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 enlarge | Author: Stephenie Meyer
Publisher: Little, Brown Young Readers
Category: Book
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Reading Level: Young Adult
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Pages: 768
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Dimensions (in): 8.3 x 5.5 x 2.5
ISBN: 031606792X
EAN: 9780316067928
Publication Date: August 2, 2008
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 Keep the memory of twilight and stay away from breaking dawn ''SPOILERS'' January 9, 2009
3 out of 3 found this review helpful
I read the first book of the series about a week ago, after watching the movie. I really loved both movie and book, (I actually liked the book more than the movie, because it emphasizes more in the relationship of Bella and Edward) and I know that this can't be done in a movie that lasts 90 minutes, but that's Ok.
I really liked the strange love relationship between the two characters. It was like Romeo and Juliet but their love was much more intense, much more insatiable, I have never read something like this before. I found my self reading the lines two or more times because I wanted to be sure, that I hadn't lost anything about the romance between them. It was thrilling and sent goosebumps all over my body!
I loved Bella's character, she was sweet, fragile, caring and totally smart but I loved Edward's character more. There was something about him, that can not be explained. He was like a dream figure to me, (maybe because he escaped from Steph. Meyers dream, according to her).
He was so civilized although he was a vampire. He was refining, much more refining than a human being can be. He knew how to treat a girl. Reading twilight I could say that he loved Bella so much that he could risk everything to just touch her, to be with her, maybe because he was waiting for her so many many years but also liked that he was fighting so terribly with his self to stay away from her because he was so much worried not to hurt her. He was romantic in a way that can not be found in nowadays and that is because he was born and raised in a different time than ours.He was intelligent and dazzling and all these romantic quotes could stop my heartbeat! Their story was a miracle, like they should exist only together. Like they were true soulmates, (although Edward was not a human). I admit that I fell in love with their story.
Then I began reading New Moon. I liked that too, not so much as Twilight, but quite enough to finish it, in just two days, although English is not my first language.
I was reading it all day long and almost all night long. I could not believe that Edward had left Bella and I was sure that he would be back. I really hated Jacob Black, because he was such an egocentric and selfish creature, although he was trying so much to hide it. He was also trying to get a profit of Bella's desperate mood,all the time, to be with her, because finally the field was clear from Edward. I hated that.
And I could feel reading the book, that Bella's attitude was so much different than in the first book. She was being so much selfish too. She was "saying" through the whole book that she didn't want to hurt Jacob's feelings but I believe that actually she was trying not to hurt HERSELF. But she was so miserable and unhappy that I felt sorry for her. Then they got together again with Edward and everything was just fine. That was quite of weird to me.
In Eclipse I couldn't understand what was wrong with her mind and also Edward's mind! Bella had totally lost it. I mean the only thing that mattered in her life until then was Edward. He was the only thing that she was so afraid of losing and her fear came true in the previous book but in Eclipse they were together again and she should have been happy about that. But she wasn't! She was thinking of Jacob all the time and she was crying 24/7 through the whole book for him.
She was stupid and silly and reckless and such a child!!! She was trying all the time to chose between Edward and Jacob! For God's sake that was totally ugh! She was so unsure about everything and that bothered me! The worst was when she kissed Jacob at the end of the book and liked it!!! And for God's sake again she had a clear though -while kissing him- to have children with him, (or puppies) totally disgusting! HELLO??? Edward was her life, her piece of heaven (at least that was what she was telling us through twilight and new moon) and she wanted to "have kids" with Jacob? The whole story turned to be a soap opera! And what happened to Edward? When she told him that she kissed Jacob he was so NOT worried about that like it was the most natural thing in the world. He let her do whatever she wanted! It was like he had no will! He could at least talk about that, try to talk with her for her feelings, try to clear the whole thing out! But he didn't! He was so pathetic! His attitude and character was totally different than the first book! He was a different guy! He didn't try to win Bella's heart back, he was pathetic! Such a chicken!
And Bella's father was such a pain, a weirdo! When she came home and had her hand broken, of hitting Jacob, he was so cool about that! Like he was shouting out loud GO TIGER! He didn't even seem to care about his daughter's feelings! UGH!
Reading twilight, you were actually reading of Edward's and Bella's love story which came to be a LOVE TRIANGLE with Jacob as a guest star!
In Breaking Dawn all thins got totally messed up! I felt like reading the story of two totally strange to me characters! There was nothing about the glory of first love anymore, all the romance was gone and their relationship lost all of attractiveness, at least to me!
At first Bella and Edward are getting married, which was totally fine with me, I can say that I really liked that! After their marriage they had a party where Jacob came and again -how strange- Bella began to cry over his shoulder! It was like she hadn't make the right choice choosing Edward, like she was unsure again!
Then they went to Esme's Island, for their honeymoon, where they "made love". After that Bella was begging Edward to make love to her all the time and it felt like reading these small and thin stupid love-romance books which totally disgust me.(I don't know the exact word in English for them). Then Bella gets pregnant and all things get messed up.
