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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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 Breaking Dawn by Stephanie Meyer December 2, 2008
0 out of 2 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 3 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! :)
 Huge Disappointment!!! December 2, 2008
2 out of 3 found this review helpful
I hated this book. It was hard for me to swallow that Bella got pregnant(so fast???) and Jacob made a claim on the baby to be his mate. (sick! he can't have bella so he going to be with her daughter?)To me there was never a love triangle. The author tried but we all knew about the love Bella and Edward shared. I am shocked and what a let down. My last book in my mind is Eclipse. I think that there is a reason that the actors only signed on for the next two movies. And in these next two movies they better have a lot of onscreen time with Edward because the draw is not Jacob --not even Bella. It is Rob Pattinson playing Edward. This should all be interesting. I hope the movies make up for my huge disappointment--after seeing twilight, i am a little doubtful but I have hope ---hope that with a little more money they can do it right!!--- with out making the audience laugh(bad visual effects in twilight.) It's funny hearing the author say that she knew the ending when she was writing twilight. It is hard for me to imagine why she ever wanted Bella pregnant. There were so many better options then a baby getting ripped from her mother by her husbands teeth--it does not flow with the other three!! It does not make sense!! Is this the same author?????
 Not the best of the series, but still satisfying December 2, 2008
1 out of 2 found this review helpful
"Breaking Dawn", the fourth and final installment of Stephenie Meyer's "Twilight" saga, follows the story of 18 year old Bella Swan through her uncovnentional journey into newlywed life and motherhood with her gorgeous husband, Edward Cullen, who just happens to be a vampire. In this volume we rediscover Edward and Bella's epic romance which was first told from Bella's perspective in "Twilight"; then in "New Moon", and again in "Eclipse." "Breaking Dawn" however, which is divided into three books over its 754 pages, is told from two different points of view. The first and third books are told in the familiar voice of Bella, but in the second book we see the small town of Forks Washington through the eyes of a bratty teenage werewolf named Jacob Black. Jacob is Bella's best friend who just happens to be harboring an all-consuming love for her.
The story begins shortly before Edward and Bella's wedding day. Edward and Bella have an old-fashioned wedding before their friends and family, vampire and human alike. The happy couple then jets off to a private island for a picturesque honeymoon, where Edward makes good on his promise to make love to her before changing her into a vampire. Everything seems to be perfect, until Bella learns she's pregnant, something believed impossible and dangerous for a vampire and human.
The story is then told from Jacob Black's perspective. Through his telling we hear the minds of the rest of his werewolf pack as well as his own. Through Jacob's eyes we also watch Bella essentially give up her life to have a baby who is already stronger than she, while still in the womb. Jacob is disgusted by this and because of that the reader is too. Despite his objections, Jacob is still drawn to Bella and stays with her through most of the process, even though she is surrounded by his mortal enemies -- vampires.
Bella has her baby in nothing less than gruesome fashion, with dramatic scenes of her baby ripping open her stomach. In the process of birth, Edward is forced to change Bella into a vampire in order to save her life. The third book, told by Bella, starts with her painful transformation from human to vampire and follows the relationship between her and her half-vampire, half- human daughter, Renesmee. The book ends with vampires and werewolves joining forces to fight for Renesmee's life against the Volturi, a brutal group of Vampires who uphold the laws of their kind.
This installment is quite a departure from the rest of the "Twilight" saga. The previous three novels focused on the head over heels romance between the plain human and the dazzling vampire. "Breaking Dawn" is harder to identify with, much darker and at some points just plain bizarre. In the first three novels Bella was a normal clumsy girl but in "Breaking Dawn," when she becomes a perfect vampire, it is harder for the reader to connect with her character.
While this may not be Stephenie Meyer at her best, "Breaking Dawn" is still well worth reading. Her polished use of language in depicting many situations from the steamy romantic to the horrifyingly gruesome will still have teenage readers ripping through the pages.
Quill says: Although it is flawed, "Breaking Dawn" will leave you satisfied and smiling at its finish.
Great Ending to a Mesmerizing Series December 2, 2008
0 out of 1 found this review helpful
I'm a Twilight newcomer. I was initially hesitant to read the books because I figured that they were probably just trashy teen vampire novels like the ones I was into back in high school. After several friends in their 30s insisted that I read the books, I picked them up...and couldn't put them down. All four of these books are some of the most mesmerizing books I've ever read. The Twilight Saga is one of those rare series that envelops you in the world that the author has created and haunts you for days after reading them. Actually, I must admit that I've become embarrassingly obsessed with them. My husband is beginning to suspect that I'm insane. It's just impossible NOT to become obsessed with these books, though. Meyer has a rare gift. I'm quite jealous of it - I wish that I could create such a powerful world full of characters that seem so absolutely real, regardless of the improbability that such beings might exist.
On to the book at hand. I have to say that I am very disappointed about the negative feedback that this book has received. When I began reading Breaking Dawn, my initial reaction early on was, "No...No...What's going on here? I don't like the direction that this is headed." Yet the further on I read, the more I realized that this book was the perfect resolution to the Twilight Saga. After a second reading of the series, I was absolutely convinced that this was true. Breaking Dawn pulls together all of the uncomfortable hanging threads that arose throughout the other three books and weaves them together into a perfect ending. In fact, upon a second reading I realized that everything was heading this way from the very beginning, and that there was no other way that it could end.
Meyer's writing improves with each offering, so Breaking Dawn is definitely the most well-written of the saga. The prose is excellent, and just like the others before it, the book sucked me in and immersed me in Bella's world. This book is quite a roller coaster ride, so I went from feeling elated, to uncomfortable, to depressed, and so on. The moods in this book are in a delicately balanced, constant flux, which Meyer handles excellently.
Bottom line: Read this book. Ignore the negative feedback. This is how the saga should end. The book is riveting and well-written. It left me clamoring for more stories about the Cullen family. I hope that Meyer chooses to continue writing about them. I'm desperately curious about where the future takes them.
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