Breaking Dawn (The Twilight Saga, #4) in anything and everything

Aug 04, 2008 TheKBSeries rated it it was amazing

Shelves: favorite-books

Don't worry I'm not giving anything away in this review...(at least i hope not)...im just giving my reaction here...i just finished this book and all that i have managed to say is "!!!!!" and just "wow". this was the best ending to a series that ive ever read (yes, even better than harry potter ending). i couldn't be more satisfied with this ending. i think everyone will feel the same. of course, i still dont understand the cover with the story but its not like i really understood all the other ...more

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Jan 31, 2009 Emma rated it did not like it · review of another edition

Shelves: enjoyable-trash, romance

This review has been hidden because it contains spoilers. To view it, click here. So disappointed.
I'm not the biggest fan of the books anyway- Stephanie Meyer is in my opinion a terrible writer- but the books are quite addictive. Like Haribo sweets, they're more-ish and you could probably consume the whole thing in one go- but you feel sick, and probably a little disgusted, afterwards.

I won't rewrite the plot (what little there is) for you; suffice to say I really enjoyed the first and second books, began to find the third a little tedious and hated this one with a passion. H So disappointed.
I'm not the biggest fan of the books anyway- Stephanie Meyer is in my opinion a terrible writer- but the books are quite addictive. Like Haribo sweets, they're more-ish and you could probably consume the whole thing in one go- but you feel sick, and probably a little disgusted, afterwards.

I won't rewrite the plot (what little there is) for you; suffice to say I really enjoyed the first and second books, began to find the third a little tedious and hated this one with a passion. Here's why:

1) The pregnancy was... let's be honest... a little weird. It was more like something out of a Stephen King horror novel than a teenage romance, which so far had been pretty fluffy and cutesy, albeit with a vampire edge. Then all of a sudden Bella was pregnant with something that was eating her alive and she was drinking human blood- AS A HUMAN- to survive. The birth scene was horrific and not enjoyable at all. I had this vision of a baby with red eyes biting people's faces off! Then obviously it came out and was another baby Mary Sue! :) The whole thing was just wrong and made me want to puke a little. Which would have been fine if it was Saw IV, but it, quite obviously, isn't.

2) BELLA. I just want to shake her for gods sake. She is THE most annoying, simpering, stupid, ambitionless, STUPID girl ever. She had a few redeeming qualities in the first book (I was jealous of her getting to snog Edward, plus I sympathised with her clumsiness) but by the end... ugh. When we saw the pregnancy through Jacob's eyes I hated her even more. Yes, I know that Renesmee (STUPID NAME) turned out to be okay, but her stubbornness when the baby was sucking her blood annoyed me so much. She puts everyone through so much pain, like does she really give a flying FUDGE about Charlie? About leaving behind all her family and forgeting a future for a boy? URGH!

3) STUPID PLOTS. Where to begin? The unrealistic nature of Charlie's reaction to Bella going missing. "My daughter's ill, and I'm not allowed to see her... hmm seems dodgy since I haven't seen her for months, and she could possibly have been kidnapped/murdered, but I'm not going to do anything about it. Even though I'm the head of the police and all" WTF? Also, Renesmee's stupid name, Charlie's complete under-reaction to Bella being a vampire (it's an everyday occurence, didn't you know?!), the rushed ending (twelve new charactors in the last 200 pages of the book), the CRAP anti-climax (gather a massive army against the Volturi... Volturi can't be arsed and go home), the weird and rather boring Alice/Renesmee/Jasper/J.Jenks drama... I could go on.

4) THE CRAP WRITING STYLE. Other people have written about this a thousand times better than I ever could, so I'll just say- read any other review on the first page.

THAT SAID- I did enjoy the other books, and even this a very little. They're easy to read, and kinda romantic when they're not being cliched. Shame about the last one...
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Jun 04, 2008 Maggie rated it it was amazing

Really, really GREAT book, I loved it, why does this series have to end. Of course, there were parts in it where Bella was her usual crazy self, and Edward his perfect self, and Jacob his equally insane self, but it does not matter. I will read this book until it falls apart(I am not usually this crazy about a book, but in this case I think I will make an exception).

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Jul 29, 2008 Isabella Marie Swan rated it it was amazing

Shelves: currently-reading-again-p

THE BESTEST BOOK IN THE SERIES AND ALSO THE BESTEST BOOK THAT I'VE EVER READ AND I'M CURRENTLY READING IT AGAIN!!!!!!!! I LOVE THIS SERIES AND I LOVE THIS BOOK!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! ...more

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Jun 03, 2008 Ashlyn rated it it was amazing

Shelves: awesome-books, vampire-books

OMG! i love this series! im soooo happy about renesmee and that the volturi didn't kill them! idk what else to say except for i love stephenie meyer! ...more

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