The last book of the 'Twilight Saga' and possibly the worst. The first three books were wonderful, flawless - they had a rhythm to their pace and they were very gripping. Come Breaking Dawn and I got this feeling that Stephanie Meyer (SM) herself had no idea how she should go on, like maybe the story suddenly stopped flowing in her head, like she had the writer's block and still she wrote, just to get on with it!
Her conflicts were all over the place. It seemed like she just drifted past each obstacle; in a sense she was very superficial. She never did address the crux of each event that she created. All the issues that came up were resolved instantly without any struggle. And where there should have been a struggle like perhaps Bella dealing with herself being a newborn - that part was skipped right away. Bella was born the perfect vampire, no struggle at all. There was no drive in the story.
She was very repetitive too! There has to be a recap of the previous books, sure but it should have been done subtly and not taken up pages and pages of the novel. If i wanted to know what happened in those books, I would've just read them. Also her vocabulary seemed to be limited. If Bella was "stubborn, plain", then Edward had "a smooth velvet voice" and Jacob always had a "fist of rage" and they all seemed to be "wary" very often! I had to re-look up my definition of the word "wary" after I read in how many different contexts it seemed to have been used by SM in the book.
I got disinterested in the middle of Book Two of Breaking Dawn. In my opininion, the Twilight series stopped being a fantasy series at 'Ecplise'. Breaking Dawn was purely fanfiction - the favourite characters were happy in the end like she's named her last chapter "The Happily Ever After" so she can keep her fans happy. It stopped being a story SM wanted to write and became one that her audience wanted to read. She killed her own story and lost a lot of fans, me being one of them.
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