Wednesday, August 6, 2008

Breaking Dawn by Stephanie Meyer


BEWARE OF READING unless you have finished this book. I give away too much! Sorry!!!
I just finished the much-awaited book of the Twilight Series. Whew! It's nice to have my life back... When I first started reading, I cried and cried as I felt Jacob's heart break as Bella gets married and suffers through so much pain as she carries the half-breed baby. Yet he sticks around through all of it with a flicker of hope, but knowing full well his heart is going to break again when she becomes immortal or dies because of the "fetus". I was very mad at Bella for making Edwars suffer so much and for everyone around her suffering because she was in so much pain. I didn't understand why she'd let the fetus break her! I mean, I understand the love of a mother and child, but I couldn't see this as a child...yet! Then it just turned nasty as Bella had to drink blood to survive. Eeeeeewww! I really thought Bella was going to die. (Sidenote: I loved how Jacob narrated the 2nd book. He has a great sense of humor and I just love how he is so real and still immature!) Then everything changed when Bella became a vampire and wasn't the typical "newborn". I liked how she was so hard core and tough and graceful and strong and so un-Bella like. It went from this happy make-believe world to this hard reality of the Volturi coming to destroy everything they had. I really thought the Voltori were going to come and kill everyone. Only because of Alice and what seemed like doom. I knew that she couldn't just leave, though. I cried when Bella prepared to say goodbye to Renesmee. And I really thought that Jacob and Renesmee would be the only ones left. I'm so glad it had a happy ending, but it isn't so final that Stephanie couldn't come up with a 5th book...although where on earth could it go that it hasn't already been??? She got her cake and ate it too!! She got to have Charlie in her life and have her baby and Jacob and of course forever with Edward. Unbelievable! Loved it!

1 comment:

Tyler and Julia said...

I must say that I loved this book too. I loved it SO much more than both "New Moon" and "Eclipse". Out of the entire saga, "Twilight" and "Breaking Dawn" are by far my favorites. I am still a very devoted fan of Edward, but I grew to like Jacob's character in a way that I never had before in the other two books. I had no idea that he would imprint on Renesme, but it made perfect sense to me as to why he did. Everything came together in the end, even though I was SCARED TO DEATH that most of the Cullen family would be killed. I was especially worried about Carlisle dying, because I've loved his character from the very beginning. I was SO surprised that the Volturi didn't wipe out all of the Cullens and their witnesses, but then at the same time, once I'd finished it made sense because of the type of vampire Aro is described as being; he wants everyone to see how deceptively "kind" he is to others. So anyway (wow, this is a LONG comment!), I loved, loved, LOVED this book and I'm so glad that I've finally been able to finish it! :)