TWILIGHT BOOK SUMMARIES...
Twilight
Bella Swan moves to the rainy town of Forks to live with her dad Charlie. She sits with Edward Cullen in biology thinking that he doesnt like her. Over time Bella and Edward fall in love and she finds out he is a vampire on a diet of animal blood. Edward is attracted to Bellas blood.
New Moon
In this book bella turns 18. During her birthday party she gets a paper cut and Jasper attacks her unable to control himself. After that Edward fears for Bellas safety so he leaves her pretending to not love her anymore. She becomes best friends with Jacob, a werewolf. Then when alice sees her jumping off a cliff she thinks bella is dead. Edward, not willing to live in a world without bella goes to italy to kill himself. Bella and alice save Edward in time and he tells her that he does love her.
Eclipse
Eclipse carries on not long after New Moon left off. Bella’s high school graduation is approaching and she will soon be leaving Forks forever, ostensibly to go to college - but in reality she is planning to join her boyfriend in his vampire existence and will therefore be unable to return home, due to being dead and possessed by a terrible blood lust for the first few years. Not that the reader is actually taken that far in this story, we make it through graduation but then the dangerous vampires from Seattle come to Forks and dealing with them dominates the rest of the novel.
This is only one part of the story though. Eclipse is primarily a romantic saga, so Bella and Edward’s relationship is the primary focus of the novel. Or as I should say Bella, Edward and Jacob’s relationship - because there is a love triangle in the plot of this novel.
Bella and Jacob have always been friends, at least they were - right up until Jacob became a werewolf. Then the enmity between vampires and werewolves put a huge strain on their friendship. Besides which, Jacob is in love with Bella, who is in love with Edward so this is going to make things awkward between them.
At this point, Eclipse descends into soap opera territory – Bella has found her soul mate in Edward but Jacob is the soul mate she should have / could have / would have had if Edward didn’t exist. She loves him too but not as much as Edward. Why she loves Jacob is beyond me – he knows that she loves Edward but Jacob still tries to make her feel guilty that she can’t love him like he wants her too.
