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| Eclipse (Spanish Edition) | 
 enlarge | Author: Stephenie Meyer
Publisher: Alfaguara
Category: Book
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Avg. Customer Rating:  39 reviews
Sales Rank: 1445
Media: Paperback
Reading Level: Young Adult
Number Of Items: 1
Pages: 624
Shipping Weight (lbs): 1.5
Dimensions (in): 8.3 x 5.5 x 1.6
ISBN: 1603960228
EAN: 9781603960229
ASIN: 1603960228
Publication Date: December 1, 2007
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 Disappointed December 23, 2007
10 out of 11 found this review helpful
I couldn't wait to get this book, driving to the bookstore the moment they opened. I had read the first 2 books and LOVED them so much, that I read them in one week!!!!
So, I had great expectations for this book and I would say that it was a page turner as well, until the last couple hundred pages. The storyline was so disappointing in the end. The author developed Bella into a fickle and hypocritical girl who ultimately betrays Edward (the person she is supposed to love)and takes her character to this girl who is loose with her affections and betraying everyone! I really feel like the storyline did not have to go this way. It would have been better to have Bella be torn between her friendship and her love, but to ultimately have Bella become a "floosy" (for lack of a better word) betrayer of love...........it was heartbreaking and disappointing.
I was such an advocator of these novels - telling everyone I knew that these books were about the best love story I had ever read......but I just have some honest issues with the way Bella's character ended up as this less than noble girl who violates trust and hurts everyone around her. It was unnecessary because the story was wonderful without that painful development. It was so upsetting to me to have invested so much time and heart into reading this series and to be so disappointed. I was yelling at the book in the end. There's nothing like blazing through 600 pages and feeling disappointed in the end.............I wish I would have never read book 3 and I will not be reading book 4 (I read that it will be out in late 2008). I really don't care to read anymore about Bella and Jacob. Edward and Bella were the best part of the books. Jacob was better left as a friend. The whole part of Bella making out wiht Jacob made me really upset with the author - so very unnecessary.
No book 4 for me. :(
I'll keep reading, but . . . . April 30, 2008
5 out of 7 found this review helpful
. . . I really don't like Bella. I don't want to say that if you're a writer, your protagonist necessarily has to be a role model, but I feel that these books send a horrible message to the young girls that they're being marketed at. Bella doesn't seem to have any redeeming attributes at all.
She is portrayed as weak, co-dependent, and frankly unstable. Edward leaves and she enters a fugue state until he comes back? She can't function without Edward? She'd rather die than live without him? Her life has no meaning if he's not in it? What the hell?
This book particularly infuriated me, what with the whole Edward and Alice keeping her hostage and forbidding her to see Jacob, because it's not safe, she might get hurt, she doesn't know any better. The Cullens treat her like some kind of mentally handicapped porcelain doll . . . and Bella lets them!
I'm definitely in the Pro-Jacob column. He's ten times the man Edward is, in the sense that he treats Bella like a person, rather than a possession. He lets her make her own decisions, lets her have fun, and lets her be real.
I'm torn on who I want her to end up with. I would like Jacob to be happy, and I'd love to see him one-up Edward, but he deserves way better than Bella. Let her go off with Edward, they're both freaks.
While I'm definitely looking forward to the next book, I have a feeling I'm not going to like how this turns out.
 Utterly intriguing January 1, 2008
3 out of 3 found this review helpful
I picked up the first book "Twilight" on a whim. I was so taken by the book that I had read 300 pages in the first night. I could not get the book off of my mind. The love that Edward and Bella is so intense! I decided that I could not stop there so I got the next two books. I finished them all within a week and I am breathless for the next. I would say that the first was best...it really did make my heart race at certain moments. The second book was devasting I could hardly stand Bella's pain. The 3rd was good because it had Edward in it the whole time and I love Edward so much. My only problem with these books is that I want to know EXACTLY why Bella's mind cannot be touched by the vampires...WHY does she possess this power? and why such the strong connection with Edward...more so then soulmates...and if she is supposed to be with Jacob why did he not imprint with her? Mabye it will all be explained in the next book..believe me I can hardly wait! I am also excited about the movie! I hope they dont completely ruin the book, but I don't think anyone could be as beautiful as my dear Edward.
 Amazed and Awed - again! April 16, 2008
3 out of 7 found this review helpful
Wow. I continued to be amazed an awed by Stephenie Meyers writing. After reading Eclipse, I decided I needed my own, hard-bound copies of all of the series and I am anxiously awaiting Breaking Dawn. I've read a lot of the reviews of this book and the entire series. I share the feelings about Jacob that a lot of other readers do - I don't really like him or his interactions with Bella. But every character in a book can't be your favorite - where's the fun in that. I find it hilarious that other Amazon reviewers are worried about the bad example that it will set for teen girls that Edward is so controlling and Bella seems to have no other life than wanting to be a vampire. I don't think a normal teen girl would have to worry that her vampire boyfriend is preventing her from going to see a werewolf friend because her boyfriend's vampire sister had a vision. You should not think that it creates feelings of dependency in teen girls because no teen girl will ever have to deal with a vampire boyfriend who has conflicting feelings of killing her, protecting her and being able to love her without killing her accidentally. And this boyfriend by his very vampire nature is inescapably appealing besides being totally in love with her. Folks, it's a work of fiction. Enjoy it for what it is - a wonderful read with action and a romance that leaves you breathless.
 was there an editor? May 5, 2008
3 out of 4 found this review helpful
Because if there were, they should be shot for their blatant disregard for standard grammar and form. Not to mention all of the redundant and unnecessary information peeking in between the actual moments of story.
The things is, I would still recommend these books because the plot and characters are very intriguing. Her prose, however, is just... not good. If you like a good story and you enjoy reading big books in one sitting, you'll enjoy it as much as I did, even as you occasionally cringe...
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