Product Description

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, a tumultuous year of temptation, loss, and strife have led her to the ultimate turning point. Her imminent choice to either join the dark but seductive world of immortals or to pursue a fully human life has become the thread from which the fates of 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?

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.

Product Details

• Amazon Sales Rank: #1 in Books
• Published on: 2008-08-02
• Released on: 2008-08-02
• Number of items: 1
• Binding: Hardcover
• 768 pages

From Publishers Weekly
It might seem redundant to dismiss the fourth and final Twilight novel as escapist fantasy--but how else could anyone look at a romance about an ordinary, even clumsy teenager torn between a vampire and a werewolf, both of whom are willing to sacrifice their happiness for hers? Flaws and all, however, Meyer's first three novels touched on something powerful in their weird refraction of our culture's paradoxical messages about sex and sexuality. The conclusion is much thinner, despite its interminable length. Everygirl Bella achieves her wishes quickly (marriage and sex, in that order, are two, and becoming an immortal is another), and once she becomes a vampire it's almost impossible to identify with her. But that's not the main problem. Essentially, everyone gets everything they want, even if their desires necessitate an about-face in characterization or the messy introduction of some back story. Nobody has to renounce anything or suffer more than temporarily--in other words, grandeur is out. This isn't about happy endings; it's about gratification. A sign of the times? Ages 12–up. Copyright © Reed Business Information, a division of Reed Elsevier Inc. All rights reserved.

About the Author
Stephenie Meyer graduated from Brigham Young University with a degree in English Literature, and she lives with her husband and three young sons in Arizona. Stephenie is the author of Twilight,New Moon, and Eclipse.

Customer Reviews

Breaking Dawn just doesn't do the rest of the series justice.
Stephenie Meyer has captivated millions of fans with her first 3 books in the series but seems to have dropped the ball in Breaking Dawn. The story is inconsistent with the rest of the series. All of the characters are written out of character in one way or another. There are numerous unexplained plot holes and numerous characters whose stories are left unresolved. It doesn't even have the feel of romance the other 3 had. It reads more like a science fiction novel at best.

Oh The Humanity!
I'm stuck around page 400...I want to finish to put the final nail in the Twilight series coffin, but it's dead boring!

She needs to give her "Ninja editor" a swift kick in the pants.

I don't know why the author thought we would enjoy reading all the mundane thoughts of Jacob, but she has lost what made Twilight magical: Bella Swan (and all that she could have been).

I honestly expected Bella to "find herself," not find herself married, under Edward's thumb, and pregers with demon spawn. **Gasp**

I'm cheering for the Volturi at this point.

Maybe in Mormonville where Mrs. Meyer lives, grown men "imprinting" on babies and little girls may be acceptable, but out here with the rest of us, it's just creepy.

I think young girls should read this series, as a cautionary tale. This is what happens girls if you have no educational goals, your identity is defined by others, and you have a poorly defined sense of self. You fall prey to powerful men who think only of their desires, and they make you compromise to get what you think will make you happy.

Bravo Mrs. Meyer on a job well done!

WE SOOOO LOVED IT! SUPERB FINALE!!!!
WELL WORTH THE WAIT, SO MUCH MORE THAN I EXPECTED, YET EVERYTHING I HOPED IT WOULD BE, I LOVED IT!!!
SHAME, YOU CANT PLEASE THEM ALL, OH WELL,TOO BAD, I AM ACTUALLY GLAD TO BE PART OF THE SATISIFED READERS.
XTRA, XTRA KUDOS TO THE WRITER! ALL MY FRIENDS ENJOYED IT AS MUCH AS I DID.

NOW WE ARE SOOO EXCITED ABOUT THE UPCOMING MOVIE! CANT WAIT