Breaking Dawn ... thoughts?

Question

please tell me I'm not the only person who felt Breaking Dawn just didn't really have that Twilight-y feel that made you love the first three books.

The characters just started feeling a bit "foreign" to me, and I couldn't really register the fact that Bella became a mom. The Renesmee character bugged me a teeny bit ://

I probably would have liked Breaking Dawn as a stand-alone novel, not as part of a series.

But anyways...your thoughts?

Answer 1

I totally agree with you. In the beginning of the series, Bella is weak, she always falls and she is so... human. The point of the whole series was based on the fact that she wanted to become a vampire and Edward wouldn't let her. And Meyer said it herself, "Their relationship has always been defined by the fact that he's a vampire, she's not." Then, not even halfway through Breaking Dawn, Bella gets pregnant and she is turned into a Vampire... Its too much of a change, i find. Then she really isn't the same bella to me. Of course, the book was still good, but too different. It really lost that Twilight-y feel, as you put it.

I still enjoyed the book, though! (I love Bella's power)  ;)

P.S: Rosalie got even more on my nerves in this novel !! Argg! lol

Answer 2

i totally agree with you. I didn't really enjoy the book as part of the twilight series. I couldn't help thinking about it as if it was a completely separate book. Also, what was with the three parts!!!

Answer 3

I'm not finished it yet, but so far, I think it is pretty interesting.  I mean, I was pretty disapointed.  I liked the other books better, but I don't hate Breaking Dawn.

Answer 4

i think that it might have felt that way for a lot of people i mean ya...becoming a wife, mother, and a vampire in literally a matter of pages makes you wanna slam on the brakes, but in eclipse, it was set up as a precursor to such events,

granted i don't think ANY of us were expecting the little bundle of joy, but we all knew they were going to get married, we all knew that there was a possibility that she would become a vampire, so i don't really see how meyer could've kept up the innocence and sweetness  of the first books, especially with bella in a rush to become immortal in order to stay as close to edward's forever 17 status as possible.

now looking at it with a little humor, i think it's safe to say that bella's experience could possibly serve as a form of 'birth control' lol don't fall for a vampire!  look what happens when you take it too far! you get your bones broken, pelvic bone, ribs...and throwing up blood!! yuck! h**l drinking blood!!!! *shudders* EWW.

i do agree with Jowanna about edward not seeming to even really connect with renesmee (i hate that name), but i think meyer's focus there was to have closure for jacob's character, showing that he had a happy ending in there as well.

now if this book weren't the way things ended up, would we be more happy if she didn't become a vampire?  or if she did and ended up being a crazed, bloodthirsty newborn? would we be happy reading an ending that we expected?  

when i think of it that way and i think of the timeline bella had, i prefer the way it actually does end because she literally gets everything she wanted and things she might've wanted and didn't think she could have later on down eternity if she were to take the vampire route.

now there, i can see how that part of the story would appeal to older readers cuz when you're in your teens, having kids is NOT something you should have to consider, but none of us are making the choice bella was making...her choice was irreversible and because she wanted to be forever 17 or 18 or 19, she had to make that choice quick.  how unhappy would she have been if she made the choice for immortality and then turn around some 200 years later and say....'i want to have children' that is the reason why i think the character of renesmee was created.    

i also thought that having more of the characters coming to the forefront was a good idea, and if anything should help them to be less foreign.  maybe because the focus wasn't so 'bella and edward' this time, it felt as though it took away from the story, but i mean even though the focus is bella's story, i still think it was nice to get a peek at the family that she was coming into on a more personal level.

sometimes it helps to re-read the book to get a better feel for it.  i know i had to re-read new moon to wrap my head around the pain in that book.

Answer 5

I completely agree.  The characters lost that lovable quality they had in the first three books.  There were no more cute, romantic exchanges between Edward and Bella, and Jacob lost most of what made him likable in the first place.  It could have been a story about any two people or told from a third person perspective.  

I'm not a mother and I never intend to be.  I couldn't relate at all to Bella's affection to Renesmee.  I was unhappy that that character existed at all.  I didn't feel anything for her and I feel like the story could have been better without her in it.

Breaking Dawn would have been good if I hadn't expected so much out of it because the first three novels were SO good.

But Breaking Dawn doesn't matter, really.  I'm ignoring it like it never happened and writing my own version of it.

http://www.fanfiction.net/s/4464489/1/

Answer 6

well i think that is was a really good book. i agree that it didnt have the twilight feel to it but i think it was the best book out of all of them.

Answer 7

When I was reading the book I put myself in Bella's shoes, so I was willing Aro to stop and listen so there wouldn't have to be a fight. I guess it was quite an anti-climax, but I didn't mind at the time, because I was relieved along with the characters.

There was always something about Renesme which bugged me but I couldn't put my finger on it. I think it's cos the way I imagined her was like one of those china dolls, and there's just something creepy about that. I could somehow imagine a girl like that in a horror movie...reaching out to touch your face..*shudder*. And it was freaky how she grew so fast! It was like she pretty much skipped over the baby stage. It made her seem less human than a full-vampire in a way. And yes, I agree about the Bella being a mom thing! It just didn't seem like something Bella would want, and it slightly bugged me that she had something new in her life which became more important to her than Edward. Speaking of Edward, he really didn't seem like Renesme's father did he? He made no interaction with her..the only time it felt like they had connexion was when he first heard her thoughts inside Bella's womb. After that, it was Jacob who fathered her.

I liked the transformation though, and I liked that it didn't change Bella's personality a whole lot. I remember one of my favourite chapters being the first one after she regained consciousness (or stopped pretending to be unconscious anyway). I would have been annoyed if any of the things promised for the book didn't happen, like the transformation.. and yeah, I admit, I was dissapointed that the s*x scene was basically skipped over after the build up to it. xD

Good to get it off my chest!

Answer 8

I completely agree, by the end everything that made Bella herself was gone, it felt like she was a different character.

Renesmee bugged me a bit too.

Answer 9

Breaking Dawn was like a 700 pg epilogue rather than a novel, but I loved Renesmee! HP ROCKS!!! : )

Answer 10

I thought it was quite excellent.

Answer 11

i thought it was amazing. i liked it better than new moon. but it is neck to neck with eclipse and twilight.

Answer 12

i thought it was excellant

i can see your points though, especially bella becoming a mom

Answer 13

yeah like it wasnt as great as twilight but it wasnt bad either

Answer 14

I agree that it was different from the other books, but people have to consider the fact that they all wanted her to become a vampire. That is a HUGE change in itself for Bella. I loved Renesmee, even though Bella was not originally perceived as a motherly figure. People can change, and she did that and more. Jacob imprinting on Renesmee seemed really sweet, and that made me think that that was likely why he liked Bella for so long. I don't generally like Jacob, but I get why book 2 was from his POV- Bella's would have been kind of repetitive. Basically, the book was great, not Eclipse great, but still interesting in it's own way. I do think that a fight in the end might have made it more interesting, but it worked out okay.  Renesmee was one of my favorite parts; everything about her seemed so adorable and loving. The only off thing was that she will rapidly grow until she abruptly stops. Yeah, it's good for Jacob, but I don't think that that particular growth system is very believable. So yeah, Breaking Dawn was a great ending to the series, because I think some people were expecting amazing-ness and they themselves had no idea what they wanted to happen.

Answer 15

I liked it, but i agree with you. It didn't feel like it was part of the twilight saga. Bella was to different, Edward was annoying, but i loved Jacob. And i liked Renesmee, she was sweet! xD

Answer 16

I agree. The third has to be my favorite.

Idk.. Breaking Dawn wasn't what I expected it to be.