Breaking Dawn (The Twilight Saga, Book 4) |  | Author: Stephenie Meyer
Publisher: Little, Brown Books for Young Readers
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Media: Hardcover
Edition: 1st
Reading Level: Young Adult
Pages: 756
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Dimensions (in): 8.3 x 5.5 x 2.5
ISBN: 031606792X
EAN: 9780316067928
ASIN: 031606792X
Publication Date: August 2, 2008
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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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 Finally Married November 22, 2009
Jaimal Yogis (San Francisco)
If you're a Twilight fan -- and I never thought I'd become one, but I am a big one -- this is the book you're waiting for. It won't spoil any of it but the first few pages to say that it begins with Edward and Bella's over-the-top wedding (arranged by Alice, of course) which is equally satisfying as a romantic event and a precursor to lots of awesome vampire werewolf action. Of course, Jacob shows up to the wedding and you can imagine all the craziness that brings. I love this stuff. I feel like I could read 10 of these books and never get tired of them. I personally think Meyer should keep writing them instead of moving onto aliens. Although I haven't read The Host yet, so I can't knock it yet. Anyhow, fun stuff. I'm going to see New Moon in the theaters this Sunday and I'm fired up!
By Jaimal Yogis, author of Saltwater Buddha
finally November 21, 2009
disestablishmentarianist (alexandria, va United States)
0 out of 2 found this review helpful
finally, a book in this series that does not reader like they are brain dead. i'm not sure it was worth it to read this series, and i definitely still do not understand what generated all they hype, but if they had all been written more like this one, its success would have been a little more justified.
there are certainly other series that give you a simple, uncomplicated, fun read with the preternatural angle without pretending you are not capable of making a mental leap greater than that of a four year old.
You Slay Me (Aisling Grey, Guardian, Book 1)
Undead and Unwed (Queen Betsy, Book 1)
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 Breaking Dawn November 20, 2009
Nurse Betty (New Jersey)
0 out of 2 found this review helpful
This is a great product, shipped quickly and in the shape it was described. Great buy!
 I enjoyed it in spite of itself. November 19, 2009
Renter (USA)
1 out of 2 found this review helpful
Breaking Dawn picks up not long after Eclipse left off: erstwhile heroine Bella Swan has chosen Edward Cullen as her suitor, and rival Jacob Black has taken off to parts unknown in his grief.
The first third of the book is in Bella's voice, and details the events leading up to her nuptials and honeymoon with Edward. For folks who are reading these for the vampire/human star-crossed romance, this is likely to be the highlight of the book. You all might want to stop at the honeymoon night and pretend the rest of the book doesn't exist. For this reader, the creepy ending to Part One was an unexpectedly spooky delight.
Part Two is in Jacob's voice, and follows his growing suspicion that something weird is afoot at the Cullen mansion, and that it's centered around his beloved Bella. Jacob is absolutely correct, though his initial guesses are pretty far off the mark. He grows determined to save her, no matter what it takes. At first, skipping to Jacob's point of view was a bit frustrating because the story left off from quite a suspenseful moment, but I came to enjoy his perspective so much that I was disappointed when it ended. I came to enjoy this series primarily because of this character -- I'd read Twilight and could take it or leave it, but friends told me to stick with the books for the growing role of Jacob Black, and they were right. As other readers have noted, Edward comes across as a grown man with control issues, but Jacob seems more like a real teenage boy. He loves Bella, he really does, but that's not going to stop him from doing whatever he has to do to get into her sleeping bag. The juxtaposition between these characters kept me enthralled through New Moon and Eclipse. Part Two of Breaking Dawn sees Jacob forming new relationships to the people in his life and ends with a wrinkle that is, frankly, less delightfully creepy than it is just plain creepy.
Part Three is back to Bella's perspective, and it is a very new perspective for her. It took me a while to enjoy it. I found her outrageous flavor amusing in the previous books, but in this part, (spoilers ahoy!) she has become powerful enough to cause physical damage to others, and she proceeds to do just that. I wanted to thrash her for a goodly portion of this part, much more so than usual. Eventually, though, she is forced to face a challenge that taxes her inner resources, which has always been when her character is most interesting to me. The monster at the end of this book is vampire politics, and between them, and Kate and Garrett, it made for a pretty decent final part. Seriously, if Meyer wants to write the romance of Kate and Garrett, I'm in.
All in all, this book touched on the tensions and relationships that made the middle two books in this series entertaining to me, just enough to keep me reading through to the end. I won't be making permanent space for it on my bookcase, but I'm not sorry I read it, either. Amazon's handling of the order was as competent as it usually is, so no complaints there. Still, if you're on the fence about reading this one, you might want to pick it up in the library first.
 My version of a happy ending.... November 18, 2009
Lindsay (Plymouth, MI)
2 out of 2 found this review helpful
I don't have many new thoughts to describe how dissapointing Breaking Dawn was... the other reviewers did just fine. I wish the person who recommended these books to me would have suggested to stop reading after the third enstallment (Eclipse) and imagine my own ending. The author seems to go out of her way to involve the mythology of Jacobs tribe, including the ancestors who's souls would leave thier bodies... I thought that tidbit of a story line was leading to something monumental. Wouldn't it have been incredible if somehow Jacob was killed (maybe he couldn't live without Bella's love so HE jumps from 'the' cliff) and his soul is released from his body but his essence still cannot be without Bella. The author kept noting over and over how Edward didn't have a soul... Maybe Jacob could've given Edward what he seemed to want~ his humanity~ and in the end Jacob could still be with Bella (in a sense) by giving Edward his soul. Bella would have both Edward and Jacob... Edward would become human again rather than Bella becoming a vampire. That would have been more interesting to read than what was truly written. I guess my only hope left is for the movie. Hopefully the author will have enough guts to let the fans get what they want through the movie rather than her marshmellow unrealistically happy ending.
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