| Breaking Dawn (The Twilight Saga, Book 4) | 
 enlarge | Author: Stephenie Meyer
Publisher: Little, Brown Young Readers
Category: Book
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Media: Hardcover
Reading Level: Young Adult
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Pages: 768
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Dimensions (in): 8.3 x 5.5 x 2.5
ISBN: 031606792X
EAN: 9780316067928
ASIN: 031606792X
Publication Date: August 2, 2008
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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
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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 Slightly dazed and baffled but glad......I finished the series December 3, 2008
Okay so here's my spoiler free review. I went and saw the movie and immediately afterwards, I ran out and bought the first book Twilight. I'm so glad I did. Meyer's writing is captivating and the book was a page turner. Less than a week later, I had managed to read all four. In Breaking Dawn there were twists and turns and ups and downs all the way through. Moments that made me scratch my head and grit my teeth but I hung in there like a faithful fan should. I felt I owed it to myself and to Stephanie Meyer who has given me the most delightful and thrilling reading experience that I've had in a long time probably ever. The first three novels thrilled me and touched me in such a way that I almost felt that I could just forgive a disjointed ride through a fourth.
I will tell you as a thirty-something teacher that I want to encourage parents to consider reading it through before you let your pre-teens and young teens read it because it is a departure from the first three books in terms of introducing some adult themes and content. In defense of Meyers, I think she handles these themes with a huge amount of decorum and sensitivity for her teenaged readers. In any case, judge for yourself if it is appropriate for them to read or if it may require some discussion. Sorry, that's just the high school teacher in me.
I'm already zipping through the first three books again. Another first for me but I honestly have to tell you that I don't plan to read Breaking Dawn again any time soon even though I'm so glad that I did. If the early books have done anything similiar for you, go ahead and commit to the fourth and make your own judgements. I promise you at the end of the day you will feel some sense of closure and exhilaration at having experienced such a surreal and inspiring love story that is already cherished by so many people worldwide.
 Best Book in Twilight Series December 3, 2008
0 out of 1 found this review helpful
This book was my favorite out of the Twilight Series. I loved the others, but I could not put this one down. I wish they'd make a movie out of it, although it'd have to be 3 hours long and difficult to make.
I am not able to get this book out of my head... it was definitly the best book I've ever read.
 Disappointed December 2, 2008
2 out of 2 found this review helpful
The first few chapters were great. The wedding was beautiful, the honeymoon, all that, wonderful and you could feel the intense love between Edward and Bella again. But after that...pft...gone, all gone.
I was REALLY disappointed that she got pregnant. I got hooked on this series because of Twilight, because of the intense, albeit forbidden, love between Bella and Edward. The internal struggle that Edward faced everyday just to be near her. Wanting to be with her so badly, but the intense fear that his love may end up costing her her life. In BD we see Bella become TOTALLY entranced with becoming a mother, and then protecting that baby. I completely understand this as a mother myself....but this wasn't what I was hoping for. I wanted the same, love and passion as Twilight, ending with a marriage and all that comes with that.....that is how it should have ENDED. The baby totally screwed everything up for me. I didn't even mind Bella becoming a vampire early on. It really bothered me that the Edward and Bella relationship was TOTALLY left out of this novel after the honeymoon. It made me so sad. I am glad there was a happy ending, but I needed more Edward/Bella. I was also not happy with how Meyer changed Edwards character from the first 2 novels. She made him so self sacrificing and such a "goody goody", which is not all bad, but he is a VAMPIRE, and they are innately selfish creatures. Now, we saw from the beginning that Edward was not your typical vampire, capable of love and sacrifice, which is great and some of the reasons I loved him so much. But there WAS an element of selfishness to him (as he admitted in the first novel) because he could not stay away from Bella. I just hate that she changed him, he was perfect in Twilight. Maybe I need to read BD again to wrap my mind around it, but at this point, I am just disappointed....
Breaking Dawn by Stephanie Meyer December 2, 2008
0 out of 5 found this review helpful
In her fourth book Stephanie Meyer continues to bring her writing
skills to higher levels using a rich variety of similes. She is a master
of making language flow. Each of her books captivates the reader
with her gift for language and how she handles the characters emotions.
She's a gifted writer.
I've even read her adult book "The Host" and she carries her use of
language to a high level it it as well.
Come on people.... December 2, 2008
1 out of 6 found this review helpful
**WARNING** Contains spoilers!
Having just finished Breaking Dawn and actually feeling sad that the Twilight series is over, I was shocked to read such negative reviews here! This should all go without saying here but....this is not real! This is make-believe...fantasy! Edward can have sperm and Bella could conceive and give birth in 45 minutes if that is what the author writes! Really people... I can't believe that you have given negative reviews to a wonderful book based on the believability factor of a series about vampires and shape-shifters! What a disservice that is! But in keeping with the spirit, I would like to point out a few things. As far as Jacob imprinting on the baby...it was explained earlier on when, I believe it was Paul, imprinted on Claire, who is 2 or so. When the object of ones imprinting is a child, there is no sexual or romantic nature to it whatsoever. It is brotherly love at it's finest. The author went to great lengths to make that very clear from the beginning! As far as Edward...if he was a mature male at the time he was changed, then it makes sense that he would have sperm. Female vampires cannot bear children because a woman's body must be able to change to accommodate a pregnancy - once a female has been changed, her body stays frozen in time - thus no pregnancy. As far as how fast Bella's pregnancy was....again...up to the author. Being a mom, I can tell you that 9 months is a lot longer than non-parents think it is! Anyways.....as I said, I think that the negative reviews have done a great disservice to the Twilight series and I hope that future readers take into consideration the reasons behind the bad reviews - that the complaints do not make sense unless you actually believe that any of this can really happen. All in all, a wonderful series that I am already truly missing. If you are thinking about reading these books, do yourself a favor and just do it! You won't regret it! :)
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