Breaking Dawn Audio CD – Audiobook, Unabridged Author: Visit Amazon's Stephenie Meyer Page | Language: English | ISBN:
0739367676 | Format: EPUB
Breaking Dawn Audio CD – Audiobook, Unabridged Description
Amazon.com Review
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
Product Description
This Special Edition of the #1
New York Times bestseller includes:
- An exclusive Breaking Dawn concert series DVD, featuring a performance by Blue October's Justin Furstenfeld and a conversation between Stephenie Meyer and Justin Furstenfeld.
- A reproduction of the personal, handwritten lyrics for My Never by Justin Furstenfeld.
- A limited-edition, full-color Bella & Edward poster (on reverse side of book jacket).
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.
TwilightNew MoonEclipse
--This text refers to an out of print or unavailable edition of this title.
- Series: The Twilight Saga, Book 4 (Book 4)
- Audio CD
- Publisher: Listening Library (Audio); Unabridged edition (August 2, 2008)
- Language: English
- ISBN-10: 0739367676
- ISBN-13: 978-0739367674
- Product Dimensions: 6 x 5.1 x 1.7 inches
- Shipping Weight: 14.4 ounces (View shipping rates and policies)
There was so much wrong with this book that I can't even begin to explain. Note that this review will have SPOILERS.
I think I'll start with the fact that to me, the entire book seemed lacking some key element that all the other books have had. And that key element was what made me one of the obsessed Twilighters. Breaking Dawn throughly cured that obsession, though.
While reading the book, I was constantly crying "no! What?? NO!" I admit, I couldn't put the book down, because I was waiting for Stephenie Meyer to pull it together. I simply couldn't believe what I was reading.
The first couple chapters of the book start with Edward and Bella having sex. That's all very nice, but Bella didn't give a dang about Jake. She "locked him away in her Jacob drawer." Pardon me, but he saved her life. However, by all means, lets "lock him away", shall we?
After the wedding, all the human characters were barely mentioned again. Bella doesn't need to be troubled with THEM anymore.
Bella gets pregnant. I must have missed something, because Edward has only venom in him. And if he does have anything else, shouldn't it be frozen?
Along with this, wasn't there supposed to be a sacrifice? Bella didn't have to spend a year as a newborn, and she developed amazing powers and "saved the day", and she certainly got that family. I was hoping for Bella to die in her pregnancy, especially when she continued going on about "Jake, are you coming back?" "Maybe..." "I might get cold, so come back."
SHE'S MARRIED! She should have tried to act like it.
So then when she gets changed, she manages to have one of those "rare" talents, just as Jake has one of those "rare" imprints.
I started reading this series after I heard a rave review on NPR during their "Guilty Pleasures" segment. The middle-aged gentleman described Twilight with such enthusiasm that I couldn't resist temptation. I bought the four-book set and settled in for a long weekend of reading.
Three days and 2400 pages later, I'd finished the four novels. I adored Twilight, tried not to slap whiny Bella during New Moon, and mostly skimmed through Eclipse trying to get to something interesting. Finally, I got to Breaking Dawn. I have never been so let down by a book in my entire life. I don't even need to go into all the ways that this book was horrible - the other reviewers have done that well. But, here I go anyway:
Wedding - So, Bella's wedding to Edward was not what she wanted, but what she was willing to trade for sex and immortality. The wedding itself was not her vision and in no way represented their unique love, but was instead a fantasy created fully by Alice's vision.
Honeymoon - Meyer is telling us that sex is scary and awful. You will have a lot of pain your first time and your husband, who puts you up on a pedestal, will hate himself for "hurting" you, no matter how yummy delicious it is. Oh, and once you do get some, it's pretty much the only thing you'll want, and your new hubby will reject you, mercilessly, due to his own hang ups. Woo! I gotta get me some of that!
Also, how come it's either a little french kissing or sex? How come no one ever talks about alllll that space in between those two extremes? What a perfect place for her to talk about sex and the implications of it, especially given her target audience.
Pregnancy - You will get pregnant the very first time you have sex.
Breaking Dawn Audio CD – Audiobook, Unabridged Preview
Link
Please Wait...