Breaking Dawn (The Twilight Saga, Book 4)
by Stephenie Meyer
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Author: Stephenie MeyerBrand: Little, Brown Books for Young Readers
Reader: Ilyana Kadushin
Reader: Matt Walters
Edition: Music CD
Audio: English (Unknown); English (Original Language); English (Published)
Format: Audiobook, Unabridged
Published: 2008-08-02
ISBN: 0739367676
Publisher: Listening Library (Audio)
Book Reviews of Breaking Dawn (The Twilight Saga, Book 4)
Book Review: Excellent Read!
Summary: 5 Stars
I really enjoyed this book - and was surprised from the beginning right to the end. I felt the pain through the pages as Bella experienced them.
In response to the 1 star reviews with anti child expressions - I had a child at 18. I never babysat and never wanted to be a parent - so my husband and I were not excited when the first signs of pregnancy hit. However, I too felt this love grow for this strange little thing inside me - and it was tied to the great love I felt for my husband and father of this child. The first kick was when I knew there was life - it was amazing. I get it.
Bella chose Rose as an ally because she knew Rose would be more concerned for the child, everyone else would have taken action to protect her first. Bella is smart - and intuitive - she knew exactly what she needed to do to save her child and if Rose was cold and non-caring towards her - then perfect. I loved how caring Edward was to Bella - and through it all, that he would sacrifice everything to save her. His pleading and planning with Jacob was painful to go through - and I had less respect for Jacob that he could keep his less than noble feelings and thoughts for Bella even in these circumstances.
Bella went to deaths door for this child - and I was impressed at the brilliance of Edward for being prepared with the venom to her heart to bring her into the only life that would preserve her. Carlisle expressed my feelings well in his pride for his son.
Bella wasn't typical for a newborn - but she was never typical as a human. She matured in this book - and going through the extreme pregnancy experience would do this. It was also interesting to me that the strong connection she had to Jacob - left her once the child was born. It was as if the bond was only there for this purpose. However, her love for Edward was strengthened with the change - and that strong desire for him did not leave her when she left her human - it was even better. Maybe this was another gift - her love for Edward stronger than her lust for blood. I found it beautiful.
Aro needed exactly the gift that Bella had - to put his opponents on a level playing field. He was the bully and surrounded himself with cruel vampire people. He sought powerful evil gifts for his court - Carlisle attracted good.
Moreover, even though I did not like the name Renesmee - I loved the child. Edward and Bella were never typical in any way - and it is fitting that they should be blessed with this extreme gift of this child. Nothing I imagined would have been better than what was written.
Summary of Breaking Dawn (The Twilight Saga, Book 4)
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, she has endured a tumultuous year of temptation , loss, and strife to reach the ultimate turning point. Her imminent choice to either join the dark but seductive world of immortals or pursue a fully human life has become the thread from which the date of two tribes hangs.Now 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.
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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