When you loved the one who was killing you, it left you no options. How could you run, how could you fight, when doing so would hurt that beloved one? If your life was all you had to give, how could you not give it? If it was someone you truly loved?

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, a tumultuous year of temptation, loss, and strife have led her to the ultimate turning point. Her imminent choice to either join the dark but seductive world of immortals or to pursue a fully human life has become the thread from which the fates of two tribes hangs.

Now that 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 that has entranced millions.
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

Customer Rating:
Summary: Epic, Thrilling - Breaking Dawn
Comment: Stephenie Meyer is truly gifted. She speaks directly to my heart. I had given up on fiction - save Nicholas Sparks and JK Rowling I thought good fiction and esp. good Romantic fiction was dead. Bella and Edward ascend to new heights and you enjoy the ride for most of the book - with some major challenges along the way. Most romances string you out with the same plots and suddenly they passionately love each other in the last 12 pages and everyone lives happily ever after. (I'm selfish, I want more!). Stephenie isn't afraid to describe their happiness and their one-ness and with a style that you could read hours and hours on end - I was breathless to see what happened next. Thank you Stephenie, I can't wait for Midnight Sun and I hope Breaking Dawn becomes a movies a movie along with the first three!

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Customer Rating:
Summary: too many words
Comment: too many words, too many fangs, a completely lame "battle" scene and not nearly enough of edward being "edward."

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Customer Rating:
Summary: Breaking Bad
Comment: "Breaking Dawn" is the bestselling conclusion of Stephenie Meyer's vampire romance series. But is it worth it? Edward and Bella finally marry so they can do the deed (Bella wants her final human experience to be bedding Ed) At the wedding,werewolf Jacob Black warns her of what she might become. Edward has said numerous times "I'm a monster"--but Bella still wants to be a vamp.

"Breaking Dawn" has a few positive characteristics-
The descriptive writing
Some interesting premises-how would Edward,who's technically dead,be capable of fathering a child?
That a lot of it is seen from Jacob's down-to-earth perspective. He's sympathetic,but in the end he gets downright creepy.

However,the negatives outweigh the positives-
The wedding night results in Bella being terribly bruised. However,she wants more. Glorified abuse.
Bella's willingness to protect her unborn daughter at the cost of her life isn't all that pro-life. The unborn child is demon spawn.
The birth scene is traumatic,with Edward chewing Bella's belly open.
Then,there's Jacob creepy "imprinting" on Edward and Bella's spawn.

Stephenie Meyer sacrifices the sensuality of the first novels with some bad writing when Edward and Bella finally consummate their relationship. Is Meyer trying to scare sensitive people away from sex and pregnancy? Her depictions of both are disgusting.

Bella,being the Uber-Mary Sue,becomes the Perfect Vampire. She doesn't have to learn self-control,she has the shield of "love",and she doesn't have to disconnect from her family. And now she has Jacob as her future son in-law.

The "final battle" with the Volturri is overrated. Enough said.

"Breaking Dawn" is breaking bad. It's unfilmable compared to the photogenic "Twilight." "Breaking Dawn" is horrific.

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Customer Rating:
Summary: Good, but a departure from previous books
Comment: To be frank, I was really disturbed by Breaking Dawn. I consider myself to be an avid Twilight fan. I own all of Stephenie Meyer's books and am an obsessed teenage girl a.k.a. the typical Twilight fan. However, Breaking Dawn was dissapointing. It is not a bad book, but the story veers off in a direction I did not see coming at all. I won't spoil it but I found myself not wanting to know what happened next. I actually stopped reading in the middle and had to drag myself back.
The book is divided into three parts. The first is narrated by Bella, who seems way more mature than she did in any previous book. There are some explicit scenes between Bella and Edward that are a departure from the chaste tween appropriate scenes in previous books. Stephenie Meyer must not realize that some of her audience might not have gotten "the talk" yet and parents will need to give it after their child reads Breaking Dawn.
The middle is narrated by Jacob Black (who gets kind of annoying after about a hundred pages.) Alice has almost no part in the entire book and the annoying Rosalie plays a major part. Carlisle does some stupid and undoctorly things and the entire middle of the book is painful to read.
The last third is narrated by Bella thankfully. She can be annoying but after a couple hundred pages of Jacob she is a welcome relief. This part of the book also contains some more explicit Edward and Bella scenes. The final fight to the death end all scene is anticlimactic and predictable. It just turns out to be a lot of kind of pointless talking.
I felt really sad when I read Breakilng Dawn because I expected so much more. I really wanted to love this book but just couldn't bring myself to enjoy it. When I speak to my friends who are also Twi-hards they are also upset by the book so I know I am not the only one. If you have read the rest of the series you should read Breaking Dawn if for no other reason than just to see how it all ends. This review is just a warning that this book is kind of strange and you might be very dissapointed if you. like me, have come to love Bella and the Cullens.

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Customer Rating:
Summary: Are you KIDDING me?
Comment: I read all four of the books in this series (I categorically refuse to call them a saga) this week. I wanted to like them - I'd heard the phrase "move over Harry Potter" on numerous occasions; I was actually excited. I have an open mind when it comes to teen lit. I don't expect Hemmingway or Hardy; I can overlook certain....holes in writing technique. But I've read Harlequin romance novels that were better written than this tripe.

I almost don't know where to start with all of the problems with this book. I sort of enjoyed the first three. As I said, I'm generous with these kinds of books. They were a bit short on plot for me to have really become a fan, and the Edward/Bella romance fell way short of believable. Ms. Meyer never actually explains why they love each other. The best we get is that Bella intrigues Edward because she smells good and he can't read her mind (!!!???!!!) and Bella loves Edward because he's BEAUTIFUL. Right. OK. I can live with that kind of shallow simplicity.

What I can't live with is that Ms. Meyer suddenly changed all the rules that SHE set up. I'm supposed to believe that Edward is suddenly capable of FATHERING A CHILD. He has no blood, he has no heartbeat. He doesn't even have to breathe, but he has live semen? You have to be joking.

Next and worst of all is what happens to the characters. They are barely recognizable in book 4. Bella is not interesting as a vampire. Her character is difficult to like to begin with. The fact that she is clumsy, drives an old truck and plays maid for her father isn't anywhere near enough to make up for the fact that she used Jacob's love as a sort of....painkiller until Edward came back. Maybe it's just me but I found that dynamic dreadfully cruel and I already disliked her for it. But as a vampire she is just unbearable.

Frankly, I don't understand why Bella had to be so...infallible. Ms. Meyer spent chapters describing in detail that new vampires turn into monsters - only to have Bella completely escape such a fate. In fact, she maintains almost all of her humanly characteristics (well, except her personality. That most definitely goes by the way-side) after she becomes a vampire.

But Ms. Meyer's worst crime is against Jacob. His is the only character that I actually genuinely liked. And in order for everyone to have their happy ending, he imprints on an INFANT for crying out loud? BELLA'S infant. Yuck.

Breaking Dawn is poorly written, the plot is nearly non-existent and it completely ruins anything that had been good about the first three in the series. Save your time - I wish I had.

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