Bella smells the scent of a rock climber and starts to hunt him by climbing a cliff. Edward catches up to her on a ledge, she snaps out of it and changes course. After Jacob told Charlie about the supernatural world and Bella being different, he asks Jacob if she can turn into an animal.
Edward and Alice argue over who gets to give Bella a gift first on her birthday. Alice wins. Edward later gives Bella a Ferrari to replace her Mercedes Guardian. There is no argument about gifts. Alice shows Bella her present—the cottage. There is no 'before' or 'after' car.
Renesmee goes ahead to hunt, followed by Jacob. Bella notices Irina on a cliff and tries to speak to her, but Irina takes off. Bella catches up with Renesmee and Jacob and stays with them. Others attempt to find Irina, but she's long gone. Renesmee jumps and catches a snowflake when Irina notices her on a ridge. Jacob stays with Renesmee while Bella immediately pursues Irina.
However, Irina escapes by jumping into the ocean. Jacob arrives at the Cullen house after the Cullens realized the Volturi were coming to kill them. In the book, Bella first looks at her book after following Alice 's trail back to the cottage the day after they find out the Volturi is coming for them.
Edward is waiting outside. After 13 seconds of waiting, he rushes into the cottage, prompting Bella to toss the book into the fireplace. In the movie, Bella checks the book when Edward goes to fill up water for her bath.
By the time he comes out, she has already set the book on fire in the fireplace. This occurs after all witnesses have amassed. Alice's note is longer and different in the book. The Cullens meet Sam at the treaty boundary line where he hands them the note. Bella realizes the note is a page ripped from her page and follows Alice's scent to the cottage where she finds clues to J.
Jenks in Seattle. Alice's note is shorter. Sam delivers the note to the Cullen house. Bella looks into her book after the witnesses have arrived and calls J. Jenks before meeting him at a local restaurant. The Denalis are contacted by Carlisle via the phone and then traveled to Forks for explanation before agreeing to help the Cullens; the Denalis and the Cullens have a brief argument before Renesmee convinces them that she isn't an immortal child.
Edward, Jacob, Bella and Renesmee travel to the Denalis' home to tell them about the danger and about Renesmee; the Denalis and the Cullens fight with Kate shocking Edward before Bella knocks her away and then let Renesmee convince them.
Carmen is the first member of the Denali coven that Renesmee touches to share her story. Subsequently, Renesmee communicates telepathically with Eleazar, Tanya and Kate. Tanya is the first member of the Denali coven the audience sees being shown Renesnee's thoughts.
The movie includes a " French coven ", which includes Henri and Yvette , and is not mentioned in the books. A Japanese nomadic vampire, Toshiro , appears also only in the movie, only to be killed off by the Volturi when Aro finds he planned on meeting with the Cullens and siding with them.
The vampires Kachiri , Charles , and Makenna do not appear in the movie. Zafrina and Senna are found by Alice and Jasper and are convinced to go to Forks. Kachiri stays behind in South America to help Alice. There is no explanation to Zafrina and Senna arriving except for Bella's narration their pleas are being heard all over the world. Kachiri isn't in the movie. Alistair keeps to himself in the Cullen house and witnesses Bella's training sessions from the attic windows.
He flees when he senses the numbers of the Volturi and witnesses coming for them. Alistair still keeps to himself, but attends a meeting with the Cullens and their allies when the Romanian coven arrives. Such trickery! A battle would mean losses for everyone. At the end of Breaking Dawn the book, Edward explains to the remaining vampires — the Cullens, Nauel, and Huilen — how they escaped the Volturi mostly unscathed. Then he spoke louder, to the other as well as to me. Usually, Alec cuts off all sense and feeling from their victims while they go through the charade of a counsel.
Lora Swafford He imprinted on her. Which he has no control over, that's why he loved bella so much. All of this made sense to him once Bella had Renesmee. When you …more He imprinted on her. When you imprint on someone, it's not as much as a falling in love, as it is wanting to be with that person forever, and wanting to protect them and make sure they are safe. He will be like an older brother to her until she is older. See all 69 questions about Breaking Dawn….
