Breaking Dawn(The Twilight Saga, Book 4) [Hardcover]

Stephanie Meyer (Author)

Book Description

Publication Date: 2008

Author of the #1 bestselling Twilight, New Moon, and Eclipse

Product Details

• Hardcover
• Publisher: Little, Brown and Company; First edition (2008)
• ASIN: B005VCL4PW
• Product Dimensions: 8.4 x 5.9 x 2.5 inches
• Shipping Weight: 1.7 pounds
• Average Customer Review: 5.0 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (3 customer reviews)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #7,998 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)

Customer Reviews

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5.0 out of 5 stars Love this book!, January 1, 2012

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StephWood (Atlanta) - See all my reviews

This review is from: Breaking Dawn(The Twilight Saga, Book 4) (Hardcover)

I had such a hard time to put it down once I started reading it. It is very good and it is interesting to see thing through Jacob's eyes. Love it!

5.0 out of 5 stars What is Wrong with Me? I Loved this Book., February 4, 2012

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K. Gardner "Think occasionally of the sufferi... - See all my reviews
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This review is from: Breaking Dawn(The Twilight Saga, Book 4) (Hardcover)

Probably my favorite of the whole series, and yet the most "unbelievable". So why did I like it so much? No idea. Perhaps because it let me suspend disbelief for awhile, shed my old skin and slip into the world of teenagers where anything is possible and everything is believable.

If you're looking for Hemingway, this really isn't it. But if you're looking for an escape, some light reading and fantasy fun, its worth reading the whole series.

5.0 out of 5 stars Edward + Bella = The 21st Century Version of Steve + Jaime (The Six Million Dollar Man + The Bionic Woman), January 21, 2012

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Alexander Dukas (Boston / Los Angeles) - See all my reviews
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This review is from: Breaking Dawn(The Twilight Saga, Book 4) (Hardcover)

I (A Gay Male Romantic with A Distaste For The Romance Novel Genre!) was probably THE LAST PERSON In The ENTIRE WORLD to:

1) See The Movies

2) Read The Books

3) Who EVER Thought that I would become A Kool-Aid Endorsing + Making + Drinking Member of This Cult!

But, on a lark, I decided to give them all a chance, for great new pleasures and experiences can only be found by trying new things.

(BTW, this is one time I recommend you See The Movies and THEN Read The Books because it helps to give a MUCH clearer image of what the characters look and sound like. Usually Book Then Movie works better but this time follow The Exception rather than The Rule.)

AND I AM SO GLAD THAT I DID!

Yes, the Uber-Focus on Romantic Love and Object-Fusion in The Beginning and The Middle of the series is Fairly Female, Estro-Centric, Co-Dependent and Obsessive (Bella certainly is not A Selene, A Jean Grey, nor A Sidney Bristow And Book-Edward is A Little Too Fey for even This Queen!) but What Most People Fail to Realize, and that they couldn't have known or gotten -- until "Breaking Dawn" -- is that this series is ULTIMATELY about A Woman Finding her Best-Choice Guy, Actually Getting Him, Having A Baby With Him, and (with that aspect + to-do-list of the-life-cycle of a so-oriented woman who wants love + children in-life now successfully completed) then moving-on to Unlocking and Maximizing Her Personal Power IN EVERY WAY THAT SHE CAN for Her Mate, Child, Family, Friends, and Community which is basically THE FEMALE DRIVE and THE FEMALE VERSION OF THE ODYSSEY and one that THE VAST MAJORITY of The Females of This Species go through that many "people" amongst us are too Ignorant, Emotionally Crippled, or Just Plain Stupid to Understand.

Twilight makes PERFECT SENSE to those who actually understand The Evolutionary Biological Science behind Female Psychology, Love, Marriage, and Reproduction!

This is A Journey that Most Women and Evolved Men can get really get into and identify with but that Emotionally Crippled People just can't get or get into.

In an odd way, people relentlessly trashing the Author and what the Twilight Universe has added-up to at it's conclusion is REALLY just yet another "covert" attack by The Usual Emotionally Crippled Patriarchal Forces upon The Emotional Core and To Do List of Most Women and an Attack On Femininity Itself.

If you hate Twilight for a reason other then A English Teacher/Novelist Literary Critique of Stephenie Meyer's plotting and writing-style (which I actually happen to like) then you may as well just declare yourself to be a Misogynist and get-it-over with and/or as Margaret Cho once memorably said:

"If you're NOT A Feminist-Humanist then You May As Well Just Kill Yourself!"

What's nice about how the book and series ends...

(And, Yes, A LOT MORE Vampire-Style Matrix-Fu/Zero G Fighting would be FAR Preferable -- and let's hope Fan-Outcry over a lack of it leads to some amping-up of -- to The Final Battle Sequence!)

... in that it sets-up the groundwork for a return to this world later-on but with Trilogy 2 being about Renesmee's Own Journey and A New Love Triangle we can all (once-again and once-more-with-feeling) angstfully get-into!

I realized another thing about this series during watching one of the movies when they are having one-of-many showdowns with The Volturi and Alice has to show-her-dream (of Edward and Bella as Vampires Running in Slo-Mo and Sparkling-In-The-Sunlight) to prove that Bella will get Upgraded-to-Vampire to Aro.

I had a strange feeling of Deja-Vu said to myself:

"This Looks and Feels so familiar to me, WHERE have I seen All Of This Before?"

And then I remembered -- one of The Most Popular (Hetero) Super-Hero Couples of ALL Time The Six Million Dollar Man + The Bionic Woman -- about 35 years ago were also running together Sparkling-In-The-Sunshine, in Slo-Mo, and in Bell-Bottoms and they showed and hooked-much-of-the-world on what A Completely Equal + Complementarily Super-Powered Man and Woman could do together and how sexy True Equality, Complementarity, and Harmonization between The Male and Female Genders and Energies and Operating Systems could REALLY be.

Twilight is not "Alias" or "Underworld" (true) and Bella IS indeed too co-dependent for much of the series (also true) but it's all in the service of telling The EXACT Same Story that those other franchises told but it is done so here with a lot less action, testosterone, and violence and a lot more stillness and feelings and estrogen.

In all other ways the three series are identical.

One could even be so daring as to suggest that the recent surge and revival of the Co-Ed Romance Vampires VS. Werewolves Mythos is The Culture having an Unconscious Debate with itself about what the right mixture of Primal, Evolved, Emotional, Sexual, and Aggressive Elements (Male/Female Style) is now needed for this species going forward.