Breaking Dawn

Again, fun and quick. However, I found the end to be anticlimactic and a huge let down.

Read the book for the 5th time!!! Can't get over it!! Can't wait to watch the movie!!! I'll never get tired of reading this over and over again!!! :))

June 4, 2016: I can't believe I was crazy over this.

didn't finish it. Terrible book.

Well, I finally finished the last installment in the Twilight saga. My review might include some spoilers, so read ahead at your own caution.



It seems to me that the quality and wow factor of this series has diminished incrementally from the first book. Twilight was by far my favorite; seriously, I loved it. New Moon was alright, Eclipse definitely lacked something, and this final book was a disappointment. I felt that Breaking Dawn was far too long for the material that it contained. Either the editor should have cut down on the number of pages, or Meyer should have developed the plot more intricately and fully.



At the beginning, I was hoping for a better wedding scene, and of course, a much more descript honeymoon. Bella was still being petulant about the marriage, and that ground on my nerves. Once that scene was finished, bam, they're at the island. I'm not a romance buff by any means, and I hate smutty writing, but Meyer could have given us readers just a bit more in terms of the whole honeymoon sex scene. Don't get me wrong, I just think that Bella and Edward's relationship on the island could have been even more solidified through Meyer writing about it just a tiny bit more in depth. Instead, it was like, wham, they have mysterious sex and suddenly Bella's pregnant, of course after the first time.



After she finds out she's pregnant, the novel DRAGS. Seriously, I'm sorry, but the whole middle section of this book was a bore. Finally the baby's born, given a ridiculous name (both her first and middle names annoy the heck out of me) and Bella becomes the vampire that we've all been waiting for her to become.



I'm also a bit disappointed in how easily Bella overcame the whole newborn thing. I know, she had a shielding gift, and I didn't want her to kill anybody, I just thought that there could have been a little more struggle to her vampire initiation.



The ending was also a letdown. The whole meeting fo the vampires was great and all, but if the Volturi are coming all the way there and all that animosity is going around, why was there not a battle scene? I thought it was far too easy that the Volturi just saw another half-vampire and were like, ok, let's go back home. This means that the Volturi are still around. I wanted them to be destroyed, or at least made to fight with the other vampires. It's the whole good vs. evil thing. When Edward mentioned something like, oh, the Volturi are really just bullies, but cowards underneath' I was like, WHAT? I mean, they were this huge threat, and there was supposed to be a huge confrontation, and suddenly they just walk away to go live in their castle?



It seemed like all the action was crammed into the last 200 pages of the book, and everything before it was far too drawn out and dullingly descriptive. I think Meyer could have done a better job, had she been given time to let her plots thicken and develop, and time to trim down on useless pages of nothing.



The book had so much potential; I just wish it could have been a better finish to the series.

OH MY GOD THIS IS THE BEST BOOK EVER!!!!!!!! There are so many twists and turns and unexpected events! I could NOT put this book down unless forced to! It is a must read!

Original rating 5 stars
Current rating 3 stars

After having my frontal lobe completely grown, I don't understand why my teenage self loved this teenage-angst book

Finally Bella contributes more then whining and getting into trouble and has her own strength. Actually quite enjoyed this one.

★

Last book of the series.

After so many readings I still love this book. So weird, I know. I still get teary when Bella gives Renesmee to Jacob in the meadow! sigh

in my opinion, the best book of the entire twilight saga.
in my opinion, the whole saga should have been comprised only of one book. -_-

Renesmee?

After talking to a lot of friends/family about this book in particular I've been able to come up with a conclusion. People who like happy endings love this book. People who find happy endings smarmy hate this book. Having that knowledge equipped I tried to keep myself impartial because it is a happy ending but I was not on board with a significant portion of the book, and it's an enormous lump of a book...Bella doesn't have to sacrifice anything. Not that she is required to by any means but...she gets every thing she wants, I suppose readers are conditioned into expecting some sort of tradeoff.

There was a lot to like...I liked the pack stuff with Jacob, any scene with Seth in it is a great scene! I liked hearing about the other vampires' abilities...but I just got supporting character overload in the last section of the book. One thing Nate and I brought up several times during the reading of this one is how much Edward seems to lose his bite (hah).

