So I just finished "Breaking Dawn" the final installment in Stephenie Meyer's Twilight Saga, and having read the first three books I thought I had a good idea of exactly how this one would play out. Man oh man was I mistaken.
For at least myself, my semi-predictions (I try not to worry myself about what's going to happen in the sequel because my opinion doesn't mean squat to the author and all it does is cause me grief) but one can't help but theorize at least a little bit.
So my predictions ran as thus...
The whole book was going to be spent leading up to Bella and Edward's grand wedding (Bella protesting the whole way of course) and a change to Vampire just after the wedding as the Volturi were going to show up days later, and Bella needed to be changed (or something like that). I didn't think there would be any sex (considering just how PG all of the other books had been). I was wrong on all parts of this.
Well the book pretty much opened with the wedding. I was like "well that's that, now where's it gonna go?" Well, to anyone who has read the other Twilight books, to them I say where no of its predecessors had gone before. Absolutely crazy but in a good way I think. Meyer changed her style of narration switching to two first-person narrators (Bella and Jacob) as opposed to Bella merely narrating the whole time. The two have very distinct voices, metaphorically, and it was a rather unexpected twist given the states of the other three books.
The book sagged badly in the middle I thought. See, Bella got pregnant. Yes, she did. (And I was like "wtf??" wink ANYWAY...so she was like a martyr throughout and I hated the idea of her while she was pregnant. Once the baby was out all was good with the book again. Thankfully Bella also gave up being torn between Edward and Jacob, and the idea of a bromance between the two rivals is much more fun in Breaking Dawn than any of the previous ones (Edward refers to Jacob as "My brother, my son" by the end of the book, but I shan't reveal why). It was a bit predictable in the immediate sense (the baby's love interest-yes she has a love interest-is quite obvious from the get-go, and determining the end of the scene got easier and easier as the book progressed). But in terms of where I presumed Meyer would go with it, was completely and utterly off the mark. Meyer beguiles again. A satisfying ending to a terrific series.
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