At this point I’m finding it hard to not be redundant in my reviews of this series.  Everything that I’ve said regarding characters and personalities and plot all stands except everything’s magnified, amplified, blown up and whatever other synonym you want to use.

Bella is perpetually helpless, perpetually under attack and perpetually self-deprecating.  Edward is perpetually helpful, perpetually there to save the day and perpetually reassuring.  It must be all those years of vampiric patience.  I wonder how many centuries it’ll take for the “you’re better than me” putz Bella is constantly spewing out to wear thin.  Will love survive such endless, backwards-hair-rubbing cycles?  I’m hard-pressed to think she’ll get over it any time soon.  That is unless she becomes “OMG beautiful!” once she becomes a vampire like she hopes to.  Why?  So she can stand next to Edward and feel like she belongs there.  Three f*^$^%( books of this so far.  He’s stuck around this long but obviously that’s not enough.  Neither is the drippy goo love.  I think sacrificial goats are in order for Edward to start proving himself since she’s obviously not getting it.

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