I'm tired of this book, and that really needs no introduction. Let's go.
Bella hurries over to La Push to warn Jacob that people are trying to kill him and his werewolf posse, and to ask him if he and his werewolf posse been killing people. Jacob assures her that vampires are the ones who have been killing people, and that the werewolves have only been killing vampires. Bella approves.
Jacob then calls a meeting of the gang, basically by using his feelings. The boys show up and aren't very happy about Bella being around (No Girls Allowed! It says it right on our clubhouse, dude!). One of them, a 'Paul', gets so huffy that he and Jacob throw down and have a wolf-fight right there, more for our benefit than anyone else's (... they're werewolves, did you notice? Did you?). Sam tells the others to take Bella to his fiancee Emily's house while he tries to break up the kerfuffle.
They head over to Emily's, and Sam, Jake, and Pissy Paul show up soon after. The gang quickly turns out to be one big happy family, all giving off that same vague likableness as Jacob, at least compared to every other character in this damned series. Jake explains that their now-arch-nemesis Victoria is after Bella, which earns our hated heroine a security detail.
Bella spends pretty much all of her spring break (which it conveniently is, at this point in the story) in La Push. Jacob and the gang are still off hunting Victoria most of the time, so the majority of Chapter 15 is devoted to Bella brooding about boys, and Jake's safety (but mostly boys). Jacob gets a day off and promises to finally take Bella cliff-diving, but they get a hot lead on Victoria, and he has to skive off to try to save the day. Bella decides to take herself cliff-diving, and the chapter ends with her starting to drown, then hallucinating about Edward, then continuing to drown.
Spoiler alert--She doesn't drown after all. What a tease.
MATTERS OF PROBABLE IMPORTANCE:
1. Jake's friend Quil may or may not turn into a werewolf, but there's been much discussion about it. MUCH discussion. In fact, if he doesn't have some sort of absolutely ridiculous crisis soon, it's going to be a real letdown.
2. Werewolves don't REALLY turn at the full moon, you historically- and mythologically-accurate nerds. They turn when they get angry or upset and can't calm themselves down... Hulk rules, basically, but with fur instead of verdancy.
3. Werewolves also have higher temperatures than normal people, so they don't like wearing shirts.
4. Bella spends a lot of time 'not being able to breathe'.
BELLA'S TEAM: Team Jacob, but then she went all Team Edward toward the end there.
OUR TEAM: Team Drown. Drown you poorly-conceived, chagrin-filled, soul-sucking wench! DROWN! Sigh... it's hopeless, isn't it?
2 comments:
Just wait until the end of the fourth book when Shmeyer conveniently calls them "Shape-Shifters" instead of werewolves. I guess she figured,"Shit, folklorists are making fun of me again, how do I remedy this and ease my chagrin? Oh, I know, those Navajo people have Skinwalker thingies, and them redskins are all the same anyway, so I'll just say that the Quileutes have shape-shifters! My plan is totes genius!"
"So what if I've been calling them 'werewolves' for the last three books? To hell with continuity, I'm a literary progressive!"
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