#41: Breaking Dawn by Stephenie Meyer [warning: spoilers may follow]
I’m really going to try to keep this to one sentence, so here it goes (creative punctuation, as always, necessary and permitted): Breaking Dawn hasn’t been getting much love, at least from Amazon reviewers, since it came out on Saturday, and I for one cannot understand WHY that is because I LOVED it, way way way way way WAY more than I ever liked the three previous books in the series, because it is darker and bleaker and grosser (seriously, this book is a creepshow, I can’t wait to see it as a movie) and the characters are more adult and we’re finally out of Forks and Forks High and for the first time we really get to see life with the Cullens with Bella as one of them, and though the end does get a little saggy, as tends to happen in these books, and though the vampire biology gets a leetle bit shady at times, it makes enough sense that I’m willing to accept it and give Meyer the benefit of the doubt and just enjoy her story; also, I realized while reading that I actually have great affection for all of these characters, and that I will miss them, and that while Midnight Sun (the events of Twilight from Edward’s perspective) will be interesting the thing I enjoyed most was seeing Bella’s life and relationship with Edward as a vampire, and furthermore that people who consider the book too facile and say that it wraps up too neatly should remember that IT IS A ROMANCE NOVEL and that is what happens in romance novels, that is why we read them, for the happily ever after, duh.
Gratuitous second sentence: BIG THUMBS UP!
