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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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Avg. Customer Rating:  3472 reviews
Sales Rank: 7
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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 Slow Read, but overall- OK. November 21, 2008
2 out of 4 found this review helpful
I was late jumping on the "Twilight Saga" bandwagon, but over the summer I picked up Twilight and finished it in two days. The same with New Moon & Eclipse. But Breaking Dawn was sorta a slow-read. It just didn't have the same intensity as the first IMHO. Renesmee was a cute addition the the Cullen family, but like others I didn't really dig the whole imprinting thing on her. It wrapped up nicely though, but I did sort of wander if Bella would ever see Renee again..All in all I give it a 3/5
 Disgusting Excuse for a Novel! November 21, 2008
1 out of 16 found this review helpful
This is a horrible, sickening, and perverted novel that should be banned! Kids especially should never be allowed to read garbage like this! The demons must laugh uproariously to see people on this planet reading the stuff of nightmares and Satan's handiwork! Disgusting novels equals perverted read!
breaking down November 21, 2008
2 out of 4 found this review helpful
ive started getting my hopes up just after reading the first book twilight.. but it just started regressing towards the last book.. and all i can think of was i wanted to keep my sanity and find another good book to read to compensate for the wasted time i spent on this last book. "b-down" was dragged out a lot.. there was no actual plot until the last 1/4 of the book and when it finally came it just seemed flat, completely anti-climactic. it has more holes than i can count. i wish there were more vampire actions.. more fights.. maybe some sacrifices that will make the story more meaningful. a real battle shouldve happened that was anticipated from the beginning. but it was a good thing that everything ended well.. the happy ending was actually compelling, still edward and bella and nessie together after everything.
but still.. i was very very very disappointed er nauseated! whats with all the jacob imprinting on nessie part? that is sooooooo wrong in soooo many levels!!! it makes me and a whole lot of people i know who read the book really sick! okay it was said that the reason why this imprinting took place was coz bella always sees jacob as family.. but they're already bestfriends.. what more should be proven? sigh. jacob will always be a big part of bella's life. being very good friends means that they are and will always be a family and that is priceless. it means a lot. thats justifiable already. thats special enough. why does it seem that it was forced on this part that jacob still has to be imprinted on someone connected to bella? oh and edward calling jacob his son towards the last part of the book? (i just couldnt stomach it). i just hoped that jacob imprinted on leah instead considering the two developed chemistry in the story. and still jacob is the best uncle and he will be protecting nessie all the time. that will make more sense, and the wolves will continue to be stronger allies of the cullens. jacob doesnt have to wait till nessie turns 18 or 20 and know that they're more than friends. so his imprinting on the half-vampire daughter of his former love-of-his-life just to mean or forced he is still family- is truly unnecessary, it is so just not right. i cant and a lot of readers cant really stand it. i wish there was a poll about this imprinting lol.
and one last thing, something that is certainly essential that i couldnt get over with.. i hope the author showed here that edward and his daughter had more connection to each other.. more chemistry.. more bonding.. i hate the fact that the imprinting overshadowed this very important matter. please.. have mercy! huhuhu..
so if midnight sun will still be released, considering this is edward's point of view of twilight and onwards maybe, i hope it will be shown this time how close nessie and her dad is, important facts, details, how edward was longing to have a kid of his own and he thought it could never happen but it did.. how it is to be a biological vampire dad lol..how nessie feels about her dad too and him being very good friends with bella's bestfriend as well at last etc. and edward doesnt have to be jacob's father-in-law. i wish it was shown that jacob is finally at peace with himself towards edward in a way that it wasnt coz of the imprinting on his daughter and it doenst have to happen anyway to begin with. (it's difficult to accept it otherwise..)i know there are lots of things left unsaid.. so much to learn from edward's side. sigh.
so there, i hope it all goes well.. everyone, every couple, every coven, every pack, every alliance, every family,- WITHOUT THE IMPRINTING OF JACOB ON NESSIE- will be living their own lives but still be in harmony and close to each other if there really is a fifth book.
 I loved it, with some exceptions! November 19, 2008
3 out of 9 found this review helpful
Warning, contains Plot Spoilers. Let me first say I loved the entire series, although there were many frustrations with the story along the way. With Breaking Dawn, I don't have the complaints that a lot of other people had with it. I was glad to see Bella become a vampire, and I loved the ending, even though there was no battle at the end. I didn't find the lack of a battle to be anticlimactic. I did wish there had been more time spent on Edward and Bella being together at the end along with Renesmee, but then I always want more time between the main romantic characters at the end of the story, especially when the story and the characters are so likable and interesting as Edward and Bella were.
