Breaking Dawn Thoughts
Okay, first of all, I want to wish a happy belated birthday to dear paperdollgirl and a happy birthday to neverlady!!
Nadine, I'm glad you had such a nice day sweetie!!!! *HUGS*
And Vita, I haven't heard from you in a long time but I hope you're having a great birthday wherever you are!!! *HUGS*
I thought it would be better to answer storylikeascar's comments on my last entry and all the replies by just making a new post, just so it wouldn't be too confusing with all the comments ;) So here we go, my thoughts on Breaking Dawn.
Okay, first of all, I think one of the main reasons why I enjoyed the book was that I never ever, ever expected anything remotely like Harry Potter.
One of the things that seemed to bother you all was that there was no show-down at the end and that SM didn't have the guts to kill off any of her characters.
But never has SM made me suspect that she was going to kill off any character at all, so when she didn't, I wasn't surprised or disappointed.
With JKR I was always thinking "omg who is she going to kill now?" (I mean that in a good way btw!) because she had been doing it since book one, when she killed Harry's parent's for crying out loud! She killed Cedric, she killed Sirius, and then Dumbledore. Of course there was going to be a bloodbath in the seventh book! Death is ALWAYS present in the Harry Potter books, always. A huge part of the books consists in how Harry deals with all the death around him.
But I have to ask, when in all previous three books has SM ever shown any inclination to kill any character?? The only one who died was James and it was self-defense! Death is represented in a completely different way in Twilight, because it is linked to the Vampires, not to, you know, actually dying.
I didn't mind all the mind games at the end, and SM not being a very gifted writer, she never managed to create a proper build up to a "final battle", like JKR did. At no point did I feel the tension you could almost touch in the HP books before the battle of Hogwarts or during the whole of HBP which is nothing but a giant built up to Dumbledore's death. So again, I wasn't expecting anything super amazing to happen with the Volturi.
I thought Bella would end up either killing them all or protecting them all and that's it.
I basically wanted four things to happen in the final book, after reading Eclipse:
1. I wanted Bella to become a vampire: CHECK
2. I wanted Bella and Edward to have sex: CHECK!
3. I wanted Jacob to imprint on someone other than freaking Bella: CHECK
4. I wanted for none of the main characters to die: CHECK
I laughed a lot at Bella's sex addiction (for lack of a better word, cause after she does it the first time it's like she can't think of anything else LOL), I loved when she became a vampire and beat the crap out of Jacob, I laughed a lot when Renesmee was born (clearly I wasn't supposed to laugh at that, but the whole blood scene really tickled me lol) because I kept thinking "how in the hell are they going to do a PG13 movie with THIS in it?"...
I didn't think the book was good of course, but NONE of them are good books for God's sake! That doesn't mean I don't enjoy reading them though, and Breaking Dawn was really enjoyable to read for me. In fact, you can pretty much see my own reactions as I was reading it reflected in this "review" by Cleolinda (you've probably read it though): Breaking Dawn by Cleo
I had almost the exact reactions (out loud, too lol) to the book and I had a great time reading it. When Bella starts to feel funny during the honey moon I was like "OMG she is pregnant, omg omg omg LMAO". And when Jacob sees Renesmee for the first time I laughed SO freaking hard because of course we knew he had just imprinted... ON BELLA'S NEWBORN FREAK BABY!!! LOL! Come on!
The thing with Breaking Dawn, too, is that it was a completely different experience from Twilight for me. And it did something that I am very grateful for, and that was bring me closure, which I needed. I am now no longer obsessed with Twilight the way I was before. Breaking Dawn kind of wrapped it all up for me and now Twilight is just fun. I love drawing it because it's very... "drawable", and I will be looking forward to all the movies because I really think they will be fun and not as corny as the books (though still pretty cheesy, I'm sure).
I didn't mean to compare Twilight with Harry Potter so much, but it's a lot of people's argument that SM should've been more JKR-like, so I guess I couldn't help it ;) But I'm not a fan of comparing books like that, just as I was not a fan of comparing HP with LotR, which happened A LOT when HP started to become popular.
