Eclipse

‘Eclipse’ by Stephenie Meyer, is the third book of her famous ‘Twilight’ series, continuing the story of Bella and Edward from the first and second book.

Bella has got her Edward back and their Love life is back on the tracks. Vampire Victoria is on loose trying to kill Bella to avenge the death of his mate James.  Jacob black is open about his feelings about Bella and fighting hard so that she chooses him over Edward.

Bella is set to become vampire after her graduation. She wants Edward to change her, Edward wants to marry Bella. Jacob wishes Edward hadn’t came back and he would have eventually had Bella. And Bella wants to have one ‘special human experience’ before she becomes a vampire.

There is a love triangle and villain on the loose, and werewolves and Cullens are together to fight with them.

So whom does Bella choose, Werewolf  or Vampire? Whether they win over Victoria or not. What will Bella do to have her one ‘special human experience’ before she becomes a vampire. or Whether Edward will make her Vampire at all… ‘Eclipse’ gives all answers..

The best thing about ‘Eclipse’:-

-          The saga of teenage love. The confusion of loving two persons in a different way. Eclipse appeals all the teenagers/ young adult who have gone through these feelings of ‘whether I am in love or not’, he is my love, but I love that one a little too’. For those who read it in their mature age, it would be a pleasant de-ja-vu of our school-college days.

-          When you go through the pages, you cannot help but admire how ordinarily the writer has portrayed the central characters. The protagonists though extra ordinary in a way, behave like what very normal persons do. I can almost feel Bella’s emotions over two guys, her anxiety over the unknown life of a vampire, chosen by her, Jacob’s fury over loving the girl who loves somebody else, or has chosen life most hated him, Edward’s guilt that he is taking life away from his Bella.

-           The plot- the plots and subplots mingle in each other without superimposing on each other. Here’s a love triangle, and a preparation of fight against Victoria, both the events happens throughout the book, and circumstances follow naturally...

-          The characters – Bella’s confused, she loves Edward but cannot hurt Jacob also. Edward is determined to fight for Bella to save her life and have her in his life. Jacob is impatient to have Bella and save her from Vampire life. The characters have so well progressed from previous series, like people growing gradually…

-          The quotes, the way Edward and Jacob express their love for Bella made me cry… I wanted to be Bella myself, I think it’s the most winning part of the book.

Eclipse always had expectation to be better than its prequels, and progress in the love life of Edward- Bella, but feelings of Bella for Jacob was  indeed a happy surprise. Like any other book of the series, it made me carve for more and pick the next.

Overall  5/5 read and best in the series…

The famous quotes:

“If we could bottle your luck, we’d have a weapon of mass destruction on our hands.”

“The way you move — you orient yourself around him without even thinking about it. When he moves, even a little bit, you adjust your position at the same time. Like magnets… or gravity. You’re like a… satellite, or something.”

“I wanted to make both of them get out of their cars and shake hands and be friends — be Edward and Jacob rather than vampire and werewolf. It was as if I had those two stubborn magnets in my hands again, and I was holding them together, trying to force nature to reverse herself…”

“But if you ever bring her back damaged again — and I don’t care whose fault it is; I don’t care if she merely trips, or if a meteor falls out of the sky and hits her in the head — if you return her to me in less than the perfect condition that I left her in, you will be running with three legs. Do you understand that, mongrel?”

“I had no right to want you — but I reached out and took you anyway. And now look what’s become of you! Trying to seduce a vampire.”

“Isabella Swan? I promise to love you forever — every single day of forever. Will you marry me?”

“When I left you, Bella, I left you bleeding. Jacob was the one to stitch you back up again. That was bound to leave its mark — on both of you. I’m not sure those kinds of stitches dissolve on their own. I can’t blame either of you for something I made necessary. I may gain forgiveness, but that doesn’t let me escape the consequences.”

“I used to think of you that way, you know.

Like the sun. My personal sun. You balanced out the clouds nicely for me.”

He sighed. “The clouds I can handle. But I can’t fight with an eclipse.”

“It had not been Edward and Jacob that I’d been trying to force together, it was the two parts of myself, Edward’s Bella and Jacob’s Bella. But they could not exist together, and I never should have tried”

Twilight

“Twilight” is the first book of the same named series by Stephenie Meyer. There are other three books in the followed the series, New Moon, Eclipse & Breaking Dawn. The book was then adapted to make widely popular movie series with the same name, but personally for me the book series is much better than the movie one.