Lists with This Book. Community Reviews. Showing Average rating 3. Rating details. More filters. Sort order. Aug 03, Karene rated it did not like it. This review has been hidden because it contains spoilers. To view it, click here. That being said, let me begin by saying that when I first read Twilight, I was hooked. I read New Moon in one sitting. I awaited the release of Eclipse with great anticipation. Sadly, Eclipse was the beginning of the end. It left me disappointed enough not to have high expectations for Breaking Dawn.
Even at that, Breaking Dawn shattered my lowest expectations. I am stunned at the depths to which this once-revered author has plunged! From this point on I will refer to Breaking Dawn as B.
Where do I begin? How about with my least favorite character, Bella? She began the series with a lot of promise. Throughout New Moon and Eclipse, her character starts to decline. This girl is unbelievably selfish. She begins the book whining about the beautiful, expensive car Edward bought her. She whines about the wedding preparations, the dress, the ring. The injustice! She is far more concerned about nameless, faceless people mocking her for getting married young than she is about the happiness of the man she claims to love more than life itself.
And her treatment of Jacob! Where to begin? But come on, Bella! Once she realizes she loves him, but that she loves Edward more, she chooses Edward. So let the poor guy go! Let him move on with his life! But no, she has to have her cake and eat it too. She hurts both Edward, the one she has chosen, and Jacob, the one she has rejected, by refusing to cut ties with him. Did she even think to consider whether Edward would be happy about having his child named after his rival?
No, she just did what she darn well wanted to do, and gave no thought to what Edward would want. Bella has become a tyrant. What Queen Bella wants, Queen Bella must have. Now, a little bit about Edward. He was what made Twilight so magical. He was mysterious, romantic, beautiful, all the many things that the hero of a good book should be. Edward stole the hearts of most of the female readers of this series.
Yet, by the time you finish B. Real love encompasses the occasional appropriate guidance of the loved one away from self-destructive desires toward a better way. But here, we are taught that if you love someone, you let them have what they want, all the time, without exception. As for the story development, my greatest frustration is that the author created a very intricate world, complete with detailed descriptions of what could and could not happen in it.
Then she decided not to play by these rules. Yes, I am referring to the sudden and inexplicable ability of a vampire to father a child. This felt very contrived and unbelievable, and introduced such a bizarre, nightmarish chain of events that I could hardly believe I was reading the story that began as Twilight. This baby feeds on the blood of its mother and slowly sucks her life away? This is the same, human Bella that turned green and almost passed out while doing blood typing in Biology class, right?
Okay, I could see that her aversion to blood was going to go away after becoming a vampire. But while she was still human? I felt sick the whole time I read about her drinking gallons of blood a day to sustain the child. It was twisted and disturbing. And the delivery of the baby…that was just plain disgusting. Bella vomiting gallons of blood, her bones snapping right and left, blood vessels popping in her eyes, Edward biting into her womb to get the baby out, and the tender moment when mommy sees baby for the first time is marred by said baby taking a bite out of her mommy.
I like a happy ending, and of course I wanted to see Jacob happy. No, Bella must have her way. How is that a happy ending? At the top of my list of grievances is the destruction of the message that was communicated so clearly in the first three books.
Once Bella falls in love with Edward, she is confronted with some very difficult choices. If she wants to be with Edward, she must choose to leave human life behind her and become a vampire. The value of Eclipse was that it forced Bella to look long and hard at what she was choosing if she decided to become a vampire.
She would have to cut ties with her human life…her mother, father, and everyone human that mattered to her. She could never have children of her own. She would have to deal with the bloodlust of being a newborn vampire. She would spend a significant amount of time developing the self-control and restraint that the rest of the Cullens had achieved. He grieves what he sees as the loss of his soul.
This is at the heart of his great reluctance to change Bella, the reason for his disappearance in New Moon. All the vampires who have chosen not to feed on humans hate what they have become.
