Eclipse Book

Eclipse is the third book in the Twilight Series of novels by author Stephenie Meyer. The full Twilight Series also includes Twilight, New Moon and Breaking Dawn. Eclipse was originally released in August of 2007, and a major motion picture based on the book was released in theaters on June 30, 2010.http://www.stepheniemeyer.com/eclipse_movie.html,/ref> The first two books in the Twilight series were also made into major motion pictures, with the Twilight movie being released in November 2008, and the New Moon movie being released in November 2009.<ref>http://www.stepheniemeyer.com/newmoon_movie.html

Eclipse had an initial print run of a million copies. Close to 250,000 copies sold in the first week after the book's release.http://www.usatoday.com/life/books/news/2007-08-15-eclipse_N.htm The book has been sold in more than 16 foreign countries and was listed as the fourth best selling book of 2008, behind the other novels in the Twilight Series according to a ranking by USA Today.http://online.wsj.com/article/SB118670290131693667.htmlhttp://www.usatoday.com/life/books/news/2009-01-14-top-100-titles_N.htm

Author Stephenie Meyer was a stay-at-home mother living in Arizona when she had a dream that prompted her to write the first book in the Twilight Series. The novel is targeted at the young adult age group and combines elements of romance and fantasy. Meyers studied literature at Brigham Young University.http://www.usatoday.com/life/books/news/2007-08-15-eclipse_N.htm

The novel follows the love story of Bella Swan and Edward Cullen and takes up where the first two novels, Twilight and New Moon stop. In Eclipse, Bella Swan and Edward Cullen, a vampire, are back together as a couple. They are concerned about Bella aging while Edward remains a 17-year-old forever. Bella must decide if she wants to become a vampire after high school graduation.

Pursued by a vengeful vampire, Victoria, and upset by reports of odd murders, Bella finds herself torn between the love for her vampire boyfriend Edward Cullen and her friendship with werewolf Jacob Black.http://commonsensemedia.org/book-reviews/Eclipse.html The novel presents the werewolf pack and vampires uniting to try and stop the onslaught of a newborn vampire army.http://thebookbinge.com/2007/08/eclipse-by-stephanie-meyer.html

• "Meyer's trilogy seethes with the archetypal tumult of star-crossed passions, in which the supernatural element serves as heady spice. As Bella and her vampire swain channel Romeo and Juliet, Heathcliff and Cathy, their audience falls under the spell of a love that is not only undying, but undead. Meyer writes with a PG-13 sensibility: in the earlier books, she skirted clinches that would put an unmarried girl afoul of the censors."—New York Timeshttp://www.nytimes.com/2007/08/12/books/review/Schillinger7-t.html

• "Author Stephenie Meyer has a writing style that can keep the reader turning the pages even when there is nothing much happening (which is most of the time), and there is a lot more suspense in this entry than in last two, as well as a pretty entertaining climactic battle."—Common Sense Mediahttp://commonsensemedia.org/book-reviews/Eclipse.html