Eclipse

This third book in the Twilight series is truly the one in which the characters start to come into their own, all the goundwork done in the first two books to set the scene are absolutely worth it.

In this book we find Bella struggling to persuade Edward that the time is right to turn her into a vampire without the need for her to walk down the aisle with him. She also decides that she has some conditions of her own about becoming a vampire - one of which is that she want to have sex with him before it happens - which when your boyfriend is a vamprie is a dangerous request.

On the other hand we find her struggling to reconcile her feelings for her best friend and werewolf Jacob Black who is madly in love with Bella and who he believes loves him back but won't allow herself to admit it.

Meyer writes so beautifully about the relationship triangle in this book - there is a real feeling of sexual tension throughout and the way it is written is so beautiful that as a reader at times you genuinely feel for Bella's predicament as you also find yourself falling in love with both male characters and want to root for them both. This is no small feat on behalf of the author and Meyer is a true master at writing about the real teenage angst that Bella is experiencing.

Set against a backdrop of the ongoing attempts by the vampire Victoria, introduced in Twilight, to try and kill Bella by means of revenge for the death of her partner James this novel is outstanding.

I am so pleased to have found an author whose writing is so clearly emotional, descriptive and gripping - I still need to read Breaking Dawn and can hardly wait to get started.