World Famous Comics: Breaking Dawn (The Twilight Saga, Book 4)
Breaking Dawn (The Twilight Saga, Book 4)
By: Stephenie Meyer Publisher: Little, Brown Young Readers Average Rating: Binding: Hardcover Label: Little, Brown Young Readers Number of Items: 1 Number of Pages: 768 Publication Date: August 02, 2008 Reading Level: Young Adult Release Date: August 02, 2008
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.
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
Great read...we need more in this series I really enjoyed reading these four books and BD was a great end to a great set! I do think it leaves a lot of possibilities of more stories for all the characters that Meyers created with this series. I hope she does more....it truly is a different twist on an old subject that has been around for ages!!
I already see moviegoers cringing How on earth did Meyer conceive this finale for her saga? The story was so far fetched and removed from the rest of the series it felt like an entirely different book, or even like a bad fanfiction created by an avid fan while waiting for the last book to come out!
The plot also seemed crowded. By the end of the book I had to make a real effort to remember how it began (not to mention how the series began). Although it might have been that the book so painful to read, I found myself bored through most of it and just skimming through some parts.
Even the romance was lacking. Granted, I was always a Team Jacob fan, so all the Edward/Bella scenes did nothing for me. The twisted turn Jacob's character took was very disappointing. Towards the end I found his character became so flat I no longer cared for him.
And they plan to make this into a movie? I already see the critics ripping apart the story. Not to mention moviegoers thinking "what the heck?"
You really have to be a loyal fan to stick by this book. It's so disappointing that I can no longer count this saga among my favorites.
LOVE IT! If u have read "Twulight", "New Moon" and "Eclipse"...YOU MUST READ "BREAKING DAWN"...is so exciting u can't get ur eyes out of it....totally recommended!
Breaking Dawn Wow! Excellent conclusion to the series! Stephanie Meyer is brilliant author who makes you feel everything the characters feel - you will be holding your breath everytime Bella does! And don't mistake this for a dark, gothic, vampire series - this is definately a fairy tale! And the best one I've ever read!
Exciting Saga I'm new to the Twilight Phenomenon, but I have thoroughly enjoyed reading the saga over the last two weeks. I will admit that I did get feed up with Bella's whining and Jacob's desperation at times. However, unlike most people I really enjoyed Eclipse. I found the banter between Edward and Jacob to be hilarious. As for Breaking Dawn, I found it to a pleasant end to the saga. I have heard speculation that there is another book told from Edwards perception that was in the works until it was leaked over the net. As I am far older than the average reader, I find the details surrounding this to be a bit "shady". The story giving has a lot of missing pieces. I believe this to be a PR scheme. Nothing sells books or movies tickets faster than a scandal or drama. Here's what I do not understand, why was there not any legal maneuvers at least by the publishing company to stop the spread over the internet? They have the most to lose in book sells. I think it was leaked by the publisher. And the BS Ms. Meyer's is spouting about waiting two years to go back to it. There's no way with the reviews the draft is getting in the blogs that the publisher's will let it sit for that long. It's a like sitting on a pot of gold. And who is to say the interest will still be there in two years? I have no worries that the book will be published.
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