Breaking Dawn (The Twilight Saga, Book 4)
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 | Product Details: Hardcover 768 pages Release Date: 02 August 2008 Publisher: Little, Brown Young Readers ISBN: 031606792X Rating:   Sales Rank: 2 | | Look for similar books by subject: | | Customers who bought this item also bought:
| | Customer Reviews: So this is what all the hype is about? (05 December 2008)I know I shouldn't have read the last one first, but my niece had a copy. Seriously, how can an adult create such drivel? At least Anne Rice really worked the passion, this seems to be trying to shock but not quite succeeding. Forbidden Love? What About Forbidden Conflict? (04 December 2008)The only time Bella really suffered was when Edward left in New Moon and during the birth scene. I admit that I only read mostly 2 out of the 3 parts of Breaking Dawn but I know everything that happens. However the book is awful. I have the same problems that all of the negative reviewers have, but I have a problem with something else also. The whole series is a dud. Nothing really happens. No one suffers (besides the two exceptions that I noted above). Every book follows the same pattern. 9/10ths of the book is eye candy and infaturation between Bella and Edward. During this, the story builds up to villain confrontation. Then the "Epic" battle scene takes place and lasts for only a few pages. It felt like Meyer swinging the baseball bat to strike a homerun but it ends with a bunt. After 500 pages, villains and heros take each other on, but it ends quickly. Meyer seems to only introduce her villains near the end rather the beggining. If she did introduce them in the beggining, there would be more struggle in the story and will keep the reader totaly hooked. Ex) "OH my gosh will the Human Torch prevent Dr. Doom from destroying the world?!" Have you ever been addicted like that to a tv show, movie, or book before? Probably. Have ever felt like that with Meyer's books? Did you ever feel an adrenaline rush and your own heart racing while watching a car chase scene? Did you ANYWHERE in Meyer's books? Did you feel and share the same feelings of victoy and suffering with characters like Bella or Charlisle? Most people don't in Meyer's stories. Meyer loves her characters too much to let anything exciting or dangerous happen to them. I'll give you an example. Edward constantly says to Bella that he can't be with Bella because that he is a "Vampire" and that he might try to suck her blood. This NEVER happens in the whole series. What if Edward really did attack Bella or even her father Charlie? This would have created so much healthy conflict for the story and would really improve the plot. The fact is that readers can't trust Meyer. It would hook them if Meyer actually proves that Bella and her loved ones are in fatal danger from her relationship with Edward. This would help the Twilght series live up to the title of " Forbidden Love". Fluff and mistakes (04 December 2008)I gave the book two stars because the author knows how to write and how to entice a young audience by using "Romeo and Juliet" for her outline, but other than that, the series is all fluff and doesn't even include accurate information. For instance, who ever heard of an elk bull (not buck--that's deer) with two dozen points (and they're tines, not antlers)? Unbelievable! Someone needs to do a bit of research before they write stuff like that. Since it's a fantasy romance series, it really doesn't matter whether or not an imaginary vampire can impregnate the main character, etc., but at least the author should get real facts straight. Other than that, everything in the story is predictable, the main character is so stupid, whiny and fragile that you want to slap her, and like other people mentioned, there's really no appeal to her whatsoever, so why would the other characters in the story find her so alluring? I hope teenage girls are smarter than this and don't look to this character as a hero. The sad thing is that teenagers will infer from the book that people are liked because of their looks and not because they are of strong character or because they can communicate effectively with others. The lack of communication within relationships in the story was quite disturbing, but apparently that's why romances sell so well. I Echo The Read it for Yourself Crowd (04 December 2008)I made the mistake of reading a lot of the reviews of this novel before it finally arrived in the mail. The conclusion I've come to is this: If you are fully engrossed in this saga, then Breaking Dawn will be a book you'll really enjoy. If you are of the mindset who read the stories in this series very critically and you are looking for things wrong, then that is all you will find. I enjoyed this read. I liked the changes in the characters and the atmosphere. Meyer's writing was much tighter too. Even the ending wasn't as poorly done as so many have alluded to. My only wish is that the book didn't end. There is so much potential for more stories here and I hope Meyer will continue forward in that regard. So ignore the bad reviews here and give this one a chance. I think you'll be pleasantly surprised. I know I was. Perfect Ending... (04 December 2008)This is the best series I have ever read, and I can say that having lived through nearly all 4 sagas myself, I have come to appreciate Stephenie's compassion for her characters through writing. Breaking Dawn encompasses the Love that was chosen from book 3, and committing to it. There is an endless array of emotions in this book, and I feel the older audience (or younger adults in their early 20s such as myself) would appreciate it a greater deal than the younger readers would. Overall, the delicate details of this book is highly impressive, and I suggest you read it yourself before going with all the naysayers who honestly, may not have reached that stage in their life to appreciate the completeness of this last book. | |
