Breaking Dawn (The Twilight Saga, Book 4)
by Stephenie Meyer
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Author: Stephenie MeyerEdition: Hardcover
Audio: English (Unknown); English (Published)
Published: 2008-08-02
ISBN: 031606792X
Number of pages: 768
Reading Level: Young Adult
Publisher: Little, Brown Young Readers
Book Reviews of Breaking Dawn (The Twilight Saga, Book 4)
Book Review: What's with all the hate?
Summary: 4 Stars
I don't understand why so many people continue to say the last book sucks. Of course, the first three were beyond brilliant. While the fourth wasn't as good, it was still amazing.
The only two problems I had was a)the beginning. It was a little harder to get into than the others. It was....off, I guess you could say. And b)I know, given Bella's condition during the second half, that we'd need to know what was going on somehow, but it was weird that stephenie just now decided to write in a different perspective. (Yes, I know, at the end of the third book she did, but you know what I'm getting at.)
And as all the reviews keep mentioning, everyone gets what they want in the end. But I think when closing up on a saga, some things such as that are kind of expected. Who doesn't love a happy ending? =]
Overall, this book was great. Not perfect, but still great. Any die-hard Twilight fan will appreciate it.
Summary of Breaking Dawn (The Twilight Saga, Book 4)
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.
Great love stories thrive on sacrifice. Throughout The Twilight Saga (Twilight, New Moon, and Eclipse), Stephenie Meyer has emulated great love stories--Romeo and Juliet, Wuthering Heights--with the fated, yet perpetually doomed love of Bella (the human girl) and Edward (the vampire who feeds on animals instead of humans). In Breaking Dawn, the fourth and final installment in the series, Bella's story plays out in some unexpected ways. The ongoing conflicts that made this series so compelling--a human girl in love with a vampire, a werewolf in love with a human girl, the generations-long feud between werewolves and vampires--resolve pretty quickly, apparently so that Meyer could focus on Bella's latest opportunity for self-sacrifice: giving her life for someone she loves even more than Edward. How close she comes to actually making that sacrifice is questionable, which is a big shift from the earlier books. Even though you knew Bella would make it through somehow, the threats to her life, and to her relationship with Edward, had previously always felt real. It's as if Meyer was afraid of hurting her characters too much, which is unfortunate, because the pain Bella suffered at losing Edward in New Moon, and the pain Jacob suffered at losing Bella again and again, are the fire and the heart that drive the whole series. Diehard fans will stick with Bella, Edward, and Jacob for as many twists and turns as possible, but after most of the characters get what they want with little sacrifice, some readers may have a harder time caring what happens next. (Ages 12 and up) --Heidi Broadhead
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