Tuesday 25 June 2013

Breaking Dawn Book Review

Author: Stephenie Meyer
Date of PublicationAugust 3, 2010 (Paperback)
PublisherLittle, Brown Books for Young Readers; 1 Reprint edition
Pages: 768
Genre: YA, Paranormal Romance
Paperback or Kindle: Both


Fiery Fantasy Thoughts

Sadly, for a 768 paged book, I cannot say a lot happens.

The standard of the other 3 books went up and down for me and this book seems to on the downward part of the scale.

I mentioned that I started to dislike Bella’s character in Eclipse as she became selfish and moany, however, I would have welcomed these annoying traits from her in this book as I kept wondering where her character actually went?

This book is quite different to the previous ones, as I realised that many of the characters had changed considerably, the narration switched to Jacob’s half way through, not just Bella’s like the other books, making me become even more distant from her character and after the wedding it seemed that even Edward has lost some of his (dare I say it...) sparkle!

The first few chapters were nicely written and the honeymoon scene was authentic to the characters and sweet but I was still expecting more.

I was a little baffled with Bella’s character becomes immediately ready to have a baby, even though she had never expressed this yearning before and this became the main storyline throughout the book which slightly confused me.

Another confusing twist in the book is the fact that Jacob was quite happy to accept the fact that Bella has chosen Edward as he has ‘imprinted’ Bella and Edward’s baby. However, if he really had powerful feelings for Bella, I would have expected more of a fight.
  
Although this book seemed to want to wrap up many of the sub storylines, I felt many characters suffered by being forgotten at times with no conclusion to their story and even though Bella was already giving up her friends and family to be a Cullen in Eclipse, it would have been nice to see some kind of interaction with her past and future life to give it a new spin in this one.

All in all, this book was not what I expected but it was readable. It tied up some loose ends but left me with many questions too. I think things were too easily accepted by Bella and I felt like there could have been more of an emotional struggle from Jacob, so I will give it 3 wings out of 5 – readable but wasn't a page turner for me!


  




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Alana

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