Eclipse

Book: Eclipse
Author: Stephenie Meyer
Audience: Teen and Adult
In a Nutshell: bloodsucker or dog? Hot or cold? Human or in-?

Bella is counting down to graduation, when Edward and the Cullens have finally consented to turn her. She thinks she's ready, but as the day approaches she's starting to think there are things about being human that she still hasn't experienced- like sex. But Edward wants to get married first.

Jacob's pack is growing- and in a surprise twist of the legend, there's now a female wolf. Several of the wolves have developed bonds- irresistable links to people of the opposite sex outside the pack- sometimes romantic, sometimes just totally devoted. There have been many mysterious killings in Seattle which seem vampiric, but the culprit is a mystery. Soon the high-profile nature will bring the Volturi to clean up, the vampire world's own mafia, which would be bad. The true nature of the deaths forms a threat to both the Cullens and the La Push werewolf pack. With Bella and their turf at stake, the Cullens and the Jacob's pack form an uneasy alliance.

Jacob, Bella and Edward's relationship continue to develop, shift, and get yet more complicated. Ah, to be young and supernatural. But someday soon, Bella will have to make the Choice of No Return, if she's ready.

I still just eat these books up. I put them in the same category as Harry Potter: well but not spectacularly written, but oh-so-readable. I had a roommate who burned her way through Twilight, then turned immediately to the first page and started over. Then read it again a month later. Book Four is a-comin' in August 2008, and I'm already #28 on the waiting list of 80 and growing at my library. Advance entry into the catalog: a true sign that an author has Made It.