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Customer Id: A2L3ZY42HQY5FL 2008-11-11
 
Review Summary: My favourite of the saga so far...
 
Review Content: Eclipse is my favourite of the three so far. It has the most action, and the most struggle. Bella is still being stalked by a deadly vampire intent on revenge, and there are many people wanting to protect her. All of the Cullens, and the werewolf pack over at La Push. Most people would be flattered and relieved by this, but not Bella. She cares about these people so much that she is terrified of them getting hurt, especially on her account. But it doesn't seem to stop any of them. Edward loves Bella dearly and would rather die than see her hurt. Jacob Black feels the same. Bella is torn between the two men - she's desperately in love with Edward and can't see her life without him, but she is incredibly close to Jacob, and doesn't want to lose her friendship with him because Edward's back in town, and the two hate each other.

It's deadlock. Edward doesn't want Bella seeing Jacob, and Jacob won't be friends with Bella because she's with Edward, and he knows that she wants to become 'one of them.' It doesn't help matters that the vampires and werewolves have an ancient treaty not to hurt one another, and Bella's existence and the feelings she ignites in the two groups could potentially holes in the treaty and start a war.

As well as worrying about the dangerous vampire stalking her, Edward and Jacob, and her dad, graduation is approaching. And graduation is the date Bella has set for her to end her mortal life and become a vampire. And it's crept up on her so fast that she's made no arrangements, not said goodbye to anyone, and is now questionning if it's what she really wants.

Could things be any more complicated? Well, for Bella, yes of course. Things continue to pile up until they eventually comes to a head. Bella has lots of decisions to make, but you'll just have to read Eclipse to discover the outcome...

I loved this book. It's the most action-packed so far, with emotions running high, love, hate, fear, and more. There are also lots of new characters brought in, but the story still centres around the triangle of Bella, Edward and Jacob - all of whom you'll love and loathe in equal measure by the time you finish this book.

If you've read the first two, again, you need to read Eclipse. I'm now going to dive right into Breaking Dawn and find out what the finale is!
 
 
 

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Customer Id: A2KY4VFIGJHL0A 2008-11-11
 
Review Summary: Probably the best one so far
 
Review Content: This book seemed to have plot unlike the other two which made it a lot better. However, it did take forever for the characters to work out that they had to collaborate with the werewolves and it was pretty obvious that they'd have to do it at some point. What was confusing about this book (and New Moon) was whether or not Bella was in love with Jacob. It turns out that she does fall for him but that just made it more confusing and unnecessary for the plot.
 
 
 

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Customer Id: A2A3SPPP77YI1J 2008-10-25
 
Review Summary: The worst book of the saga
 
Review Content: 'Twilight' was bad (in my opinion). 'New Moon' was okay at best, but had promise. 'Eclipse' is awful.

The story kicks off with our two protagonists reunited, but there is a substantial loss on Bella's side. She and her best friend, Jacob, are no longer in speaking terms due to certain events in 'New Moon'. Jacob's letter was a good, humorous touch, and probably the only highlight in this book.

If you found Bella annoying even a little bit in the two previous books, you won't be able to stand her in this one. She moans and bitches about her father not letting her see Edward as often as she'd like and treats both Edward and Jacob like crap (though admittedly, seeing her do something that is the equivalent of giving the Cullens the finger was gratifying).

Edward is just plain scary in this one. It would've been a great story if Meyer intended to write about a psychopath who wants to control every single aspect of his girlfriend's life because 'he wants to protect her', but we're supposed to find this endearing and loving. Instead, it comes off as scary and awkward to read.

The only welcome change is the fact that the plot appears throughout the book this time around. Finally, we get better pacing and I guess it was marginally interesting, but the book suffers so much from other weaknesses that the plot just doesn't save it.

It's a shame, really, because 'New Moon' showed that Meyer really tried to do better and she showed promise, but 'Eclipse' is pure garbage.
 
 
 

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Customer Id: A32SS7IYCZ88SZ 2008-10-21
 
Review Summary: Will they? Won't they? Who cares?
 
Review Content: Well, things have gone from bad to worse with Meyer's Twilight series, and after her vampire cherubs have finally toddled off into their 'perfect piece of forever' I pray to the Lord it really will be the final nail in Twilight's coffin for all time (though we're still being threatened with Twilight 2: Edward's Saga or whatever it's called, and the craze will doubtless continue as the Hollywood movies are churned out, one after the other). The reason I found Eclipse such a waste of time is that I can't actually pin point what it's about. Not a lot, as I recall, but there you go.
The main part of the book is based around a seemingly interminable love triangle. Cold, beautiful Edward, or hot, rugged Jacob? Wow, does that get old fast. The imagery given to the reader in a compare/contrast style fashion (Edward is cold, hard, and marble-like while Edward is heat, soft and animal-like) is about as subtle as being run over by pink stretch limo, and occurs to the point that you just don't care into the bargain. OK, we get it. Bella has these two gorgeous, supernatural guys fighting over her and they are like, soooooo different. Anyone who swoons over the likes of Hawthorne Heights will eat up the constant neo-Goth out-pourings, and if the book actually contained the words 'shine on, diamond eyes' I wouldn't have been surprised. In fact, I'd say Hawthorne Heights have reasonable grounds for charging Meyer with plagiarism but that's just me being rather cynical. Meyer knows her audience and gives it to them hard and fast.
Mind you, that's the only thing that IS hard and fast in this 'novel'. Gosh, it's dull. Anything midly interesting is a flash-back (and tactically placed filler) and nothing really happens. Edward stops Bella from leaving the house. He has her watched constantly, because for some reason this wholly unappealing girl has every creature of the night in a 1000 mile radius howling for her blood. He takes the spark plugs out of her noisy, clapped-out truck. He and Jacob begin a jealous vendetta. And on and on we go....
By the time the book picks up at the end with the Cullens and the cute 'n' cuddly werewolves joining forces to dispatch some nasty vampires, you feel exhausted. Not from excitement, alas, but the fact you've trudged through 500 or so pages of virtual nothing to reach a semi-entertaining conclusion. At least the first two books had something you could remember about them, no matter how tacky they were. Twilight is the luuuurrve one. New Moon is the aaargh! I've been abandoned one. Eclipse is the, well zzzzzzzzzzzzzz one. It probably doesn't help that Meyer has mutated her characters into totally dislikeable morons. Edward is a one dimensional control freak who is downright creepy. Jacob is a sexually frustrated man-boy with too much time on his hands. Bella has become one of my personally most reviled characters ever. She is selfish, whiny, immature and a compulsive liar. Only the most self-loathing teenage girl would identify with her.
All in all, Eclipse is a bovine plod of a novel with no redeeming features. The splitting headache you get from the sheer boredom and frustration is good for the manufacturers of aspirin, however. At least someone other than Meyer has got something out of this mediocrity.
 
 
 

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Customer Id: A2T0D0G6B5LCCD 2008-10-20
 
Review Summary: amazing
 
Review Content: this book is one of the best i think it leave's you wanting more you get bitten by the bell edward jacob bug and wont be able to put it down worth buying . i ave read the whole set more than once and i have never read a book more than once before. not just for the young my mum even got the bug for them. i think they would sute both male and female as they are also full of action too . amazing cant wair for the next