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| Breaking Dawn (The Twilight Saga, Book 4) | 
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Category: Book
Author: Stephenie Meyer
Publisher: Little, Brown Young Readers
Studio: Little, Brown Young Readers
Manufacturer: Little, Brown Young Readers
Label: Little, Brown Young Readers
Languages: English (Unknown), English (Published)
Media: Hardcover
Reading Level: Young Adult
Number Of Items: 1
Pages: 768
Shipping Weight (lbs): 1.7
Dimensions (in): 8.4 x 5.5 x 2.3
ISBN: 031606792X
EAN: 9780316067928
ASIN: 031606792X
Publication Date: August 2, 2008 (New: Last 30 Days)
Release Date: August 2, 2008 (New: Last 30 Days)
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Product Description
When you loved the one who was killing you, it left you no options. How could you run, how could you fight, when doing so would hurt that beloved one? If your life was all you had to give, how could you not give it? If it was someone you truly loved?
To be irrevocably in love with a vampire is both fantasy and nightmare woven into a dangerously heightened reality for Bella Swan. Pulled in one direction by her intense passion for Edward Cullen, and in another by her profound connection to werewolf Jacob Black, a tumultuous year of temptation, loss, and strife have led her to the ultimate turning point. Her imminent choice to either join the dark but seductive world of immortals or to pursue a fully human life has become the thread from which the fates of two tribes hangs.
Now that Bella has made her decision, a startling chain of unprecedented events is about to unfold with potentially devastating, and unfathomable, consequences. Just when the frayed strands of Bella's life-first discovered in Twilight, then scattered and torn in New Moon and Eclipse-seem ready to heal and knit together, could they be destroyed... forever?
The astonishing, breathlessly anticipated conclusion to the Twilight Saga, Breaking Dawn illuminates the secrets and mysteries of this spellbinding romantic epic that has entranced millions.
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 I want my money back! August 21, 2008
Can't decide where to begin saying what bothered me about this book. Was it Edward calling Jacob 'son,' or the fact that Bella got everything that she wanted without having to sacrifice anything on her part. It was one absurdity after another with this book, I was wondering how on earth SE's editor had let this be published without constructive criticism. At one point during reading the book, I got so frustrated that I put it down, read the spoilers and decided I won't finish reading it. Only to remember I paid money for this piece of work and that it won't be fair to write a review if I hadn't read it in full. Alas, finishing it didn't change my opinion and I am only so glad that it's now over, I can go back to living my life. Wasted a good 2 days of my life on this. I can never get it back.
Complete Disappointment August 21, 2008
This book was a complete disappointment. This was a disaster coming from an author that could have offered so much in the way of good clean literature. She sold out to the world and ended what could have been a great teenage audience series with the dirtiest book I have ever read. I will be getting rid of the entire series because I cannot have this kind of filthy literature in my house.
 A bit sloppy, but still an pretty good read. August 21, 2008
The first three books written by Mrs. Stephenie Meyer were very good - it told a fairly simple story of Bella, a human who fell in love with an extremely handsome vampire boy named Edward. It had dark humor, voilence and twists and turns that made the saga great. I was so stoked about the final book that I went straight to the midnight release party after I got off work. It took me about 27 hours to read (loosing much needed sleep since I had to work the next day) and I felt like there was something missing.
(Slight spoilers after this!)
Bella and Edward went from an engaged couple to a married couple to a couple unexpetedley expecting a baby in seven short chapters. Not that I minded a new Cullen in the family, it's just that I think it would've been intresting to see Bella going to college as a human for at least one year before she got pregnant.
Then there was the Jacob part of the book. I liked that. It was a refreshing change of pace from Bella's thoughts. Breaking away from the main pack and imprinting on little Renesmee was a pleasent surprise from 'the norm'.
The part I was dissapointed with was when the Volturi came to Washington. Bella and the rest of the Cullens were so worried about the visit to kill them that they had to gather up an army of witnesses ot prove that Renesmee wasn't an immortal child. All that planning worked up tension... and it all came to a big ol' flop. I was expecting a fight to ensue! Someone dying or something!
But I digress.
The real adorable part of the book was at the very end when Bella lets down her shield to let Edward hear all of her thoughts. That was so sweet that I got a little sniffly.
This book is a good read for the most part. It still has that good humor and suspense that I love. I think that if Mrs. Meyer's contract was good for two more books, then the ending would be much better. If you don't mind a little dissapointment, I would gladly recommend it.
 Stop Being So Stupid!!! August 21, 2008
To everyone who put a one or a two for the review, you need to shut up and get over yourselves!!!!!!! I'm not trying to spoil anything, but one of the main complaints is "It all worked out too well." That is the stupidest thing I have ever heard. WHAT'S WRONG WITH A HAPPY ENDING?!?!?!?!?!?!?! It's okay that everyone liked their new lives and will be happy in the future. I loved this book and this series and I think it seems stupid to complain that things ended too well. Although I loved the book, I do sort of agree that the ending with the Volturi was a little anti-climactic. But, even having said that, I loved this book and I think it is the first time that a book actually made start to tear up.
Review is long, but here are my reasons August 21, 2008
There is so much I would like to say that I don't think there is room for all of it. There will be spoilers, so this is my *SPOILER ALLERT* To be fair, I also want to say that I am new to the books so I did not have to wait in anticipation for the last book and I had not come up with any of my own plot ideas, character development, etc. for BD. I started reading these books in May of this year. I thought being that I am 31 that I was too old for the series. Guess I was wrong!
