Eclipse

Eclipse a fiction novel by Stephanie Meyer is a frothy brew of romance, violence and fantasy. As the third book in the brilliant twilight series is by far the most exhilarating. Bella, one of the main characters, is madly in love with the insanely sexy and mysterious vampire, Edward but is also drawn to the outgoing and friendly werewolf, Jacob. This causes a problem because werewolves and vampires are enemies, therefore Edward and Jacob hate each other. Bella wants to have both, one as a lover and one as a friend, sounds easy right? Well not quite.
Eclipse picks up about where New Moon Ended, Bella is getting close to graduating high school and is getting ready to go to Stanford University and leave Forks Washington forever, so she says. In reality, she is going to join her boyfriend Edward as a vampire. Meaning that she will be dead and not going to be able to control her blood lust for a few years, supposedly. Around graduation time Bella and Edward start noticing mass killings in Seattle and it wasn't until later we find out these killings are due to a large coven of new vampires. Though this is of great importance down the road, the majority of this story is spent on the love triangle of Jacob, Bella and Edward. Bella found her soul mate in Edward but Jacob is the soul mate she should of, would of had if Edward didn’t exist. Sure she loves Jacob but not as much or in the same way as she does Edward. Though Edward is very over protective, strong beyond reason and physically dead, he is the right person for Bella. He even tells her on an almost daily basis that she could chose Jacob if she wanted, sure it would hurt him greatly but if it ment she was happy then it was okay with him. Stephanie Meyer does an excellent job of describing the confusion and sheer angst of the story, you can't help but feel the intensity. But by the end of the book she finally realizes that she loves Jacob, but as a brother and only that.
Now comes the violence, since vampires aren't exactly believed in or thought to be real being subtle is the main rule for the vampires. For those that don't obey, well they have to deal with the Volturi, the largest, strongest and oldest vampire coven known. This is where the large family of new vampires come in. Edward and his family decide stop these new vampires before the Volturi get involved, because if they came they would also kill Bella because she is a human who knows way to much about the so called supernatural. And since Jacob is in love with Bella, he and his family of werewolves decide to help, to protect Bella. So the Cullens teach the wolves how to fight these newborns and are ready to fight them. Then Alice, Edwards future seeing sister, sees that Victoria is leading and creating these new vampires. This causes new drama because Victoria is out to kill Bella due to the fact that Edward killed her lover James who, in the first book tried to kill Bella. The Cullens knew that Victoria would come to the area where Bella was so they created a plan and used Bella as bait. So Bella, Edward and Jacob went one way while the others went another top fight the 20 some young and strong vampires. About 24 hours go by and here comes the feline looking, firey haired vampire, Victoria ready to kill. At first Edward tries to talk it out, but when she lurches toward Bella hes had enough. This makes Edward pull out his mad fighting skills and with one swift snap of the neck Victoria is killed and Bella is safe and all I is calm. Then they find out that all went well in killing all but one of the new borns. One decided she wanted to help the Cullens instead. Then just hours later, Edward proposes to Bella and Bella accepts.
Eclipse is an intriguing page turner, that runs a lot like a soap opera. Theres love, heart break and danger. I personally believe that every teenage girl that reads this book wishes they were Bella. She lives in this surreal life that no one knows about. I mean how badass would it be to be in her shoes. I do wish they got into more detail when it came to the fighting, but she makes up for it in the love scenes. Don't get me wrong, there is no sex in this book, the appeal is there loud and clear though. Eclipse is an intriguing love story that any girl would love.