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Breaking Dawn (Twilight Saga) | 
 enlarge | Author: Stephenie Meyer
Publisher: ATOM
Category: Book
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Rating:  105 reviews
Sales Rank: 5
Media: Hardcover
Pages: 768
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Dimensions (in): 8.6 x 5.8 x 2.4
ISBN: 1905654286
EAN: 9781905654284
ASIN: 1905654286
Publication Date: August 4, 2008 (New: Last 30 Days)
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Breaking Dawn - Excellent August 21, 2008
R. Plume
I thought this book was brilliant. I have followed the Saga from the beginning, and I don't completely agree with what many opinions and what the critics have written: Bella is changing - all the characters are changing. The first book was undoubtably the best, but the characters have to alter, for progressions' sake.
Bella alters most of all in this novel: She has sex, and becomes pregnant, and gives birth, then dies: then is reborn. I thought the whole of her continual transformation was cleverly written and befitting. I especially found Jacob's narrative very, very poignant. When he imprints on Bella's daughter, I found that to be an incredibly beautiful piece of prose. The moving relationship between Bella, Edward and Jacob is not diminshed to be, but heightened, through the interconnected way they are bound by love and loyalty to the other.
There are flaws of course: Alice is a character that has always irritated me, and she proves no better in this one, the pansy. And the dynamics between Rosalie and Bella weren't very encouraging, and to some degree, I found Rosalie quite heartless. Billy Black you don't even see once. Nor do you explore in much detail Sam Uley and Jacob's difference of opinions.
THIS IS A BRILLIANT BOOK. I AM IMPRESSED AND WOULD RECOMMEND THE SAGA TO ANYONE WHO WISHES A GOOD READ. MS MEYER DOES THE INCREDIBLE: SHE INVENTS AN ENTIRE HISTORY. SHE'S A FANTASTIC STORYTELLER.
Conclusion to an enthralling and simple fairy tale August 21, 2008
Kaylee Godfrey (England)
1 out of 1 found this review helpful
I wish I could say that I am surprised with the level of hatred some reviewers are giving Breaking Dawn, but I am a cynical person and therefore thought this book was going to promote strong reaction no matter what the ending.
You can't please everyone, so there will always be extremists on both sides of an argument.
I was introduced to the Twilight series only a few months ago and read the first three books in a month. I had one month to wait for the final instalment, so reread the books (several times with Twilight) and became a member of various forums to theorise about how it was all going to end.
I was one of those fanatics who dreamt the ending and wrote my own version in my head several times. I had high expectations and I did not want to be disappointed.
Then, the week before it was to be released, I heard the rumour that Bella gets pregnant to Edward and Jacob imprints on their child. What the? This was so far out of the box, so left field, that I was angry and felt betrayed.
As a 30-yr-old `career woman', I had never been blown away by Stephenie Meyer's purple prose writing style but the story and its characters drew you in so much that they became `real' to you.
I had five days to mull over the shocking fact of the baby and then sat down the day Breaking Dawn was released and read it non-stop.
The honeymoon is pretty much what Twilight fans were expecting, full of fluffy romance and fade-to-black sex scenes.
After three books and a predictable (but enjoyable) plot how does an author surprise her millions of readers? Well a half breed baby of course!
Even though I have read the book twice now (and will probably read it again soon before I put it away for good on my bookshelf), I still don't like Renesmee (the baby) but I have made peace with it now.
The second book told in Jacob's perspective was genius. I never really liked him as a character, and the werewolves couldn't compare with the Cullens, but seeing Bella through his eyes and her pregnancy was insightful and added humour to a very dark park of the story.
The childbirth scene was positively gruesome but enthralling - I have re-read that chapter many times. The imprint was so obvious to me that I didn't mind it in the slightest. An easy way to wrap up that loose end.
Bella as a vampire was great. This is what the readers had been waiting for! I know lots of critics said that her essence was lost and they couldn't relate to her anymore, but I read lots of stories where I don't relate to the characters but still thoroughly enjoy the books.
Bella, as the perfect vampire, was more mature, independent and strong. She became Edward's partner and not the weak, clingy damsel in distress she was in the past three books.
The anti-climax was slightly disappointing but readers still got to see Bella's powers in action and Renesmee's future resolved.
I loved the neat bow at the end of the novel - it wrapped everything up and I liked the thought of Bella and Edward living happily ever after ("I will love you forever - every day of forever" - sic). It concluded the series so completely for me that I stopped visiting the forums and now no longer live and breath for the series.
