Author: Stephenie Meyer
Date of Publication: August 3, 2010 (Paperback)
Publisher: Little, Brown Books for Young Readers; 1
Reprint edition
Pages: 768
Genre: YA, Paranormal Romance
Paperback or Kindle: Both
Fiery Fantasy Thoughts
Sadly, for a 768 paged book, I cannot say a lot happens.
The standard of the other 3 books went up and down for me
and this book seems to on the downward part of the scale.
I mentioned that I started to dislike Bella’s character in
Eclipse as she became selfish and moany, however, I would have welcomed these
annoying traits from her in this book as I kept wondering where her character
actually went?
This book is quite different to the previous ones, as I
realised that many of the characters had changed considerably, the narration
switched to Jacob’s half way through, not just Bella’s like the other books,
making me become even more distant from her character and after the wedding it
seemed that even Edward has lost some of his (dare I say it...) sparkle!
The first few chapters were nicely written and the honeymoon scene was authentic to the characters and sweet but I was still expecting more.
The first few chapters were nicely written and the honeymoon scene was authentic to the characters and sweet but I was still expecting more.
I was a little baffled with Bella’s character becomes immediately ready to have a baby, even though she had never expressed this yearning before and this became the main storyline throughout the book which slightly confused me.
Another confusing twist in the book is the fact that Jacob
was quite happy to accept the fact that Bella has chosen Edward as he has
‘imprinted’ Bella and Edward’s baby. However, if he really had powerful
feelings for Bella, I would have expected more of a fight.
Although this book seemed to want to wrap up many of the sub
storylines, I felt many characters suffered by being forgotten at times with no
conclusion to their story and even though Bella was already giving up her
friends and family to be a Cullen in Eclipse, it would have been nice to see
some kind of interaction with her past and future life to give it a new spin in
this one.
All in all, this book was not what I expected but it was readable. It tied up some loose ends but left me with many questions too. I think things were too easily accepted by Bella and I felt like there could have been more of an emotional struggle from Jacob, so I will give it 3 wings out of 5 – readable but wasn't a page turner for me!
All in all, this book was not what I expected but it was readable. It tied up some loose ends but left me with many questions too. I think things were too easily accepted by Bella and I felt like there could have been more of an emotional struggle from Jacob, so I will give it 3 wings out of 5 – readable but wasn't a page turner for me!
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