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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:  2968 reviews
Sales Rank: 5
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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 LOVE THIS BOOK September 6, 2008
By far one of the more intriguing books out there...I totally loved all of it.
Enthralling and Romantic Escapism! September 6, 2008
I read all four books in this series in a week and read Breaking Dawn in two days. It was absolutely and wonderfully romantic and kept me on the edge of my seat during the entire read. Stephenie Meyer told a wonderful, satisfying story of how love creates and impacts our future and is always complicated. I won't give away any spoilers and I will keep it simple: this story absolutely takes you away and pulls you into every complicated but gratifying turn and twist. It is the stuff of classics. Congratulations, Stephenie on a wonderfully writtten saga - I loved every minute of it and mourned when it was all over. In a few weeks, I repeat it all over again.
 SPOILERS implies its something you would have liked to find out on your own. September 6, 2008
There will be SPOILERS here. Like many of the reviews. Those of us disappointed (those of us disgusted . . . more overall disappointed) with the series, had to use SPOILERS in our reviews, so if you haven't read the book, and feel the need to - please be advised there will be spoilers.
I know this book wasn't written for me. Neither was Harry Potter, but that was an excellent series. Anyway, comparisons are not fair. And they are insulting to J.K. Rowling who actually threw in a strong female character.
I read "Twilight" because I am a fan of vampire stories - not because I think they are sexy or mysterious, because there is something fascinating about the sad embodiment of evil (sustaining your life off the lives of others) trying to justify its existence, trying to reconcile it's place in God's world, etc.
A friend picked up the book and based it on to me. Excellent read. Although it was 20 years ago for me, most women remember the blindness with which we love the first time. The first time. Then came "New Moon." I read it in a day. I couldn't pull myself a way, I risked injury reading on the treadmill. So powerful, so true, the way a 17-year-old mourns a broken heart, the pain from the loss of love and from just not understanding what the heck is going on, and how to deal with how you feel.
Then, it all falls apart. Again, I know it is not written for me. And, Ms. Meyer doesn't have a responsibility to create a respectable role model for young women today, the 46% of which will apparently be confronted with teen pregnancy by the age of 20 nowadays. She only had to write a story she is comfortable with and that someone will publish. By "Eclipse," I got bored. Anyway out of high school got bored. Again, I know I am not the audience for this book. Bella, so obsessed to the point of desperate with Edward, who has broken her heart, is pathetic. That after her devastating loss of him when he ditches her, after growing close to and trusting Jacob, she still throws herself 110% forgively at him, it's pathetic. It's sad that this character didn't learn to shield a piece of her heart for self preservation. Love him, save him, and desire imortality, but learn something from his desertion. Have some self-respect. But, she doesn't have to. She's not my character. I am not writing her. It's up to Ms. Meyer. The tragedy is by now the writing has become trite. It's simple. How many times must she write about Edward's beauty? It's really become something unfathomable. Unrealistic. Sickening. Trite because only a fool 30 pages into "New Moon" doesn't realize Jacob is a werewolf. Trite because my "Breaking Dawn" only a 12-year-old sneaking the book from her parents (or, at least, she should be) cannot figure out Jacob is going to imprint on Bella's daughter.
But, along comes "Breaking Dawn" and the completist in my needs to know if she chooses Edward (I have no doubt this pathetic girl will choose the one who has already shown her he will leave if he thinks it will make him feel better) or Jacob, who will love her and stand by her. So, three or four weeks later I still try to finish this book. On the one hand, everything is predictable. As I said, Jacob, to solve the love triangle, will imprint on Edward and Bella's daughter. Sure, okay. But Bella is pissed about it? How? Why? That's so untrue to the character who selfishly needed him by her side despite her fawning, devotion, admiration, sycophantism to Edward. But he's not good enough for your daughter? You know he would always stand by her, always protect her, but Bella doesn't accept this? It's not realistic to the character.
On top of the pregnancy, which is its own complication - Edward doesn't breathe, doesn't have a heartbeat, but he has live sperm? WTF? Anyway . . .
If there are teenagers who still enjoy this series, that's great. I hope a mother or aunt or big sister or someone is a role model in there life so they understand, especially in 2008, especially now, that a woman's worth does not have to be defined by a man, doe snot have to be determined by a man, and a woman's destiny or future does not have to follow that of the man she loves. Love is only love, and though it is wonderful enough, it's no good if you stop bringing anything to the table - if all you have to offer is devotion.
I am sad by the completion of this story because the first one was so enjoyable, because they were written by a woman, and because the writing turned to such dreg repeating over and over how unworthy Bella was to Edward, how plain she was to all the bloodsuckers, etc. So, I write this review in case you're a reader like me - in your 30s, reading the books because they are 600-pages of a quick read. To advise you this is really going to turn into teen-lit by the 4th book. I hope if you have bought it, you enjoy it. I hope Ms. Meyer's tries again and again. I won't give her writing another try, but if she gets people to read, that's great. I just hope her protagonists in the future are women worth admiring, worth following, going forward.
 It Was OK September 6, 2008
Breking Dawn is not my favorite in the series, but it deffintley is a good book.
PERFECT ENDING TO A PERFECT SAGA! September 6, 2008
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ALL I CAN SAY IS I LOVED IT, I LOVED IT, I LOVED IT!! FOR ME IT REALLY COULDN'T HAVE ENDED ANY BETTER!
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