Review by Vicky London
Warning: Pretty much any detail of Eclipse could be considered a spoiler if you haven’t read it.
Eclipse is the third book in Stephenie Meyer’s young adult vampire series. High school graduation is looming for Isabella Swan and it can’t come soon enough. Not only will she be done with school but Edward has promised to make her a vampire. Bella will gain a new family but lose her old one and the future is bittersweet.
Bella has a bit more to worry about than your average 18 year old. She is still being hunted by the vampire Victoria who wants revenge. She blames Bella for the death of her mate. The Volturi want her heart to stop beating in one way or another and to top things off, Bella finds herself playing peacemaker between the vampires and werewolves.
Things are never peaceful for long in this coastal town. A seemingly unrelated rash of murders in Seattle portends danger for Bella and the Cullen family. Enemies become allies when a vampire army comes to Forks and Bella will do everything she can to make sure those she loves are safe. Bella will also be confronted with life-changing choices; regardless of what she decides, someone’s heart will be broken.
The Review:
Another excellent book from Stephenie Meyer. This one didn’t have quite as much intensity as the first two but she can hardly put Bella through the emotional wringer like in New Moon. The action all came towards the end and the results could hardly be in doubt.
The trauma this time all seems to be for Jacob. The relationship between Jacob and Bella seems right and true but it is hard for Bella to reconcile it with her love for Edward. At least there’s hope for Jacob to find his own soul mate with the werewolf imprinting. One of the sadder parts of the book is a conversation between Bella and Jacob, it also appears to be the inspiration for the title…
Eclipse (p. 599)…
Bella: “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.”
I love that symbolism of Edward being the moon; cold and hard and Jacob being the sun; warm and comforting. Meyers also parallels the characters with Wuthering Heights using highly appropriate and chilling quotes to express how Bella, Edward and Jacob feel about each other.
I’m very interested to see what happens next. It looks like Bella will be a teen bride if Edward has his way. I think it’s clever how Bella has become the aggressor in the relationship. She can be quite stubborn about what she wants, although she manages to talk herself around to the opposite point of view frequently. After reading Eclipse I’m becoming a bigger fan of Jacob and I look forwarding to hearing more of his story including the Quilieute legends that add such depth and dimension to the books.
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(68 votes, average: 4.81 out of 5)
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August 13th, 2007 at 7:56 pm
I loved the first books to the previous of this book; Although, out of all 3 of the books, Twilight was still the most intersting and romantic. Don’t forget to READ IN ORDER! [1. Twilight, 2. New Moon, 3. Eclipse]
~I can’t wait for ‘Midnight Sun’, a kind of re-write of Twilight in Edward’s perspective.
August 14th, 2007 at 1:47 pm
I absolutely love this book. I have to say that Stephanie Meyer did a fantastic job on this novel. However, Bella seemed a little whinny to me, but I could understand why she is like that. A vampire is trying to kill her! Anyway, I still think Twilight is my favorite one, Eclipse would be next. New Moon was some what boring and long. I can wait until Breaking Dawn!!
August 14th, 2007 at 3:08 pm
i love stephanie meyers
third book eclipse
i really hope she has a fourth one
on what happens next from eclipse
August 14th, 2007 at 9:18 pm
i’ve loved all three books. i too am an avid reader raising 5 children and reading all the while. i’m hoping that the next book will resolve some issues with bella and edward, ie.. she becomes a vampire also. how else would they really be able to be together eternally? jacobs great too, but it doesn’t work with bella together with jacob.
hurry and get the next book written. i may not have any more babies to hold and read, but i now have much more spare time to read.
August 16th, 2007 at 2:09 pm
I absolutely love this series of vampire love. This book was pretty good (esp. the steamy scene in Chp 8). However there was a portion of the book that just made me want to throw it out the window. Overall it’s pretty good, but it was deffinately intended to leave you pining for the fourth episode of Bella and Edward.
August 20th, 2007 at 2:13 am
i love the first two novels(twilight and new moon), but eclipse???! it sucks.. i really regret reading this, i was so disappointed with ms. meyer.. she’s so inconsistent, i mean during the first part of the novel, bella was very sure of herself that she only loves jacob as a friend and then suddenly at the last part of the novel she confessed her love to him! how inconsistent! i don’t have anything against jacob, i really hope that jacob will find his imprint in the breaking dawn and maybe edward will also find another girl which leaves bella alone and lonely! that’s the price she needs to pay for being a two timer! i just hate two timers! if i gave 5 out of 5 for twilight and new moon i give 1 for this! for those who are planning to read this book! i warned u!!!!
August 20th, 2007 at 2:49 pm
i really loved this books. when i first read them i could not put them down. now waiting to find out what happens to bella and edward is killing me . i really cant not wait for her new book. i give ms meyers books 2 thumbs way way up. my favoite book is twlight i can just sit and read that book over and over…….
cant wait for the next one!
