As anyone who’s read the last, like 10, blog posts from me knows, I enjoy Stephenie Meyer’s Twilight series quite a bit and was eagerly awaiting the Aug. 2 release of “Breaking Dawn,” the fourth book in the series. My future sister-in-law and I went to a midnight release party at our local Border’s just so we could get the book and begin reading immediately.
I stayed away from as many spoilers (Except for the article from Meyer early last week where she reveals that Bella and Edward’s wedding happens early in the novel) as possible and tried to critically think what could possibly happen. Unlike Harry Potter, in my mind, Meyer could have taken the series pretty much any way.
Rachel and I get back to her house around 12:20 a.m. and take up residence on the couch, diving right into the book.
It just felt … different …
Sure, the first book felt pretty much the same as the other three novels, mostly because it was from Bella’s perspective. Bella felt a little different, less obsessive, I guess, but it still felt fairly normal.
Then Jacob took over, and all the weird stuff started happening.
I’m not going to go into detail here because I know I wouldn’t appreciate finding spoilers so soon after the book comes out, but I’ll just say that I feel as if one thing I said to a friend pretty much summed up my reaction to the book.
Um, I was reading through the book (which I like, but not sure if I like it more than Twilight yet), and wondered who had abducted Stephenie Meyer and written it under her name
I knew that, if certain things happened, the tone would change. But, I didn’t expect some of the things that happened.
It all seemed to wrap up a little too neatly, too. Everyone was all happy and alive and the bad guys backed down.
Bo-ring!
But still, it was decent. Not as good, in my mind, as the first three, but still good nonetheless.
What are your thoughts?
I liked it a lot, I liked the change of tone it made me like it more so than the previous books (I think-Obviously I haven’t had a lot of digesting time with this)
By: Faith on August 6, 2008
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I thought that Breaking Dawn was the weakest of Meyer’s books. I read all of them in the span of about week as part of a book club. I felt that the middle of the book dragged for about 100 pages. More judicious editing might have tightened up the middle story. Once the last quarter of the book started, it improved greatly. I plan on rereading the series sometime this winter, probably after the Twilight movie is released, to see if my impressions change.
I am also waiting to see how her new novel, Midnight Sun – Edward’s Story, comes out. The excerpt on her web site is intriguing. As long as it brings something new to the mythology, then it will serve the saga well.
By: Ginny on August 14, 2008
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