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wasn't the best... the order from best to worse to me is

Twilight --> Eclipse --> Breaking Dawn ---> New Moon.

just because Breaking Dawn was kind of slow for me and there wasn't really that much like bella edward lovey stuff which i lovee!!! haha. but it was a really good book, the ending was amazing... i'll give it that..

didn't leave me dissapointed!

here is an e-mail I sent to a fellow staff member about what I thought....

I am still trying to figure out how I felt about it as well. At first, I hated it! Especially when I realized over a hundred pages was going to be narrated by Jacob...who I never liked as a character. That was the point I put down my book Friday night. I had had enough. By the end I think I liked it, but not sure. I am planning on starting to read it again today, much slower this time as well.

When I first found out she was preggers I was pissed. I too thought it was a cop out and made her sacrifice less intense....until the birth scene which blew my mind. Prob my fav scene in the entire series is that chapter....Jacob franticly doing CPR, Rosalie's bloodlust, Edward's manic side coming out...Jacob wanted to kill the baby. And all the detail was amazing.I think that chapter alone might of saved the book for me.

I too HATED the name!!!!! Nessie all the way for me....which btw...there is NO way this is the end...she left way too many questions and lose ends...which ticked me off of course. I think after Midnight Sun she will write books from Nessie's pov. The imprinting thing didn't bother me too much except for how easily it was accepted. Bella should of been a little jealous. I was never a Jacob fan but didn't like that her feelings for him suddenly went away. POOF. And I don't want some lame excuse like she left all her human wants behind because she still had her human affection for Charlie. I think this could of been really interesting but Meyer didn't do much with it. Hence why I think she will continue the story from Nessie's pov. Why else bring in the guy who Edward clearly stated would be Jacob's competition.

Also, I agree about the whole Volturi thing. Why talk about everyone's powers for so long if we weren't going to see them get used? This book didn't feel like a solid ending to a series because I was left with more questions then answers.

But I did feel like this after HP ended and now after some time has passed I do like the book A LOT. it is one of my fav in the series now.

AND there wasn't enough edward at all.

I did like some things as well
I like the voice of Jacob much more than i thought I would
I liked Leah and was sad the book never went anywhere with her
I love the scenes with edward and his daughter
I loved watching Bella discover her vampire talents.

but I am saving my final verdict till after a second read. I still automatically like it better than New Moon...it just didn't feel like an ending.

We seem to have a lot of the same critique!

While it was entertaining, I don't find the book as well balanced and intriguing as the previous two had been.

There was WAY too much exposition to be the last book. It just didn't make any sense. I could've done completely w/o Jacob's book and had all that told more efficiently through Edward. Although, I really enjoy Jacob's p.o.v. there was just way too much time spent on that....and for what? I don't think I needed THAT much Jacob...the imprinting scene was nice, though. Also, agreed about Bella's feelings. Hers just totally evaporated? I don't think so! I'm totally team Edward and I was bit jealous about Jacob & Nessie!

The birth scene was gruesome! But it was so supposed to be. It was very excellently done.

I was also upset at Bella being pregnant. I felt as if the rules where breaking. I was so sure that was not going to happen. I felt it was a cheap plot twist, BUT that was before I saw how much Nessie would drive it. In the end, not only did I like Nessie as a character, but the idea of her as well.

I really felt like the Volturi and the alliance of all the other vamps should've been more of the story. Also, there were some other vamps who had powers that we didn't even hear about! Por que?! A bit more of an actual fight would've been nice, but the tension was very well done!

I want to know more about Leah. She's all alone now and won't be able to run with Jacob like she thought she might. What's going to happen to her? For me, she is BY FAR the most interesting, complex character. I hope the series continues with her.

To me, it seems this book struggled a bit..All of the previous books had much more of visual quality to them, however, this book contained the least amount of that factor (although, when it was there, it was superb). I think it threw the series off balance.

Looking back, I still enjoyed the book and cared about the characters. I wondered what would happen next when I was away doing something else. I will surely reread this and I know I'll have a different perspective.

As I'm seeing it now...it was in a different speed than the previous 3.

I cried when Jacob cried

And how much do I love Garrett and Kate? <3

New Moon is my favorite book, although I concede that Eclipse was better written.

I've just finished reading and I'm feeling underwhelmed. I labored through this one (not as painful as Bella's labor birthin' that "Alien" baby!) I didn't feel connected to the characters as I have in previous books and the story lacked cohesion. I think the story got bogged down by bringing in elements that didn't advance the action (new South American myths, new narrator {Jacob}, new Cullen family member, new vampires.)