Okay, so here are my reasons for liking BD:
1. Pace - The pace was so different and refreshing for me. Because of the end of Eclipse, I did expect (and hope) that part of this book would be told from some different view points. I don't know if it is just me, but it seems in Twilight that the book started out at a normal pace because of the characters represented in the beginning. Since Bella is human, she lives at a human pace. Once you saw more of Edward, you began to be submerged in a more Vampire pace which was a continuous round making it very difficult to put down the book. Thus, Edward doesn't sleep, doesn't eat, or stop much at all, so the only time the pace really slowed was when Edward wasn't there or Bella was with Jacob, etc. Not a bad thing, but it did make it hard to figure out exactly where you could put the book down. I like to do that though. It gives me time to stop and reflect about what I just read. The second and third books seem to do that too. The pace of the books really depended on the characters involved. Since this book went back and forth from Bella and Jacob the pace and the different perspective gave the series new life for me and a different view of the characters than I had seen before. That brings up the next reason.
2. Characterization - I really loved the character development throughout the whole series, but especially this book. Seeing Edward only through Bella's eyes was fun, but made it hard for you to really delve into the depth I believe Edward's character really is and the character that lives in Stephenie's imagination. Throughout the series you see Edward becoming more human and more vampire too in my eyes. Stephenie explained how vampire's feelings are so intensified and so it explained to me why Edward was always so jealous, why he was so protective, why he loved Bella so much and how difficult it has been for him to try and deal with those feelings. Many people (myself at first too) were shocked when Edward told Jacob to provide children for Bella if that would save her. When I sat back and thought of how he must have felt at the thought of loosing Bella and at the thought that what was inside her had to be a monster, since that is how he thought of himself, it made more sense. How many of us have lost some one close to us that we loved and would have done anything at that moment to save them? I have. Sure these human characteristics make Edward less than perfect, but I embraced that character more than I had in any of the other books. I really liked how Jacob was forced to have confidence in himself and defend his own feelings and beliefs by becoming an Alpha. Finally accepting who he was. How cool was that?! Then to start to accept help from others instead of pushing them away, allowed his character to develop deeper levels of trust, friendship, and love. I also loved to read how he reacted to Rosalee and Alice and seeing Edward's reactions to his thoughts was quite entertaining too. The direction that much of the character development took didn't seem off to me much. I did wish that I could have gotten to know Esme more though. That was the one I missed seeing more of. Bella's character was fun too. I loved to see how she changed as the baby grew. I wasn't bothered by her age since Stephenie had already established that Bella was more mature in many ways than your average 18 or 19 year old (although many seem to argue this point). The plan she had made to save the baby I thought was very clever of her and I couldn't think too badly of Rose. I think Rose had always wanted to like Bella, but refused to because of jealousy like Edward said. Knowing that Bella was willing to give up her life to save her baby bonded them. Simple as that. Then to see that Bella was good at being a Vampire, well that didn't surprise me either. Stephenie always seemed to say how comfortable Bella was with them, how different her responses were to the unusual, how she could smell blood, and I particularly loved that Bella and Edward had talked about the fact that if there was an almighty creator, couldn't that creator had Vampires in mind too, so maybe Bella was created in a way that she was made for that life... just thoughts though. These are how I saw the characters develop. Everyone sees things a bit differently and that is my take.
3. Story Line - I loved the wedding in the beginning. Finally, I could be happy! I'm a sucker for weddings, what can I say. I loved how she did the Honeymoon too. It wasn't overboard for me. The pregnancy was great because I had hoped that would happen and had been arguing with my sister about it for a while. I never found anything saying that a Vampire couldn't get a human pregnant when I was looking at all the websites Q & A's so it was a fun turn of events. I'm still on the fence with the Jacob imprinting thing, but it didn't bother me much really. When I read books I'm not looking for a good message all the time though I'm just enjoying the story and I liked this one. I liked the way that new characters were introduced so that you didn't feel that the Cullens were completely isolated. I liked that the Volturi had to back off once they realized that they may not win, and I liked that Bella saved everyone in the end. Happy ending, yay!!!
My last comment is that I really disagree with people when they say that Bella didn't have to go through much or give up anything. I think she had to suffer a lot of pain with the first three books physically and emotionally. In this one she knew she would loose her family and friends, but still planned on becoming a vampire. Things changed yes, but she still can't be with her mother or her friends because of the changes in her physical appearance. Since her mother is her best friend, that is a lot to give up. She also had to suffer starvation and the fear that her child was starving too when she could do nothing about it, not to mention that just about everyone around her, especially the one she loved, wanted to kill her baby. Since this portion of the book was in Jacob's point of view, you don't know exactly what Bella was thinking or feeling. Could you imagine your spouse not caring about your child when you are pregnant? That must have been painful and having to take all of the pain that her baby caused during the pregnancy and the delivery was something to suffer from my view point. Then there was the actually changing into a vampire. Worse than burning to death... ouch! Yep, more pain and suffering there. I could go on, but in my opinion, I think she has suffered.
So, in the end, I didn't expect to like this book as much as I did, but I was pleasantly surprised. Way to go Stephenie!!
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