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Breaking Dawn (The Twilight Saga, Book 4) | 
| Author: Stephenie Meyer
Publisher: Little, Brown Young Readers
Category: Book
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Rating:  3756 reviews
Sales Rank: 1
Media: Hardcover
Reading Level: Young Adult
Number Of Items: 1
Pages: 768
Shipping Weight (lbs): 1.8
Dimensions (in): 8.3 x 5.5 x 2.5
ISBN: 031606792X
EAN: 9780316067928
ASIN: 031606792X
Publication Date: August 2, 2008
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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.
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 Great READ! January 6, 2009
I do not normally read young adult material. I have a friend who is a school teacher and she gave me the first two books in the series. - SPOILERS MAY FOLLOW - I was not happy after book three, because as a parent and 38 years old, I wanted Bella with Jacob. I felt that Edward was too smothering at the end. So I was hoping that this book would have Bella and Jacob together at last!
Needless to say, I didn't get what I wanted but boy was I happy with the twist and turns this book took! It was difficult in the first half dealing with Bella's pain and the fear that she'd die. Plus the agony that Jacob went through loving her and thinking that she wouldn't live even if she'd never love him the way he wanted her too.
But this book was GREAT! It made me fall in love with the characters all over again! Read the entire series, you'll not be disappointed!
Breaking Dawn January 6, 2009
This was the best book of the series, and the longest. It felt like it was never going to end. I, however, could not stop reading once I started. This book was impossible to put down. Two of my friends who had already read it agreed. This book is wonderful, but you do need to read the previous three to understand the material in it.
 Breaking Down January 6, 2009
Enough has been said by others regarding the awful ending of this series that I don't need to say much more. But let me say one thing. The point of fables like this is that we learn something from them. Life doesn't have a perfect ending. Difficult situations require difficult solutions. Fables are a way for us to understand these situations, and even though the ending is not always happy, there are lessons to learn. Happy endings frequently come at a price - even Disney understands this (e.g. The Little Mermaid).
Breaking Dawn illuminates nothing. The series sets up a number of difficult situations, and Breaking Dawn conveniently ties them up, throws a little glitter on, puts a cherry on top, then adds a squirt of chocolate syrup. Why not? If it's going to be devoid of meaning, it may as well be unpalatable.
Instead of Breaking Dawn, it seems that Stephenie Meyer is Breaking Down.
AWESOME! January 6, 2009
This was a great purchase! Breaking Dawn was a lot of fun to read. In fact, I've read it twice since I got it. And my son has borrowed it as well. Stephanie Meyer has written a unique series of books. Keep em coming!!!
Great Series January 6, 2009
This is probably one of the best series I've read in quite some time. I would definitely recommend this to anyone over the age of 13... & I have! Meyer really out did herself!
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