SPOILER ALERT!For those of you who’ve read my review of Stephenie Meyer’s Eclipse, you know how disappointed I was with the third book in the Twilight Series. So much so, that I almost didn’t purchase a copy of the newly released Breaking Dawn. With all the hype though, to my husband’s dismay, I gave in and got it. I’m glad I did! I really, really liked Breaking Dawn and was able to get through the book without thinking that Bella had Borderline Personality Disorder (as which seemed to be manifested in Eclipse).
I loved the twist of Bella getting pregnant and I also like the resolution that occurred with Jacob. There’s no doubt that there were some pretty corny, eye-rolling romantic parts between Bella and Edward, but all in all I felt that Meyer kept things appropriate. Appropriateness as it related to intimacy between Bella and Edward was probably my biggest concern for this book before I read it because of the content in Eclipse. Considering Meyer’s strong LDS roots, I felt that she pushed the appropriate content ticket in Eclipse and was selling out to her mass publisher and the broad audience she’s acquired since Twilight first came out.
I thought Bella made a great vampire and it was nice to not have her be so annoyingly helpless. I also enjoyed and thought it was interesting how Meyer brought in all the additional vampires from all over the world to assist the Cullen family against the Volturi Vamps.
I still think Meyer’s work is utter brain candy and that her biggest weakness as a writer is that she loves her characters so much she’ll never do anything to really harm them. But, because Meyer never really hurts her heroines, it makes for happy reading and I can’t complain too much about that. There was a good amount of conflict in the book, but I was never once concerned that anything truly bad, that couldn’t be fixed in a few pages, would happen to any of the main characters. And that’s just Stephenie Meyer for you and one of the reasons she’ll always write brain candy type books.
My biggest irritation in the novel was that Bella had such an easy go of it taking care of her newborn baby Renesmee. This because I just had a baby and know the truth about those first few weeks. I have thought often since reading Breaking Dawn how convenient it would be if I never needed sleep, seeing as my little Abby seems to think her bedtime begins somewhere consistently between midnight and two am.
Happy reading all you WOMEN out there! All the men I know get gaggy when they think about reading Meyer’s Twilight series. Just one of life’s pleasures that most men don’t understand…
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Thanks for telling me that this was a spoiler alert. I really need to find a copy. I am only 206 in line at the library. Maybe someone at church has it that I can borrow.
I agree with you on your review, total brain candy. I was also very pleased that Bella did not seem so dependent. In previous books, it made me think that she was lusting Edward and not actually loving. I loved her super talent. Meyer really can't kill off characters, but maybe that is why her books are so successful. Because we get a happy ending every time. Just wait until she does it with another books and we are totally shocked.
I think I am just conflicted about Stephenie Meyer. All the drama with Kemery. It just makes me read them differently. I try to hate her books, but I can't.
I loved this book! I loved how a lot of things happened. I think Bella is so much more likeable as a vampire than a human! I guess that I'm quite cheesy myself because I loved all the Bella Edward lovey stuff! I also was never worried that something too aweful was going to happen, but it was still intense in some parts. I'm perfectly fine with a perfectly happy ending!
I finally just finished the book. I agree with you for the most part, there really isn't any worry of anything bad happen. Totally predictable. I loved all the other vampires coming into the pictures, I almost wish she would have focused more on the vampire world rather then on the characters of the story. Also, I sort of wanted a fight in the end, oh well...
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