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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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Rating:  3738 reviews
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Media: Hardcover
Reading Level: Young Adult
Pages: 768
Number Of Items: 1
Shipping Weight (lbs): 1.8
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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Amazon.com Review
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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 ruined the first three books January 5, 2009
C. Kile (Indiana)
3 out of 3 found this review helpful
This last book was so bad that I've enjoyed reading the negative reviews more than I enjoyed the book. I never thought the first three were great but I had fun reading them despite their flaws.
Other reviewers have pointed out the many problems with Breaking Dawn so I don't need to go over them so I'll just add that it is way too long and drawn out and I was really tired of how beautiful and perfect Bella found Edward so for Bella to find him even more beautiful and perfect after her transformation was cloying beyond belief.
 Loved it, Loved it, LOVED IT!!! January 4, 2009
L. Lin (Atlanta, GA)
0 out of 6 found this review helpful
I don't understand all the bad reviews. I thought it was perfect, . Perfect endings.
Terrible! January 4, 2009
Kathlene K. Vitale
3 out of 3 found this review helpful
I am a huge fan of the twilight series but the concluding book was a waste of time and money. It was downright boring and I do not get bored easy but it took me three days to finish this book and I had to push myself to do so. I read the first book in the series, twilight, adn enjoyed it. New Moon was also boring but Eclipse was an improvement. But Brekaing Dawn was boring and I saw no point to it. The entire plot was Bella and Edward got married, went on a honeymoon, she got pregnant, turned into a vampire and that's it. The concluding book in a series should be the best and most exiciting like the conclusion for Harry Potter was. The ending was such a disapointment, just like the entire book. All of bella's feelings for Jacob just disappeared which bothered me also.
I'm ashamed to say that I read this book.
Shield yourself. January 4, 2009
Margaret (Scotland)
5 out of 5 found this review helpful
No, no, no. This isn't the way the series should have ended. I wish I'd stopped with the third book, when I still felt included in Bella's experience; I could have imagined my own final installment. This fourth book made me feel like an outsider walking in on the middle of a bad sci-fi/zombie tale that spread itself too thin and took itself much too seriously. It even required an index of characters at the end! As though I cared about them. I now touch your face, dear consumer, and you understand perfectly.. BREAKING DAWN is, sadly, contrived beyond our collective special powers to tolerate.
 Best of Lot, And I am Glad it is Over January 4, 2009
Miami Bob (Miami, FL United States)
0 out of 3 found this review helpful
Harry did it. Now Bella does too. The final book of each respective series is the best of the lot.
A few reasons exist for this book being the best. First, the book delivers great concepts which mix what we learned in books 1-3, and twists and turns the concepts to make the extraordinary exception to the rule become the focus of the book's peak performance. Second, the book's finishing rumble is like none other previously delivered, and like Harry, it all comes down to the finale rumble of each respective book (In these rumbles, kids are pitted against the supernatural, where the kids always triumph - despite all odds.). And lastly, this book is less melodramatic, less cutesy, less . . . schmaltz.
The last strength is a creation which deviates from the first three and is something to which the editors and author must have devoted hours of discussion. Bella not only goes beyond the occasional kiss experienced in the first three novels, but has rough and ready sex. And, what happens when teenagers (even those who are really a century old like beloved Edward) have unprotected sex? You guessed it.
And, so the book involves 18-year old Bella's first born -- a daughter -- who becomes an anomaly of her own. Her character is definitely worthy of a new series. But, after reading over 2400 pages of this series, my declaration to the author and publisher is this: enough already, this older reader cannot go on. If another book about these characters or concepts arises, I will pass - this is not what I said when finishing Harry.
But, Bella has a character worthy of note. In one sentence, Meyer has Bella describe herself in appropriate fashion: "It was sort of a pattern in my life - I'd never been strong enough to deal with the things outside my control, to attack the enemies or outrun them." And that self portrait of self bothers me somewhat more than anything else in these novels. Bella's self deprecatory description of herself and obvious lack of self esteem contrasted to her emfatuation for the two men of her life - Edward and Jacob - can be viewed as anything but someone depictive of the 21st century woman. Little girls of America may think she epitomizes the good girl - but not in the world affected and molded by Gloria Steinem and others. Bella and modern women are not in tune with one another.
Now that I have finished, there are a few paradoxes which I must begrudge. First, why does Bella have a better ability to deliver vampires to reconciliation and progress than her multi-century old peers as well as the incredibly knowledgeable and powerful Venturi coven? Why does Bella like (love) Jacob whose IQ hovers around negligible and whose temperament is like a member of the WWF, and simultaneously similarly adore Edward whose is the antithesis of Jacob? Why does level-headed and good samaritan Carlisle not receive all commendation from the vampire world and deliver Obama's message of "Change" to the elderly and wise vampires, and in turn make the Venturi leave their mistaken choice of remaining in a static state of impertinence and inconsideration to the majority of the living beings on earth - humans?
But, the majority of the remainder is good fun. And, the method of tying Jacob into the clan is cute and clever. Meyer's finale is the best. This is the one book which I would recommend to all - but note that one cannot read this until they have read at least the first two novels.
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