Book four of the Twilight series. A teen paranormal romance.
Bella, a young ordinary human girl falls in love with Edward a vampire.
First. This series completly changed how I view vampires. It's not all about evil and blood with Meyers. This series opened me up to teen fiction which is now my favorite reading material. This series also opened me up to shapeshifters, and lots of YA material. Even Faeries and Mermaid books. I'm over 35 and always check the YA sections first now. I actually saw parts of the Twilight movie before reading this and loved it, then started the series. Bella the clumsy human many readers bash, actually ends the first three books being brave, and possible hero material. I won't spoil how this one ends.
Now on Breaking Dawn. This book is artwork and probably the best book I have ever read. When I run out of new books, I often return and end up reading breaking dawn again. I don't know how many times I've read it.
The book is three parts. Very long parts, 760 pages, so if you like the series you get a great deal on this. Two books for the price of one. The three parts are first person views switching from Bella to Jacob.
Part one begins with a beautiful wedding and honeymoon. Then tragedy strikes and we're taken into part two from Jacob's perspective.
Breaking Dawn is a page turner you will not be able to put down. It's writing at it's finest. While the series has been bashed for being poorly edited, we see near perfection here. We see huge scale progression from the characters. We see the conclusion to a romance triangle that has kept us guessing since book two. We see nearly every question from the series answered here. We get a lot more of the Cullens, and even a close look inside the pack mind. We get more character dialogue than any book in the series, and maybe more than the rest put together. This is a series you can read over and over, but if your like me, you'll find yourself reading Breaking Dawn the most.
I spent a lot of time reading over the negative post on this book and actually rewrote mine to answer them. I read through several pages of post and will answer each one I can remember here. And that's the point. Every single complaint this book gets can be explained.
The only real problems to this book, are a unfinished ending, and it's a bit of a fairytale completion to the series. About ten problems the series has had are answered perfectly in Breaking Dawn. Each one makes sense and can be explained, but taken as a whole. Ten happy endings might be too much of a fairytale.
Not to me. I love happy endings. Keep in mind this is a laid back and relaxing series. Intended for teenagers, but excellent for all ages. Yes even retired people.
SPOILERS
Answers to complaints about the series.
Charlie doesn't put up enough fight for the wedding.---- What more could Charlie do? Disinherit her? He's been against Edward since the end of book two and seen it does no good. He accepts it hopes Renee can do more.
Charlie should ask more questions after Bella is sick--- Maybe a few, but not many. Remember Jacob has just shown him he's a werewolf and told him if he can't handle to wierdness Bella will leave. Any parent who loves their daughtar would play along. The only other option is to loose her.
Bella turns out graceful--- All vampires are graceful. Alice seems to be more so.
Bella shouldn't be married at eighteen--- There is nothing wrong with marriage or children at eighteen. If you can love, afford, and have time for your child, it's actually better to start early. It gives you more years with your kid. Would you rather be thirty-five or fifty when your kids eighteen?
Bella gets to skip being a newborn. No one else has. Bella should have killed people---- Carlisle, and Rosalie never drank human blood either. Edward avoided killing anyone for ten years after her was a newborn. He killed bad people when he went off on his own. Carlisle was tempted and probably the others as well. Carlisle woke up inside a city and ran off as a newborn. Bella's prepared. She's the only vampire the Cullens know who's chosen the life as a vegitarian beforehand. None of the other Cullens were expecting to become vampires. Meyer gives us hints in book three by saying at least four times "It will be interesting to see how Bella turns out since she's prepared."
Bella can't get pregnant! It's impossible! Vampires are frozen and can't reproduce.---- Meyers never says male vampires can't father a baby. She even gives evidence to say they can in BD page 125-26. She says female vamps can't change enough to carry the baby, but males need to change very little to father a baby. As long as Meyer doesn't contradict a baby being possible, then the baby is fine. What gets me is how can readers believe in vampires in the first place and question a vampire baby? They believe in vampires, werewolves, arms that can move without being attached to a body. They read three books of paranormal and question the fourth book because of a pregnacy they didn't suspect.
Bella gets all these rewards and pays nothing---- How much do you want her to pay? I think she paid too much through the series and again here. She's tortured a little by James. Edward ditches her and she nearly goes insane. She saves Edwards life and get grounded for it. She has to hurt Jacob when she gets Edward back. She has to live knowing all of those people in Seattle are dead because of her. She has to run to Rosalie for help since her loving husband cares nothing about what she wants. She carries a baby that has a fity percent chance to kill her. She suffers three days in agony. No. Bella is like the most forgiving girl on the planet and deserves everything she got.
The wolves conflict ended too easily. Someone should have got hurt---- Honesty did anyone expect the wolves and Cullens to end up as enemies when the series ended? Hasn't that been one of Bella's side plots to get them to get along? Remember the magnets? The whole wolf conflict was based on the word abomination. Meyer wrote this scenario beautifully to make perfect sense the wolves would halt the attack after loosing three of their own. Not to mention abomination is a weak excuse to murder in the first place.
The imprinting is wrong and fixed Jacob's problem too easily----- Meyer is clear it's not wrong. It's very similar to people promising their children away at birth. Even religious people did this a hundred years ago. If it offends you, why didn't you complain after book three? There was a two year old baby then too. I don't think it fixed Jacob too easily. Again we were prepared in book three, and Jacob has suffered enough too.
Their should have been a fight at the end!--- I agree. Meyer totally messed up the ending with the Volturi. But, she had small reasons for this as well. Most of Carlisle's witnesses were there to defend only. Even the fighters. Even though the Volturi attacked first, could gentle Carlisle say charge? The Volturi backed off first so if the Cullens had attacked, it would have been a small form of murder. That's a very small reason, and I agree the ending is totally messed up. Meyer had no reason to end the series this way other than to write us another. Which I hope she does.
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I have read all these books and I like them. Wonderful characters and a GREAT story.Alice is favorite.I know that someone people dislike the movies but I like the movies just as much as the books.Whoever wrote the screenplays for the movies did a wonderful job of editing and of course leaving the best and most important parts.In closing I am going to say the books are really good buys.Enjoy.
