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Anyone else think Breaking Dawn didn't meet expectations?
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Sep 19, 2008 03:51PM
no. I loved Breaking Dawn. It was my second fave book of the series. first Twilight and then Breaking Dawn, I thought it was amazing
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Hey at least the name is original, you gotta' give her that much lol


I LOVED BREAKING DAWN!!!!!!!IT WAS MY FAVORITE, BUT IT SHOULD HAVE HAD A FIGHTING SCENE!!!
see I don't think it should have had a fight scene. some of the good guys would have died and that would have made the book even more of a tear jerker

BD wasn't as much a disappointment as it was anticlimactic. And to this add the poor editing, the out of character lines like Edward's to Jacob 'my son' (wth?!) and the whole Disney fairy atmosphere that wasn't present in the first 3 books. Everything was too easy and too dragged out.
I found Breaking Dawn a little gross when Bella has Renesmee and it agree w/ Bleuciel, it had very poor editing. I thought the whole book would be of Bella's POV but Jacob's was somehow added to the book. Not that I didn't enjoy Jacob's perspective (He was funny!) but I expected it to be different. I didn't understand why Edward called Jacob his 'son'. But the book, in a way, was good, but a disappointment to me.











Can someone tell me how the book goes?
Where Edward and Bella happy?




Also I don't think Edward ever hated Jacob's guts, sure he was terribly jealous and vexed at Jacob's seemingly childish behaviour and inappropriate fantasies, but Jacob helped him out a lot and he was grateful for that. Towards the end of Eclipse he sort of bonded with Jacob, and he said himself that he would consider Jacob as his friend if the circumstances (whole supernatural thing) were different. He invites Jacob to the wedding and he gracefully allows Bella time with Jacob. Then when Bella is pregnant, Edward obviously needed Jacob, badly, and there was a connection between them because they both wanted the same thing, and wanted to protect the same person. Jacob became less hateful to Edward, and vice versa, it wasn't JUST because Jacob imprinted on his daughter, obviously he was pretty annoyed about that. Jacob may have found it hard to acknowledge Edward as a friend, but Edward didn't really. He could never hate anything that Bella loved so dearly...his whole universe revolves around Bella...*rolls eyes* So it wasn't a big hurdle for him to accept Jacob as his friend, and potential son, and I suppose that Jacob is like a son to him, or a boy or whatever, he is over a century old, not exactly young himself.
But it is true, Edward isn't really a star in Breaking Dawn, his presence is somewhat lessened and overshadowed by other things like Renesmee, Jacob and Bella's transformation. There definitely weren't any heart-wrenching romantic scenes in the book and he was more or less ignored...which was kind of sad. I think there was too much happening and not enough slow, alone time for just the two of them, apart from the honey-moon.


And I'm kinda glad that Bella didn't think about Edward as much and that he was a lesser character. If he hadnt been, then the book might've been really boring with her thinking about how "oh-so-perfect" he looks. We've had tht for the past 3 1/2 (the half is for the beginning of Breaking Dawn) books. We already know how perfect edward is. And I might've stopped liking the books if this one had been like those.
I didn't like the name they picked for the baby though. Couldnt she have done Carlie Renesmee Cullen?? Carlie Cullen sounds a lot cooler than Renesmee Cullen.
And I didn't like the build-up to a fight that wasn't going to happen.It made like 4 chapters almost completely pointless, to me.
But I'm glad that Bella didn't have trouble being a newborn. That would've been dull to me.
And I don't understand why Edward called Jacob his son??? Doesnt make any sense to me.
The ending was expected. Not that it was the best one. But it was the one that keeps everyone wanting to read more, kind of. But it might've been better if they'd all died or sumthing and they all lived happily ever after in umm... where ever vampires go after they're dead. However, that would've made a buncha ppl hate the books, soooo it couldnt end like that.

The only thing I'm really mad at Stephenie is for ruining Edward's character. It got worse and worse as the story went until in BD when I started to like Jacob better.
But the ending was too happy. I'm not asking for too much, just a little more of a sacrifice from Bella? The only thing lost in that book was Irina and I bet Bella doesn't care any about her.
But if we were going to get a book from Renesme's POV, the ending's not suitable. Renesme should've really gone with Jacob if Stephenie was going to do that.
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