by Kelly Burton

Created on: April 01, 2009

Eclipse picks up where New Moon left off; Bella has had to cool off her friendship with Jacob on Jacobs request - the relationship between Jacob and Edward is strained so the opening section of Eclipse is Jacobs attempt to tell Bella to stay away.

However. There are big threats for the luckless Bella around the corner which will require the joint strengths of both Edwards Vampire family and Jacobs friends (we shall leave it there in case I accidentally reveal plot spoilers for anyone who hasn't yet read New Moon and intends to!). A killing spree is spreading across Seattle and with no clues, fingerprints and a rapid and frenzied rate of attack; the Cullen's already fear that a new vampire clan is attacking. Add to that, an old enemy, Victoria, is still on the hunt not to mention the Vulturi are still after Bella, she and the rest of her ill-fated friends are in for a rough ride....

My Thoughts
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Having just reminded myself of my review on the last book, New Moon, I'm surprised I even picked up the third, Bella irritated me so much. She was such a martyr; far too old for her years (although this is played on in the books, her mother often refers to her as old before her time) her language, actions and thoughts are far beyond those of the average 18-year-old girl so its unsurprising that I sometimes find her character false, she just doesn't seem to be based in reality half the time!

Bella is just as irritating in Eclipse as she has been in previous books - constantly wanting to sacrifice herself to save the people she loves because she has heard a story about a human woman who did just this to save the people she loved, wanting to waste her life to become a vampire and spend eternity with Edward might sound like she is a wonderful human being but its all a little odd at times and I really wanted to give her a cold hard slap across the face and tell her to wake up!

Added to this, this story develops the peculiar love triangle between her, Edward and Jacob. She is constantly agonising over her two relationships and seems at some points to string both of them along and have a bizarre intimate relationship with both although she still tries to tell Jacob that they are just friends. When he reminds her again of his feelings for her, there seems to be this never-ending agonising section about how she feels she treated him badly and strung him along (yes) but she wants to be with them both in different ways! It is all rather frustrating. My 13 year old cousin would

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