Tuesday, August 5, 2008

Guilty Pleasure 102: Breaking Dawn


Did I preorder this book so that I could receive it the day of release? Yes. Did I read the book within 24 hours? Yes. Did I vocalize my shock over some plot twists while reading it in a room by myself? Yes. Did I think this was the best book of the series since the first? Yes. And did I love this book? YES!

1 comment:

Morgan said...

ok ellen... so i am done. i have to say, that i don't agree with you 100%. don't get me wrong, i liked the book, but i didn't love it. i thought it was super crazy. even though the whole series is fiction, and of course impossible, you could still almost imagine it happening. not so much with BD. i wanted more edward being the hot sexy, protecting, love machine that he is, not him biting his wife's uterus open and all of the sudden being a dad. i mean, i'm glad he got to be a dad, but it was such a weird, fast transition. and it all went too perfectly. i mean, i know bella is the main character, but it's a little too convenient that she is like, the perfect person... totally self sacrificing, with the ability to love perfectly, never thinking a negative thought about anyone, doesn't have a problem being a newborn, and of course, saves the day with her very convenient gift of being able to shield everyone around her. i'm all for fiction (obviously, i LOVED the first 3 books, and still do), but i thought this was a little over board.

and worst of all, i HATE that i didn't LOVE it. i liked it, but didn't LOVE it. how sad that i couldn't love the final book in the series that i love so much. maybe i will like it better the second time around. there were parts that i liked, but it just kept getting crazier and crazier.

we will have to talk about it more fully in person, and you can tell me what you loved about it. i know there was resolution. i guess that my problem is that the resolution was too perfect and unlikely for the way she started the series out. i wanted the fight in the end! ok, i could go on and on... we'll talk!!