I would never ever thought I would actually like the fourth book of this Twilight saga. But I really do like it, actually. The fourth book was... amazing. Well, to me, at least. It seems that I like Bella The Vampire much much more than Bella The Human. Bella The Vampire could definitely kick some serious ass.

The story started off with Bella and Edward's wedding, which was a bit weird actually. And right after the wedding which was marred by Jake's appearance (who disappeared, heart-broken in Book 3), Edward whisked Bella off to a private island for their honeymoon, which was kinda freaky. We were exposed to the love-making process between a vampire and a human... but not much really. And soon after, Bella was pregnant. Haven't they even heard about safe sex? Guess not.

At this point, where Bella and Edward realized that she is carrying his not-so-normal baby, the story got really interesting. I was hooked from that moment on.

And telling the story from Jake's perspective was great. At least I was grateful not to be in Bella's world where it only revolves around Edward.

All in all, this book did not disappoint me much. The gathering of the various vampire covens, the Volturi, Jacob imprinting on Bella and Edward's child, the gifted child who captured everyone's hearts (including mine)... it made for great reading for me. Book 4 is definitely much much better than all the 3 books combined.

I have finally reached the last book of the twilight saga, Breaking Dawn. In this final chapter, we see Bella make the most important decision of her life, to become a vampire forever. Her world was being split in half; her love for her father, who she has become incredibly close to in these past few years that they've been together, her silly, but comforting mother whose finally found stability in her life, and last but not least, her very best friend (who happens to be a werewolf) Jacob Black, the one person who will always be there for her, but the deep love that they have for each other can never happen. Then there is the new family she craves to join; the irresistible Cullen family and their loving bond that they have for each other (including the man of her life, Edward). She graduates high school, gets married and tries to live life as a human for the very last moments. Once she finds out that she's pregnant with Edwards baby during their honeymoon, she becomes fatally ill as this “monster breed” is tearing her insides. Never have they heard of a half-immortal/half mortal child before, so the Cullens are in grave fear of what this may bring to the world. Jacob is more infuriated with the fact that his best friend is willing to die for this creature. The story transgresses, Bella gives birth to a beautiful girl, Reneesmee, she becomes immortal, Jacob finally moves on from his love for Bella...to his new love for Reneesmee [by imprinting:]. Bella, being a newborn vampire has the great ability to control her emotions and cravings, so shes capable of maintaining her relationship with her father, and the last parts of her human life that seemed the most important to her;and then they live happily ever after....until the Volturi clan plans to come to exterminate the Cullen clan because of Reneesmee. Carlisle,Esme, Alice,Jasper, Emmett and Rosalie search for all of their fellow vampire friends from all over the world to witness the “trial” that would possibly condemn their lives. We all know that at the end of the book, no one dies [except for Irina the betrayer:]. The Cullens are safe, the werewolves [or shape shifters according to Aro:] are safe, and maintain the newly found bond with the Cullens. Jacob and Bella will always remain best friends forever, and he will wait till Reneesmee is of age before they have their relationship. Bella will be able to keep in contact with her father, and the rest of the werewolf pack. Everyone seems to live a happily ever after.


The entire series is worth the reading. Even though im torn between which one is my favorite (im leaning towards Eclipse), it is captivating from the first to last page.

My 2nd time through I think I really truly appreciated the amazing campy glory of this book and no longer endorse the vitriol I felt for it in 2009, although I will leave the original 1-star review below for posterity. (I have upgraded it to 2 stars. Let's not get carried away.)

http://www.frowl.org/worstbestsellers/episode-82-breaking-dawn/

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I think my review of this can best be summarized by the series of text messages I sent to a friend while I was reading it. They really capture the depth of my emotions as I was entranced in this literary work.

1. CALL ME AS SOON AS YR CLASS IS OVER, YOU WILL NOT BELIEVE HOW RIDICULOUS THIS BOOK IS!!! :O

2. THIS BOOK IS SO BAD IT MAKES MY SOUL HURT THE WAY YOUR RECTUM WOULD IF EDWARD CULLEN ANALLY RAPED YOU :( * (This joke may seem in poor taste, and in fact IS in poor taste, but it does have its roots in a series of other inside jokes. If that helps. Don't judge me, I didn't write Breaking Dawn.)

