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Breaking Dawn (The Twilight Saga, Book 4) | 
 enlarge | Author: Stephenie Meyer
Publisher: Little, Brown Young Readers
Category: Book
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Rating:  3274 reviews
Sales Rank: 6
Media: Hardcover
Reading Level: Young Adult
Number Of Items: 1
Pages: 768
Shipping Weight (lbs): 1.9
Dimensions (in): 8.4 x 5.8 x 2.4
ISBN: 031606792X
EAN: 9780316067928
ASIN: 031606792X
Publication Date: August 2, 2008
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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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 Message shmessage October 8, 2008
I'm quite amazed by the number of indignant and vituperative reviews for this last book in the Twilight saga. It's definitely a credit to Ms Meyer's writing ability to have drawn readers into her story and made them so possessive of her characters. But the reality is these are just stories. I'm sure she wasn't trying to ignite the world with some earth-shattering message; she was just telling a love story.
I was lucky, absolutely, to have discovered this saga after all four books were written. So I got the gist of what was going to go down before I started reading Twilight. Nevertheless, I become addicted, "bitten", with the first page of the first book and devoured all four in the course of seven days. What fun! I was immediately drawn to Edward Cullen - loved the premise of this story and tore through these books like my life depended on them.
I give the first book the highest rating - five stars. New Moon and Eclipse held my interest but mostly because I was head over heels for Edward. Breaking Dawn was a bit of a disappointment; it dragged for me. It was like a ten hour one-act play. Not a lot of action and I felt as though there were a lot more words on the pages than necessary to tell the story that Ms. Meyer's was telling. I almost got the impression that there was a deadline to meet and a lot of filler was used to get the page count up to a respectable level.
Yeah, the last book kind of pushed my limit just a wee bit. But then the whole darn saga is fantasy and who's to say what's plausible and what's implausible when it comes to fantasy? It's Ms. Meyer's story to tell and if one doesn't want to read it then don't. I'm just amazed at the fortitude of the one-star reviewers who read an entire book that was so appalling to them. If you don't like the book - put it down. Write your own ending.
So, yeah, tied up in a neat little bow but I prefer a happy ending. I'm not one to be entertained by rip-your-guts-out kind of endings. I'd much rather shut the book after the last page with a smile.
I'm going with a 3-1/2 stars for Breaking Dawn. I do wish that there had been as much passion and imagination in this last book as the first, and even the second. I will be looking forward to Ms Meyer's next book. Fingers-crossed that she has another spectacular dream and starts a new saga and not bring Edward/Bella/Jacob back in reruns. I'm content to leave them right where they are.
Good show!
 What's wrong with a happy ending? October 7, 2008
1 out of 2 found this review helpful
I loved this book as much as the previous three. I would not have been happy if Edward and Bella did not end up living 'happily ever after'. End of story.
Fast Shipping and Reading October 7, 2008
0 out of 4 found this review helpful
I received this book in two days and I had just finished the third book, I was able to start reading right away. I loved this book just as much as the other three. Pass your book on to someone else after you are done, so they can have the same enjoyment you did!
Breaking Dawn October 7, 2008
0 out of 6 found this review helpful
This book was absolutely the best, by far, that I have read in a long time. All four in this series is a five star!!! It takes you away from reality for a little while, which makes it all the better!! I am the mother of a 14 year old daughter and wanted to know what all the rage was about in these books, now I know!! These books are intoxicating!! You absolutely fall in love with these characters!! I also applaud the author for some of the morals used in these books, for instance marriage before sex. I have read some of the negative reviews that were posted and a lot of them said that this book is not good because all ends well. I personally think it ended great, there is so much heart break in the real world let us read something that has a happy ending for a change! Stephenie Meyer is a very talented author!!! Wonderful read!!!
 As good as the first one, or better... October 7, 2008
0 out of 5 found this review helpful
I didn't get around to reading the book until recently, so I am obviously not a rabid fan. In fact, I found the second book to be excruciating, and the third felt like filler, but, I'm not one to leave a series unfinished... And I had heard that some people weren't happy with the last book, so I was curious to see what all the talk was about. And after I read Breaking Dawn, I still wasn't sure why people were so upset. I felt like this was perhaps the best one of the series. It was the most interesting, the most engaging, and had the most developed plot of just about all of the books. Bella finally stopped being an immature, annoying whiner, there was a minimum of melodramatic pining, and she wasn't this uselessly weak character anymore. And that is why so many people didn't like this book. What I found annoying and unnecessary and a weakness in the other novels is what so many of you romance lovers connected to, so since the melodramatic romance was at a minimum in Breaking Dawn, of course you guys wouldn't like it as much. But, really, if you look at things objectively, this is one of her best written books and certainly the most engaging for me, personally...
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