NOTES/THOUGHTS/REACTIONS:
We open to Bella talking plans. Right from the get go it's obvious this is going to be a heavy Bella and Edward chapter. Great. Missed those. NOT. Also, excuse me but I have to laugh at this:
"For just this one night, could we try to forget everything besides just you and me?"
From Eclipse, Chapter 20
Now for some couples, this may be sweet and romantic. But here's the thing. With Bella and Edward: IT'S ALWAYS ABOUT THEM. I'm serious. Bella is constantly thinking of Edward and how she is with him, his thoughts on them, how they can be together blah, blah, blah. Essentially this whole battle is about them to begin with so they can be together in peace. Edward is likewise the same way about Bella. So I'm sorry, when is it NOT about them?
Then we get to the obvious: Bella is ready to marry Edward. Please note there has been next to NO wrestling on the matter of whether she should be with Edward period even though all the Twihards like to say this is the book where she does consider other possibilities. She doesn't. Yeah, she wrestles with the marriage idea but she never once considers other options (Jacob was never even in the running, I don't know why Team Jacob fans ever thought otherwise, although I do commend their taste) besides Edward. She made up her mind already: Edward was it. There was seriously NO NEED FOR THIS BOOK WHATSOEVER. Meyer could have just had Bella say yes at the end of New Moon, then move right into Breaking Dawn by having Victoria try to take the baby or something as her revenge. But as she is trying to milk this cash cow for all it's worth, there are for overly long books instead of the short three books this series SHOULD be.
Most of the beginning of this is Bella rambling on and on about stuff we ALREADY KNOW AGAIN. There's romantic kissing (in Meyer's view, I still say the "love scenes" in this book leave much to be desired but that's probably because I despise the characters and the writing) and then Edward gives Bella a present (she acts like this is a huge burden of course).
Turns out to be a glass heart charm. Cute and saccherine like this whole series. Then Bella and Edward start negotiating on the marriage thing. No. I'm serious. They have strings for their own marriage. Um...what happened to "I love you, I want to be with you, lets get married?" Correct me if I'm wrong but marriage is not supposed to be negotiated like this unless it's like a royal marriage or something or a business marriage but those are different. actual romantic marriages shouldn't have the couple NEGOTIATING things like it's a contract. I'm sorry, Meyer expects me to believe this is ROMANTIC?
If that's not bad enough, it turns into yet ANOTHER "I want to have sex! No you don't you silly girl!" conversation. GOD. GET NEW SCENES MEYER! Seriously! Please, move on to the battle so I don't have to endure this condescending sexist/conservative viewpoint YET AGAIN. I get it: sex before marriage is evil and bad and you'll go to hell or whatever. MOVE ON WITH THE STORY.
But of course, the whole thing is made out to be Bella just being a silly female and they move on. But it moves on to yet another "I'm super dangerous" scene. Really, does Meyer have no new scenes at all? She is really, that tapped out on this series? I've read fanfiction that's more original then this crap and less repetitive. Some of that, was TWILIGHT fanfiction. It's bad when the fanfiction from the fandom is better then the PUBLISHED ORIGINAL WORK.
Bella of course, ends up caving to Edward's demands. She'll marry him, let him pay for Dartmouth (of which he probably bribed to get her into in the first place), and buy her a car. Edward accepts and like that, they're married. Joy. Then Bella again wonders what people will think and again I don't know why she cares, she's never cared about these people when she wasn't getting married. They decide to marry in the summer and he gives her an engagement ring that sounds more like a cocktail ring:
Nestled in the black satin, Elizabeth Masen's ring sparkled in the dim light. The face was a long oval, set with slanting rows of glittering round stones. The band was gold-delicate and narrow. The gold made a fragile web around the diamonds.
From Eclipse, Chapter 20
I'm sorry but that doesn't sound pretty at all, that sounds...tacky. But I guess it's a matter of personal taste. If you want to see a picture of said ring, go to google and look up Twilight engagement ring. Boring chapter ends with declarations of love (again, we've had this scene).
WORD LIST: velocity, fetters, dissension
GENERAL ANNOYANCES: Recycled scenes again.The ring is UGLY.The band was gold-delicate and narrow. Would have been better to say "The band was a narrow and delicate ring of gold."
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