Breaking Dawn

I finally finished reading Breaking Dawn, the last installment in the vampire love series. It is the longest of the four books and I would even dare to say it is the best one.

We’ve been wondering since the ending of the first book if Bella is to turn into a vampire…Well…you’ll find the answer in this one. I remember that before this book came out in Mexico, they had a trailer on the website. There, you could see a woman dressed as a bride, while She was walking, You could hear a glass breaking into pieces and then a baby crying… When I saw It, a lot of ideas came to my mind…I was sure she was going to get married with Edward in this book. They had been talking of marriage since the beginning of the third book….but what about the baby cry? Vampires can not have babies. The thing is, that when they turn into a vampire, they body “freezes ” in that state and it is not able to change anymore…so A vampire can not grow a baby inside her because Her body can not change anymore…But what about a human having a vampires child?...

The book is really good from beginning to end. We’ve followed the love story of Edward and Bella since they first met and now reading the wedding and the honey moon just makes it better. Edward promised Bella that He would turn her into a vampire if she married him, and She did. Now He has to fulfill his promise, but things are about to get complicated when She gets pregnant with a baby that is growing faster than normal babies does…

The book, as the others is cleverly written. The book is divided in 3 parts. Two of them written by Bella and the other is written by Jacob…That makes it even more interesting, because You read two different points of view. Jacob starts writing his story beginning from the moment He sees Bella pregnant and weak, lying on a couch. I didn’t like Jacob that much, but when reading how much he suffered from not having Bella with him made me like him a little bit more.
I like the fact that the book touches not only carnal love, but mother’s love and friends love…How different they are but at the same time how strong they all can be…

It makes me sad that this was the end of the Story. I’ve been reading this books since my last semester of college started and the story became a part of me. I felt like the story was real and when I read the ending: something like “ We were ready for our happy eternity”, made me thing that vampire story would be on my mind for eternity…It was different from what I had read about vampires before and made me wonder a lot of things related to the story. (Things I’ll write about in another post) when You live forever, What do you live for?

Now, I tried to think what the titles of the books meant in relation to the stories and here’s my theory:

Twilight: 1. The subdued light just after sunset or, in less common usage, just before sunrise
2. the period from sunset to dark
any growing darkness
a condition or period of gradual decline following full development, achievement, glory, etc.

I think that in the first story she used twilight to refer to the change that there was going to be in Bella an Edwards life’s. They were about to change drastically for good , but at the same time, they would have to front a lot of trouble.

New moon: In this one, a new moon represents the end of the moon cycle. That part of the story represented a change in Bella’s life, and the beginning of a new cycle or new life?

Eclipse: the sun passes over the moon or vice versa. I think that in this case the day turned into darkness for Edward and Bella.
Breaking dawn: this one is easy…after the night, there’s the light of a new sun.

Great love stories thrive on sacrifice. Throughout The Twilight Saga (Twilight, New Moon, and Eclipse), Stephenie Meyer has emulated great love stories--Romeo and Juliet, Wuthering Heights--with the fated, yet perpetually doomed love of Bella (the human girl) and Edward (the vampire who feeds on animals instead of humans). In Breaking Dawn, the fourth and final installment in the series, Bella’s story plays out in some unexpected ways. The ongoing conflicts that made this series so compelling--a human girl in love with a vampire, a werewolf in love with a human girl, the generations-long feud between werewolves and vampires--resolve pretty quickly, apparently so that Meyer could focus on Bella’s latest opportunity for self-sacrifice: giving her life for someone she loves even more than Edward. How close she comes to actually making that sacrifice is questionable, which is a big shift from the earlier books. Even though you knew Bella would make it through somehow, the threats to her life, and to her relationship with Edward, had previously always felt real. It’s as if Meyer was afraid of hurting her characters too much, which is unfortunate, because the pain Bella suffered at losing Edward in New Moon, and the pain Jacob suffered at losing Bella again and again, are the fire and the heart that drive the whole series. Diehard fans will stick with Bella, Edward, and Jacob for as many twists and turns as possible, but after most of the characters get what they want with little sacrifice, some readers may have a harder time caring what happens next.

REMEMBER THE TWILIGHT MOVIE COMES OUT THIS FRIDAY!