Reading from Saturday, November 15

Today I finished Eclipse by reading pages 314 - 629. The main part of this half of the book is the war. With some unexpected revelations, Bella discerns that James' mate, Victoria, is the one behind the young vampires coming to attack, and the only reason Alice can't foresee this is because, as of now, Victoria has no intentions of harming Bella. Time passes, Bella graduates, Alice throws a party, and then it is time. Bella and Edward go to camp out in the woods in hopes of evading the attack while the others tag team with the 10 werewolves to fend off the 18 or so young vampires. Unfortunately, this plan backfires. Without warning, Victoria and her right hand man show up to finish Bella off, but they are ready. Edward and a werewolf, Seth, are there for just this reason. After a gruesome fight, Edward and Seth win, and they set off to find the others. Jacob has been seriously hurt during the battle, basically shattering every bone in one side of his body, and Bella is extremely worried, but, thanks to his abnormally fast rate of healing, he is going to be fine very fast. After all this, Edward revokes the necessity to marry him before he turns Bella into a vampire, but she refuses this offer. She wants to make things right, so she sets off to tell her father. This concludes Eclipse.

Reading from Friday, November 14

Today I read from page 303 - 313. Alice tells the family and Bella of her visions. There have been many deaths from young vampires in Seattle, and Alice has seen them coming to fight them. Bella is shaken, but Alice still wishes to go along with the graduation party, and there is nothing Bella can do to stop her.

Reading from Thursday, November 13

Today I started Eclipse by Stephenie Meyer and read pages 1 - 302. All in all, it is a fairly slow first half. We learn a lot more about the processes of werewolves and vampires including their rivalry. We also learn more of the truce that the Cullens made so that they could live in peace in the same area as the werewolves. We also hear Jasper's vampire story. It started in Mexico with the vampire wars going on. 3 girl vampires decided to take him and change him so that they could use him to help take over territory. After all the fighting was over, he decided he couldn't live through mroe killing, so he met the Cullens and joined their "vegetarianism".