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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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Media: Hardcover
Reading Level: Young Adult
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Pages: 768
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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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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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 Couldn't finish it. November 17, 2008
4 out of 4 found this review helpful
I really enjoyed reading the other books in this series, but I couldn't even finish this final book. It was not only boring, but just didn't give me anything to relate to. The previous 3 books had deeper messages that anyone could identify with. This book really had nothing. The author did want to wrap everything up with a pretty bow, which made the book quite stale. I skipped ahead a little to verify what I already knew would happen, and finally gave up. I am sad that the series had to end for me on such a negative note.
 No just for teens! November 17, 2008
1 out of 6 found this review helpful
When i first heard of these books i thought to myself, "how stupid, books about vampires!" but when i started reading these books, i couldn't stop! This is not just a kids book, this book is written so well you get captivated in the story. I recomend this book to everyone and anyone.
Breaking Dawn Kept Me Up Til Dawn (in a good way) November 17, 2008
1 out of 6 found this review helpful
This book was simply one word. A-M-A-Z-I-N-G!
I love this series soooo much.
I am a team jacob fan and am very happy with the outcome of breaking dawn. I was excited about Jake imprinting on Nessie and how he could also still be best frwends with bella also.
I lovved how Edward and Bella got married and had a beatiful honey moon. I aslso LOVE LOVE LOVED LOVED Nessie with a deep passion.
My three favorite things about this book were A) Nessie b) Bella becomes a vampire and c)The Volturi Action
Overall I enjoyed this series and reccomend it to everyone who reads this review! (and all the other people out there that havent! boy ure in for a treat!!!!!!!!!)
A cannot put down book!!!! November 17, 2008
1 out of 8 found this review helpful
I was a fan of the twilight saga from the first page so I have loved all four books. However, this last book was wonderful. I had never been a fan of Bella before, in fact she downright irritated me in the previous books, but in Breaking Dawn I finally got her. I saw her for who she was and though she wasn't perfect, I understood her now. The story called to me and I literally could not put the book down. I even got pulled from sleep to finish the book. That is how much I loved it!!! There were moments in this book were I laughed out loud, and literally cried. This story moved me and I can only hope that we get a chance to visit with the Cullen's sometime soon.
 Not happy November 16, 2008
3 out of 4 found this review helpful
I have loved all the books in this series, except this last one.
The others were fresh, with a new style of writing.
Breaking Dawn, seems more formula in its style and story content.
For most of the read, I thought "who wrote this?". It seems so unlike Meyers writings.
Too much is happening at a too fast pace. This book has lost the strong romance of the other books. This book could have been written by any other author. Its not different or special like the other book in this series.
I almost did not finish it. So much was boring.
It seems like Meyers after deciding this would be the last in the series, put everything she could think of crammed into one book. Aside from promoting that an 18yr. old rush into marriage, sex and then a baby. I sure hope young adults don't follow this path.
I wish this book had been as wonderful as the others.
Very disappointed.
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