They are conflicted about who they are. Bella has to confront all of this and choose to sacrifice the value of her humanity for the love she feels for Edward.
All of this is well and good and presents a very thought-provoking storyline. Then, in B. First of all, from the moment she opens her eyes as a newborn vampire, everything is better. The world shimmers. She experiences everything so much more intensely, things are more beautiful, more colorful, more wonderful. Within minutes, she is exhibiting the self-control that everyone else took decades to achieve.
And how about the whole I-have-to-have-sex-before-I-become-a-vampire-because-all- my-human-emotions-will-be-gone-for-awhile? Not only does she still experience all the emotions and passions she had as a human, but they are intensified!
All the build-up for Bella to grow and mature through sacrifice and self-denial, wiped away. So much better for her not to have to suffer through that stuff, right? And she manages to get immortality and a baby, to boot. We have to wonder if everyone who claimed that becoming a vampire was a serious, heavy choice was just delusional.
The nobility of the message is sacrificed in order to create a neat, happy ending for everyone. The big white queen is, you guessed it, Queen Bella, the white vampire.
View all comments. Aug 15, Jenne rated it it was ok Shelves: ya. Here we go. What a slut. Don't be pregnant. And also: EW.
It broke her rib?? No, really??? Oh please let it be a girl. I know I said "ew" before, but I truly had no idea. It just wouldn't be Bella if she didn't hate herself. She can even walk in heels now! Everyone is very impressed. Fulfilled, apparently. So what is going to happen to Leah now? Maybe she and her brother can get married or something.
If Renesmee heh! Probably she'll be married to Jacob in a couple weeks. Edward is a much better musician than the rest of his family, because while he was practicing, and reading about science, and learning languages, they were too busy having sex all the time! For real! Because vampires never get tired, so they never have to stop!
Apparently they also can only have sex if they're married. There is a fat vampire who is beautiful and the leader of her clan! New word. Untamed; feral. Okay, it started out pretty horrifyingly, but I enjoyed the last third or so. I still think Edward has no personality, but I guess that's what some people like. And the red-haired girl never showed up again.
Mar 27, Miranda Reads rated it really liked it. Ohhh yeah, I went there check out the video to see all my unpopular opinions Anyway, onwards to the review! Oh the memories. The angsty teen memories. They're all flooding back. It should come as no surprise that I have a dark and dangerous past - I was a Twihard. I loved this series with every beat of my teenage heart. I had a poster, I had a vegetarian vampire shirt, I had a themed birthday party, and worst of all I did this to a book: I can't even open it anymore for fea Ohhh yeah, I went there check out the video to see all my unpopular opinions I had a poster, I had a vegetarian vampire shirt, I had a themed birthday party, and worst of all I did this to a book: I can't even open it anymore for fear of the pages falling out and the spine splintering And now ten years later , I'm revisiting the series to see how my opinion's changed over the last decade.
For the most part, I still am pleasantly pleased by how much I enjoyed rereading. I very nearly memorized the series as a teen so during the reread, it was nice to see the scenes with fresh eyes after all this time.
It was like visiting an old friend. The Wizard of Oz? You need a brain? You need a heart? Go ahead, take mine. Take everything I have. That werewolf needed a firm kick in the teeth. AND for the first time I noticed how conveniently and absolutely perfect everything worked out for Bella. The sheer amount of coincidences drove me a bit bonkers: And then we continued blissfully into this small but perfect piece of our forever.
We could finally get those super-cute moments with the Cullen Family. Lots and Lots of filler-fluff. She's the calmest newborn in centuries, she makes leaps and bounds with her gift and has a super adorable precocious child.
It's verging on Mary-Sue territory. Stop being so… optimistic. Most notably, the series' end wasn't as all-consuming and life-altering as I remembered it being. I still enjoyed the series but it just doesn't hold to my memory. I guess that's a product of growing up.
