Breaking Dawn (2008)

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Thank goodness the whole wretched thing is over. ( )

So I finally finished the series. I had to take a break between Eclipse and Breaking Dawn because I disliked Eclipse so much, but hated the idea of not finishing the series. My thoughts on Breaking Dawn are- it’s the end, and that’s pretty much all I can say.
I’ll admit that in between picking up BD again, I read many, many reviews and I totally agree with most of them. She broke cannon and made this book a happy ending, which is fine, but the way she did so was horrible.
I had so many issues with the book I don’t know where to start:
1. 2000 pages and no sex. I know it’s YA, but that part pissed me off. Pages and pages of sexual tension and all we get is the aftermath and some shredded pillows. That kind of ruined things for me there.
2. The whole pregnancy things was just off and misplaced
3. The whole anti-abortion plug was kind of annoying. I loved how two books ago (or a few months) she couldn’t fathom getting married and then she became all gung-ho about having a baby. I know things change when you get married, but with her previous shallowness and actions, I doubt we would get that from Bella.
4. I loved Jacob in New Moon and while it was refreshing to get a new perspective, the part from Jacob’s point of view annoyed me to no end. I began to dislike Jacob more and more as I continued reading

5. Reading the “packs” thoughts in italics was even more annoying than not getting any Vampire sex.
6. Renesemme= Fugly.
7. The imprinting- disturbing on so many levels and not just the pedophile label. I found the imprinting of Quil and Claire just as nasty. Earlier when Quil was “playing” with Claire in her two year old voice, I just wanted to vomit. Reading about Renesmee feeding off of Jacob gave me the same reaction. There was absolutely no reason to include such ridiculousness in this book.
8. I was very disappointed that it ended so “happy”. SO much was set up for this to be a great book/ending and then it just fell flat
9. It was a little boring and did not need to be 754 pages. It wasn’t worth it.
In the end, I finished and stand my by previous reviews. Twilight was the Best- New moon was Good and Eclipse is still one of the most G-d awful books I’ve ever read. Breaking Dawn comes pretty far ahead of Eclipse. It was ok- a sucky ending, like SM just wanted to finish the series, but it’s over. At least once the New Moon movie comes out, I can forget about the entire series.
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You have to buy the entire saga. It's horrible. You love it. You read it. You make fun of it. You embarrass yourself. You read it again. You accept what you've become. Buy it! ( )

So this book was very similar to the other books in the series and I have the same problems with it...great story, BLOATED book. My favorite characters are the Volturi because as soon as they show up the story picks up and no more endless descriptions of Edward and Bella and Bella and Edward and Bella and Jacob and Jacob and Bella and Edward and Jacob...they are even more drawn out than this sentence!! When I think about her insane desire to over describe everything I am reminded of the first Star Wars (not a New Hope). I think of Jar Jar Binks and how dang annoying he is...how could George Lucas not have seen what a mess of a character he was and how people cannot even enjoy the very few good aspects of the movie because all they can think is kill Jar Jar, kill Jar Jar. Meyers seems to be suffering from this. My guess is she has her idea of who these people are. As the author she has probably had this story in her head for years, running it over and over again. After awhile you become desensitized to initial perception of the characters and start to overdo it to make sure everyone understands them because it took you years to do so. George Lucas probably spent so much CGI time with Jar Jar that he didn't realize how annoying he really was. Meyers doesn't realize that we don't need to hear over and over again about Bells and Edward and their special moments. It was so blah that I just started skipping pages and paragraphs to get though all the blah...on the plus side it should make the movies very easy to write because you can literally eliminate 2/3 of every book by doing one or two scenes:) First 100 pages good...find out the little surprise in the middle...the last 3/4 of the book is excellent! ( )