| Breaking Dawn (The Twilight Saga, Book 4) | 
 enlarge | Author: Stephenie Meyer
Publisher: Little, Brown Young Readers
Category: Book
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Avg. Customer Rating:  3528 reviews
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Media: Hardcover
Reading Level: Young Adult
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Pages: 768
Shipping Weight (lbs): 1.8
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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Amazon.com Review
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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 Sucker for happy endings December 2, 2008
I really enjoyed this book! I am a sucker for happy endings and Stephenie Meyer delivered just that. She tied up loose ends and gave everyone a happily ever after. I wouldn't have wanted anything less with such beloved characters. The story moved at a quick pace and kept me hooked until the last punctuation mark. Well done!!
 Wrong Way to End the Series December 1, 2008
Breaking Dawn is the final book in Bella's point of view, and I must say it didn't live up to it's expectations.
Edwards relationship with Bella was not as strong in the previous novels. I have to admit the wedding scene was great, well written. However after that it seems like their relationship just became about sex and was just kissing. In a way I was expecting this because what made the book series so great was the idea that he was madly in love with her but was faced with the challenge of wanting to kill her. Yet by her becoming a vampire, the thrill of that is gone. So, i don't like how their relationship lacked the spark it once had.
Breaking Dawn was full of many ideas and thoughts that simply weren't followed up on, for example Bella at one point decides she wants to stay human for a while and go to college, problems arise and it's not once mentioned again. There are other examples like this in the text. Stephenie Meyer could have excluded a lot of irrelevant details, that simply took away from the book and made it drag.
Mary sues killed the story. The book felt like I was reading a mediocre fan fiction. One that if I were reading off another site, I would've stopped reading. The whole pregnant situation is very common, she could have used that mary sue and make it her own, but she didn't.
The whole "battle" at the end was completely pointless. I don't get the point of setting up everything for nothing. I think Stephenie Meyer probably just wanted to add more characters for future novels, but I think that was a stupid thing to do. It made the ending weak.
As for Reneesme, I thought she was okay, if I were witting the book, I wouldn't have made Bella pregnant. Reneesme basically caused all the conflicts from the old book to disappear. It was an easy way out for Stepehie Meyer to keep from having to solve everything. For that reason, I didn't like her, or her silly name.
Would I ever recommend this book, no! It was a waste of my time. I love the Twilight series but this was a horrible ending to a good series.
The Best of the Twilight Saga December 1, 2008
I just finished 'Breaking Dawn' yesterday evening. I barely put it down for the 2 days I'd had it. I'm going to break this down, and try not to spoil too much for people considering reading it.
SPOILER
Here is how it goes. If you've read the first 3 books then you know that at the end of 'Eclipse' that it was from Jacob's perspective.
Well, 'Breaking Dawn' starts back in Bella's perspective then back to Jacob then back to Bella.
That's not a bad thing, it allows you to see things in a different light, things you may have missed, or may have not even seen if it weren't for the back and forth.
Mrs. Meyer kept with a lot of myths and legends from different cultures.
It is possible for vampires to father children with human females. You just don't see it often or at all in most of the other vampire films.
It's hard for me to describe this book, because I don't want to give anything away.
SO to sum it up. 'Breaking Dawn' is very intense, very well written and doesn't lack in any way. It's progressed from the first three books, and it's done so without forgetting anything. Enjoy! :)
Excellent December 1, 2008
1 out of 3 found this review helpful
I really enjoyed the book, the story line and the ending. I was incredibly sad when it was over and I had to face the fact that the series was finished - fingers crossed that there will be more B&E.
 Sigh... I don't want to dislike it but... December 1, 2008
3 out of 4 found this review helpful
There is no way this review can go on without major spoilers. So here is my warning.
I dont want to go so far as to say I LOVED reading the Twilight series. It was close enough. I really, really enjoyed them, but I knew they were far from perfect. Not even close, in fact. But they did have their degrees of entertainment.
Though flawed, the other 3 novels through away every Vampire cliche known to man. It irked my a bit, but I got over it, because I fell in love with the characters. Well, mostly with Edward Cullen. Therefore, I was most dissapointed in Breaking Dawn and what occured pretty much off the bat.
I can forgive the going out into the sun bit, and the sparkly skin, and everything else Stephenie Meyer has come up with. However, how can a pregancy between a human and a vampire-who should not even be able to carry sperm-be even remotely plausable? Unfortunately, I guess what was happening as soon as they got to their honeymoon. But I didn't want it to go there. It's just plain wrong. It almost seems too neat and tidy.
Alas, that is exactly what happened. And it happened at an alarmingly fast rate. Of course, proper drama was thrown in-the baby was slowly killing her, breaking her from the inside out, bla bla bla.
Jacob and Edward are suddenly best friends. The werewolfs want to attack and kill Bella and the unborn child. The evil vampire clan from Italy is coming to destroy them all... It was too much, and yet not enough. Jacob is still lusting after Bella, even though she is dying, Edward doesn't even care anymore, even going so far as to offer Jacob to Bella, and have lots and lots of little werewolf babies-if only Bella would give up the unborn fetus and stay alive. Sigh.
That is pretty much the bulk of the story until towards the end where this huge, massive battle is planned-but then nothing happens. Lots of talking, and evil intentions. But that's about it. And then it goes away. And everyone is fine and dandy again. The Cullen family is still together and strong and happy. And thats pretty much it! That's the end of the Twilight Series! Just like that..
Breaking Dawn did have its moments. When Bella was dying, I felt for Edward and Jacob. Though I kind of guessed at the outcome, it was a nail-biting kind of moment. There were others too. Jacob imprinting on Bella's baby. Again, almost too tidy, but it was a nice moment.
All in all, a slighlty dissapointing end to this interesting series, but not a total horror show either. I do get the hype, I just wish it had ended in a more unique sort of way, and not all dandy like it did.
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