Breaking Dawn by Stephenie Meyer

In case you didn't see the lead, I'll warn you again... there are multiple spoilers ahead. Please don't read this if you haven't finished the book, or unless you don't care if you know what happens.

Yeah, I stood in line at the bookstore. It was the first time I’d ever done anything like that, so it’s pretty safe to say I had high anticipations for this book. And I realize that isn’t fair, too have such high expectations, but I should have known better than to think there would be some kind of epic Jacob vs. Edward fight. Truly, I should have known.

I was severely disappointed with this book. It seemed to be one big epilogue for the Twilight Series, lacking any kind of plot until the last chapters. I was hoping things wouldn’t be so simple. Sure, I was hoping Edward and Bella would get married. Sure, I was hoping she’d get to be a vampire, and I wasn’t looking forward to her newborn stage, but it was all too convenient.

I mean, it’s not realistic for Edward and Bella’s wedding to be trashed, but I was secretly hoping that was what would happen. I was hoping it was going to be hard. I was hoping Jacob and Edward would finally duke it out, and it’s safe to assume who I hoped would win that fight. But Stephenie Meyer avoided that conflict… and I should have known that. But doesn’t it seem a bit too convenient that everything worked out and he imprinted on Renesmee? It does to me.

I got nothing I hoped for. I was surely very surprised that Bella got pregnant, and it was nice to have a change of point of view through part of the book, but where’s the action? Where’s the drama? I mean, you know that Bella will be ok because you’re hardly half-way through the book! There was no suspense. And what about this whole 'skipping the newborn stage'? Sure, she made it make sense, but that, again, is just too convenient.

And by the time the book had potential to get suspenseful [in the end, when the Volturi show up] Meyer had already settled everything and tied up all the lose ends so it was pretty safe to assume everyone would be ok. Sure, she killed off Irina, but who really liked her that much anyways? She never had me going even for a minute. I knew everything would be ok in the end.

It was all too convenient, too perfect. I’m not saying it wasn’t well written. And I did like the change of point of view, as I said before. I liked how things turned out in the end, I just wish it wouldn’t have been so easy. I wish I would have been reading the book because I wanted to know what happened next, not so I could just say I was the first out of all my friends to finish it. I was disappointed with the lack of plot and the epilogue-feel, but I would still recommend it to any Twilight fan. I’m just not sure I’d stay up all night at the bookstore again.