high school students. So why do I like these books? Perhaps it is because Bella reminds me of myself when I was 14 years ancient. She is so irrationally in like, selfish, and immature, even though she nearly always tries to do what she feels is the right thing. The tales are not complex, but they are quick, action packed, and each chapter ends in a cliffhanger of sorts. In addition, the books often had me laughing and/or worrying about the characters.
Rating
I haven’t gotten so wrapped up in a book in a very long time. I’m tempted to read many of the books referred to the twilight series just because of the way she references them in her own books and their significance. This is one of the best if not the best romance tales I’ve read (a excellent match with Pride and Prejudice
)
First off, I hope the author writes more books exploring more of the characters and their directions. I’m looking forward to Midnight Sun. She has made us want more in this last book, that the final book makes me hope will not be the last.
I hope there are more adventures, Bella as a vampire and her abilities, her contributions, her adjustment as a vampire, her pleased ending with the ability in the future to see her parents and friends and not be a monster. I hope there is more. I hope there is a book that explores where Jakes life goes as he finds a like of his own in La Push and lastly, a time when Bella doesn’t have to be so cautious being physical with Edward.
I can’t help to place these books along with Anne Rice, they are so well written, but even Annie Rice didn’t write such a compelling like tale. I would highly recommend this series to anyone, regardless of age. If you don’t have time to read it, get the CD’s you’ll be drawn in as much as if you read it.
I can’t wait for more books on this world of Forks and hope that there will be many more books for us fans to read in the future…
Don’t leave us hanging; you’ve caught our curiosities….