My problem with BD was how the author dealt with Bella's pregnancy. Her pregnancy is one of the major story lines running through BD. But instead of doing it from Bella's perspective, or even Edward's(who is after all the main male character), she chose to do it from Jacob's perspective. All we get to see of Edward and Bella dealing with this event is through Jacob's eyes. Her reason was that she tried to do it from Bella's perspective with her on the couch the entire time and it came across as very boring.
I think it could have been done in such a way as to make it interesting from Bella's perspective. She even could have done it from Edwards perspective. I fact, I would've like to have read it from his perspective. Although I know it's only because it's only because he tried to take Bella away from Edward, otherwise finding him a likable character, I found Jacob to be very irritating.
It's like she's just getting the story started and she has to break away from Bella and Edward to tell more of Jacob's story, which I did find interesting but it just seemed to take away from Bella and Edward's story.
Even writing it from Jacob's perspective wouldn't have been so bad, if she had included a more of Bella and Edward in it. The biggest fault I have with it; I agree with Bella's decision to have the baby and to keep Edward and the others from getting rid of it. I understand that she loved the baby because it was Edward's and that she wanted to keep it. But we never get to see Bella try to make Edward understand why she wants to keep the baby even at the cost of her life. She never trys to explain it to him, at least that we are made aware of. It's like she just ignores Edward and the pain we see him go through as he watches her slowly waste away.
In spite of this though, I still found it to be a very entertaining read and a very satisfactory ending to the saga.
Meyer's legions of fans are likely to debate, discuss and dissect BREAKING DAWN for months to come November 19, 2008
6 out of 19 found this review helpful
At some point, writing reviews of certain bestselling series seems like a superfluous endeavor. When thousands, if not millions, of readers are going to pick up the next installment regardless of its praiseworthiness or potential weaknesses, we reviewers feel even more irrelevant than we do otherwise. Penning reviews of the later Harry Potter books certainly felt like that. Stephenie Meyer's Twilight Saga, a publishing juggernaut soon to be made into a series of feature films, also, I would argue, has landed firmly in this category. I've reviewed all four novels for [...], and I've watched as a series that started out as an unusual debut vampire romance took on a life of its own. So this review is, in all likelihood, completely unnecessary --- but since the review has the potential to live online nearly as long as the immortal Cullen family, here goes.
Bella Swan is ecstatic --- and nervous. She's on the brink of marrying the love of her life, the charismatic, devastatingly handsome vampire Edward Cullen. Bella's parents have reluctantly come around to the idea of their teenaged daughter getting married. And the Cullens, particularly Bella's good friend Alice, who plans the event, couldn't be happier. Only Bella's old pal Jacob is upset at losing Bella.
The wedding goes off smoothly and beautifully, and Edward and Bella spend a magical honeymoon on a private island. There, they are finally able to indulge the desire they've always felt for each other (even if their lovemaking initially results in injuries both to Bella and their room, thanks to Edward's uncontrollable passion). When Bella begins to be alternately sick and ravenous, she becomes suspicious that --- despite everything she's been told about the impossibility of such a thing --- she might be pregnant with Edward's child. Terrified that she could lose her life to the ravenous, vampiric unborn child inside her, pressured by Edward and others to rid herself of the baby, Bella retreats into herself, concerned only with protecting her unborn child, even if it means harm to herself.
As for Jacob (who narrates the middle part of the novel), he tries in vain to imprint on other females, but he cannot forget Bella, especially when he learns of her perilous pregnancy and physical condition. When Bella and Edward's daughter is born, is it possible that this half-human, half-vampire can unite the Cullens and Jacob's shape-shifting La Push clan? Could she be the catalyst for Jacob and Edward's reconciliation? Or does her very existence --- particularly once word of her birth reaches the dangerous Voltari vampire clan --- put everything Bella loves at risk?
It was perhaps inevitable that Stephenie Meyer would disappoint some with this final installment. Readers --- who have lined up for hours for author appearances, pushed the series onto bestseller lists, and created thriving online communities devoted to the book --- obviously take the novels, and these characters, seriously indeed. Certain elements of BREAKING DAWN are perplexing, even off-putting --- particularly the scenes of sex, pregnancy and childbirth.
But it's nearly impossible to please everyone --- especially when so much of the series' drama has relied on the tension of Bella's choice between two very different but desirable lovers. Readers who are able, eventually, to gain some perspective will find much to redeem BREAKING DAWN, particularly its new insights into Jacob's inner life as well as its neat resolution to several of the series' pressing conflicts and its realistic (or at least as realistic as a vampire romance can get) portrayal of the complexities and joys of married life.
Meyer's legions of fans are likely to debate, discuss and dissect BREAKING DAWN for months to come --- at least until the film version of TWILIGHT comes out on November 21st, when they'll have a whole new set of creative decisions to consider and critique.
--- Reviewed by Norah Piehl
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