"As the love triangle heats up in the third book, Bella must choose between her friendship with Jacob and her romance with Edward -- and her decision could change the fate of vampires and werewolves forever.

As Seattle is ravaged by a string of mysterious killings and a malicious vampire continues her quest for revenge, Bella once again finds herself surrounded by danger. In the midst of it all, she is forced to choose between her love for Edward and her friendship with Jacob -- knowing that her decision has the potential to ignite the ageless struggle between vampire and werewolf.

With her graduation quickly approaching, Bella has one more decision to make: life or death. But which is which?" Above in quotes is from Amazon.

I read the previous book, this book and the next right after one another and may have trouble remember what happened in which book. Please forgive me for any mistakes.

I do strongly believe that this was the weakest book in the series. But I enjoyed the next book enough that I'm glad I read it and didn't miss out on the one big important scene that made this book worth reading.

Most of the book was emotional drama and in some ways I love Bella but in others I find her very unrelatable. Another member here mentioned that she felt this book was basically Bella whining the whole time and I could see her point of view.

People already invested in the Twilight series and reading them in order. Now that I've read all four... I kind of wish I'd only read books one and four but there were parts of each that I did enjoy.

Bella's strengths, Edward's character, Jacob's character, the big fight scene.

Bella's whining and manipulation, the sheer length of the book... everything needed could have been done with significantly fewer pages. I might not have continued the series if there'd been a lot of books left as Bella's indecision and waffling and whining were not appealing to me.

I did want to see what happened in the next book. It helped that I knew the fourth was the last.

Sometimes bored or annoyed but other times interested and invested.

"Stephenie Meyer's life changed dramatically on June 2, 2003. The stay-at-home mother of three young sons woke-up from a dream featuring seemingly real characters that she could not get out of her head. "Though I had a million things to do (i.e. making breakfast for hungry children, dressing and changing the diapers of said children, finding the swimsuits that no one ever puts away in the right place), I stayed in bed, thinking about the dream. Unwillingly, I eventually got up and did the immediate necessities, and then put everything that I possibly could on the back burner and sat down at the computer to write--something I hadn't done in so long that I wondered why I was bothering." Meyer invented the plot during the day through swim lessons and potty training, then writing it out late at night when the house was quiet. Three months later she finished her first novel, Twilight.
Twilight was one of 2005's most talked about novels and within weeks of its release the book debuted at #5 on The New York Times bestseller list.Among its many accolades, Twilight was named an "ALA Top Ten Books for Young Adults," an Amazon.com "Best Book of the Decade&So Far", and a Publishers Weekly Best Book of the Year. The movie version of Twilight will be released by Summit Entertainment nationwide on November 21, 2008, starring Kristen Stewart ("Into The Wild") and Robert Pattinson ("Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire").
The highly-anticipated sequel, New Moon, was released in September 2006 and spent 31 weeks at the #1 position on The New York Times bestseller list. Eclipse, the third book in Meyer's Twilight saga, was released on August 7, 2007 and sold 150,000 copies its first day on-sale. The book debuted at #1 bestseller lists across the country, including USA Today and The Wall Street Journal. The fourth and final book in the Twilight Saga, Breaking Dawn, was published on August 2, 2008, with a first printing of 3.2 million copies - the largest first printing in the publisher's history. Breaking Dawn sold 1.3 million copies its first day on-sale rocketing the title to #1 on bestseller lists nationwide.
Meyer's highly-anticipated debut for novel adults, The Host, was released by Little, Brown and Company in May 2008 and debuted at #1 on The New York Times and Wall Street Journal bestseller lists.
Stephenie Meyer graduated from Brigham Young University with a degree in English Literature. She lives in Arizona with her husband and sons." Information in quotes is from Amazon

If you've already read the first two and plan to read the fourth book and don't like missing out on details, it's worth reading. If you are okay with a few little plot gaps, just skip to book four (Breaking Dawn).

I borrowed a copy of this book from my local library.

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