Eclipse ( Twilight ) By Stephenie Meyer

Eclipse is the third novel in the Twilight Saga by Stephenie Meyer. It continues the story of Bella Swan and her vampire love, Edward Cullen. The novel explores Bella's choice between her love for Edward and her friendship with werewolf Jacob Black, along with her dilemma of leaving mortality behind in a terrorized atmosphere, a result of mysterious vampire attacks in Seattle.

Eclipse is preceded by New Moon and followed by Breaking Dawn. The book was released on August 7, 2007 with an initial print run of one million copies, and sold more than 150,000 copies in the first 24 hours alone. Eclipse was the fourth bestselling book of 2008, only behind Twilight,New Moon, and Breaking Dawn, and was also ranked #1 on Publishers Weekly's list of "Bestselling Hardcover Backlist Children's Books" in 2008 with over 4.5 million copies sold. A film adaptation of the novel was released on June 30, 2010.

From The Book

"I ran my fingers across the page, feeling the dents where he had pressed the pen to the paper so hard

that it had nearly broken through. I could picture him writing this — scrawling the angry letters in his

rough handwriting, slashing through line after line when the words came out wrong, maybe even snapping

the pen in his too-big hand; that would explain the ink splatters. I could imagine the frustration pulling his

black eyebrows together and crumpling his forehead. If I’d been there, I might have laughed.Don’t give

yourself a brain hemorrhage, Jacob, I would have told him.Just spit it out.

Laughing was the last thing I felt like doing now as I reread the words I’d already memorized. His

answer to my pleading note — passed from Charlie to Billy to him, just like second grade, as he’d

pointed out — was no surprise. I’d known the essence of what it would say before I’d opened it.

What was surprising was how much each crossed-out line wounded me — as if the points of the letters

had cutting edges. More than that, behind each angry beginning lurked a vast pool of hurt; Jacob’s pain

cut me deeper than my own."

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