August 21st, 2007 at 8:12 am
I loved the first two books, and I really wanted to be further along in the story before this book ended. I was disappointed in that we didn’t at least get to the wedding. I really want to read about Bella’s tranformation, which I pray Edward won’t change his mind about. Hurry and write fast Ms. Meyers
August 21st, 2007 at 6:55 pm
I loved the first two books so much, I feel a little worried for Bella, I’m so anxious to find out if Edward will let her go through with the transformation. New Moon was depressing, but I loved it, it showed really how strong Bella can be, I loved how New Moon was sort of a Romeo and Juilet theme!! Though the orginals are always the best! I havent read elcipes yet, hopeing to read it very soon! And im so excited to hear that theres a fourth one WOOH! Ms. Meyers I like what u do!
August 26th, 2007 at 6:07 pm
I Love ur Books!!
I Can’t Wait to read MidNight Sun
And Twilight in Edwards Point of View…I’m soooo Excited!!
August 29th, 2007 at 12:13 pm
I am way past the teenage years and found Twilight on a lark while at Wal Mart. I am now a fan for life…absolutely beautiful work. Very emotional and suspenseful and sexy and thrilling…all in a PG rated way. Amazing. I can’t wait for the next book in the series…and the thought of having the story from Edward’s point of view at some point..perfect.
August 31st, 2007 at 1:17 pm
I am obsessed with this series. I am still a teen myself so I wish I could find my own Edward Cullen. I don’t think I will ever get tired of reading these books over and over again. I am forever grateful to Stephenie Meyer for that dream she had because without it I don’t think I would ever be so interested in a series as I am with the Twilight series so THANK YOU STEPHENIE MEYER and I can’t wait for Forever Dawn and Midnight Sun.
September 2nd, 2007 at 8:08 pm
Wow.. i have read three books in three days.. thats AMAZING.. staying up all night because i couldn’t put these books down.. Edward is so sweet and i cant wait to read more about him and Bella’s relationship. Stephanie Meyer, please, don’t stop at three or four or five keep WRITING!!!!!!!!
September 6th, 2007 at 4:54 am
I absolutly love the Twilight books and it pains me to know that Stephanie Meyer is going to make a movie out of the books and not do a casting audition so that anyone could try to get a part in the movie. I would so go to the casting no matter where it is. I would love to play Bella. These books are some of the rare ones that I acually dream of being a part of. Sometimes dreams come true and a lot of times they dont and you know what its ok.
hugs to everybody
Michelle
September 6th, 2007 at 2:26 pm
Loved the book and the series so far. I would like to see a spin off series on Jacob and the whole werewolf legend.
September 6th, 2007 at 11:26 pm
i love stephenie meyer for coming up with these whole twilight series. really, i happened to chance upon it by accident and i got hooked onto it since then. i love every single character in this book. carlisle, esme, jasper, alice, rosalie, emmet, charlie, billy, jacob, sam, emily, edward, bella. godd.
im in love with the book. [:
i hope she’ll keep shurning out more of these books though. im collecting it yay!
September 13th, 2007 at 5:59 pm
i love this book series so much i love all the scary and happy parts i even cried in new moon and i love when bella finally finds out edwards a vampire and that he loves her in the book i read them until l:00 in the morning cuz i was to into them i remember in twilight when james put the tape recorder on the table for edward to see bellas death-thank god she didnt die-and in new moon edward left bella for her own good. im that type of person to give all the good spoilers away and i gave my teacher in class edwards proposal to bella away. anyway i love stephanie’s books and cant wait to read eclipse.
September 17th, 2007 at 2:42 pm
omg these boooks are so good im only a teen but either way i have evryone at school reading it it is just so awsome
September 18th, 2007 at 2:06 pm
this is my fav. book on the face of the earth
September 20th, 2007 at 12:45 pm
OMIGOD! I LOVE JACOB! (Obviously) I want an entire book about Jacob. I hated the ending of Eclipse (even though I am SOOOOO happy that Edward is back, because he is my one true luv!) But when Jacob left, gave up! I had to read that line 17 different times, and then I freakin’ burst into tears! IT WAS SO SAD! I LOVE JACOB, (UNLIKE SOMEONE WHO’S NAME STARTS WITH A B AND ENDS WITH AN ELLA!) SO I’LL TAKE CARE OF HIM! (I’ll stop yelling now.)
September 21st, 2007 at 4:59 am
I love your book is so cool and very good detail on the char. I couldnt put the book down so it take me 3 days to read it but i read it again the parts that I really like.
September 30th, 2007 at 1:48 pm
out of all the series of book that i’ve read, this one has been the best!! i can’t wait until you’re finished breaking dawn!!!!!!
October 2nd, 2007 at 6:02 pm
I was so obsessed that I read all three in three days.. I stayed up extremely late reading them AND i am realls depressed cuz I wish that sort of mythical magic took place in real life. I wasnt to audition for the movie also but i dont know where to find the information.
