Breaking Dawn

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I finished reading about two days ago, I guess its time to get a review in order maybe? Hmm… I’m not the best at this.

I have to say; unlike several people I loved it. (Yes, I can just see everyone navigating away from this now.) By no means though, do I think it is the best written one. There are several moments when everything sort of fell out of character. For example during Bella’s pregnancy. I don’t know how you explain it, maybe it’s because I’ve never been pregnant myself that I don’t understand how she’s feeling. For me though, she turned soft way too soon. Just my opinion, again, never been pregnant myself. And Carlisle, I’ve always seen him as the father figure from a long time ago, for some reason the dialogue from him made him too modern. He sort of “fell out” of the father position at times.

It was pretty interesting how the whole book was organized, a smart move on Stephenie’s part. It would have been terrible to have to sit through a couple hundred pages of pregnant Bella. Plus, it was a clever way to show things happening outside of the Cullen house. I think without the switch to Jacob’s POV, we would never have seen Edward lose it. For once, it wasn’t a constant – and very biased – description of how perfect he was all the time during book 2. A nice change. (Don’t get me wrong I love Edward, but sometimes it’s nice to see a different side.

Book 3 we go back to Bella’s POV. Of course, we finally see her turned into vampire, then later on find out the power that everyone kept speculating on. So we find out her power is the “shield”, which everyone pretty much guessed. I know many people who have dismissed this theory because it was too “obvious”. It think much of the book could be seen as taking the “easy way out”. I was pretty excited for the huge battle scene at the end, but they just talked it out like the adults they were. We learned a lot from those two chapters of almost completely dialogue. That is what I mean by the easy way out; they just talked over a lot of the things.

Speaking of the battle scene we learn that the Werewolves were not true werewolves, or rather “Children of the Moon”, which are almost completely extinct because of Caius, they’re more like shape-shifters.

On a completely different note, I’ve also heard from several people who ever disappointed with the lack of sex scenes. I think, because Stephenie made it such a big deal, a lot of people were expecting it. It’s not surprising though, it is in the YA genre as opposed Erotic Romance.

The plot revolved around Bella’s pregnancy then later her child, Renesmee. I absolutely adored her. My favourite line in the novel:

Bella: “You nicknamed my child after the Loch Ness monster?”
I started cracking up at this.

In case you didn’t know (then you shouldn’t be reading this), her nickname is Nessie. She was just precious. I think because she had so little lines, she would one of the realest characters, for me at least. I jumped whenever she does speak because I forget that she could. Stephenie’s adaption of the so very cliché half vampire was pretty cool too.

I guess it could my favourite book of the saga, I’m not sure yet, I’ll have to read it a few times before I can say for sure. It was very unpredictable and overall, I really enjoyed it.

-Heidi