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List Price: $22.99Amazon.com's Price: $12.65 You Save: $10.34 (45%)as of 03/18/2010 13:22 EDT
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Binding: Hardcover
EAN: 9780316067928
Edition: 1st
ISBN: 031606792X
Label: Little, Brown Books for Young Readers
Manufacturer: Little, Brown Books for Young Readers
Number Of Items: 1
Number Of Pages: 756
Publication Date: August 02, 2008
Publisher: Little, Brown Books for Young Readers
Reading Level: Young Adult
Release Date: August 02, 2008
Studio: Little, Brown Books for Young Readers
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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:
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.
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I am a speed reader and can go through books like these very fast. My talent only works with books I enjoy and get the rythm going. I got into Breaking Dawn and ground to a complete stop, thinking "Who wrote this book?". I do not think she did it, it was such a complete change of writing style. I struggled through and just put it on the shelve shaking my head. I had to get on Amazon and do my first review! I also wanted to see if others had the same thought that I did, she did not write it! ... Read More
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The Twilight Saga (all 4 books) are the best books I ever read. I have never had books keep me attention so fully. I ended up reading the whole series in a matter of 3 weeks. I read every chance I got. I would highly recommend these books to any female.
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Loved the books. Kids had me start them and I could not put them down. Recommend them to anyone
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The entire series is all a big fantasy and every single book in it has enormous flaws but that aside, if you take it as it is meant to be taken, it's fun. This book ties everything up and many of those ties end up feeling forced, especially with Jacob.
Aspects of the story are troubling, particularly the near pedophile werewolves which Stephanie Meyer tries very hard to justify with a term called "Imprinting" which, strangely enough reads a great deal like the justifications NAMBLA gives ... Read More
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I bought this as a gift and they loved the book and I love how easy it was to get.
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