Breaking Dawn (The Twilight Saga, Book 4)

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 werewolfin 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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Customer Reviews

Rating: - Utterly and completely abysmal
I began to read Twilight simply looking for something to keep me entertained before something better came out.The first three books were amusing, though I could feel that they were just getting worse and worse.Everything became so much like filer I could hardly stand it.And then I read Breaking Dawn.
The first part of the book went along fine, clearly not a masterpiece, but entertaining.And then once Bella became a vampire, it became the absolute worst book I have ever read.
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Rating: - The Final Twilight Book -- Is it the Best?
In so many ways this is my favorite Twilight book. It is the end of the series, so everything gets wrapped up. It tells the story of Bella's wedding and honeymoon (including the fact that they FINALLY did it!), it has the birth of their child and of course, what we all were waiting for, Bella's transformation to a vampire. I will say the Volturi story toward the end got a little old for me, but that was such a small part. For the size of the book, it was as great as the rest of the series, just as engaging. ... Read More
Rating: - Gpd. these books suck
Really, I don't have anything more to say than that.

The idea was a good one. The execution is considerably worse than the worst fanfiction I've read.

Appalling that this rubbish ever got published.
Rating: - read the book screw the audio
well the chick who read the book for the audio is horrible.Thank God I got it used so I can return the damn thing....
Rating: - Awful compared to "Twilight";had to force myself to get through
After reading "Twilight", I could not wait for the rest of the books; it had been one of the best books I had read in a long time.The second book (New Moon) was okay, "Eclipse" came next and I felt the books were starting to get annoying, but since I had read the first three, I had to read the last one, "Breaking Dawn" and it was NOT easy; I thought it was one of the worst books I had ever read and I just wanted it to end.Bella becoming the love of a vampire as it started in "Twilight" was both different ... Read More