I'm a bit disappointed about that. Ah well. It's still a four-star-er in my book - here's to nostalgia and memories! Audiobook Comments For such a popular book, you'd think the audio would be a bit better. The female voice done by Ilyana Kadushin for Bella's parts didn't have enough variation in tone - especially when she did male characters. The guy voice done by Matt Walters was a bit better for the distinction but sounded wooden throughout the book.
View all 79 comments. Oct 16, Natalie Monroe rated it did not like it Shelves: reread-for-the-nth-time , i-spy-something-pointy , what-the-hell-was-that-endings , wtf-concepts , wish-fulfillment-foundation , protagonists-i-want-to-laser-face , way-too-many-love-interests , deus-ex-machina , not-worth-the-hype , bye-bye-nineteenth-amendment.
Robert Pattinson hates Twilight so much, it's hysterical. And let's not forget this: From the mouth of the guy who plays him. Or these: And of course, the rest of the cast: Robert Pattinson hates Twilight so much, it's hysterical.
Or these: And of course, the rest of the cast View all 59 comments. Aug 02, Annalisa rated it did not like it Recommends it for: girls who like a happy ending at all cost.
Shelves: fantasy , romance , chick-lit , young-adult. I was so disenchanted with Eclipse I wasn't excited for this read, but I had to know how it ends. I held off judgment in hopes that the conclusion would redeem the series. The verdict? Hard-to-swallow soap opera. A car crash you can't stop staring at in hopes that something salvageable comes out of the wreckage. But nothing does. So bad I started taking notes on all the plot holes because I couldn't keep track. What happened to the story that captured the hearts of girls everywhere?
You can't fal I was so disenchanted with Eclipse I wasn't excited for this read, but I had to know how it ends. You can't fall in love with your characters so much you save them from the dilemma you created: the impossibilities of vampire and human love, the instinctual need to destroy between vampires and werewolves, the girl who has to choose between two boys in opposing worlds, the boy who gets left out, the girl who has to make massive sacrifices for her choice.
You can't save them from the plot by taking it all back and saying "never mind the rules I created, you can all have it all without giving anything up for it. As an author, you have a responsibility to your story, your characters, your fans, even yourself as a creator, to let the story be.
I recommend you write your own ending. Or better yet since I'm not really a fan of fan fiction , take your book back and get your money back. If everyone does, maybe Meyer will pretend it was a big joke and rewrite a plausible ending to the saga.
Maybe this time her editor and copy editor will actually read it. What I expected from this story: 1. The big dilemma. In Eclipse Meyer finally showed the downfall of vampire life. Bella has to give up her family, the potential of her own family, her friendship with Jacob, and the ease of human life out in the open.
Most importantly she takes on the internal moral struggle of an instinct to kill, of being a monster. This is serious sacrifice and I wanted to see some soul searching, some grieving, some preparation for death from Bella.
Vampire sex. Vampire trying not to kill human sex. Newborn vampire with unquenchable passion sex. No harlequin romance graphic, but like Twilight explored kissing, exploring how they could possibly do that.
One scary newborn vampire. Murderous screaming during the transition after a bite from Edward to save her from death. The rage, the passion, the strength, and most importantly the thirst, the unquenchable thirst, that overpowers all that is human. I wanted to see Bella going after a human, preferably someone she knows, and have to be restrained.
I wanted to see the true monster that is vampire take shape before learning to control the beast. A good showdown. Eclipse robbed us of the vampire battle. I didn't care if it was the Volturi coming after Bella or the werewolves after Edward. I just wanted a good fight from all the buildup to one and I wanted people to die because a battle without death isn't realistic , maybe even Jacob sacrificing for Bella. Isn't killing the vein of their existence? I expected some death. But alas that is not the story.
I think I may have to start denying I've ever read the Twilight saga. I was going to buy the boxed set if for nothing else for a pretty addition to my bookshelf, but now I'm truly embarrassed to have read the series. The rest of my review has spoilers. This is not Jacob's story. This is Bella and Edward's story and Jacob is a distraction. I'm sorry that you like him too much to hurt him, but that doesn't mean you have to ruin the story for him, much less give him half the book.
