Ok fist I want to start out by saying I like the Twilight series but I was never as huge a fan as most of the other people I know that have read it, so Breaking Dawn did not disappoint me as much as it did some people. But I gotta say, it was weird
I’ve heard a lot of people say that the characters were OOC (out of character) but I don’t really agree with that. I think it was more of a case where the situation seemed OOB (out of book.) Meaning that it wasn’t that the characters were not themselves but they were dealing with a situation that to me seemed to come out of left field from the series.
Honestly after reading Twilight, and even with Bella joking about people thinking she and Edward got married because she was pregnant, I never would in a thousand years have guessed that the story would take the turn it did in Braking Dawn.
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The Baby
Ok so the baby really creeped me out. The descriptions of her talked about how beautiful she was supposed to be and how she didn’t look like a baby but like a little adult…yeah that was just weird. In my head she could never be cute to me. She was FAR too powerful to be a freaking baby. I hate it in books when kids don’t act like kids so this just irked me to no end. Also even with the aging thing she was still ridiculously smart. I mean hunting and reading at 3 months? Come on! Even though she had the appearance of a four year old that is still not developed enough to talk the way she was able to talk and hunt down a freaking lion! I don’t know where Stephanie Meyer got the idea that the image of a baby hunting a lion is somehow NOT creepy.
It is.
I also hated that she had a closer relationship with Jacob then she had with Edward. To me there was no real instance where it seemed like Edward was her father. It just seemed like yet another instance of Jacob swooping in on Edwards’s territory so to speak.
On a side note I think Carley would have been a much better first name then Renesme. To me Bella had a closer relationship to Charley and Carlisle in the series then she had to Rene and Esme so I don’t really understand why she named the baby after them.
Jacob
I think Stephanie Meyer really likes Jacob as a character. I did not mind reading his POV so much but I really don’t think there was any reason for a section of the book to be in Jacob’s POV.
Definitely not the part that was. If anything this part of the book should have been in Bella’s POV more than any other. By being in Jake’s POV it made the whole baby thing seem creepier than it already was because Jake thought it was creepy. I honestly think I would have been able to deal with it better if that part had been in Bella’s POV. Because she loved the baby and I think it would have been easier for us as readers to see it as less weird if we had been able to see the baby as Bella saw it. But I digress.
I have never been a Team Jacob fan. I actually don’t even like Jacob. I know he is young but I have always found him extremely selfish and way too woe is me over the whole Bella situation. I always hated it whenever the book said stuff like “he was in so much pain” and that the situation was “killing him”. Again, he’s only 17 years old. Being in love was hardly “ Killing him”
Still, that is the way the other books treated it. So, the fact that he imprints with the baby and all of his “Oh Bella I’m so in love with you” feelings just disappear is a load of crap. It’s like what was the point of New Moon and Eclipse if Jacob’s feeling for Bella just magically changed after he imprinted. It made everything they went though seem kinda well…pointless. I’m not saying that I wanted Jacob with Bella, but I just did not find it believable that he would just stop.
Bella
I also was not a big fan of “Super Vampire Bella”. She just never seemed like the same Bella from the other books.
But I am so glad that she thought Jacob imprinting on the baby was weird. Because it was! Especially when he seemed to have so much chemistry with Leah.
Edward
God I love Edward. He is my favorite character in the entire series. But he has got to get a handle on that overreacting thing he does. I mean. Kill the baby and make a new one with Jacob? That’s just a little too much. Even for him.
I mentioned it before but one of the things I hated most was Edward’s lack of a relationship with the baby. She really did not seem like his kid at all and frankly he didn’t seem like her father.
And I hate how Edward is always way too nice to Jacob and acts as if he owes Jacob the world for Bella.
Umm,
he doesn’t!
Bella picked Edward, and frankly Jacob was never a good sport about it, so I don’t see how Edward owes Jacob anything.
Jacob lost! And I know Jacob would not be so tolerant of any relationship that Edward tried to have with Bella if things had been the other way around. So reading about Edward basically kissing Jake’s ass just really pissed me off.
And I’m not even going to touch on the “my son” thing. (shudders)
Over all. I liked the beginning of this book but by the end I was not feeling it at all. All I can say is that I’m so glad that I was not as huge of a fan of the series as other fans because if I was I would be really upset.
