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Breaking Dawn (The Twilight Saga, Book 4) | 
| Author: Stephenie Meyer
Publisher: Little, Brown Young Readers
Category: Book
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Avg. Customer Rating:  3013 reviews
Sales Rank: 4
Media: Hardcover
Reading Level: Young Adult
Number Of Items: 1
Pages: 768
Shipping Weight (lbs): 1.7
Dimensions (in): 8.4 x 5.5 x 2.3
ISBN: 031606792X
EAN: 9780316067928
ASIN: 031606792X
Publication Date: August 2, 2008
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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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 Best series ever September 8, 2008
This is the best series ever. This book is a great conclusion of this series. I loved what Stephanie Meyer did with this book. She left it open for possible more, but also closure.
 What a huge disappointment September 8, 2008
2 out of 2 found this review helpful
Almost from the beginning of Breaking Dawn, it was apparent that it would be nothing like the preceding three novels. I kept hoping some of the tone of the first three books would come back after the gruesome and disturbing pregnancy/birth sequence. As I heard elsewhere, the only part of this book at all like the rest was the narration from Jacob's perspective. Jacob remained essentially the same, except for his all too convenient plot line. I could not get past how radically different everyone and everything about this book was from the others. The first three books told the story from an almost sweet perspective despite what the stories were about. The protagonists were all likable, respectable people. In Breaking Dawn, all of them were turned into hardly likable characters. Are we really supposed to believe that Bella's father just quietly decided to accept all that he was asked to accept? It seems that Breaking Dawn went off in a direction it was not originally intended to go in. If this is not true, than a story was told with no clear way to end it. Breaking Dawn seems to have been an attempt to make a happy ending with all the complicated elements of this series too easily resolved, except for Bella's mother which remained, smartly, unresolved because expecting us to believe she would be okay with Bellas's fate would have been asking way too much of us.
 Wow....and not a good wow. September 8, 2008
4 out of 5 found this review helpful
There was only one word I could say when I finally finished this book. It was "wow". It was not a "WOW!!!" as in 'that book was the best ever!' It was just a plain flat "wow", as in 'What in the world happened in this book?' Too many things went wrong in this book.
*SPOILERS BELOW*
Renesmee. Okay, Rosalie talked of wanting a baby, and Esme's story, and Bella seeing two kids she could of had with Jacob in a vision. Stephenie Meyer called those foreshadowing to Bella having a baby. I would guess that 99% of the fan base took all that as trying to get Bella to see just exactly what she would be giving up, sacrificing, to be with Edward. Apparently not. Edward has "special venom", so no sacrifices there. And Bella's now totally okay and unaffected by drinking blood through a straw? I'm sorry, but is this the same Bella that is super sensitive to blood and fainted in the Biology blood-typing class from just getting a whiff of blood? Nope. The whole chewing through the uterus.....that was gross. And Jacob imprinting on Renesmee? *sighs* Wow.
Just about all of the characters were out of character. Especially Edward. Asking Jacob to sleep with Bella so she could have a 'normal' baby was just wrong and totally not Edward. And does anyone know what happened to Esme? She was practically non-existent in the book. Emmett was the only Cullen I enjoyed in the book and even he wasn't in it enough.
The Volturi. Stephenie did a great job building the suspense and had me on the edge of my seat. And then, I was bored to tears by all the talking that happened between the two sides.
Bella gets everything she wanted and doesn't have to give up anything or make much sacrifice (a baby, Charlie, Jacob).....which we were led to believe she would end up doing, and she is apparently super duper special and gets to completely skip the newborn vamp stage and save everyone.
But, there were a few things I did enjoy.
First was Seth. He was the most enjoyable character in the whole book.
I liked some of the miscellaneous vamps that came about. But not many of them.
Jacob. Now....I've never liked Jacob. But I found myself liking him a bit in this book. But even then, the only thing I liked about Jacob in this book was when Jacob broke off from Sam's pack and took on his role as Alpha in his own little pack. Best moment for Jacob in the whole series, IMO.
And the best moment of the whole book, was when Bella finally was able to show Edward her thoughts. Sadly, it came at the very very end and I wish there had been more because that was when the Edward that I grew to love showed up. I actually teared up at that part and was without a doubt the best Bella/Edward moment in the book, only because that was the Bella/Edward that SM created. Not the completely out of character Edward/Bella that existed through the whole book.
Unfortunately, the things I did enjoy were just not enough to make this book more enjoyable. Stephenie Meyer said she's a happy ending kind of gal. She wasn't kidding. But Bella getting everything was just too much of a happy ending and too much can ruin a story. In this case, for me, it did.
 Disappointment September 8, 2008
0 out of 3 found this review helpful
I read Breaking Dawn in a week and of all the Twilight books out there, I thought this was the worst. There was so much Bella/Edward goo that I wanted to throw up. The plot, though the surprises were really... surprising, was slow and predictable. The one good thing I can say about Breaking Dawn was it was a fulfilling end to a great saga, even if the other books were much better.
A satisfying end to a great series! September 8, 2008
2 out of 6 found this review helpful
I have enjoyed getting to know the characters of this series and Ms. Meyer certainly knew how to end the books with great satisfaction. The last installment is the most gruesome of the lot yet it is never over the top nor inappropriate to the story. I look forward to reading this set again!
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