Breaking Dawn Review

"Happily ever after" are three words that can be used to describe the fourth installment in the Twilight series by Stephanie Meyers. The book Breaking Dawn is the fourth and final book which readers have been highly anticipating for months. At 754 pages, Breaking Dawn is the longest book in the series, which is ironic considering the book is quite anticlimactic compared to the first three.

For readers not familiar with the series, Twilight follows Bella Swan, your average high schooler, and Edward Cullen, the strange and fascinating boy Bella encounters on her first day of school at Forks High School. The first three books follow the characters as they struggle to stay together regardless of the fact that Edward is a vampire and immortal.

Breaking Dawn opens with Bella and Edward's wedding, and carries on to their honeymoon at the tranquil "Esme's Island." A few weeks into their honeymoon, Bella starts to exhibit strange symptoms such as extreme tiredness and food poisoning. She soon finds out that she is pregnant, but not everything is as it seems. The book goes on to discuss the bond between the Cullen family, as well as Bella and Edward.

The first book, Twilight, seemed to focus primarily on the relationship between Bella and Edward and the hardships that came about from their different lifestyles. In New Moon, the second installment, Edward is absent for a majority of the book, which provides for a new kind of relationship between Bella and her friend Jacob, although Jacob's feelings for Bella are stronger than what she feels for him. The third book in the series focuses on the problems Bella faces with two men in her life vying to be number 1. She must ultimately make a decision and pick only one, which puts us to Breaking Dawn, which focuses on the love between all of Bella's family members.

Breaking Dawn is different from the other three books; not necessarily bad, but different. Bella and Edward went through many struggles in the past, and Meyers is just simply giving them their happily ever after.