NOTES/THOUGHTS/REACTIONS:
We open to Bella driving back from La Push, processing all the stuff Jacob has told her:
I was thinking about the flood of information Jacob had shared with me, trying to sort it out, to force it to make sense.
From Eclipse, Chapter 6
See, even Bella admits the stuff Meyer put in doesn't make sense. It's probably a bad sign when your main character points out your flaws. Then Edward (or his scary volvo) shows up and not wanting to have a arguement with him, she goes over to Angela's to avoid him. How is it that no one sees the problem with this? That all the people touting this relationship as wonderfully healthy don't seem to find an issue that this girl is afraid to argue with her boyfriend? All over the fact that she went to visit a friend? This reeks of controlling boyfriend.
So Bella goes to Angela's place in order to help her with the oh so hard task of addressing grad invites. There are very cute moments between Angela and Ben. I'm sorry, this couple is ten times more adorable and believable then Bella and Edward's epic "true love". We learn a little about Angela finally: she has twin siblings. How sad is it that we don't learn this till BOOK THREE of this series? I mean, isn't Angela supposedly one of Bella's good friends? You would think we would have known this beforehand. But no, little things like that don't matter in this series because it's quickly pulled back to Edward and Bella when Angela asks after Edward. This could have been a nice bonding moment with character developement and we could see why these two are friends, but no. Meyer has to make this book all about Edward and Bella. Sigh.
Long story short, Bella mentions Edward's behavior and Angela rightfully comes to the conclusion that Edward is jealous. But Bella is shocked. Edward can't be JEALOUS! That's so...NORMAL. As we all know, normal is a dirty word in this series and Edward isn't anything but the perfect guy and perfect guys don't get jealous. Excuse me while I hit my head.
We then learn Angela and Ben have gotten into the University of Washington (yay for them, not giving up on college, even if it's terribly unrealistic that the two of them are both a)Still going out by then and b)Both got into the same college). Then we learn that Bella is thinking about going to the University of Alaska as her cover. Um...okay. Rather sudden, but whatever.
Ben comes back and of course he's seen an action movie because that's all guys watch (more gender stereotyping please Meyer, it's not like you haven't done enough already). Bella goes home, random conversation with Charlie, and goes to her room and sure enough stalker boy, I mean, Edward is there. He is ticked that Bella didn't listen to him like she should have and I will say I'm happy that Bella is standing up to him for a change but she still has yet to call him on his controlling behavior (nor does she dump him on the spot which is what most people would have done), hell she even apologizes for making him worry. She shouldn't have to apologize for going to see a friend. Then she asks if he's jealous and he of course denies it and Bella feels silly for implying he's normal. Ugh. Then Bella says she is Switzerland (hence the name of the chapter) and is neutral. Except this isn't accurate because she clearly is on the side of the vampires, she takes their side all the time and clearly thinks they are superior. But whatever.
Bad time transition and then Edward goes off hunting. Bella makes plans to see Jacob but they are intercepted by Alice kidnapping her. Yes, seriously. Edward paid her off by giving her a shiny new car (that's like what, car twenty that these guys have?) and even worse, it's not just this time, he expects Alice to do it EVERY TIME HE'S GONE. This is the relationship that people are saying is perfect? This is what relationship thereapists would call red flags.
But since she's having a good time, Bella doesn't protest. She stays over at the Cullens with all the girls and they do all the girly things. Have pedicures, watch movies (girly romances no doubt), have Italian food. So it's not that bad. Except for the you know, BEING HELD AGAINST YOUR WILL BY YOUR BOYFRIEND. I swear, everytime I think this series can't get more wrong, it does. She calls Jacob to cancel and he's rightfully angry about it, more so then she is which I have to say is sad.
She goes into Edward's room and aw, isn't that sweet? He bought a bed for her! What a gentleman making sure his prisoner is comfortable. Of course, since it's Edward, the bed is in perfect taste. Bella gets ready for bed and there's a knock on the door and it's Roselie asking to come in. Chapter ends and I think this is the first time in this book that I've actually felt some intrigue at all.
WORD LIST: acidic
GENERAL ANNOYANCES: I wasn't paying much attention to the road that shimmered wetly in the sun.-If you're not paying much attention to it, why are you putting in the detail then?
Would these new headlines be my fault?-What? How is a vampire menace running around Seattle even REMOTELY Bella's fault? I know we learn later on that it's Victoria doing it, but Bella doesn't know this at the time so this is a stupid comment. But I keep forgetting, everything in this world revolves around Bella.
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