Okay, enough ranting ;) My conclusion to all this is that my heart belongs to the Harry Potter books, but Twilight is a whole lotta fun!
Nadine, I'm glad you had such a nice day sweetie!!!! *HUGS*
And Vita, I haven't heard from you in a long time but I hope you're having a great birthday wherever you are!!! *HUGS*
I thought it would be better to answer storylikeascar's comments on my last entry and all the replies by just making a new post, just so it wouldn't be too confusing with all the comments ;) So here we go, my thoughts on Breaking Dawn.
Okay, first of all, I think one of the main reasons why I enjoyed the book was that I never ever, ever expected anything remotely like Harry Potter.
One of the things that seemed to bother you all was that there was no show-down at the end and that SM didn't have the guts to kill off any of her characters.
But never has SM made me suspect that she was going to kill off any character at all, so when she didn't, I wasn't surprised or disappointed.
With JKR I was always thinking "omg who is she going to kill now?" (I mean that in a good way btw!) because she had been doing it since book one, when she killed Harry's parent's for crying out loud! She killed Cedric, she killed Sirius, and then Dumbledore. Of course there was going to be a bloodbath in the seventh book! Death is ALWAYS present in the Harry Potter books, always. A huge part of the books consists in how Harry deals with all the death around him.
But I have to ask, when in all previous three books has SM ever shown any inclination to kill any character?? The only one who died was James and it was self-defense! Death is represented in a completely different way in Twilight, because it is linked to the Vampires, not to, you know, actually dying.
I didn't mind all the mind games at the end, and SM not being a very gifted writer, she never managed to create a proper build up to a "final battle", like JKR did. At no point did I feel the tension you could almost touch in the HP books before the battle of Hogwarts or during the whole of HBP which is nothing but a giant built up to Dumbledore's death. So again, I wasn't expecting anything super amazing to happen with the Volturi.
I thought Bella would end up either killing them all or protecting them all and that's it.
I basically wanted four things to happen in the final book, after reading Eclipse:
1. I wanted Bella to become a vampire: CHECK
2. I wanted Bella and Edward to have sex: CHECK!
3. I wanted Jacob to imprint on someone other than freaking Bella: CHECK
4. I wanted for none of the main characters to die: CHECK
I laughed a lot at Bella's sex addiction (for lack of a better word, cause after she does it the first time it's like she can't think of anything else LOL), I loved when she became a vampire and beat the crap out of Jacob, I laughed a lot when Renesmee was born (clearly I wasn't supposed to laugh at that, but the whole blood scene really tickled me lol) because I kept thinking "how in the hell are they going to do a PG13 movie with THIS in it?"...
I didn't think the book was good of course, but NONE of them are good books for God's sake! That doesn't mean I don't enjoy reading them though, and Breaking Dawn was really enjoyable to read for me. In fact, you can pretty much see my own reactions as I was reading it reflected in this "review" by Cleolinda (you've probably read it though): Breaking Dawn by Cleo
I had almost the exact reactions (out loud, too lol) to the book and I had a great time reading it. When Bella starts to feel funny during the honey moon I was like "OMG she is pregnant, omg omg omg LMAO". And when Jacob sees Renesmee for the first time I laughed SO freaking hard because of course we knew he had just imprinted... ON BELLA'S NEWBORN FREAK BABY!!! LOL! Come on!
The thing with Breaking Dawn, too, is that it was a completely different experience from Twilight for me. And it did something that I am very grateful for, and that was bring me closure, which I needed. I am now no longer obsessed with Twilight the way I was before. Breaking Dawn kind of wrapped it all up for me and now Twilight is just fun. I love drawing it because it's very... "drawable", and I will be looking forward to all the movies because I really think they will be fun and not as corny as the books (though still pretty cheesy, I'm sure).
I didn't mean to compare Twilight with Harry Potter so much, but it's a lot of people's argument that SM should've been more JKR-like, so I guess I couldn't help it ;) But I'm not a fan of comparing books like that, just as I was not a fan of comparing HP with LotR, which happened A LOT when HP started to become popular.
Okay, enough ranting ;) My conclusion to all this is that my heart belongs to the Harry Potter books, but Twilight is a whole lotta fun!