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My Thoughts on Breaking Dawn
by Collette on 

This post is one for some people to skip - perhaps because you haven't read the book yet or maybe just the thought of "the vampire books" makes you want to heave. So, if you haven't read the book, for real this will have lots of SPOILERS. If you have and want to comment, please make sure to start your comment out with the words BREAKING DAWN SPOILERS or something like that because my RSS feed shows not only all my posts, but all of the comments left too.


(this is what the one I read looked like - who knew there were so many different covers?)

Ok, I'd like to start by saying that unlike the other books, Bella's relationship seems much more healthy. I really would have rather had her end up with Jacob because I think love based upon friendship is a lot more clear than her crazy, obsessed, Edward is perfect love.
I was mad at the first part of the book and didn't really like the first half. The idea of her being pregnant was like when TV shows get boring so they need to add a new character - and who better than a baby?! I was mad she became a vampire. I hated that. However, in the end I didn't mind, but we're not there yet. The whole baby thing grew one me once it was born. I wished there had been more of an explanation (or maybe I just wasn't satisfied with the reasons given) for Bella being able to sort of skip the whole "newborn" phase.
I liked Jacob finally accepting the role he truly had inherited and becoming an Alpha. I guessed about 10 pages (not a lot) before they said he imprinted on Nessie (her given name was the stupidest thing ever). Let's see, once there was a threat to them, I thought the book made a turn for the better.
I got a little confused with all the covens and remembering who was who and which skill they did or didn't have. But, it wasn't so complicated that I was totally lost. Overall, I would say I liked it. Maybe it is tied with book 3. I liked 2 the least and 1 was for sure the best (partially just because it was a new idea?). It was quite a gap between when I read the first 3 all right in a row and then this new one. I think reading them a lot closer together would have been ideal because I was lost on back story for the first 50 pages or so, trying to remember what had happened in the last book(s).
So, those are my thoughts (the ones I can think of right now anyway).
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RE: My Thoughts on Breaking Dawn by Marisa on

BREAKING DAWN SPOILERS AHEAD...

 

Hmmm, where to begin?  I'm starting to wonder what characteristics make a reader either "team Edward" or "team Jacob."  I have to admit that I was (am) team Edward and I'm very glad she ended up with him, even though she has an over-the-top view of him, especially in the beginning.  I don't blame him as much as some for being controlling because I think it's easy to condone after you see Bella go through her transformation and understand how different he always has been from a human, and how fragile she seems to him.  Also Midnight Sun helps with this.  Anyway, a lot of my friends are team Jacob and I think maybe they are more realists, while I (sadly) am a romantic.   As far as the storyline, I agree that the fourth book has some problems, more than the others, the biggest being the non-fight at the end.  It was unsatisfying that there was this huge build-up to the confrontation and then page after page of the "fight" itself with no actual fighting.  And then just a quick happily ever after.  Don't get me wrong, I like a happy ending, just with more action.  And I think a lot of the stuff about the pack and Leah could have been cut out.  But then again, I'm a team Edward person.  Despite that fact, unlike most people, I really liked the second book.  It was a little depressing, but I thought it added a lot of dimension to the story and was very interesting.  And I agree that the whole Renesmee thing is a little ridiculous.  The name, the fact that a vampire (an unchangeable stone, as she writes it) can impregnate a human, the development on fast-forward... it does kind of seem thrown in there.  But I think it does its part in helping Bella to have a more full human experience before the inevitable transformation, and it definitely was a surprise, which most of the rest of the book wasn't.  All that said, I'm hesitant to criticize a series that I thoroughly loved, and who really cares how unrealistic it is, it's a vampire love story after all.
 
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