October 2nd, 2007 at 6:03 pm
I made a lot of typo’s.. oops.
October 3rd, 2007 at 4:47 pm
I love all 3 books! GREAT job Stephanie your a wonderful writer. I cant wait for the fourth book!
October 4th, 2007 at 6:57 pm
Good Stuff, I’m impressed, however, not all your readers are teens. Your older demographic needs some more “mature” writing. LOL, kisses and hugs aren’t going to cut it in your next book.
October 12th, 2007 at 3:53 am
I really like eclipse better than the first two books. Is Bella really gonna marry Edward? I prefer Jacob, though…eclipse was more passionate too,i think.
October 14th, 2007 at 6:00 am
I love all the books. Eclipse is my favorite with twilight 2nd and new moon was kind of slow for me so thats third.I dont know what ur talking about with liking jacob better when edward is just so much better. I love acting and wanted o try out fro movie but im too young and i cant find the info. Anyway i cant wait for breaking dawn….I NEED THAT BOOK!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
October 14th, 2007 at 6:04 am
stephinies books are so amazing i think almost everyone at my jr. high has read them (and thats a wopping 1,300 some kids)more than bellas school.
Its cool though cause im from az and i now wat she means about the sun and schools and sky harbor etc.
October 23rd, 2007 at 2:26 pm
omg when is the 4th book coming out ? i am so in love with edward ! i like jacob 2 hes ok ! I ABSOLUTELY NEED @ KNOW WHEN IT COMES OUT AND WHAT ITS NAME IS ?
October 23rd, 2007 at 2:34 pm
its such a coinsedience that my boyfriends name is edward and hes gorgous and perfect ! stephanie i think u modeled edward after my boyfreind ! everything about them is exactly same ! my edward is oldfashioned 2 ! well there the same except 4 the vampire thing lol ! but u have the best characters in this book ! it makes teen readers like me believe that u can find love anywhere ! and anybody can b ur true love ! im in love with these books !!
October 24th, 2007 at 2:37 pm
can someone please tell me when the new books r coming out ! please i need 2 know !
October 24th, 2007 at 5:02 pm
I probably shouldn’t have read this but oh well. I just finished reading twilight, and one of my friends told me that Edward died. So yeah, I really just needed to know that he would be back.
October 26th, 2007 at 9:19 am
Twightight and New Moon - Great! Eclipse, great until Bella did a total flip flop, I’m sorry, a girl just does not, all of the sudden, love a guy she did not have romantic feelings for, best friend or not, when she is totally, utterly in love with someone like Edward and when someone like Edward loves her back. (I have done the whole guy best friend thing, Stephanie Meyers got it right up until that point.) Give me a break!!!! What if she chose Jacob, left Edward, then Jacob imprinted on someone else? She wouldn’t deserve Edward, not that she deserves him much now anyway. I like all of the characters, was just disappointed with such unrealism. I look forward to see how it all comes out, to see if Bella redeems herself for being a flake.
Jaimie, go the stepheniemeyer.com and find the dates.
November 8th, 2007 at 7:57 am
these books are awesome
there has to be a fourth book
she cant cut us off now
November 24th, 2007 at 6:45 am
these were the best booksi read so far. I really enjoyd them. I hope that after these series are done that you will write another set of series like this. The love between a vampire and a human is awesome. The work yuo put in to wrieting these was worth it. Thank You so much!!
December 3rd, 2007 at 10:23 am
Great Series. I started reading these 3 books after my 11 yr old daughter read them ( she finished them in less than one week!) I had to see what all the hype was about…and finished them within a weeks time too!! These books were terrific…in a world were kids see and her too much blatent sex and violence, Stephanie Meyers has allowed ‘tweens and teens to use thier imagination…kudos…and as an adult I found myself enjoying them much more than a romance novel that gives every little detail!! Cant wait for the next one! My daughter and I are agruing over who gets to read it first!!
December 3rd, 2007 at 9:14 pm
Nice work Stephanie!
Three for three is a very good record.
Waiting for the fourth (and subsequent books). Lots of questions are left unanswered as of now.
Barking Doug. Kent, WA
December 16th, 2007 at 11:59 am
I just started reading Twighlight and New Moon about two weeks ago and i’m already on book three.I’m really not the kind of person that sits down and reads but these books really caught my attention an i’m looking forward to read the third one.I also know that the fourth one is coming out some time in 2008 and i’m going to die waiting on it so HURRY PLEASE and write the fourth one Steph!!!
December 16th, 2007 at 2:52 pm
first of all i would like to say that i never liked Jacob Black. I just thought that he was always jealous of Edward. Bella deserves way mor than Jacob. Edward just treats Bella so good and they are the perfect couple. I hope They get married, i hope bella turns into a vampire and i hope they kill Victoria. ( just to let you know i havene’t read eclipse yet.)