Breaking Dawn by Stephenie Meyer

Read For: Leisure/completion of the series
Rating: 2.5

After the third novel in the Twilight series, I was not too excited about reading this fourth and final book. However, my constitution is such that, when I start a series, I must finish it. The first book was good, so I was excited to read the second book. The second book was not as great, but kind of ends on a cliff hanger so you have to read the third, plus you are hoping that Meyer will redeem herself. However, after the third book fails miserably you aren't too excited about reading the fourth bu you figure you might as well finish the series. That was my thinking, anyway.

Meyer lived up to her mediocre potential. The beginning and the ending were okay, but the middle 500 pages were BORing. Bella continued to be annoying, Edward continued to be the perfect woman-created man, and unfortunately my beloved Jacob took a turn for the worse and became a stupid fluff character. It was obvious that Meyer is biased towards Bella and Edward's relationship (which, I still have no idea why they are together besides how good her blood smells) so when she realized that Jacob was winning in the love triangle, she had to go and have something stupid happen to him in order to get him out of the way (and this happens early on, mind you) so that the rest of the book can be all about Edward and Bella blah blah blah. Meyer's writing is so predictable. Anytime a small sliver of a good plot begins to miraculously ooze from her storytelling, she immediately squashes it with annoying characters and ridiculous plot "twists." And this goes on for 500 pages? Don't waste your time.



*I will say this: I thought that the movie for Twilight was actually pretty good. It was well-adapted to the screen, the pace was quicker than in the book, Bella wasn't annoying, and the casting choices were fitting. Of course, I went in with extremely low expectations, so I wasn't hard to please. I just ask for Robert Pattinson (Edward) to not wear as much lipstick the next time around. It was incredibly distracting.