82. Eclipse

By Stephanie Meyers
Rated: 4 Stars

I liked this book slightly less than I did the two before but overall this really is the better book.

The author has done a marvelous job of getting into the head of her characters and in the two previous books Bella was the typical self absorbed teenager that it is no wonder she connected not only with her peers but also was believable to those of us who have been through this stage with teenage girls.

In this book Bella starts to grow up a little and starts to consider how her decisions and actions will effect her parents and friends. Edward, who is much older than Bella has a much more mature attitude and tries to make Bella aware of what she is getting herself into. I wish that it hadn't taken a whole book for Bella to begin to notice that her actions will have, to say the very least, extremely long lasting consequences. The baby vampire rampage was a little obvious as a plot device but I guess it was necessary.

The one honest complaint I have is that I really got tired of Jacob and his whining by the end. He knew up front how things stood between Bella and Edward and I thought he should have been a better loser.