3. ALSO NOW THERE IS A CHARACTER NAMED RENATA, I'M CHANGING MY NAME TO DISASSOCIATE MYSELF :(

4. Done with this garbage/Twilight is the new Secret/And both should be burned. (* The Secret is a self-help book that we're obsessed with making fun of. Also, I don't really advocate book burning. Not even for this book. I guess.)

This was probably my favorite out of the Twilight series, probably b/c I could just suspend my thoughts that it should be set in some sort of reality. Also, it was kinda nice not having to read Bella's griping for hundreds of pages.

Count me in. I loved this one. It really turned the corner in this final installment.

Seemingly with a good novel series, when the end is coming as a reader, one wants it to go on forever. The feelings with finishing the Twilight Saga is much the same. I despise the fact that it had to end, but since it did, this was definitely in good form. Breaking Dawn is the fourth and final installment of the Twilight Saga, not counting the [b:The Twilight Saga: The Official Guide 3609763 The Twilight Saga The Official Guide Stephenie Meyer http://ecx.images-amazon.com/images/I/41mqtX-NO8L.SL75.jpg 3652514] said to be coming out December 2008. (I'm excited). This novel is told differently than the first three. [b:Twilight 41865 Twilight (The Twilight Saga, Book 1) Stephenie Meyer http://ecx.images-amazon.com/images/I/41DcKN0STkL.SL75.jpg 3212258], [b:New Moon 49041 New Moon (The Twilight Saga, Book 2) Stephenie Meyer http://ecx.images-amazon.com/images/I/414jgcy2FAL.SL75.jpg 3203964], and [b:Eclipse 428263 Eclipse (The Twilight Saga, Book 3) Stephenie Meyer http://ecx.images-amazon.com/images/I/411cNNPkYAL.SL75.jpg 2675454] are all told from protag Isabella Swan's POV and is one whole book each, while [b:Breaking Dawn 1162543 Breaking Dawn (The Twilight Saga, Book 4) Stephenie Meyer http://ecx.images-amazon.com/images/I/416pfGGLM0L.SL75.jpg 2960529] is divided into multiple “books” and every other book moves from being as Bella's POV to another long standing character Jacob's POV. It is fascinating and amazing what it does to the story and presents all sorts of details and imagery that would not have been available simply from Bella's mind. This is a big book, this is a good 700-something pages, getting very close to 800, but it is entirely worth the time for a read. It is amazing how well this book sucks you in until you have finished. The entire series is fabulous, in that you have not a clue what will be coming next, but that is essentially a fact in this book. As a reader, I never would have expected to what happened to occur on each following page. [a:Stephenie Meyer 941441 Stephenie Meyer http://photo.goodreads.com/authors/1208990584p2/941441.jpg] is good. She really does deserve to be a Bestselling Author with her gift of story telling. She was easily able to take a figment that has for almost all time been seen as evil and mold it into a form that is “trying”. So many people have fought off this series without attempting to read it, because of a fear factor. I really encourage you to read this series. The themes are fabulous, and it is a great teen read as it was meant as well as an adult read. With love, abstinence, mercy, personal growth, friendship, devotional, and free will as constant themes through out, a reader can learn many things from the forms in which Stephenie Meyer presents a tremendously engaging story.

The plot totally jumped the shark but there is still something to these books that makes them just so darn readable.

Okay, I realize this series is odd to begin with (trying to explain it to my husband is very interesting...), but this book has yanked odd in a whole new direction.

HATED this one!

Well, gosh. In a lot of ways, I wish I'd known about this series so I could read it in bits and pieces, like Harry Potter. Because taken as a whole, read in less than a week, a lot of shit went down in these books. Crazy vampire shit. My reading pace, I will admit, may not have left me time to enjoy all the detail that was included given my fervor to figure out the plot. I stand by my opinion that the 3rd book is the most fun to read, but credit where credit is due, I never in five million years would have guessed the direction the 4th book took, so hats off to Meyer for that. All in all, if you need an airport read, a beach read, a read something that doesn't require a lot of thinking read, a moved across the country and broke up with your boyfriend read (who? me?), these books are your new best friends. Not quite Harry Potter (could anything be?), but close.

This was the most disappointing Twilight book for me. The first section was excruciating (like a bad romance book from the 60's) but after all the ridiculous beginning it gets better.
I really loved the developments in Jacob's character.

In the romance category I give it an F

In the interesting twists category I give a A

In the Action adventure category I give a B

In the character development I give a B

Over all I give a C+