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 enlarge | Author: Stephenie Meyer
Publisher: Little, Brown Young Readers
Category: Book
List Price: $19.99
Buy New: $10.99
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Avg. Customer Rating:  1176 reviews
Sales Rank: 2
Media: Hardcover
Edition: 1
Reading Level: Young Adult
Number Of Items: 1
Pages: 640
Shipping Weight (lbs): 1.6
Dimensions (in): 8.4 x 5.7 x 2
ISBN: 0316160202
EAN: 9780316160209
Publication Date: August 7, 2007
Availability: Usually ships in 7 to 12 days
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 Awesome book January 9, 2009
This book is awesome. Could not wait to get book to get started reading it. Amazon offered a great price on the book making it even more appealing to purchase
love, love, love it!! January 9, 2009
Eclipse is just that breathtaking...
i've never been a reader.. i've always had to force myself to read. Meyer's writing is effortless, and the love between edward and bella is beautiful. i can't put the books down
Great Service. January 8, 2009
Great Service. The books came in time for Christmas. The owner is very happy- It was just what she wanted.
A Great Read! January 8, 2009
I absolutely love the Twilight Saga! I know this book was done with tweens in mind, but I'm way past my tweens and got sucked right into the series. It has been a page turner since the moment I picked it up. I read all 4 books within 2 months! I held onto to Book 4 - Breaking Dawn for as long as I could. I didn't want it to end. ;-)
Best book in the saga, better depth & plot January 8, 2009
This book was probably the second best of the saga (Twilight being the best, even if too short for all the events & info in it). Bella actually had some depth in this book, though she did still continue leading Jake on, even with Edward in the picture, and Charlie only encouraged it. I was glad that she seemed to finally be coming into her own, but also agitated that now the tables were turned. Instead of her trying to have her cake & eat it too, at the expense of everyone, now everyone else was doing that to her.
You've got Charlie grounding Bella (who is now 18), which is childish. It would be understandable in regards to "my house, my rules" if he was telling her he didn't want noise (in/out traffic, friends, etc) while he was sleeping or not home. However, he was basically keeping her under house arrest with supervised visitation...unless it was a person he approved of, in which case "sure, go wherever you like". That's just backwards logic for a legal age child living under their parent's roof. Then you've also got Charlie basically forcing Bella to Jake, after she had told him she didn't want to lead him on anymore. He still continued to force them together, with his driving force being that he didn't like Edward, not caring that doing so would just be worse on both Jake & Bella.
On top of that you've got Edward basically putting Bella on parole by telling her she can't visit Jake (even when she started wanting to). At that point you're removing her free will & dictating what she can/can't do with her life...while at the same time trying to tell her that you want her to be happy & live her life & you don't want to force her into anything? At the very least, Bella finally is more independent & brings the story to life with some defiance on all fronts.
The final addition to Bella's repression in this book is Jake's interference. He constantly tries to pry Bella & Edward apart...but not for Bella's benefit, for his own. He basically tries to force himself on her in the hope that she'll see that she belongs with him. And on that note, we can go back to Charlie again. Jake basically forces himself on Bella, she punches him, breaks her had, and upon telling Charlie...he basically high-fives Jake for taking the hit without so much as a mark.
And all of these conflicts are what made the book worth it. No more one-sided puppetry. Everyone was pulling everyone elses strings, and in so many different ways, that it lead to Bella breaking out somewhat & actually being a more interesting character. The book as a whole was more interesting. There were now so many character interactions to pay attention to. Suddenly you had interactions that weren't the norm for the character, and you had to keep reading to find out how those interactions would grow & change. There was more involvement between the pack, and it almost started to seem as though Leah and Jake were going to become closer.
However, underneath all of the layers to this story, I was still stuck on the whole Bella - vampire thing. I really wanted to see her hurry up & change so that she could have some new life to her character. Between the change itself, the struggle of being a newborn, discovering what her special ability would be, etc. Then Edward has to destroy it all with additional conditions, one being marriage, which she can't commit to. That one drove me right up the wall because it was a way of pussy-footing around the issue & wasting more time. It didn't stop me from enjoying the book because there was so much else going on, but it was nagging in the back of my head most of the time. The only other thing that bothered me was that even though the book was written more maturely, and the characters were older, none of them could manage to talk about physical intimacy without seeming like immature kids.
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