This review applies to the Kindle version of the book, purchased through Amazon. This review contains SPOILERS, so if you don't want to know the ending, don't read it. I have to admit that I never read the other books; just watched the movies. I was curious to read the end as I felt that Breaking Dawn 1 didn't end in the right way (Avatar anyone?) However, curiously, when Bella opens her eyes in the book, it was the exact center of the book. I was an English teacher and promoted as an attorney because I was the best writer in my government unit. I did not find the writing terrible, especially as I read the entire book in one night - couldn't put it down. To me, that is good writing. I have a sneaky suspicion that I wouldn't have liked the earlier books. As for "fading to black", this generation has no appreciation of the power of fade to black. Who wants to read all the details of someone else's sexual experience. I think there was plenty of information on the sex as a vampire. In Stephanie Myer's world, becoming a vampire cures all ills, so why not clumsiness too? Of course, her world has nothing to do with the traditional vampire and werewolf legends, the one thing about the series that I didn't like.
What the nay saying reviewers didn't like was, in part, what I did like. I really didn't need to read a full description of a dress. I have an imagination and like to use it. The one thing I agree with is the lack of any anger, disappointment or trying to talk an 18 year old out of getting married. However, as I was married at 19, without too much angst from my parents, it didn't seem as strange to me as it might otherwise have been. Also, Bella is definitely painted as quite obstinate and her father probably knew it was no use so why ruin her day?
The way Stephanie gushes over how beautiful Bella is when human, the transition to vampire beautiful really isn't all that much - no more zits, discoloration of skin, dark circles under eyes, etc. I'll bet that vampirism would actually cure a double chin, but Bella didn't have one as a human. As a woman, I know that there are times I look awful and times I look spectacular. I suppose if I turned into a Stephanie Myers vampire, it would be the spectacular that showed all the time. Also, apparently, there is a glow to the sparkly skin she created for her vampires. I also know that when a woman is graceful, it affects the entire way she looks and is perceived. So, when turned gets rid of your clumsiness and you before graceful, that affects your look as well. A lack of specified description of Bella (other than beautiful) lets the reader use his or her imagination.
You younger generation need to learn that sometimes what isn't spelled out is better than seeing or reading every little detail. Your imagination brain cells have atrophied. You no longer think imagining is a good thing. Watch Casablanca - it's in black and white - and see how affective a movie with no screen sex but plenty of passion is.
Now to the final point - everyone gets what they want and no one has to suffer to get it. Did you not read the part about Bella's suffering that didn't show because of the morphine? Even the movie tried to pick up on that. Apparently, Bella suffered quite a bit to become a vampire. Then she wasn't allowed to see the baby she nearly died for until everyone else said it was ok. Especially as she is described as the strongest of the clan, if I were Bella, I'd have thrown everyone into walls to hold my own child. I can't imagine that even Stephanie's newborns would drink the blood of their own children or parents. Remember, newborns are strong because some human blood remains. Apparently, in Bella's case, some humanity remained as well. Perhaps this was because she spent so much time with Carlisle. How easy did you you think it was for Bella to turn her back on the hikers while hunting? Part of why she was able to do it was because they might have been someone she knew. If she could do that, do you think that she would want to feed on her own child? What if someone put your favorite food close enough to you so that you could smell it, but you knew you had to eat tofu. Could you easily turn from one to the other? These are subtleties that I think the younger generation just doesn't get. Vampires are not supposed to get tired, but Bella had to concentrate so hard in training with her shield that she was exhausted (until she actually got it). Have you ever had to work at something so hard that it gave you a headache or made your body tired? And, even when she "got it", how easy do you think it was for Bella to shield an entire army while facing the Volturri? This is a woman who barely had time to enjoy all the pleasures of her change when she had to abandon them to prepare for a fight? How easy was that? Furthermore, all you males and childless females out there, how easy do you think it is for a mother to prepare to send her child away to keep her safe, especially when she had had such a short time to enjoy the child?
These are not being burned at the stake or losing Edward prices she had to pay, but they were difficult, subtle, pains that hurt almost as much. There was also the pain of thinking Alice was gone for good when Alice was her best friend in the family? Imagine seeing Rosalie, whom you knew wanted to keep the child as her own, was always allowed to hold the child before Bella could? Imagine having the greatest sex in the world and the ability to never get physically tired, but you had to stop to take care of your child. At least at night the child fell asleep so you could go back to sex without feeling you were neglecting her (although the book does describe the mesmerizing feature of Renesmee - that you could watch her sleep for a long long time).
While Bella didn't have to give up Charlie, it's made clear in the book that he would love her no matter what her circumstances were, but just wasn't ready yet to have more than Jacob's transformation ability to deal with. After all, he had dealt with Edward, Carlisle, and Alice in earlier books. And he did rebel when he said "no more lies" because he knew the child wasn't adopted but was Bella's. OK, it might have been interesting if Renesmee tried her hand on your face communication trick on Charlie, but he might have dropped her. It is true that Renesmee's understanding of when she could do things and when she couldn't (and why she couldn't have human blood) is a little out there; but then Stephanie's entire concept of the vampire and werewolf world's drives me crazy, especially as the vampire in love with a human and living in a human world was done so much better by the tv series Forever Knight. If you have never seen this series, rent it or buy it and see how it can be done and still stay true to the real vampire legends. But if you are going to accept Stephanie's world, which you apparently have if you've read the earlier books, then the final book makes perfect sense.
Without having read the earlier books, my thought is that Stephanie Myers grew as a writer rather than the other way around. I look forward to seeing how the screenplay incorporates all of the action and subtleties of the end of this book.
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