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Loading... Breaking Dawn (The Twilight Saga, Book 4) (original 2008; edition 2008)by Stephenie Meyer
Work detailsBreaking Dawn by Stephenie Meyer (2008)
 Snukes | Jun 14, 2013 |  While I enjoyed this book, it is probably the weakest book in the Twilight series. I couldn't help but be disturbed and shocked at some of the plot twists. While I enjoyed the book, I am glad this is the conclusion of the series. (  ) littlelainey | Jun 2, 2013 | Not as good as the other three but still a relatively good read. ( ) ninadangelo | May 12, 2013 | After Eclipse I wondered where the story was heading and wasn't sure if I was going to enjoy this last book in the saga. The book is split into three parts and that made for interesting reading. In my opinion I think this is the best of the lot. Having had my head turned by Jake during the New Moon and Eclipse books I fully expected that I would feel exactly the same when reading Breaking Dawn. By the time I had finished reading this book I was definitely back in the Team Edward camp. Everything just made sense, all the loose ends are tied up nicely - well, with Jake and Renesme being an exception - and the reader gets a sense of the characters being able to move on from what has troubled them in the past. I really think that the author excelled herself this time. (  ) suepk | May 3, 2013 | I haven't been able to put it down! I stayed up til 3AM and got right back up at 9 to continue reading! ( ) Mickey_Beerens | Apr 22, 2013 |
 And so the pabulum slips down, spoonful by spoonful, with every now and then a neat idea, an unspoken hint of untold perversity, an almost subliminal flash of something nasty.  Over 754 pages, the answers come almost too easily, but not quickly. I hope no one takes this review to offense, so here I go. I thought this book was completely insane, rambling, and irrelevant. Period. So much of this book was just fluff and not enough action like how I think a Vampire book should be about. Sure, the book has it’s good points like Jacob finally coming to terms with his power of an Alpha wolf and Bella finally being transformed into a beautiful vampire. Then again there are so many things t hat don’t make sense and leave me wanting more, but not in the good way because I know that’s the end of that. Here are my list of problems: 1) Bella’s baby is a super genius with the power to talk through thoughts and images. Now that’s a pretty cool power if you ask me, but it has an adult mind. Not to mention that it has an earsplitting name which I don’t feel like typing out. This very baby is also the center of Jacob’s new infatuation. Please, ignore that he was completely and utterly obsessively in love with Bella for the first three books! Now he’s got an infant to be romantically involved with! Just….ew. 2) Bella is also super perfect as a vampire. Even as a human, Bella defied logic as a person with real emotions or tendencies. I mean, she goes out with a vampire who wants to drink her blood like heroine, hangs out with potentially dangerous werewolves, marries a vampire, gets pregnant, and now she gets turned into one. As a vampire she can suppress her own cravings and has developed powers. 3) The fight scene was a let down! I mean, there was no fighting! So, those are my thoughts. Feel free to object or argue Certain elements of BREAKING DAWN are perplexing, even off-putting --- particularly the scenes of sex, pregnancy and childbirth. But it's nearly impossible to please everyone --- especially when so much of the series' drama has relied on the tension of Bella's choice between two very different but desirable lovers. Readers who are able, eventually, to gain some perspective will find much to redeem BREAKING DAWN, particularly its new insights into Jacob's inner life as well as its neat resolution to several of the series' pressing conflicts and its realistic (or at least as realistic as a vampire romance can get) portrayal of the complexities and joys of married life.
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Post Script: Curious to know why some people hated the book so much, I read some more reviews and a few discussion topics about it. My reply to them - haters of this book for any of the mentioned reasons - is that this series always seemed to be a fluffy romp in the park to me. Eclipse annoyed me because I felt it attempted to get too serious and deep for a series that was really no more than brain candy. If you're looking for high-quality writing about deep and realistic characters, you need to head out of the young adult fantasy-fiction section and not get too worked up about this set. Peace, dudes. :) (