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Butterflies/Flutter
Lamenting over Fictional Characters..
12:19 PM
February 02, 2008
OMG! I just finished reading Eclipse, and here I am (again) feeling sad for the losing end of a love triangle. T_T Argh. When you sympathize with the losing end, you can't help but feel a teeny bit depressed when the story wraps up, but that's not to say of course that I'm not happy for Bella, the apex, shall we say, of the love triangle. I've been waiting for her to finally be a Cullen (in the mythical sense) since the end of book one. But that doesn't lessen the distress I felt for the ending. T_T I think I want a sequel about Jacob. If anything, just to know that he didn't disappear. *sniffles*
Truth be told, I was actually expecting worse to happen, especially since I heard that Alpha cried for Jake. I actually thought he would die or something. So I spent most of the book on the edge of my seat, praying that he wouldn't die. ^^ So much so that the ending totally caught me by surprise, and I didn't know I was there until I hit my face against the cold harsh wall of the finale in the form of the words "Acknowledgements". That's twice I got caught off guard by the abruptness of the ending, by the same author, mind you. And it was so sudden, I couldn't even react. So no, no tears here.
*sad sigh* I liked the series. And, just to be clear, the ending was nice, though it was really sad. And sad endings are pretty memorable for me, i think. ^^ I guess it couldn't have gone any other way. Funny, but I totally shared Bella's wish that she be split into two. I really did wish there could have been a way. Impossible though. LOL. And I think I liked Eclipse among the trilogy the most, it started out the funniest, definitely. And it definitely had the saddest sting. In other words, the most thrilling roller-coaster-ride-of-emotions among all three of the books. ^^
Although I have to admit that somewhere along the way, I felt kind of frustrated with Jake when he was being annoying -_-, and I was a little disappointed that Rosalie didn't get redeemed very much. I'm probably among a minority with this, but I like Rosalie. Something about the way Edward and Alice don't seem to be too fond of her struck a sympathetic chord in me, and I kept wondering throughout the book why everyone was making a fuss about Bella's transformation when obviously Rosalie didn't experience anything bad enough for her to have been able to keep her "spotless record", especially given the fact that she wrecked revenge on her killers. I dunno. I can't quite explain why I like her, but Rosalie did have her reasons for why she is the way she is, and it seems sad that she isn't really liked by some of her family. I was a little disappointed with Carlisle too, and Alice was a little annoying, though I really liked her in the first and second book. But I still love Jasper and Emmet. XD
And there were some lines that I found really... painful, I guess. Like when Jake said he could have been the sun, and we know that THAT was true. T_T I could almost feel imaginary plastic knives plunging into my sympathetic heart. ^^;
Aww Jake... T_T It's hard to describe, but I think I have a very HUGE tendency to sympathize with characters I get attached to. But don't worry guys, I'll try to get over it by the time we see each other next, so I won't break into a big drowning WHOOSH of ranting. ^^;
Personally, I don't think I'd survive a love triangle. No matter what position you get, whether you be the chooser, the chosen or the loser, you'll always be plagued with "what ifs". Crazy. ^^;
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