Eclipse by Stephanie Meyer

2/5 Stars

Oh my goodness. Where do I even begin with this review?

Literally, at some points, I legitimately got flashbacks to middle school when I would spend time reading Wattpad fics. I just want to know why everyone is the actual worst. Like Team Edward this, Team Jacob that. EVERYONE SUCKS.

I am only Team Alice, Carlisle, and Charlie. There are no other viable options.

Like Jacob professes his love for Bella and kisses her without her consent then prances around her graduation party with his wolf friends as if nothing happened and continues to say things like, "Bella, you'll definitely be thinking about me later tonight. You will and I'll be thinking about you while you think about me." Like I'm sorry Stephanie Meyer literally had to have had a 12-year-old write that for her. I cannot write this review without including the part where Jacob threatens to kill himself after finding out Bella and Edward are getting married. And when Bella goes after him he's like "Bella, I'm just gonna save you the trouble and kill myself for you unless you tell me you want me to kiss you." Like what part of that is okay? lol. I'm not going to keep going on about the multiple times he gaslight Bella, I'm just going to note it.

Edward is no saint either. I can maybe count on both hands how many times Edward was so unnecessary and treats Bella like she's a toddler. When Bella wants to go to La Push to see Jacob and the other wolves he literally feels the need to drive her to the border to hand-deliver her to Jacob who is waiting on the other side. Bella even says that she feels like a 7-year-old with divorced parents. He also just feels the need to have Alice babysit her and take her out of her house unwillingly when he has to go hunt.

Aside from how annoying everyone is, this book is so long and yet Stephanie Meyer decided to actually introduce the plot over halfway through the novel. And with that being said, the whole action/climax/fight sequence is maybe a fraction of a fraction of a fraction of the page count??

One thing I did enjoy about this novel was that we got to learn more about Rosalie and Jasper. But also something that was super out of pocket was that we find out that the whole reason Rosalie was drawn to Emmet and saved him was because he reminded her of her best friend's baby??

The entire Twilight Saga really just takes the cake for probably having the most unnecessary dramatic dialogue ever. Like Jacob will go on about how he's Bellas werewolf best friend and then 2 sentences later will make it seem like it's a crime to utter the word werewolf...

These books never cease to amaze me with how strange they are. I can't even say that they're bad because I end up reading them usually in less than 5 days and then buy the next book immediately after, but they're definitely strange.

Anywaysssss...count on my review for Breaking Dawn.