Book four and the finale to Stephenie Meyer's Twilight Saga is Breaking Dawn. We've learned a little bit about the Volturi, the leading Vampire coven, in each of the first three books. In Breaking Dawn, things finally come to a head with Jacob, Edward and Bella. Again, I might be a little vague to avoid giving too much away.As Bella and Edward take a new turn in their relationship, Jacob is left to his own self discovery until his heart is finally snatched away from him. As the three of them struggle to make the best out of the deranged circumstances they are put under, in the background the Volturi are planning a brutal take over. When your body and vengeance can live forever, a takeover can only mean one thing: death. Will Bella lose her true love? Her new family? What will Jacob risk to do what he feels is right?
Breaking Dawn answers all of the questions that the tortured readers, waiting for the next book, asked about. Because of that, the book can at times seem rushed and out of sync with the rest of the series. I'm going to again give my personal opinion and say that I don't feel that the book was rushed at all. I think that in order to wrap up a fantastic saga, Meyer had to fit a lot of information in an infinitesimally small space between two covers. The way that she handles this in the book is absolutely fabulous!
Fair warning - this book is different (but not out of sync) from the rest of the saga. I would have to say that Breaking Dawn pushes the Young Adult boundaries just a smidge. In terms of the movies, of which Twilight is already out and New Moon is due in November of 2009, I would say that Breaking Dawn would be the most difficult to film and the most difficult to market toward a Young Adult audience. Still, I am keeping my fingers and toes crossed that they continue on with the movies through Eclipse and on to Breaking Dawn.
Writing:5
Interest:5
Passion:5++
Originality:5
Characters:5+
Pace:5+
Overall: 30/30 - A
I think Breaking Dawn deserves a solid A with extra kudos in Passion, Characters and Pace. I found the pace to be fantastic. It was literally next to impossible to put the book down. "Just one more page." "Okay, just one more chapter." Before you know it the book is done and you're flipping it back over to read it again!
I really liked the pace of this one. I read it in one sitting because I couldn't put it down.
ReplyDeletei do wish she had more days on her ending after the volturi had been scared off because i didn't want it to end there but seriosly it isn't a book you CAN put down
ReplyDeleteI loved this story it had alot of action and drama and you learned another side of vampires. And how they feel about themselves etc. I think Stephanie wrote a good book when she created the characters. I was like you couldn't put the book down and when I did I was like wow I so could read it again.
ReplyDeleteI loved the story and couldn't put it down til I was done and almost restarted it again it was so good. Which there was like another 100 or so pages to it, but ah well definitely a solid book to say the least
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