In Which Bella Gets A House
Yep, a house. I guess if you're magically rich you can have a cottage built on your property without all the fuss of permits or schedules or whatever. I've no idea when they would have built this thing and at some point whilst reading this abomination of a series I might have cared. No longer, it's a house. Fine.
It is described nicely at least.
Alice gives Bella a metric ton of clothes, so she's still the same two dimensional character we had in the first book.
Also well described: sex as a vampire is apparently awesome. You know why? None of that sweat or other bodily fluid. Also no exhaustion, no effort, no end to the long session. I don't know if there's any sort of climax, what with the questionable blood situation. In the end it's literally inhuman, and thus not particularly interesting. I don't know if Meyer understands that all that ick is part and parcel to the experience of sex and that the limitations and effort required make it special and fleeting. I guess she imagines this is the epitome of sexual contact, removing everything that makes it special outside the actual contact and then sugar coating it.
So all that horrible human sex stuff thus removed, Bella and Edward go at it like robots and then sort of just stop, I guess. Since there's now no need for bathrooms or showers or anything else that makes us frail and interesting, they just sort of get bored with this particular activity and wander back to the main house.
SumUp D
I'm convinced that Stephenie Meyer hates being a human being. All this icky fluid and bathroom stuff and sweaty contact. Maybe she's turning into Howard Hughes.
The chapter has a few interesting descriptive moments. That's all I've got.
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