In Which Bella Drives A Tank
Bella gots a tank-car for her engagement and is tooling through Forks in it. It's some kind of armored luxury supercar that Sultans and Drug Knigpins drive, but Edward got her one so she wouldn't snuffit before the big impregnation scene (spoiler). Local teens are impressed, which I guess is remotely possible but would make more sense if it were an actual exotic supercar and not some bomb-proof behemoth.
Fine, whatever. Jacob has gone AWOL after the last book. Bella and the werewolves and Bill know he's in Canada, so I guess everyone else is letting Charlie worry like crazy for no reason. Nicely done.
Edward & Bella visit Charlie for the big engagement announcement. Charlie assumes she's preggers (not yet!) then gets mad, then passes the buck to Renee. Wow. Renee isn't surprised at all, she was under the impression that they'd been secretly engaged since the Florida Vacation in the last book. Double Wow. All that build up and we get a typical Meyer anti-climax. Thanks, Meyer!
Jump forward to wedding outfit fitting for Charlie. No clue how much time has passed, one assumes a week or two.
Bella gets her dress, Alice is bubbly, Bella is mopey and thinking about Edward lovin.
SumUp C-
There's jumpy timing and the chapter is essentially endless Bella pining for Edward amid sparse information about the nuptials. Why is Bella so distracted? Even with wedding jitters, why can't we get a decent description of anything? Why is Charlie so pathetic here? This is supposed to be the build up to one of the most important moments in the book: the wedding! The climax of their relationship! And yet we're given scarce details, no friends calling, no rushed last-minute details, no girl-talk or help from dad or anything. It's a big rush to get us there, I suppose.
Bella is her typically useless self, this time turning over every nuance of the wedding to Alice and Edward. She's in neutral, as usual, even with the culmination of all her desires slowly working it's way into reality.
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