ECLIPSE: Chapter 25-Mirror

CHAPTER SUMMARY: Pointlessness again abounds as we learn the aftermath of a battle. One of the newborns surrenders but is killed by the Volturi anyway and I'm still trying to figure out why the Volturi are even there in the first place.

NOTES/THOUGHTS/REACTIONS:
We open to Bella standing there helpless again as Edward and Seth collect body parts and burn the bodies. They have typical guy moment and congratulate themselves on a job well done. Then for some stupid reason Edward is afraid Bella would be afraid of him. Um...WHAT? She knew what you did in Twilight, she saw you fight in New Moon. Really, Meyer, stop with the now obvious helpless female junk.
Bella isn't of course and now Edward berates her for trying to help out because it turns out that interfered with their plan. Stupid female trying to fight, always leads to disaster, you know? Then suddenly wolves are uneasy and Volturi show up. After big battle. Really, huge help guys. Then in Bella's most pathetic scene yet in this book, she faints after hearing Jacob was hurt. I've mentioned I hate the sexism in this book, right?
Bella wakes up and oh, Jacob's fine! She's now with all the Cullens who now have a newborn female under their care because she surrendered instead of fighting the Cullens. The girl is in full on blood lust and she gets vivid description (please note that Bella who supposedly doesn't care about looks comments that it was hard to tell if her features were beautiful. Really, why would you care about that?). Then the Volturi show up, late.
Jane asks what's been happening and we get them summarizing the whole book for us. Oh great, because we're so stupid we couldn't have figured this out on our own. Thanks Meyer. Jane interrogates the girl whose name turns out to be Bree (she gets her own short story for some reason that I still can't figure out). It turns out that Bree was really innocent in all this but she gets killed anyway. Lovely. Carlisle and the Cullens don't even put up a fight on her behalf. Some good guys, huh? This is why I don't think of these guys as heroes and why I can't call this an actual saga which is a narrative of a hero's adventure. The only reason I call it a saga in the blog's title is because that's what it's known as.
Anyway, Volturi quickly leave (leaving me to wonder why they were even there in the first place) and chapter ends. If you're wondering about the title, it's because Bella sees what may happen to her when she gets turned when she sees Bree. The unbelievable me, me, me attitude in this characters is ridiculous. She can't spare a moments sympathy or empathy for Bree or her situation or even feel sorry that she has to die for no good reason. Nope. For her it's "oh wow, I may turn out like this girl when I turn into a vamp!" Some selfless heroine.

WORD LIST: minutely, inflectionless
GENERAL ANNOYANCES: I couldn't even see a tear in his clothes.-What? All that fighting and somehow perfect Edward manages to keep his clothes intact? This just...is stupid.
They wheeled wildly, out of control.-Um...wait, her eyes are wheeling? Eyes can't do that. Unless she has Sharingun eyes...wait, she's from the Uchiha Clan!? Sorry, couldn't stop the Naruto reference ;)