Edward took apart Bella's car engine to keep her from visiting Jacob.
That in itself is creepy and wrong and a strong characteristic of an abusive, controlling boyfriend (Edward actually displays a lot of those characteristics). Bella is appropriately infuriated.
But that doesn't stop her from letting him stay in her room all night. She's so obsessed with him that she can't stand to be away from him even when she's furious with him.
All told, Bella and Edward spend about four hours, maybe, out of the twenty-four that are in the day, apart. And that includes nights. If I were Charlie I'd be upset too. If I were Charlie, I wouldn't have ungrounded her like he does; I'd have sent her to a convent in the sunny, sunny Sahara Desert.
Victoria, that female vampire who was introduces briefly in the first book and popped up again in the second book but not in person to hunt the crap out of Bella, is now back. To hunt the crap out of Bella. I get the feeling she'd be way more terrifying as a villain if we actually saw anything of her and/or if she actually did something other than run around and make vampires and werewolves chase her. She's like the Twilight Saga's Bakura, only with even less screen-time (and if you got that reference, please don't expose my secret shame). She seems to be emerging as the Saga's overall villain, but utterly fails because Smeyer doesn't actually have her, only mentions of her--basically people in Bella's life saying, "Yeah, Victoria's back bent on revenge against you for that whole thing with James, but we've got it covered."
Four expansive chapters--Smeyer writes long chapters--into Eclipse and nothing has happened. Victoria showed up, but Bella was in Florida with Edward. There was an altercation between the Cullens and the werewolves over hunting said Victoria and territories and such, but we learn of that after the fact. Thus far there is no actual action in the narrative.
Therefor I have nothing else to report on. Sorry, dear reader. The post reflects the subject.
Til next time.
Is Victoria's evil plan to kill Bella to take her screen time and become the main character? :P
ReplyDeletei like the opening statement of your post. classic introduction. i love it.
ReplyDeleteJeez. They're getting worse, aren't they?
ReplyDeleteI enjoy reading these muchly, in case I haven't said that enough.
And I caught the reference. :p
Creepy stalker.
ReplyDeleteIt's perfectly legitimate to like someone without being so possessive. But Eddypoo oversteps that line too frequently. haha.
(Apparently, this book was inspired by 'Wuthering Heights'. Not that that explains much.)
Thank you for your admirable plowing-through of these novels for our benefit. You deserve a trophy!