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Breaking Dawn (The Twilight Saga, Book 4) | 
 enlarge | Author: Stephenie Meyer
Creators: Ilyana Kadushin, Matt Walters
Publisher: Listening Library (Audio)
Category: Book
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Avg. Customer Rating:  3458 reviews
Sales Rank: 2549
Format: Audiobook, Unabridged
Media: Audio CD
Edition: Unabridged
Reading Level: Young Adult
Number Of Items: 1
Shipping Weight (lbs): 1
Dimensions (in): 5.8 x 5.1 x 1.7
ISBN: 0739367676
EAN: 9780739367674
ASIN: 0739367676
Publication Date: August 2, 2008
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Amazon.com Review
Great love stories thrive on sacrifice. Throughout The Twilight Saga (Twilight, New Moon, and Eclipse), Stephenie Meyer has emulated great love stories--Romeo and Juliet, Wuthering Heights--with the fated, yet perpetually doomed love of Bella (the human girl) and Edward (the vampire who feeds on animals instead of humans). In Breaking Dawn, the fourth and final installment in the series, Bella’s story plays out in some unexpected ways. The ongoing conflicts that made this series so compelling--a human girl in love with a vampire, a werewolf in love with a human girl, the generations-long feud between werewolves and vampires--resolve pretty quickly, apparently so that Meyer could focus on Bella’s latest opportunity for self-sacrifice: giving her life for someone she loves even more than Edward. How close she comes to actually making that sacrifice is questionable, which is a big shift from the earlier books. Even though you knew Bella would make it through somehow, the threats to her life, and to her relationship with Edward, had previously always felt real. It’s as if Meyer was afraid of hurting her characters too much, which is unfortunate, because the pain Bella suffered at losing Edward in New Moon, and the pain Jacob suffered at losing Bella again and again, are the fire and the heart that drive the whole series. Diehard fans will stick with Bella, Edward, and Jacob for as many twists and turns as possible, but after most of the characters get what they want with little sacrifice, some readers may have a harder time caring what happens next. (Ages 12 and up) --Heidi Broadhead
Product Description
To be irrevocably in love with a vampire is both fantasy and nightmare woven into a dangerously heightened reality for Bella Swan. Pulled in one direction by her intense passion for Edward Cullen, and in another by her profound connection to werewolf Jacob Black, she has endured a tumultuous year of temptation , loss, and strife to reach the ultimate turning point. Her imminent choice to either join the dark but seductive world of immortals or pursue a fully human life has become the thread from which the date of two tribes hangs.
Now Bella has made her decision; a startling chain of unprecedented events is about to unfold with potentially devastating and unfathomable consequences. Just when the frayed strands of Bella's life--first discovered in Twilight, then scattered and torn in New Moon and Eclipse--seem ready to heal and knit together, could they be destroyed...forever?
The astonishing, breathlessly anticipated conclusion to the Twilight Saga, Breaking Dawn illuminates the secrets and mysteries of this spellbinding romantic epic.
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 Amazing end to a wonderful Saga November 18, 2008
0 out of 1 found this review helpful
Seemingly with a good novel series, when the end is coming as a reader, one wants it to go on forever. The feelings with finishing the Twilight Saga is much the same. I despise the fact that it had to end, but since it did, this was definitely in good form.
Breaking Dawn is the fourth and final installment of the Twilight Saga, not counting the The Twilight Saga: The Official Guide said to be coming out December 2008. (I'm excited). This novel is told differently than the first three. Twilight, New Moon, and Eclipse are all told from protag Isabella Swan's POV and is one whole book each, while Breaking Dawn is divided into multiple "books" and every other book moves from being as Bella's POV to another long standing character Jacob's POV. It is fascinating and amazing what it does to the story and presents all sorts of details and imagery that would not have been available simply from Bella's mind.
This is a big book, this is a good 700-something pages, getting very close to 800, but it is entirely worth the time for a read. It is amazing how well this book sucks you in until you have finished. The entire series is fabulous, in that you have not a clue what will be coming next, but that is essentially a fact in this book. As a reader, I never would have expected to what happened to occur on each following page.
Stephenie Meyer is good. She really does deserve to be a Bestselling Author with her gift of story telling. She was easily able to take a figment that has for almost all time been seen as evil and mold it into a form that is "trying". So many people have fought off this series without attempting to read it, because of a fear factor. I really encourage you to read this series. The themes are fabulous, and it is a great teen read as it was meant as well as an adult read. With love, abstinence, mercy, personal growth, friendship, devotional, and free will as constant themes through out, a reader can learn many things from the forms in which Stephenie Meyer presents a tremendously engaging story.
 Couldn't finish it. November 17, 2008
4 out of 4 found this review helpful
I really enjoyed reading the other books in this series, but I couldn't even finish this final book. It was not only boring, but just didn't give me anything to relate to. The previous 3 books had deeper messages that anyone could identify with. This book really had nothing. The author did want to wrap everything up with a pretty bow, which made the book quite stale. I skipped ahead a little to verify what I already knew would happen, and finally gave up. I am sad that the series had to end for me on such a negative note.
No just for teens! November 17, 2008
1 out of 6 found this review helpful
When i first heard of these books i thought to myself, "how stupid, books about vampires!" but when i started reading these books, i couldn't stop! This is not just a kids book, this book is written so well you get captivated in the story. I recomend this book to everyone and anyone.
Breaking Dawn Kept Me Up Til Dawn (in a good way) November 17, 2008
1 out of 6 found this review helpful
This book was simply one word. A-M-A-Z-I-N-G!
I love this series soooo much.
I am a team jacob fan and am very happy with the outcome of breaking dawn. I was excited about Jake imprinting on Nessie and how he could also still be best frwends with bella also.
I lovved how Edward and Bella got married and had a beatiful honey moon. I aslso LOVE LOVE LOVED LOVED Nessie with a deep passion.
My three favorite things about this book were A) Nessie b) Bella becomes a vampire and c)The Volturi Action
Overall I enjoyed this series and reccomend it to everyone who reads this review! (and all the other people out there that havent! boy ure in for a treat!!!!!!!!!)
A cannot put down book!!!! November 17, 2008
1 out of 8 found this review helpful
I was a fan of the twilight saga from the first page so I have loved all four books. However, this last book was wonderful. I had never been a fan of Bella before, in fact she downright irritated me in the previous books, but in Breaking Dawn I finally got her. I saw her for who she was and though she wasn't perfect, I understood her now. The story called to me and I literally could not put the book down. I even got pulled from sleep to finish the book. That is how much I loved it!!! There were moments in this book were I laughed out loud, and literally cried. This story moved me and I can only hope that we get a chance to visit with the Cullen's sometime soon.
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