| Breaking Dawn: Special Edition (The Twilight Saga) |  | Author: Stephenie Meyer Publisher: Little, Brown Young Readers Category: Book
List Price: $22.99 Buy New: $15.63 You Save: $7.36 (32%)
Avg. Customer Rating: 3754 reviews Sales Rank: 38801
Media: Hardcover Reading Level: Young Adult Number Of Items: 1 Pages: 768
ISBN: 031604461X EAN: 9780316044615
Publication Date: May 5, 2009 (In 119 Days) Shipping: Eligible for Super Saver Shipping Availability: Not yet published
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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
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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AWESOME! January 6, 2009 This was a great purchase! Breaking Dawn was a lot of fun to read. In fact, I've read it twice since I got it. And my son has borrowed it as well. Stephanie Meyer has written a unique series of books. Keep em coming!!!
Great Series January 6, 2009 This is probably one of the best series I've read in quite some time. I would definitely recommend this to anyone over the age of 13... & I have! Meyer really out did herself!
The best ever!!! January 6, 2009 0 out of 1 found this review helpful
This book, I have read now 4 times. I have also listened to the book on DVD. I cant get enough. How perfect it is, it wraps everything up nice and neat, and the love that is shared between Edward and Bella, oh my gosh, I cant even describe. I truly cannot wait until Stephenie Meyer begins the MidnightSun again and finishes that. The version of Twilight from Edward. I have read the 264 pages that she has on her website, at least 3 times now, and I want more!!! This book, Breaking Dawn, dont miss it....
Breaking Dawn book January 6, 2009 0 out of 1 found this review helpful
This book was received in a quick manner and was in mint condition. Thank you so much, you really made my sons Christmas.
Such a great saga~ January 6, 2009 0 out of 1 found this review helpful
This is just a great grand finale to an awesome book series. I felt that this book was the best written book by Stephanie! Even though it was 700+ pages, it just flew by!
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