Life or Death?
Mortality or Immortality?
Vampire or Werewolf?
Bella Swan is a human girl - tormented by the herculean decision to choose between something good versus something indispensable. As the cover of the book suggests, she is torn, trying to force the two magnets of her life with opposing sides to stick with each other. But like oil and water, they are not meant to be mixed together.
The third book of the Twilight Saga picks up the story from the return of Bella's vampire boyfriend, Edward Cullen. Even though she is happy and content to be spending all her time with Edward, she terribly misses her werewolf best friend, Jacob Black, who refuses to talk to her because of the natural enmity between vampires and werewolves.
That is not the only problem that Bella is facing currently. She has a sadistic vampire trying to revenge her mate's death with her own and also the Volturi - the vampire royal family - who insisted that her heart should stop beating one way or another in the near future because humans weren't allowed to know they existed. As a consequence of all these reasons, she has no other choice but to become a vampire, for which she is quite ready if the alternative is to leave Edward and that she cannot bear.
However, Jacob despises Bella's decision to give up on her human life. He offers his love and protection for life to her and pleads her to stay human and choose him instead.
From the open hostility between Edward and Jacob to the agonizing terror of the vampire army and the wretched suspense of their creator's identity, this book was an epic adventure to the readers. I particularly enjoyed the unspoken comradeship between the Cullen and the Quileute families, which started to brew because of their mutual love for Bella.
Stephenie Meyer has evolved with each of her books in this series. She has taken her story-telling to another level by sharing Rosalie and Jasper's past and the Quileute legends in the most intriguing way possible. Even with all the love triangle predicament that was created, she managed to take the story forward with an unprecedented level of precision and pulled off the most epic battle between the good versus evil vampires.
Even though this book has gathered a lot of mixed reviews like its predecessors, I will go out on a limb and would describe it as a captivating series and would recommend it to those of you who wouldn't mind a bit of "fantasy for teens" at any stage of their lives.
Do check out my reviews of the previous two books of this series:
And keep your eyes peeled for my blog on the last and final book of this series - Breaking Dawn.
Happy Reading!!!
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