My indulgence was discounted. I couldn’t bring myself to finish reading Eclipse, the third book of the twilight series. Halfway through the book and I am already dismissed by the plot. I am so pleased with myself for making the decision to read Breaking Dawn first before Eclipse, for I enjoyed Renéesme's constant presence in the book.
In any case, let’s come back to the discontentment I had with Eclipse. Eclipse, in summary, was about Bella getting confusing over her relationship with Jacob and with Victoria coming back to haunt her. She felt that Jacob had become a part of her and it hurts her to see him in pain, and he is in pain whenever Bella is with Edward. How dumb. So, Bella, with the initial intention to console Jacob, realized that she too, loved Jacob. More to the point, she realized she can’t live without Edward too, and thus had to split herself into two: Edward’s Bella and Jacob’s Bella. Again, how dumb. Didn’t she know that it would be best to leave Jacob alone till he sorts things out himself again, I’m positively sure that Jacob will survive, even if Bella were to ignore him for the rest of her life. Isabella Swan, how could she, how could she only see Jacob’s pain and not Edward’s. She should have learnt to differentiate between love for a guy and a friend/ family. Edward, always giving in to Bella, decides to give Bella the ultimate choice to choose who she wants to be with.
A healthy share of content was allocated to describing Victoria's (woman standing on the extreme right) presence in Folks and her plan to avenge her mate, James’(man standing on the extreme left) death in Twilight, fortunately, giving the frustrating tri-relationship a break. Anyway, what Victoria did was that she bred a new flag of vampires, where they went along Seattle sucking human blood and slowly, approaching Forks to reach her ultimate aim – the Cullens and Bella. Obviously, her plot failed and she was eventually ripped off her head by the Cullens and dogs (Jacob, Sam and pack).
So after the battling scenes and the usual, it was back to Bella, Edward and that irritating dog again. This time round, Bella decided to choose Edward over the dog though she love the both of them, but Edward more, and that Edward was the one whom she could not live without. How dumb is it for her to run around the circumference and come back to square one again. She cried over her decision in Edward’s arms, needing Edward to comfort her, which is darn selfish, if she could only put herself in Edward’s shoes, to see his love crying over another guy, well, not quite right a guy, a dog to be exact.
The book ended with Edward and Bella deciding to get engaged and married. How dumb.
Well, my little tolerance for the book wasn’t totally due to the lousy plot setting in Eclipse, but more due to my inability to accept betrayal. I can forgive anything in life but betrayal.
