Breaking Dawn by Stephanie Meyer

Recently, I posted a review of the Twilight series by Stephanie Meyer, when only three of the books were out. Since then, the fourth book in the series has come out, and I and millions of others have read it. This won’t be a formal review—there’s nothing particularly greater or worse about this book when it comes to the points I addressed in the previous books. Also, the story follows a similar path. This then, that follows, is a rant/rave stream-of-consciousness style review. And I’ll be spoiling everything so, you have been warned!

SPOILERS!

+ Bella and Edward are married in the first few pages, finally ending that area of tension.
- She shortly becomes pregnant with that awful cliche of science fiction and fantasy, the superbaby who grows supernaturally fast so that the author doesn’t have to deal with a real nine-month pregnancy.
+ A good portion of the book is from Jacob’s point of view, which is much less irritating than Bella’s.
- Bella’s the center of attention anyway.
- Her pregnancy is creepy and gruesome, out of tone for this (mostly neat and tidy) series, even with the vampires.
- Bella’s just as ga-ga about demon spawn baby as she was about Edward, beyond just plain blindness and into madness (though this isn’t out of character, really).
+ Rosalie and Bella bond.
+ Bella is finally vampirized, thus ending the other area of tension.
- Demon spawn baby is born, only to have everyone suddenly fall in love with her (and she gets an awful name!)...is this the same baby that broke Bella’s pelvis with a kick and needs to drink human blood?
- Bella is just as perfect and sickening as a vampire then as she was as a human, and has super special self-control so she doesn’t even need to try to not eat humans. Blegh.
+ Jacob imprints and is happy!
- Unfortunately, it isn’t on some nice girl who deserves him, but on Bella and Edward’s demon spawn Renesme. Argh...
- Bella has even more superpowers that make her the most important vampire ever. Sigh...
+ The ending of the book managed to be page-turning despite all the flaws, and the series is finally over. Finally.