Making Bella still love him hurts them all, makes her self-centered, and Edward seem an indulgent parent with a whiny brat he can't say no to. It diminishes their love to volley back and forth. Everyone I love together? I don't buy it. Bella said goodbye to Jacob in Eclipse ; leave it at that. Sacrifice for Edward. That's love. Bella's treatment of Edward and Jacob is only as infuriating as his indulgence of it. His idea for resolution of her nudger gag! For a second I thought Meyer was going to go down that road and I was sickened.
How in anyone's mind is offering your wife up to another man shows undying love is beyond me. It is sick and wrong.
And how is insemination gross or worse that pimping her out? How can Bella never consider Edward's worry for her? She knows how she'd feel if he died. Bella seemed more like Wanda in The Host : trying to portray her as too kind which is just blindly selfish.
She should have written The Host after and not confused the stories or writing style. The characters have wandered so far from their original shells that I couldn't branch this story to the magic of Twilight.
Where were Edward and Bella? And the rest of the Cullens? The way Meyer transfers Jacob from one obsession to another while not extreme to be pedophile is still creepy, much worse considering Jacob's comment about seeing Bella naked or that Bella's eyes caused the imprint. This is not a southern joke where your father is your uncle and your grandpa too. It doesn't excuse Bella's unhealthy possession of him and it doesn't smooth over the hatred with Edward. My brother, my son?
His intrusion in the happy family of three was beyond grating. He doesn't get a say in how that child is raised. And is Renesmee seriously supposed to grow up and love a guy who raised her? That's disturbing. Why couldn't Jacob and Leah be happy together instead of Meyer making all of her relationships the older man with a young girl?
The story was going that way, but Meyer had reserved this sick end for Jacob she found romantic so she forced it onto the story. Werewolf imprint on vampire hybrid?
That makes no sense, especially after Leah's discussion about imprinting on the best mate to keep the race alive. As much as I didn't like the extent Jacob was in the book, the other vampires were more disappointing. All the old albeit shallow side characters were replaced with a freak show. I thought this was a book about vampires not superheros? The abundant "rare" gifts got more ridiculous from one to the next--at least the original gifts connected to human traits. And the flaws. Alice's ineptitude at her visions was not consistent.
Bella's "holes" didn't make sense. How could Jasper affect her if she's that strong? Why couldn't Edward hear her inside her bubble? Everything about all these extra vampires was just wrong.
Hundreds of vampires on a feeding frenzy without the Volturi reducing numbers didn't make sense. She should have stuck to developing the Cullens. And Bella. The second half was so out of character I couldn't take that disjointed leap with her. I was so disappointed with the lengthy Volturi scene, the only thing with any hope of excitement that only built and tiringly built and then fizzled. These were the only vampires sold as creepy monsters and while their mafia-type support didn't make sense, I still expected them to act out the role.
They didn't deliver. The story was so far gone by that point, I half expected the spawn of Satan and by that I mean Renesmee to destroy the Volturi alone. It didn't resolve anything and only put them in graver danger but she still shoved a happily ever after down our throats.
Vampires dead humans with extra chromosomes? Beyond the complications of sex for those reasons which I wouldn't have questioned if that's as far as it went or the likelihood of Rosemary's baby, don't turn the monster into an angel more werewolf than vampire.
It's a confusing stretch. You know in soap operas where babies get in the way of the storyline so they magically grow up so the parents don't have to deal with childhood? Sacrifice is what gives you undying love for children; they are not convenient plot ideas.
Nothing about that child made sense and I thought Nessie, considering its monster ties, was a vast improvement on a ridiculous name. And Edward Jacob for a boy is not sweet. It's obscenely selfish. The point at which I started hating this book was when Bella didn't even act like a vampire.
Not being a newborn vampire is not a gift, particularly for a vampire who needs a myriad of other gifts to save the story. It's an excuse to not have your characters suffer. But instead of making characters stronger, it weakens them.
It robs them. It robs us of a good story. You can't soften that blow. Hiding the pain of the bite from Edward robbed him of a chance for compassion--something dependent Bella would not do.
