| |  | Author: Stephenie Meyer
Publisher: Little, Brown Books for Young Readers
Category: eBooks
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Rating:  1988 reviews
Sales Rank: 159
Format: Kindle Book
Media: Kindle Edition
Reading Level: Young Adult
Pages: 640
Number Of Items: 1
Publication Date: August 7, 2007
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Showing reviews 6-10 of 1988
 Eclipse special edition August 16, 2010
Jennifer L. Tingus
This book was very hard to find in hard cover which I prefer to collect and the seller made it very easy. I didn't think that the edition came with the extras as noted on the book cover but would have been nice to have. Very pleased with time of delivery and condition of book. Would buy from this seller again.
My favorite August 15, 2010
Z. M. (Utah, USA)
Of the four twilight books Eclipse is my very favorite. Perhaps this is because the werewolves and vampires are finally working together. It was about time they were allies. Stephanie Meyer did an excellent job of meshing the two together. There was just enough resentment and just enough determination. The perfect balance. Another reason why I liked this book so much is because so many problems are finally concluded. For instance Bella has now made her decision between Edward and Jacob. This book is the turning point of the entire series. It was a great read in general.
 Eclipse - more of the same, for better or worse August 14, 2010
Trista Morrison (San Diego, CA)
If you liked the first two books in Stephenie Meyer's Twilight series, you'll probably find this one at least decent. And if you didn't, you'll probably hate this one more than the others. Eclipse is basically more of the same: more Bella and Edward obsessing over each other, more of the Jacob love triangle, more Bella wanting to be a vampire, and more of everyone having to protect Bella from danger because she isn't.
As with the others, I found this book hard to put down. I was eager to know what happened next. I also liked that we got some background on some of the Cullens and the werewolves. But as with the other two books, I was irritated by the drawn out teenage angst. The whole book could have been told in about 150 pages rather than 600+, if only Meyer would have left out a bit of the whiny emotional baggage. It also became tedious the way everyone in the book took 50 pages to figure out some key plot point that the reader saw coming a mile away...this was not the intricate foreshadowing of Harry Potter; everything was so obvious you wanted to smack the characters for not seeing it sonner. But to heck with it - I'm sure I'll read the next one...
 The author is SERIOUSLY a very disturbed woman.... August 14, 2010
HarryPotterGirl1020
2 out of 2 found this review helpful
*First, here are all of the major gaffes and trifles I have with the series.
*Bella is whiny, selfish, self-centered, ANNOYING, and just a plain old uber-bit**. Furthermore, she is so pathetically weak in the TWENTY-FIRST century, when women in the fifteenth century, such as daring Anne Boleyn (second wife of Henry VIII) and everything actually took major risks and was "strong" when women were *supposed* to be dealt with as products back during that time, not people. I'm just saying that women back then, even, and certainly ALL the female fictional characters I have ever read about, are NOT annoying or selfish like this wet blanket Bella. (Elizabeth Bennet, Hermione Granger, Nitta Sayuri, et cetera....)
*Edward. No matter WHAT anybody says, he is a JERK, REPULSIVE to me (in the movies, and both physically AND emotionally and such), and in the books, he is a controlling, creepy, abusive stalker who seriously needs to be lit on fire. (*Cue Harry Potter.*) He also does not value his woman's opinions, and seriously needs to quit the whole cliche emo vampire attitude/charade. Furthermore, I also find it funny that if he *REALLY DID* hate being a vampire so much, as he so eloquently claims 24/7, he would have lit himself on fire and ended his so-called misery LONG ago. Also, I SO would choose Harry Potter/Daniel Radcliffe himself or Severus Snape ANYDAY over this controlling, psychotic a-hole. ;) ;P <3 <3
*Jacob. He is SUCH an emo-esque character that seriously needs to stop going after a girl (stupid and worthless though she may be) that is obviously with another guy.......He becomes a rapist in this book......along with all his other cliche adolescent symptoms. I have more, but that would just take up too much time.
*The parents are basically worthless to the plot, sadly, seeing as they are not SO annoying, but also, how both Bella's parents could be so incredibly stupid and unaware of their daughter's so-called "problems" is beyond me. And yet Charlie is the chief of POLICE....you would think he would notice if his daughter was in danger from an uber-SCARY ARMY OF VAMPIRES!! (*Rolls eyes at the cheesiness and Mary-Sueness.)
*Bella's so-called "friends" are totally empty space as well. They are also annoying, except maybe Angela or Eric. That's it. But, seeing as Bella basically ditches them 24/7 for her precious vampire friends, and they don't develop over the series, I honestly don't know why SM brought them into the story in the first place.
*The Cullens. Most ANNOYING family EVER. In fact, the only characters I LIKE from the Cullen family are Rosalie (yes, Rosalie) and maybe Jasper, Carlisle, and Esme. Rosalie because she actually is cool, and actually tells Bella how stupid and selfish she is, Jasper because he doesn't say much, and is, well, cool and hot in the movies (shallow though that may be) (though they suck as well), and Carlisle and Esme because they aren't annoying. Enough said. Alice is so freaking controlling it's pathetic, and Emmett is so cliche like everyone else, and that's basically it. Edward, I'm pretty sure I covered. (But, in my defense, seeing as there really is no real good, proper character development in this trash series, it's hard to REALLY like a fictional character for good, deep, things, rather than shallow aspects.)
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*ECLIPSE ITSELF:
*THIS book was absolutely HORRIFIC! Grammar errors galore, HORRIBLE CLICHE writing, and gross ideas. (More on that later.)