Bella's POV as a vampire was surprisingly boring and I would have liked an honest to goodness bloody dust up between the Cullens/Wolves and the Volturi. For the climax, there was way too much talking!

These are just first thoughts. I'll be thinking on this for awhile...

I too will admit that this was not my favorite out of the series. My order is as follows- Twilight, Breaking Dawn, Eclipse and New Moon (I don't care for Jacob... or the fact that Edward leaves Bella). I have started reading it, much slower, for the second time and have really gotten into it more than I did the first time.

Unfortunately, someone had ruined the book for me and I had an idea of what was coming. Truth be told... I was excited that Bella and Edward were able to have a child. I argued this with my friends that read the book at the same time until we came up with the fact that he was a vampire and she a human and that Stepenie never said anything about Vampire/human children being created on her website.

I also thought that someone would crash the wedding- JACOB . I also had hoped that there would be a big war in the end with the Volturi.

I agree, and hope, that there will be more books from this series.. I hope that Nessi is the narrator and that perhaps there will be a war with the Volturi.

I still would give Breaking Dawn 8.5 out of 10. I do wish that she would have gone more into Bella's suffering while becoming a vampire.. and that there had been a WAR with the Volturi.

I thought there was going to be a war! I seriously expected Bella to die! I had tears welled up behind my eyes! But then the instant Edward said "Yes!" I knew Alice came to save the day.
It was hard keeping up with all the new vamps. Good thing Jacob's list was at the back. I found it very plain. I mean Edward has got some wacky hormones in him. Geesh! Pillows and bedposts and ... you know the rest.
I found that this book had a lot of humour in it. I absolutely adored Emmett in this book! Kellan is going to be so excited! I mean the whole "scored" sex jokes when Charlie is around. And the arm wrestling! priceless.
"You nicknamed my daughter after the Loch Ness Monster?" I don't like the name Nessie. Although I do like the name Renesme. I didn't at first. I was like: name her Elizabeth! but she didn't, and the name grew on me. Although I think the nickname Remy would be awesome. Taking the first and last prononciations from her full name.
You guys keep talking about how the baby was a bad plot twist! You will not doubt me! I loved it! I was excited! And I loved his reaction when he found out.
I'm not going to keep on talking because I want to save it for my book review thing, but I was impressed. VERY Impressed. It had much more conflict and suspensful turns. ESPECIALLY the Imprinting, which I was really pissed about. But then I kept reading and learned to accept it.

haha, i loved the imprinting!!! i thought it was an awesome way to get jacob off of bellas back.

This book did actually leave me with a lot of questions, and reading your guys posts i've come to relized that the book wasn't as good as i had hoped it would be... i didn't like how early bella became a vampire... and it just didn't seem like BELLA after she got preggers. i mean COME ON, she seemed so... so... i can't describe it... just different.

I wasn't connected as much to the characters... and you're right the imagery wasn't there... i was having trouble understanding what was going on when she was giving birth.. i STILL have to re-read it to figure that one out... *sigh* nope nope nope not enough edward at all! ugh. I liked the bed post and pillows thing though.. and the sex jokes.. hahaha i almost peed my pants when i read the first one... hehe, it was something like... SOMEONE NEEDS TO SCORE AROUND HERE... and i like cracked out laughing hehahahahehe.. that part of the book was like a memory of the other ones, that was like a "OH YEAH THATS MY EMMETT!" moment :]

I wanted a big fight too!!! When they didn't i was relieved but at the same time PISSSSED cuz although i didn't want any cullens [ OR GARRETT] or that matter to die, i still wanted it to have an awesome twist like aro dieing or something extreme like that, when you look at it, its like the hole last book [ as in the one from bellas pov] had no meaning.. but her being a vampire, ahh... i don't know.. i still want a fight, although the alice thing totally caught me offguard at the end, i was like "WHAT ALICE?!?!!?" haha


rants over.

Okay, so I first would like to say that if you want a book the day it comes out, go buy it, do not order it from Amazon, because you will not get it on Saturday. No, you will get it on Tuesday.

Anyway.

I absolutely adored the wedding. I was all sniffly and choked up throughout most of that first bit. I enjoyed the honeymoon, but certainly not as much as the wedding. And then when Bella's book ended and Jake's began...I wanted to vomit. I would turn the page, hoping his narration would finally be over...

