OK...I finally finished reading Breaking Dawn. I can see why she used this title for the book. I don't, however, understand why it took her some 700+ pages to finally "break dawn". I loved the book and disliked it at the same time. At first I was thrown by the chapters where Jacob does the telling. However, after a few chapters into this area of the book, I found that I enjoyed hearing from his perspective. Wow... we sure didn't know Jacob this well before? I was disturbed by the honeymoon area of the book and the discovery that Bella became pregnant rather quickly. I know that we had to travel down the disturbing road of thinking that the baby would be a monster, but it was difficult to get through. I thought that the transition from human to vampire for Bella was very well written. Bella speaking while in the throws of the change was fascinating. I would have liked to hear more from Edward at this point in the story. He seemed to be such a "WRECK" and totally unable to cope. I realize that Bella is his whole world, but I think we should have heard more from him and more about his anguish. I agree that the Renessme name is kinda lame. However, when you say it out loud quite a few times it kinda grows on you.
Now...to the part of the story that I really was disappointed in. The Volturi !
What the heck is with that? Do we really believe that the child brought from South America (half human/half vampire) was their only reason for heading back to Italy with their tails between their legs? I felt there were too many pages devoted to the build up of a fight and a subsequent loss of our favorite characters. Not that I wanted anyone to be destroyed...but couldn't we have had a little more reason for the Volturi to back down. I really thought that when the earth moved and the wind was raised that something dramatic, like the earth swallowing the Volturi, would happen, but she just passed over that quickly. I frankly don't know how I expected the story to end. But, sadly, I was disappointed.
Does anyone else feel that she left a little window open for a 5th book?
I'm really looking forward to the movie coming out on Nov. 21. Can't wait to read your reviews and share my own.
Monday, October 27, 2008
Finished Breaking Dawn
Posted by Karen at 7:12 PM 1 comments
Subscribe to:
Posts (Atom)



