Tuesday, February 3, 2009

Eclipse


Eclipse is the 3rd installment of Twilight Saga by Stephenie Meyer. Unlike Harry Potter series that you can read in not necessarily in order, you'll miss a lot of meaning reading Eclipse without reading the New Moon first. For starter, it picks up what was left in New Moon, literally a continuation.

Overall, I would give this book a PG-13 rating. All the dreads felt from reading New Moon (may be partly because of my impatience) eventually are answered in here:
1. Vampire on Vampire action, tons of them, though mostly are toward the end of the book. At least more details written about the fight, so it's very easy to imagine.

2. More twisted love triangle. Definitely entertaining to read 2 sworn enemies by legend, neck to neck competing to get the girl. It's a good thing that Bella never budged from who she loved the most, so we don't see the manga heroines' dilemma, which most often are annoying.

3. Totally agree with Koala, Edward's character is Korean drama's character with the American face. Lol in here. If you set aside cultures, countries and origins, girls will always be girls. We all love the cheesiness and corniness, which blatantly displayed in Twilight series, however big our denials are. So just suck it up and dream about it. There won't be any reality like that. Yes, we know that, that's why we all like to wish and dream.

4. The romance level is up along with the cheesiness off course. That's why it's PG-13 in the first place. But the good thing is, Meyer did a quite good job in having which part should have more details elaboration and not. So, it left us free to wonder and imagine. Again, it's all about imagination Lol...

5. Bella's hormone starts to kick in in this book which is totally hilarious. Absolutely love the twist and turn dialogs of compromising, which make it very fun to read and make the relationship feels real.

6. Alice's part is getting bigger, and adding more laugh factors in this book. As much as we love Bella, we definitely love Alice too.

Off course, as Twilight saga is designed for teenage girls, you may feel that some parts was just too high-schoolish, which is why the book is so light and easy to read, despite the overwhelming thickness... wondering how long will it take for Koala to finish it...

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