Book Club ~ Twilight: Breaking Dawn

[the.games]

Yet again you, the public, have voted for our next book of the week which will be...


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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, she has endured a tumultuous year of temptation, loss and strife to reach the ultimate turning point. Her imminent choice to either join the dark but seductive world of immortals or pursue a fully human life has become the thread from which 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?
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[OldLoveSong]

OMG i've always wanted to join a bookclub. wat do we do lol

[the.games]

OMG i've always wanted to join a bookclub. wat do we do lol

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[Halas]

I hope its better than the movie

[Empired]

I hope its better than the movie

don't hold your breath

The books are poorly written, imo. Breaking Dawn in particular is giving young teenage girls the idea that they can meet someone, both fall madly in love, and he will do absolutely anything for you. Bella Swan is a drip through the entire series and no matter what people say about Kristen Stewart, she has given Bella the perfect expression (EG NONE).

Breaking Dawn is my least favourite from the saga, I must say, because they have broken the laws of vampirism. I know they explain it (because "technically" Edwards "cycle" hasn't changed) but it is still against the vampire laws for any vampire, either male or female, to have children. It is just not allowed.

[Halas]

don't hold your breath

The books are poorly written, imo. Breaking Dawn in particular is giving young teenage girls the idea that they can meet someone, both fall madly in love, and he will do absolutely anything for you. Bella Swan is a drip through the entire series and no matter what people say about Kristen Stewart, she has given Bella the perfect expression (EG NONE).

Breaking Dawn is my least favourite from the saga, I must say, because they have broken the laws of vampirism. I know they explain it (because "technically" Edwards "cycle" hasn't changed) but it is still against the vampire laws for any vampire, either male or female, to have children. It is just not allowed.

than i should not waste my time reading it??

[Empired]

than i should not waste my time reading it??

No, not really. The films tell you basically everything you need to know. If you're interested you should read it though, up to you!!

[Sloths]

When I first read the series when I they first came out ages ago I couldn't put them down, at that point I didn't really know what bad writing was... Lately I've tried to read the last one again, can't remember why it was quite random, but the writing is awful. Tbh though I can't tell if its the films that have wrecked it for me or the story line, Kristen Stewart does a horrible job as Bella but I'm not just gonna sit here and **** her off as the written character isn't that much better. It's an alright book and personally I think its the best of the series only because we get to meet new characters from around the 'vampire world' although the whole Jacob/Renesmee imprint thing is really disturbing in all honestly. I can't just sit here and say how unreal or believable it is seen as I worship the Harry Potter books which are unrealistic as well but I'm not sure if it's just the writing or the overall story that makes it unbelievable whereas with HP you believe and I think that's what turns some people away.
There are people who love the story and I guess it's the same with anything, either you love it or you hate it and you have to find out for yourself which it is.

[Ekelektra]

I've been a Twilight fan for years now, and Breaking Dawn used to be my favourite book out of them all, but now it isn't.
I know I didn't realise how sick I was of Bella until reaching the part of Breaking Dawn where Jacob was the narrator. I know many people say Bella has unrealistic views and all that, I didn't think so. But then when I read Jacob's part I realised, man she is kinda boring... It was the same with Midnight Sun (Edward's point of view of Twilight) that was an interesting read (although I'm glad it wasn't published and stopped where it did. Since from the point that Midnight Sun stopped, I bet it would have become too similar to Twilight and too repetitive).

Breaking Dawn introduced a lot of new charachters but didn't really explain their back stories at all, and I often had to go back pages to where people were introduced to remember who they were related to and where they were from, I always got Kate, Irina and Tanya mixed up for example, I just thought they were too similar like when Garret and Kate got together, I was thinking "hang on isn't she's already in a relationship? Oh no wait that's someone else." That's why I loved the companion book that came out later which explained a lot of the back stories, a lot of which were really interesting.

It's also a really thick book, but it could be a lot smaller. When there were talks about splitting it into two movies, I thought 'oh yeah that makes sense the book is really long' but now when I think about it with the second part of the movie coming out really soon I don't think a huge amount of stuff is actually going to happen, because while Breaking Dawn is twice the size of Twilight, in my opinion there isn't double the amount of events in it. You can easily read it and just skip over a paragraph and not miss out on anything important.

But like I said I'm a fan of it. You're either a fan or a hater when it comes to these books. I like the movies too, they have a lot more humour in them, but they all had cringy bits. And the books are definitely better as the movies do not explain everything fully, I know people who saw the movies without reading the books and kept on asking me to explain a lot.

[karter]

I was never really a fan of Twilight. I liked the first book, but it gets boring as you begin reading other books. I have read all the books in the series except Eclipse, but I knew where it was heading after reading New Moon. After watching Eclipse the movie, I started reading Breaking Dawn and I found it really bad, probably the reason is that I watched a movie and not read Eclipse. I won't say Breaking Dawn has been written poorly, that does not explain millions of books being sold. I personally felt that the story was finally going up and then it ended up nowhere, leaving me confused. The sex featured in the book has been highly overdone. I can't remember any good parts, except when Bella goes into labour. This book has been surely made for twilight fans only. If you did not like any books ahead of Breaking Dawn in the Twilight series, I would not recommend reading this. As Ekelektra said, the book is very thick, and if you are not enjoying it, it becomes a pain to finish it.