The story as widely known is about a teenage human girl falling in love with 104 year old vampire. Bella swan is an ordinary girl, who falls a lot, is very clumsy, always doubts on her abilities, cannot lie convincingly, and thinks about others before her own self. Sacrificing her love for the sun filled Phoenix so that her mother can live with her new husband, Bella moves to live with her Father to Forks- a sunless constantly raining place. In the high school, she sees a strange family of adopted brothers and sisters - The Cullens. {It was there, sitting in the lunchroom, trying to make conversation with seven curious strangers, that I first saw them. They were sitting in the corner of the cafeteria, as far away from where I sat as possible in the long room. There were five of them. They weren't talking, and they weren't eating, though they each had a tray of untouched food in front of them.}

Edward Cullen is the mysterious boy of her class, who is repellent of her for no reason.  He is dream boy of girls in the school, breathtakingly beautiful with flawless skin and ruffled hair. But like rest of the Cullens, he doesn’t mix with anybody in the school and behaves extremely abnormal around Bella, who is mystified by his beauty and horrified by his uncalled repentance towards her. {I didn't look up as I set my book on the table and took my seat, but I saw his posture change from the corner of my eye. He was leaning away from me, sitting on the extreme edge of his chair and averting his face like he smelled something bad. Inconspicuously, I sniffed my hair. }

Circumstances shape up like this that Edward had to save the life of Bella, and she starts to notice how different he is from a normal human being. Edward is now friendly to her, yet, evades her inquisitions but is obviously attracted to her. Bella tries to find her own, and after listening to local tales by   Jacob black- an old family friend, she realizes the cullens are in fact Vampires.

Edward saves Bella’s life once gain in Port Blair, and they went for dinner outside. Bella confesses her theories about his mind reading & the knowledge that she knows he is a Vampire, who hunts animals instead of humans. Edward though initially shocked, admits to it and his liking for Bella and explains how he is trying to control his urge near (of blood drinking) her.

{About three things I was absolutely positive. First, Edward was a vampire. Second, there was part of him — and I didn't know how potent that part might be — that thirsted for my blood. And third, I was unconditionally and irrevocably in love with him.}

The rest of the story is about how their love progressed till comes a villain. The story ends on a dramatic climax.

The best thing about Twilight is that though principal character in it is Vampire, the heart of the story is the love between Edward and Bella. The vampirisim of Edward only offer him a super hero like image without compromising with the intensity of the first love.

Twilight is best read because –

- The Principal characters Edward’s larger than life personality. He is not a scary vampire but somehow Stephen makes him boy of every girls dream.

-   The ordinariness of Bella, which makes every girl associate with her. She is not high school captain or most beautiful girl in the town. She is clumsy, doesn’t know how to dance, but every boy likes her.

-    Writer has taken pain to mark every even a tiny little detail and put it on paper for us.

-   The romance, the hesitation of the first love, the anxiety before the first kiss, all the feelings are aptly described in the book.

-     Vampirism is not bloody or scary but magical and loving.

It is indeed 5/5 read for me,  making me thirsty.errr…hungry to grab the next book in the series.

Sharing other favorite quotes not listed above:

{"And so the lion fell in love with the lamb…" he murmured. I looked away, hiding my eyes as I thrilled to the word.

"What a stupid lamb," I sighed.

"What a sick, masochistic lion." }

{And I knew in that I had my answer. I didn't know if there ever was a choice, really. I was already in too deep. Now that I knew — if I knew — I could do nothing about my frightening secret. Because when I thought of him, of his voice, his hypnotic eyes, the magnetic force of his personality, I wanted nothing more than to be with him right now.}

{He shook his head again. "I was wrong about you on one other thing, as well. You're not a magnet for accidents — that's not a broad enough classification. You are a magnet for trouble. If there is anything dangerous within a ten-mile radius, it will invariably find you."}

(And then, as the room went black, I was suddenly hyper aware that Edward was sitting less than an inch from me. I was stunned by the unexpected electricity that flowed through me, amazed that it was possible to be more aware of him than I already was. A crazy impulse to reach over and touch him, to stroke his perfect face just once in the darkness, nearly overwhelmed me. I crossed my arms tightly across my chest, my hands balling into fists. I was losing my mind.}