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Breaking Dawn (The Twilight Saga, Book 4) | 
 enlarge | Author: Stephenie Meyer
Creators: Ilyana Kadushin, Matt Walters
Publisher: Listening Library (Audio)
Category: Book
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Rating:  2585 reviews
Sales Rank: 1762
Format: Audiobook, Unabridged
Media: Audio CD
Edition: Unabridged
Reading Level: Young Adult
Number Of Items: 1
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Dimensions (in): 5.8 x 5.1 x 1.7
ISBN: 0739367676
EAN: 9780739367674
ASIN: 0739367676
Publication Date: August 2, 2008 (New: Last 30 Days)
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Product Description
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, she has endured a tumultuous year of temptation , loss, and strife to reach the ultimate turning point. Her imminent choice to either join the dark but seductive world of immortals or pursue a fully human life has become the thread from which the date of two tribes hangs.
Now 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.
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| Customer Reviews: Read 5 more reviews...
 Renesmee? Are you serious? August 21, 2008
Ramona Harlan-duke (Sun Valley, Idaho)
What was the author thinking? I was willing to forgive a lot in this book (which was not as good as the previous ones) but everytime I had to read this ridiculous name I liked the book less and less. Although, given the fact that Bella is only supposed to be 18 perhaps it is in character....
 Crown Jewel of Twilight Series Is Hideous Fake August 21, 2008
Swati S. Desai (Washington, DC)
I liked Breaking Dawn, but it was *totally* different from the first three books. And not in a good way.
The first three books, I simply couldn't put down. I absolutely love them, and will be reading them for many years to come. They were that amazingly well written, fast paced, fun and romantic. The stories were suspenseful and catch-your-breath interesting. Learning about the characters and their motivations was wonderful, and seeing them grow and watching the story connect through the first three books was a thrill.
And then I read Breaking Dawn. Lots of Spoilers Follow.
First things first. I loved that Bella finally got married, and finally got to sleep with Edward as a human. Great and great. However, this killed the romantic tension in the book. What is left to look forward to if the first 138 pages (of the mammoth 754 page book) has the happy ending that Stephenie Meyer spent three whole books building up to?
I'll tell you what: the rest of the book focuses on poorly created conflict. Bella becomes pregnant. The baby is destroying her. Edward spends the next SIX HUNDRED PAGES moping around, catatonic. Then this conflict is resolved and everything is great again for another couple of hundred pages.
So now Ms. Meyer needs a new conflict. She dredges up the Volturi as the bogeyman bad guys, and shoots them down again by bringing an extended vampire cast into play. The author introduced at least a dozen new characters to this story, all marginally important, all uncompellingly described. Together with these new characters, the Volturi threat is shot down.
And everyone lives happily ever after. No one grows as a character. No one learns anything. No one sacrifices anything. There is no great moral, nothing to learn from this tale.
What is Stephenie Meyer's purpose with the myriad new vampire characters? I would venture to guess it is to seed development of future Twilight-related stories and series. Now we need the Jacob-Renesmee-Neheul story arc. Then the Irish Vampires story arc. Then the Denali Vampires story arc. Then the Romanian Vampires story arc. It could literally go on for decades based on the characters Ms. Meyer has introduced in this book. My concern is not that Ms. Meyer is creating a future gold mine, my concern is that she has sacrificed Breaking Dawn, the crown jewel of her Twilight series, in order to do so. The flow of Breaking Dawn is very unnatural and forced because of the pat storylines and the poor character development.
The portion of the book where Bella's decision-making could have used some illumination (her pregnancy) was told in Jacob's perspective. Instead of Bella's perspective on her pregnancy, we have Jacob's. Instead of dashing hero Edward, we have mopey guy who offers to let his wife sleep with her ex-boyfriend so she can get pregnant. And the most weird thing about this series for me? That Jacob imprints on Renesmee. Mommy's ex-boyfriend is daughter's future husband? Odd to say the least. A missing piece that hopefully will be picked up by future forays into the Twilight series world: the maid on Isle Esme. She was an Indian who had some background on Bella's condition. Sadly, she was not developed as a character at all.
The plot of Breaking Dawn was very Harlequin romance-esque (without the sex or the romance). The writing was loose and not as descriptive and defined as the first three novels in the series; it makes me wonder if Ms. Meyer had a ghost writer for at least part of it. (or maybe she's being stretched too thin with the Host series, the Midnight Sun series, the Twilight movie, and of course this series and its theoretical offshoots)(or maybe the publisher wanted it this way to set up future story arcs)(or maybe the editor just had some bad ideas that ended up incorporated into the book). The world may never know.
So while Breaking Dawn was a good read, it was neither compelling nor worthy of the first three books in this saga.
I hope Stephenie Meyer's future story arcs related to this series are really good, because she really tore apart Breaking Dawn to set them up.
 I want my money back! August 21, 2008
Calypso
Can't decide where to begin saying what bothered me about this book. Was it Edward calling Jacob 'son,' or the fact that Bella got everything that she wanted without having to sacrifice anything on her part. It was one absurdity after another with this book, I was wondering how on earth SE's editor had let this be published without constructive criticism. At one point during reading the book, I got so frustrated that I put it down, read the spoilers and decided I won't finish reading it. Only to remember I paid money for this piece of work and that it won't be fair to write a review if I hadn't read it in full. Alas, finishing it didn't change my opinion and I am only so glad that it's now over, I can go back to living my life. Wasted a good 2 days of my life on this. I can never get it back.
Complete Disappointment August 21, 2008
John Harris (Lehi, UT)
This book was a complete disappointment. This was a disaster coming from an author that could have offered so much in the way of good clean literature. She sold out to the world and ended what could have been a great teenage audience series with the dirtiest book I have ever read. I will be getting rid of the entire series because I cannot have this kind of filthy literature in my house.
A bit sloppy, but still an pretty good read. August 21, 2008
Tyrack Wolf II
The first three books written by Mrs. Stephenie Meyer were very good - it told a fairly simple story of Bella, a human who fell in love with an extremely handsome vampire boy named Edward. It had dark humor, voilence and twists and turns that made the saga great. I was so stoked about the final book that I went straight to the midnight release party after I got off work. It took me about 27 hours to read (loosing much needed sleep since I had to work the next day) and I felt like there was something missing.
(Slight spoilers after this!)
Bella and Edward went from an engaged couple to a married couple to a couple unexpetedley expecting a baby in seven short chapters. Not that I minded a new Cullen in the family, it's just that I think it would've been intresting to see Bella going to college as a human for at least one year before she got pregnant.
Then there was the Jacob part of the book. I liked that. It was a refreshing change of pace from Bella's thoughts. Breaking away from the main pack and imprinting on little Renesmee was a pleasent surprise from 'the norm'.
The part I was dissapointed with was when the Volturi came to Washington. Bella and the rest of the Cullens were so worried about the visit to kill them that they had to gather up an army of witnesses ot prove that Renesmee wasn't an immortal child. All that planning worked up tension... and it all came to a big ol' flop. I was expecting a fight to ensue! Someone dying or something!
But I digress.
The real adorable part of the book was at the very end when Bella lets down her shield to let Edward hear all of her thoughts. That was so sweet that I got a little sniffly.
This book is a good read for the most part. It still has that good humor and suspense that I love. I think that if Mrs. Meyer's contract was good for two more books, then the ending would be much better. If you don't mind a little dissapointment, I would gladly recommend it.
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