Binding: Hardcover
EAN: 9780316067928
ISBN: 031606792X
Label: Little, Brown Young Readers
Manufacturer: Little, Brown Young Readers
Number Of Items: 1
Number Of Pages: 768
Publication Date: August 02, 2008
Publisher: Little, Brown Young Readers
Reading Level: Young Adult
Release Date: August 02, 2008
Studio: Little, Brown Young Readers

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Editorial Review:

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.




Rating: - Not like Twilight
I didn't hate Breaking Dawn like a lot of the twilight community did, but to say that I loved it is also a far cry from the truth as well. At first I loved the beginning; Edward and Bella finally got married and had a wonderful honeymoon, things were looking up, but then everything changed.

I feel like Meyer got stuck half way through, like she dug herself into this hole and had trouble getting out of it. There were points where the book dragged where you just wanted to say, "Oh come ... Read More

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Rating: - Immortal (Vampire) Love story
I loved all of the books, and the characters. I see nothing wrong in creating another immortal love story. Its like a new Tarzan and Jane, Superman and Lois Lane, or Radha and Krsna. I for one think these kinds of love stories are the best ones.

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Rating: - Poor final book to what should have been a good saga
Lots of spoilers here...

This was just as bad as the second book in my opinion. It wasn't that it didn't have enough going on. It was that everything seemed so disjointed; characters falling completely...out of character. It all started out smoothly. But then it all went downhill so fast. You start out thinking "finally, we can get this vampire change thing out of the way & get on with things", but no. Honeymoon...great! Everything seems happy. Then it comes to sex again & moods get ruined, ... Read More

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Rating: - Annoyed!
Come on guys, there are lots of reviews in here that have HUGE spoilers(like why even read the book now spoilers)without so much as warning people by typing SPOILERS. Some people still want to be surprised. I just think people should try to be considerate of the people who haven't read it yet. Would you like it if you were REALLY looking forward to a movie and right before you see it, as you're in line to buy the tickets, someone tells you the big twist at the end? I just wish people would be more careful. ... Read More

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Rating: - A mediocre end to the saga
I loved the first three books so I admit, it would be hard to live up to my expectations. There were a lot of things I liked about this book such as the wedding, honeymoon and Renesme. As a mother myself, I was a little worried about Bella missing out on the experience of motherhood so that was a pleasant surprise. But then there was really no climax to the story. The scene in the field w/the Volturi was pretty boring. And we definitively never found out if vampires have souls, though it was hinted at. ... Read More

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