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<<<<Still, that won't stop you from having another...and another...until the whole box is gone and you're left bloated and groaning on a smelly old mattress, only to be raped by your brother. >>>>>
Yup, I think that pretty well sums it up! LOL!!
Great review, Ann! I couldn't agree more. It made me sick to my stomach how basically everything was ruined. Good characters completely wasted.
You hit the nail on the head speaking about fan fiction cliches...god, it made me want to throw up! I also agree about meeting the other vampires..that could have been so thoughtfully utilized! I thought for SURE that Tanya would come between Edward/Bella in a Jake kinda way...that would have been so great! Give Bella a bit of her own medicine! And I thought the Volturi would play a huge part of this book...and actually be a plot point instead of a convenient cliche. But now, we get Edward snacking on Bella's amniotic sac. Oh...and don't get me started about how now Jake is a bud with everyone...eeeghads. Too perfect...to sickening. Great reveiw!
I keep hearing that "This is a fantasy book, there is going to be weird things in it". Yes...I agree with that..however, SMeyer did not write the previous books with so much strangeness and it came out of left field and quite frankly, it really was not well written. She did not have this type of horror element to it in the previous books (distended stomach, bloody birth, Edward ripping open Bella with his teeth). I bet a big group of teenage girls who read these books don't really read horror/fantasy novels. That was the nice thing about the Twilight series. But now...man, I just don't know.
Nothing like Edward gnawing away to get the abomination out of Bella's grossly distended belly....NICE!
Breaking Dawn was worse than any poorly written fanfic and that's bad why? It's bad because SMeyer is making shitloads of money off of you and me. And what were her editors thinking? Were they so intimidated by the SMeyer machine that they gave her free reign? I don't know why I'm surprised...all successful "pop" writers go thru this...their editors are afraid to change anything because they don't want to offend the talent. (see $$$$ signs)This has happened to Stephen King and most recently to JK Rowling.
Oh..and I agree with Laurie, your comment: "His imprinting on little Nessie just put the icing on the shit-cake I had been eating for the past 400 pages." goes down with the ages! Great review.
Thank you, Monica! We want Saga! We want Saga! I mean, a young woman, suffering from head injuries...being the *strange one* in the family. Why do I identify with her more?
The book that changed my life (AND the way I eat) was Veggie Soup for the Chicken's Soul: Shameless Visions and Prayers for World Peace, Inner Peace, and Animal Liberation (Paperback)by Judy McCoy Carman. A lightbulb literally went off in my head. I heard it pop! I was an animal shelter volunteer for about a year and I had just started reading books about animals and their lives in connection to ours. This book led me to Buddhism and such a feeling of patience and peace. I haven't eaten meat in over 8 years. I know we are all connected and I feel ashamed of the waste and pain we as humans inflict upon weaker beings. What a joy this book is. It made me cry and it made me smile. It led me to peace.