Renesmee/Nessie grew on me. But I kind of wanted Jake to kill her and Rosalie in the moment he imprinted. And I was not expecting that. I didn't even realize that's what he had done until I finished reading the paragraph. Totally took me by surprise.

The birthing scene is going to be ridiculous to film. Just ridiculous. I was imagining it in my head as I read it...That's a tough one. Seriously gory and horrifying.

I loved Bella as a vampire. I knew she would still be her, and I liked that. I hated the Bella from Jake's POV. As much as she gets on my nerves, I realized that I love hearing everything from her perspective.

Honestly, this one is my least favorite. The books are actually in chronological order for me when it comes to my rankings of my favorites. "Twlight" will always be my favorite, although I feel sad that it will now be tainted by what I know will be coming. "New Moon" was my least favorite for a while, but I love the ending so much that I can stomach the rest of it. "Eclipse" comes next and starts my deep affection for Seth, and then "BD," in all it's crazy glory. It will always be my least favorite, I'm quite sure.

I have no desire to re-read it right now. Which is sad and odd, because when I read the first three this past May, I had to go through them again almost immediately...But I feel like it now taints this picture I had, and I don't like it. Hard to explain...

Still Team Edward, 100%.

I have changed my opinon on the book, after re-reading some of my favorite scences, i've relized that all the bad scences are overdone by the good ones. Bella is different when she becomes a vampire, but still... it's to be exspected and it's not really that big of a deal i suppose, Overall i give the book a.... 8.9 of out 10. it had me going at times, and then wanting to rip it apart at other times [for example, book 2. jacobs pov] but it turned out that wasn't to bad.


haha so the books still good... my order still stands as, twilight --> eclipse --> breaking dawn ---> new moon.
it had a good closure even though it did leave me with a bunch of questions... [ that i didn't even relize i had until i read some of the twilight forums!]





of cource i'll alway be pissed about how little edward & bella lovey dovey stuff there was in breaking dawn... *sigh* but i'll get over it.

most of u all have the opposite reaction as i did. after the honeymoon i was like ugh jacobs point of view and i honestly didnt care for it only because it confused my head but then the boook became the one i was most emotional with, i cried ( i kno ima doork) but i cried a lot more in this one than the 2nd one,and it made a very good book, altho as bad as this sounds the first time bella and edward did it, me nd my friend were like what! thts all they're gonna say? then i realizd tht it might b bettr if i didnt get all the details about them making love, but then it got a little more descriptive. lol i laughed at the lace lingerie tht edward broke and the feathers haha . but i think tht maybe they moved a little too fast and the readers wanted them to have the crush feeling still, ya know the feeling of excitement and butterflies.

also i heart emmit! lol for the sex jokes then the arm wrestling

In the beginning i was just a little speechless....and i was like MUTANT BABBBBBYYYYYY!!!!!!! When i found out that i needed to read Jacob's POV, i was like "Noooooooo!" Because i wanted to know what had happened to Bella. But then in the Preface it says "Life sucks, and then you die. Yeah, I should be so lucky."

When i had read that, i started laughing, and i thought it wouldn't be all that bad. And in the end, i had most fun in reading Jacob's POV....except when Nessie came along. And seriously, i asked myself if Bella was a deranged lunatic because Renesmee? That name is just WRONG. I like Nessie sooo much better.

The imprinting pissed me off so much, because i was Jangela all the way. When Jacob came to the wedding i was silently praying for him to imprint on Angela....oh well. I've gotten over it.....

Book 3- was really boring, and i was just sad, because i was like "Did Edward disappear? And what happened to Emmett, Alice, and Jasper???" I mean, we saw almost NOTHING of them, except when Bella is mentally telling herself that she'll die without Edward.

When Alice and Jasper left, i had a heart attack...ok well, i just flipped out, and screamed...but i was REALLY upset, and mad at Alice, because i had no idea why she would do something like that....'till i finished the book.

Emmett's sex jokes were sooooo hilarious. And then there was NO WAR!!! And i was hoping for more than one death...Irina was the only one killed.

I think I've ranted wayyyyy to much. I don't hate the book anymore, because I'm (trying to be) mature about it.

My favorites would go like this New Moon---Twilight----Eclipse----Breaking Dawn.
And yes New Moon is my favorite book, and thats because i just fell in love with the way Smeyer wrote about Bella's depression. Does that make me weird?

I don;t hate BD, and i don't love it either...im just going to tolerate, because theres not much i can do about (except write fan fiction )

Naiha C.