Turning to the person you love most in your worst hour is love, is what strengthens relationships. And how is Bella's human uterus so strong that only a vampire could cut through it with his teeth? That was about the biggest joke in the book. Being a "soulless" newborn vampire isn't all Meyer cracked it up to be. If it were, they never would have let a strong newborn go hunting with only one guardian. Since Bella was so easily distracted from a thirst that didn't seem all that powerful, there should have been some good loving in that forest.
Having the thirst that drives the series not phase her, diminishes its power and intrigue for all vampires, all the way back to Twilight. Being a vampire isn't torture; it's fun.
I want to be a superhero vampire. Sacrifice is what Bella knew she was undertaking when she picked Edward. But she gave up nothing. Everything is twisted for the sake of convenience: children, newborn desire, imprinting, human family, death, special gifts, a cast of new vampires, everything. Would a cop who detaches his daughter's battery so she doesn't sneak out plead "don't ask, don't tell" with the scary supernatural threatening his community and daughter?
The only reason this bogus aspect is even in the story is because Meyer couldn't bare for Bella to lose anything. But if Edward, Bella, and Jacob are unrecognizable characters, why not Charlie? And if Charlie gets pulled into the story why not her mother? I'm sure Meyer could have come with an implausible excuse for her too.
Meyer tried to add plot twists, but couldn't commit to their consequences. With all the conflict removed for Bella, there is no drama so Meyer tries to create it with ill-placed childish mood swings. There are no monsters in the book. Vampires are sparkly happy supermodels. Werewolves are snuggly tame pets. Even the werewolf-vampire antagonism seems to have dissipated. The head-butting between Rosalie and Jacob seems more personality conflict than the innate drive to destroy each other.
They all want to sit around the campfire and sing. Couldn't at least some Volturi sinister be burning in that fire? In a nutshell: part one: strange, part two: disgusting, part three: dull. I'm appalled it has more stars than New Moon. I guess some girls care more about a happy story than a good one.
I didn't buy the book and I still want my money back. I feel robbed. Not having the guts to finish what you started not only ruins this book, but previous installments too. I will give her this: she used a dictionary to add a few big words and she kept it clean. But I can't read her books anymore.
And I wish I could wash this one out of system. The saga had such potential and she killed it. View all 93 comments. Feb 23, Jillian rated it did not like it Recommends it for: anyone wanting to spoon their eyes out. When you create a book series, there tends to be an issue with the next book that comes out in the series having to be better than the last. Of course that is always a possibility for stories such as Harry Potter, where the plot is laced through all of the books and leads to an ultimate climax and resolution in the final book.
Stephenie Meyer did not follow this example in any way, shape, or form. Instead of possibly creating an internal plot that would follow the entire series, every book has For her last attempt, strike 4 on my count, Meyer rides this train till there are no more tracks; taking the train, and all of it's passengers on a bumpy, uncomfortable, and unforgivable journey no one had prepared for.
The child's name itself is atrocious; I honestly hope no one loves this series enough to name their own child that, out of their "love for Stephenie Meyer. Has she even mentioned children in this entire book series? Besides the fact that little mutant Nessie takes the entire stage, Bella's giving birth to a mutant that should not exist X-Men anyone? Because otherwise, the story would have ended. Bella got married, Bella somehow someway got pregnant, Bella had a half-breed baby, Bella becomes a vampire, Jacob creepily imprints on said baby, and everyone lives freakishly happily ever after.
I shouldn't have to describe how horrific it is that the entire pages of the final novel is about a baby. Bella seemed to move to Forks and somehow grow up in a year, getting married and having a baby, and living for forever with her ridiculously good-looking husband. I understand that Bella made the choice for herself, doesn't mean I have to think it was a good one. Or a good example for young girls to follow. I'm not going to step up on the soap box and preach about how many horrible morals this gives to girl's of today's generation after feminism has fought to get us this far because if they haven't read a cheap romance novel yet, they certainly will.
Guys looking to date girls of that generation should beware however.
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