People should take the series for what it is, a teenage vampire romance with good old-fashioned morals woven in to this enthralling and simple fairy tale.
 A sprint towards 'happily ever after' August 21, 2008
Chuz (London)
0 out of 1 found this review helpful
Despite having never read a vampire / teen romance before, I really enjoyed the first three novels in the Twilight Saga. Like thousands of people I couldn't wait for the last instalment and, despite several bad reviews, I just had to read it.
I kind of wish I hadn't.
My main complaint is that the storyline becomes a little ridiculous, and all traces of teen-romance vanish - we know that Edward and Bella belong together and will never part by now. Of course the characters are going to change a little, but I could find no sympathy for any of them, who turn into cardboard cut-outs; the energy dies after a few chapters and they all plod along after that (apart from Bella who, whilst pregnant, is frankly insane).
A large part of the book deals with Bella's pregnancy and her transformation to her vampire state, but even that didn't work out as I had hoped - amazingly, and very conveniently, she bypasses all of the problems that most newborns have, leaving her nicely in the middle of a happy vampire family with powers that can keep them all safe.
Edward seems like a middle-aged man (well, I guess he is over a hundred years old), and the way he perpetually calls Bella 'love' make it sound as though they've been married for years and it's already getting a bit stale. (Sorry, I'm picking now.)
There's no doubting that this novel is very brave. The language does, for a while, get quite graphic, which makes a change, but at the same time it's too melodramatic ("And then she vomited a fountain of blood" made me cringe). Renesmee, Bella's child, is just too embarrassingly cute and perfect.
The foray into Jacob's head was interesting and it was nice to see things from his point of view - one thing that went well. Rosalie's sinister behaviour was also interesting for a while, but after her role has been played she fades out of the picture and it never really resolves itself.
Overall the characters are a bit flat, things crawl along with ever-decreasing logic, and the showdown with the Volturi is less a showdown than a brief conversation in which you just know everything is going to work out. It's certainly a happy ending, but almost soppily so. I feel that Meyer was so eager for a lovely resolution that she just churned the words out whilst defying all common sense.
Despite my complaints, well done anyway to the author - it takes a lot to keep me hooked through three books, but I feel that this series has come to its natural end, and if I can ignore the last one it will be the perfect trilogy.
 Quite Fun *Spoilers* August 20, 2008
L. Hegarty (Sussex, UK)
Sometimes, in an 'epic saga', death is good.
I'm just throwing that out there because, really, just Irina? Really?
Aside from Meyer's reluctance to off anyone we give even the tiniest little anything about, I have no real qualms with this finale. Good prose, some good humour. My slight disappointment stems from the fact that I usually end a book with a that-was-one-of-the-best-books-I-ever-read glow, lasting for days, weeks or months (or even ten years and counting in some cases). The sort of nearly-there, close-to-a-'huh' I got from Breaking Dawn lasted about half of Tuesday. I completely agree that the already-too-vapid character of Bella was utterly drained halfway through the book; this made a (presumably unintentional) perk of having a substantial portion of the book narrated by a far more charismatic protagonist.
It was a pretty good ride while it lasted (although anyone with a weak stomach or plans to have kids in the near future: be warned); a good day's entertainent. However, in the spirit of absurd, take-credit-for-other-people's-work patriotism, 'America's answer to J. K. Rowling' left me feeling pretty smug.
Enjoyable enough but not riveting stuff. August 20, 2008
Bookish (London, England)
POSSIBLE SPOILERS!!!
I stumbled upon the Twilight Saga a week ago and to be honest I would describe myself at best, a lukewarm fan. The biggest problem was the plot and the character development - there were times when it seemed that the author was stuck in a rut. I never really cared for Bella or Edward because of their lack of depth, my favourite was always Jacob and I loved Jacob's Book but I was quite disappointed with the final outcome of that problem. Everything in the last book seemed a little too perfect for my liking and I am quite a stickler for happy endings, even bittersweet ones. The bloodbath that I was expecting in the fight against the Volturi never came and the fact that it remained unresolved somewhat annoyed me.
However, I did give it three stars because it was an enjoyable series and Stephenie Meyer did rejuvenate the vampire genre in a way that was original, so I have to give her some credit for that. But having said that, it isn't one of those books that I will go back to time and time again.
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