Breaking Dawn
Stephenie Meyer's "Breaking Dawn", the last of the Twilight series, is something of a disaster of a book. Although none of her novels have been worthy of the praise they have gotten, they are not one hundred percent terrible- except for Breaking Dawn.
Most of the Twilight series is composed of Bella's constant fawning over Edward and how absolutely wonderful he is. Breaking Dawn is no different, except for the warped nonsensical "plot" stuffed into it.
Firstly, Bella gets impregnated with a child from Edward after their honeymoon. How is that possible? Vampires are not alive in the ways that humans live. According to Stephenie Meyer's storyline, their bodies are frozen in time, they only drink blood for sustenance but have no other bodily functions. Edward is pretty much dead. He does not have to breathe, his heart does not beat, his skin is cold like a corpse. Also, vampires do not have blood flow through their body (blood is only their food, not an actual part of their bodiy's circulatory system.) How does he perform the bodily functions needed to conceive a child? Or right, he shouldn't be able to.
Next, Jacob Black imprints (meaning that he looks at and creates an unbreakable connection) on the child that Bella decides to keep EVEN THOUGH it's slowly killing her by breaking her ribs with it's superhuman-vampire strength. No sane person would keep an unborn child that would kill them, that their husband keeps telling them to get an abortion because he thinks that it is an evil creation that will murder his wife. Stephenie Meyer changed Bella's character to suit the story's need, because Bella would have listened to Edward if she was actually being herself. Back to Jacob imprinting on the child. Stephenie Meyer describes imprinting as an unbreakable connection with the imprinted and the werewolf, something that is whatever kind of relationship it has to be at the time, either romantic or not. But of course when the child is older it would become romantic. She is basically trying her best to make it look as if Jacob is not a pedophile who has fallen in love with a freaky mutant baby girl. It didn't work that well. The character that had been working throughout the entire beginning of the Twilight series to win Bella's heart was turned into a pedophile with no feelings for Bella whatsoever.
Actually almost all the characters' personalities changed dramatically in Breaking Dawn. For example Alice (one of Edward's family members) used to be witty and fun, but became Bella's personal fashion consultant. And way too many characters were introduced in the last book, and all felt rushed with little to no personality.
The entire book was made to build up to the grand finale with the battle between Bella and the Cullens, their other vampire friends, and the werewolves against the Volturi (something of an organization of vampires to keep their existence hidden). But in the end, there was no battle. Bella was turned into a vampire by Edward after giving birth to her child, as he had no other choice because she would have died from bloodloss otherwise. One of Bella's powers as a vampire is to inhibit the affects of vampires abilities that affect the mind not only for herself but for the others around her. So she is able to stop pretty much any of the Volturi members from harming her friends, which was very convenient. Nobody was hurt or killed at the end of the book, there was no finale and no sacrifices were made. I feel like this is a major flaw in Stephenie Meyer's ability as a writer, for she made no morale to the story. Everything turned out perfect and rosy.
Lastly the grammar was atrocious. There were switches between blonde and blond for hair color and in one scene it is said that Bella makes Charlie pancakes, but then he is looking down at his cereal bowl. It is obvious that either the editors did a very poor job at editing or they didn't even look at the book at all and Stephenie was forced to do it herself.
So that is why, in my strong opinion, that Breaking Dawn was not a very good book at all.
P.S. Sorry to any Twilight fans, but we live in a free country where we can expfress our opinions! ;)
Next, Jacob Black imprints (meaning that he looks at and creates an unbreakable connection) on the child that Bella decides to keep EVEN THOUGH it's slowly killing her by breaking her ribs with it's superhuman-vampire strength. No sane person would keep an unborn child that would kill them, that their husband keeps telling them to get an abortion because he thinks that it is an evil creation that will murder his wife. Stephenie Meyer changed Bella's character to suit the story's need, because Bella would have listened to Edward if she was actually being herself. Back to Jacob imprinting on the child. Stephenie Meyer describes imprinting as an unbreakable connection with the imprinted and the werewolf, something that is whatever kind of relationship it has to be at the time, either romantic or not. But of course when the child is older it would become romantic. She is basically trying her best to make it look as if Jacob is not a pedophile who has fallen in love with a freaky mutant baby girl. It didn't work that well. The character that had been working throughout the entire beginning of the Twilight series to win Bella's heart was turned into a pedophile with no feelings for Bella whatsoever.
Actually almost all the characters' personalities changed dramatically in Breaking Dawn. For example Alice (one of Edward's family members) used to be witty and fun, but became Bella's personal fashion consultant. And way too many characters were introduced in the last book, and all felt rushed with little to no personality.
The entire book was made to build up to the grand finale with the battle between Bella and the Cullens, their other vampire friends, and the werewolves against the Volturi (something of an organization of vampires to keep their existence hidden). But in the end, there was no battle. Bella was turned into a vampire by Edward after giving birth to her child, as he had no other choice because she would have died from bloodloss otherwise. One of Bella's powers as a vampire is to inhibit the affects of vampires abilities that affect the mind not only for herself but for the others around her. So she is able to stop pretty much any of the Volturi members from harming her friends, which was very convenient. Nobody was hurt or killed at the end of the book, there was no finale and no sacrifices were made. I feel like this is a major flaw in Stephenie Meyer's ability as a writer, for she made no morale to the story. Everything turned out perfect and rosy.
Lastly the grammar was atrocious. There were switches between blonde and blond for hair color and in one scene it is said that Bella makes Charlie pancakes, but then he is looking down at his cereal bowl. It is obvious that either the editors did a very poor job at editing or they didn't even look at the book at all and Stephenie was forced to do it herself.
So that is why, in my strong opinion, that Breaking Dawn was not a very good book at all.
P.S. Sorry to any Twilight fans, but we live in a free country where we can expfress our opinions! ;)
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Sorry to disagree with Sophisticus and the "Twihards" but I do agree with Sam on one major flaw in "Breaking Dawn". I can handle the crazy rib-cracking vampire baby, and I could even deal with the pedophilia issue between Jacob and Renesmee, but the anti-climactic "no-battle battle" at the end of the book is inexcusable. NO epic series ends without a great clashing bloody war with defining acts of bravery and sacrifice!! See: "Star Wars", "Lord of the Rings", "Harry Potter", The Narnia Series, the list goes on. And how, might I ask, is the "Breaking Dawn" movie going to end? With all the vampires standing around staring at each other, with close-ups of Bella's contorted face as she throws her shield around the Cullens? Wow, can't wait for that incredible climactic ending to the ENTIRE SERIES!!
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