| Breaking Dawn (Waterstones) |  | Author: Stephenie Meyer
Publisher: Imprint unknown
Category: Book
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Avg. Customer Rating:  3761 reviews
Media: Hardcover
ISBN: 0356251926
EAN: 9780356251929
Publication Date: August 4, 2008
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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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 Wonderful end! January 6, 2009
This book wasn't quite as good as the other ones, but still a great ending to the series and I loved every part!
The BEST of the Twilight books! January 6, 2009
She really saved the best for last. I couldn't put this book down, and am still in mourning that it's over! PLEASE write more, Stephanie!
Best January 6, 2009
This is the best book of the Twilight Saga! You need to have it, it's awesome!
Breaking Dawn January 6, 2009
0 out of 1 found this review helpful
This book is the most different and amazing of all 4. This book is divided into 3 books (all in the same direction, as the story infolds). The first book is like any of the others; from Bella's perspective. The 2nd is from Jacob's. You really take a greater appriciation for Jacob. It's quite hilarious and it really helps understand and shape the last book, again back to Bella's perspective...it's amazing. The whole story just keeps getting better and better, and I didn't understand how that was even possible. BUT IT IS!
Great READ! January 6, 2009
0 out of 2 found this review helpful
I do not normally read young adult material. I have a friend who is a school teacher and she gave me the first two books in the series. - SPOILERS MAY FOLLOW - I was not happy after book three, because as a parent and 38 years old, I wanted Bella with Jacob. I felt that Edward was too smothering at the end. So I was hoping that this book would have Bella and Jacob together at last!
Needless to say, I didn't get what I wanted but boy was I happy with the twist and turns this book took! It was difficult in the first half dealing with Bella's pain and the fear that she'd die. Plus the agony that Jacob went through loving her and thinking that she wouldn't live even if she'd never love him the way he wanted her too.
But this book was GREAT! It made me fall in love with the characters all over again! Read the entire series, you'll not be disappointed!
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