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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:  3548 reviews
Sales Rank: 2
Media: Hardcover
Reading Level: Young Adult
Pages: 768
Number Of Items: 1
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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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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 Writing as someone whose all but given up love.. December 3, 2008
Chantal Bauldie (Jamaica, W.I.)
I discovered this saga about a week into November, it took me about 2 days to track down a book store that sold the books.. (I live in Jamaica, the Caribbean) and they only had books 2 and 4 .. imagine how crazy I was, but I begged around til I found a few friends (far and wide) who had one or two, so I could borrow and read. I think I sat down and was done in one day, my eyes puffy and my throat sore. I laughed with Bella, I cried with Jacob and my heart ached with Edward!
As a 'struggling young writer' of many out there, this book, aside from my lifelong fascination with vampires, which to my delight, I could get into (matter of fact, screw Hollywood's version .. I want a Cullen!) the humanity (for lack of a better word) of the Cullen family is practically something you see yourself drawn to.. Growing with Bella from her first day in Forks to her last day (in the story) in that fated meadow, you don't want anything to happen to her, but at the same time you know something must happen for her! It's like fate (no longer a flimsy thread, but golden sinew) she's literally the ugly duckling, and ends up the most graceful Swan (pun intended) ever! (I think Mrs. Meyer had a reason for the last name too!)
But all in all, if you've forgotten what love felt like, or never knew what it was, you'll be just a bit more jealous of the pages of that book, the characters, the suspense, the intensity.. and just about leaves you wondering .. "what if?..."
Epic, Thrilling - Breaking Dawn December 3, 2008
Carolyn Hieb (Sioux Falls, SD United States)
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Stephenie Meyer is truly gifted. She speaks directly to my heart. I had given up on fiction - save Nicholas Sparks and JK Rowling I thought good fiction and esp. good Romantic fiction was dead. Bella and Edward ascend to new heights and you enjoy the ride for most of the book - with some major challenges along the way. Most romances string you out with the same plots and suddenly they passionately love each other in the last 12 pages and everyone lives happily ever after. (I'm selfish, I want more!). Stephenie isn't afraid to describe their happiness and their one-ness and with a style that you could read hours and hours on end - I was breathless to see what happened next. Thank you Stephenie, I can't wait for Midnight Sun and I hope Breaking Dawn becomes a movies a movie along with the first three!
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