*Bella, once again, whines, moans, and complains about every single thing, and manipulates everyone around her. She is ungrateful about her graduation party, ungrateful about getting proposed to by the *supposed* "great love of her life" Edward (ugh), cheats on Edward with Jacob, stabs Jacob in the back, plays both Jacob and Edward, whines about getting pampered by Alice, whines about EVERYTHING under the sun, et cetera. I just freaking want to slap her silly.
*Bella's and Edward's so-called "relationship" is pathetic. You can TOTALLY see the abusive undertones. Edward freaking following her to Angela's house, and Bella being SCARED to go home and face him waiting for her in her BEDROOM already?? Edward taking out/dismantling her car so she can't go see her friends?...................................Oh, and in later books/the last book, HE ACTUALLY PHYSICALLY ABUSES HER TOO!! :) But that's ok, because they're in "LOVE." Psh, love based on cheap banter, scent, blood, and kissing. Oh, and looks. Don't get me wrong, I myself freak out about the MANY guys I have crushes on, and obsess over their looks too, but I ALSO care about their personality, and don't get blinded by their great looks like Bella so pathetically is. I care about both substance AND surface in men. Bella just cares about surface.
*WE FREAKING KNOW WHAT EDWARD LOOKS LIKE ALREADY STEPHENIE. We don't need more repetitive kissing scenes and views of his chest. Really, we get it. It wouldn't be so bad if he wasn't a jerk and the main character wasn't so worthless and weak and annoying, and there was actually a plot, but yeah. Notice how the original J.K. Rowling just subtly reminds us of how characters look in later books, and don't go all into it like you. (*HOW this woman is being actually hailed as the next J.K. Rowling is BEYOND me.) Plus, the whole entire series is BORING!!
*There is simply no plot once again. All the action happens in the very end of the book, in about a third of the many, MANY pages focusing on Edward's and Jacob's chests. And of course there is no real danger. The good guys win. The bad guys die. YAY! Anyhow, Bellatrix Lestrange makes Victoria Mary-Sue Villain look like a baby kitten. Lord Voldemort and the Death Eaters make the new vampire army look like a nursery full of cute, new-born babies. And, *GASP*, in Harry Potter, even the VILLAINS have character development! (Also, if I were Victoria, I would just go after Edward, because both Bella and Edward annoy me to NO end.)
*FINALLY, the ideas. I find THIS disturbing. This is paraphrased from the book, BTW. (*I wanted Edward's lips to cool the burning at my throat when I finally did become a vampire, and he finally changed me. Even more embarrassingly, even though I would NEVER admit it to anyone else, I WANTED HIS VENOM TO GO INTO MY BODY AND STOP MY HEART............................................*) Creepy NON-heroine and total fail of a main character/female say WHAT? Ok, correct me if I'm wrong, but wouldn't the lips part be embarrassing? This is just plain creepy. Yeah, I gotta go find a hot guy to pump venom into me now!! :P It's so ROMANTIC!
There's more, but I feel that I have better things to do than go into ALL of them.
*In conclusion*
*This absolute, utter TRAVESTY of a series is the biggest pile of filth EVER to be considered literature, and cinematic entertainment. I am a fifteen-year old girl, and yes, I admit, a TOTAL so-called "girly-girl", but REALLY, it seems that I am the only one of my age group, of my friends, and at my school, save for a few, that really see Twilight for what it is: Crap. Also, it irks me to no end, how this filth keeps beating out RESPECTABLE series, like Harry Potter at the Teen Choice Awards, and more, because of so many, shall I say, brain-dead little girls who are rapidly becoming obsessed with vampires and Twilight. I'm SICK of vampires! Let's go back to wizards, witches, and dashing late eighteenth-century to nineteenth-century men named Mr. Darcy. :D
*Also, I value my favorite books and male fictional characters like Harry Potter, Mr. Darcy, and more, NOT because of looks, but because of substance. (Though they are MAJOR hotties in the films. ;)) As for the female fictional characters, I like strong, independent, awesome characters, not these CREEPERS from the Twatlight series.
*Finally, do NOT read these books, because this epidemic is already too far-blown, and so freaking damaging. I gave my whole entire crap series away after reading this crap, and have no regrets. :)
*ALSO, FINALLY for real this time, the author is a VERY, VERY messed-up individual, who, quite frankly, needs major psychological help and evaluation.......Let's pray she does not write any more books.
 Exciting but... August 9, 2010
Hasmita CHANDER (India)
I'm a grown up woman reader, so maybe that will influence my take on the book. The second half was exciting and kept me turning the pages but the pace overall was aggravating--there were unnecessary details and pointless scenes that should have been trimmed off by a good editor if not by Meyer herself. The love triangle, while creating the tension and suspense, made me feel some discomfort.
As another reviewer said, there were several typos and the book could have been slimmer, more tightly and carefully written. There was also too much mush to make the romance palatable. Believability therefore dropped especially in the first third or so. Some of the plot 'twists' were so obvious it was silly to see the characters suddenly get enlightenment way after the reader has. The truce with the wolves was a bit too convenient. There could have been more resistance and tension created there. The Leah part was boring. Alice got irritating with her peppiness and dancing around. I liked Alice in the earlier books.
Charlie is barely thicker than a cardboard character. As are Billy Black and others. There was so much potential in these characters to be made interesting and realistic. Bella, Jacob and Edward, all disappoint in this book.
I hope the next one's good enough to make up for this. Yes, I do plan to read Breaking Dawn.
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