Binding: Audio CD
EAN: 9780739367674
Format: Audiobook, Unabridged
ISBN: 0739367676
Label: Listening Library (Audio)
Manufacturer: Listening Library (Audio)
Number Of Items: 1
Publication Date: August 02, 2008
Publisher: Listening Library (Audio)
Reading Level: Young Adult
Release Date: August 02, 2008
Sales Rank: 1419
Studio: Listening Library (Audio)

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Editorial Review:

Product Description:
To be irrevocably in love with a vampire is both fantasy and nightmare woven into a dangerously heightened reality for Bella Swan. Pulled in one direction by her intense passion for Edward Cullen, and in another by her profound connection to werewolf Jacob Black, she has endured a tumultuous year of temptation , loss, and strife to reach the ultimate turning point. Her imminent choice to either join the dark but seductive world of immortals or pursue a fully human life has become the thread from which the date of two tribes hangs.

Now Bella has made her decision; a startling chain of unprecedented events is about to unfold with potentially devastating and unfathomable consequences. Just when the frayed strands of Bella's life--first discovered in Twilight, then scattered and torn in New Moon and Eclipse--seem ready to heal and knit together, could they be destroyed...forever?

The astonishing, breathlessly anticipated conclusion to the Twilight Saga, Breaking Dawn illuminates the secrets and mysteries of this spellbinding romantic epic.

Amazon.com Review:
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. (Ages 12 and up) --Heidi Broadhead




Rating: - I loved it, with some exceptions!
Warning, contains Plot Spoilers. Let me first say I loved the entire series, although there were many frustrations with the story along the way. With Breaking Dawn, I don't have the complaints that a lot of other people had with it. I was glad to see Bella become a vampire, and I loved the ending, even though there was no battle at the end. I didn't find the lack of a battle to be anticlimactic. I did wish there had been more time spent on Edward and Bella being together at the end along with Renesmee, ... Read More

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Rating: - Meyer's legions of fans are likely to debate, discuss and dissect BREAKING DAWN for months to come
At some point, writing reviews of certain bestselling series seems like a superfluous endeavor. When thousands, if not millions, of readers are going to pick up the next installment regardless of its praiseworthiness or potential weaknesses, we reviewers feel even more irrelevant than we do otherwise. Penning reviews of the later Harry Potter books certainly felt like that. Stephenie Meyer's Twilight Saga, a publishing juggernaut soon to be made into a series of feature films, also, I would argue, has landed ... Read More

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Rating: - Breaking Dawn
The Fourth book in this series has taken a lot of negative flack, very undeserved. I found it immensely satisfying and the sort of ending I had hoped for after the second book. The characters are full bodied and emotionally enjoyable.

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Rating: - I really liked it
I really liked it. Maybe it was because I read all 4 books back to back at once and there was no anticipation of waiting.

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Rating: - So Disappointing!!!
**SPOILERS***

Like many others, I was so VERY disappointed with this book. Where did the characters we love go? Where did the beautiful love story go? The characters were one dimensional and obnoxious and the story was boring and weird. It made me wonder if the author has strange hang ups about sex. In the other three books, the kissing scenes were nice for the most part (until Edward would have his intense mood swings... guilt, anger, etc.). In this book, the scenes of intimacy were almost absent. ... Read More

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