It's like you are reading the story of Rosemary's baby, with Bella drinking and vomiting blood! Then she gaves birth to her super hybrid baby and becomes a super vampire woman!MERCYYYYYYY!
The worst is that their romance has been totally vanished! They are having sex all night long and it's like Edward doesn't love her so much anymore. I am sure he liked her more when she was human. At least that's how it felt to me! Then there's the whole imprinting thing which is totally weird and disgusting! Can you guess what happens? The wolf guy Jacob fells in love with the hybrid supernatural baby Renesmee and calls her Nessie like the monster of loch-ness. Actually they all call her like that! It's like a parody! I don't know what else to say! Maybe you should save your time and money and don't read the book! Doesn't worth it! If you read Twilight, keep the beautiful memory locked in your heart and stay with it!
 Another awesome book January 9, 2009
0 out of 2 found this review helpful
Highly recommended book. Buying the complete series of these books is the only way to go. After you read one, you want to read the others. One of those books you just can't put down.
Some People Can't Stand Happy Endings.... January 9, 2009
0 out of 3 found this review helpful
I do not normally write reviews on books that I read, but I looked over many of the other reviews for this book and was absolutely shocked at how vehemently so many people hated it! I personally loved the book. It was exactly what I would have wanted, which is a happy ending and I'm thrilled Meyer delivered. I think people must be so upset, because they fell so in love with Edward, Bella, Jacob and the Cullens that they see them as real...and real life - for most people - doesn't always include a happy ending.
I think that Meyer has been writing toward this ending for the other three books and setting things up for it to end exactly as it did. It seems "too perfect" for people, I think, because the ending Meyer has been striving toward has finally arrived and the story is finished. People would be thrilled for it to go on and on, but, eventually, the constant fights, tension and increasingly predictable "damsel in distress" routine would have been too much for any reader to take. Here is how I feel that Meyer set things up and why the books HAD to end this way:
Bella was NOT good at being human and should have died in the first few pages of the first book. She had been living on borrowed time from the start and she was totally cut out to be a vampire. In addition, she was so prepared for being a vampire and had so much support and assistance that the others really didn't have, of COURSE she was good at it! The poor girl sucked at everything else in human life (to include merely walking down a street!) that she HAD to have SOMETHING coming to her in her vampire life!
Jacob was always meant to be in Bella's family and they were connected from the start. The reason he fell so deeply in love with her was because there was absolutely NO WAY he would stick by a mere "friend" who was in love with a vampire! It took him falling madly in love with Bella for him to make all the sacrifices he did in order to be with her and keep her safe. If not for all that, he would have never met his soul-mate, which was their daughter.
Edward and Bella's relationship only got BETTER once she became a vampire, not "watered down". They could actually be a pair, instead of him making all the decisions for her and constantly having to endager his entire family to protect her. If Edward had to drag all the Cullens into some death fight one more time to save her, Bella's character would have been remiss (and not well-written)if SHE had not been the one to leave HIM! It was time for her to do the saving, for once!
Jacob needed some peace and happiness. He had been miserable for nearly the entire series! How in the world would people think he didn't deserve a happy ending?
I was beyond impressed at how Meyer wrote from the different perspectives in this book. It was so different. When I got to the section entitled "Jacob" and immediately realized it was written from his point of view, I was so upset! I did NOT want to read from his agonized mind-set...I was really starting to get tired of him and was thrilled and relieved that Bella and Edward got married and away from him so quickly in this book! I was totally ticked when we got back to him during that part, until I read the first sentence and I was hooked...all over again. I have no idea how Meyer does that, but I thoroughly enjoyed what I was sure I couldn't! (She's an excellent writer.)
In the end, this entire series has been more about life and love and happiness and wading through all the every-day messes to get to the thrill of enjoying living for life's sake. Everyone has that "grounding point" in their life when - no matter what else happens - you know that everything is going to be okay....and I think that's what this series really symbolizes. There was a very spiritual air to the entire thing and it was all wrapped up perfectly in the final book. Everything else was written to end just exactly this way and I couldn't be more thrilled with it. I will read the series over and over because it's so well-written...and I will love the fourth book more and more each time I do.
It's just sad that some people really dislike it so much. I guess that's because they really can't stand happy endings. SOMEONE is supposed to die...SOMEONE is supposed to end up miserable....and true love just CAN'T exist without tragedy. Not for me...give me a happy ending every time.
I loved it.... January 9, 2009
0 out of 3 found this review helpful
I personally don't know why everyone was freaking out about Renesmee. Honestly, it's not the first time a there has been a baby born to atleast one Vampire parent. In the the TV series Angel, Angel and Darla have a baby... who is human, and they are both Vamps. It's not that unusual/unique of a concept.
I loved Breaking Dawn, and thought it was a great addition, and hope there will be more!!!
Soo good! January 9, 2009
0 out of 4 found this review helpful
I'm a 16 year old male teen. Even though this is a love story from a girls perspective and is def. intended for teenage girls, I thought the story was amazing and I couldnt put it down. All her books I had to force myself not to read it because I was reading them for hours.
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