Aah, the book I waited for ever since I got my hands on Eclipse!! How is that possible, you ask? Simple, I had pre-ordered this book on the day I bought my copy of Eclipse. A short side story. About a week before the official release date, I had a call from the book store, telling me that although they had expected the pre-order copies to be hard covered, it turns out that they will receive paperback versions instead. The man on the phone asked me if I would like to wait for the hard cover edition instead, which will take another two weeks to arrive. Like, D'OH... of course NOT. Anyways, I was unable to pick up the book on the actual release date, but we made time to go there the next day. Yippeee... oh, and to add to the excitement, I finally bought the English version of Twilight and New Moon on the same day. The only drawback is that they are all soft covered, leaving my copy of Eclipse the only hard cover book I have in the series. Not that it matters that much.
So anyway. While my cousin-in-law warned me that he had read some reviews saying that the book isn't so good and asked me not to get suicidal when I find out so myself, I thought this book is THE BEST yet!! Seriously. Stephenie is brilliant. I also told my cousin-in-law that the only reason I might get suicidal is that this is the end of the series. Gasp! Oh, and of course I was having a slight problem coming back to reality after the book is done, in fact I can still replay some of my favorite scenes word-by-word right this moment. And I only read it once, mind you!
Like I said earlier, Stephenie Meyer is just brilliant. I mean, I'm not quite sure what I was expecting for Breaking Dawn, but I most certainly did not anticipate what happened instead. I guess I thought it would be mainly about the wedding, maybe some party crashers, and then an epilogue on Bella's transformation. But Breaking Dawn of course delivered sooo much more!!
I can't believe I'm going to say this, but I actually liked Jacob a lot more after this book. LOL. And I'm sooo glad it all turned out so well for everyone in the story. I also think that Stephenie left a lot of loopholes that could develop into another book or something... wouldn't that be grand?? Ah, but anyway, there's still Midnight Sun to look forward to, although being in Edward's head might not be the same absorbing experience being in Bella's was. And how I wish I could get my hand on Steph's The Host. Just to see if it's really her writing that got me or rather the love of Edward and Bella. Hahaha.
