Breaking Dawn
by Stephenie Meyer
756 pages (hardcover)
Genre: Fiction/Fantasy/YA
What you've heard thus far about Breaking Dawn? All true. I won't bother to repeat the criticisms. Meyer's prose is clunky but bearably so; in this book particularly, she invents way too many minor characters; and she doesn't understand the fundamentals of plot theory
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Besides that, the first thing that comes to mind reading your notes on the TWILIGHT series's conservatism is the whole CHRONICLES OF NARNIA versus THE GOLDEN COMPASS "thing". You've undoubtedly read about it somewhere, how THE CHRONICLES OF NARNIA movies have done ridiculously better than THE GOLDEN COMPASS in theaters, probably due in no small part to the different roles that religion plays in each of them, and the general bashing of THE GOLDEN COMPASS by the religious community.
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I think that if they had actually done justice to the source material, the ideological differences wouldn’t have weighed as much.
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My sister is about your age and she loves the books. I still haven't asked her what she thought of Breaking Dawn; she's been oddly quiet on the subject since she finished it, so it looks like I might have to bring it up. *g* As for me, I read 2/3 of it and picked up the rest from cleolinda's summary... I think "horrified fascination" would be the phrase. Like watching a #1 bestselling trainwreck.
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However, have you read BREAKING DAWN? I do think that Bella's personality changes when she conceives Nessie. The baby becomes her sole focus, -superseding- Edward--far different from the previous three books.
The magic of TWILIGHT worked for me in the beginning, but as I continue to put faith in Meyer, she continues to let me down. A successful story, for me, would be enthralling enough to silence my critic-brain; the Twilight series has never managed that, but I don't regret reading TWILIGHT for the fluff value.
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