Review of Stephenie Meyer's "Breaking Dawn (Twilight #4)"

(Written June 24, 2012)

I couldn't understand why I'm reading this book. After all, I disliked most of it. 

As I said about the previous volumes of this saga, the series doesn't offer any philosophy, doesn't change anything in the world, doesn't teach or offer solutions to anything whatsoever. It's about a couple of people and their "struggle" with each other. They don't make a difference in the world, the world is not touched by any of their problems. It's all about them and them only.

Yet, I see people getting truly hooked on it. Why?

I still don't have a definite answer, but the 4th installment of the book explained a few things.

(Some spoilers ahead)

I think it might be the fact that every person/reader wants to have their life pan out like a fairy tale - "And they lived happily ever after..."

Who wouldn't want to find their true love, have a mutual can't-live-without-you relationship, marry them, become indestructible, beautiful, fast, strong, immortal, have eternity to be with your love, have an adorable baby no one can resist loving, have a new loving family, while the old one is oh-so understanding about everything?...

Who wouldn't want to have a life where not one of the people you care about  dies, even though the whole story is based on "oh, my God, someone is coming to kill me/you/us"?

Where people have the exact power that would explain things and help you?... (Where you have the power to save everyone?)

Where your best friend who'd have died if he wasn't with you - finds a new love and gets over you?...

Where absolutely everything works out SO conveniently?

The author is very clumsy and quite unconvincing about the whole love-triangle. I repeat myself, but the heroes of the story appear to be dumb, stubborn, and plain imbecilic. Especially, this is unforgivable for Edward, who is over 100 years old. No way a person that old would act like a 13 year old boy with hormonal imbalance.

But I want to point out the change of the narrative in book 4 from Bella to Jake: I thought that was a clever move.

Unfortunately, that's all I have to offer.

1 star for the story; 2,5 stars for making me want to read it.