I was very disappointed with Breaking Dawn. I love the Twighlight series, and I think that Stephanie Meyer is a brilliant writer. However, I felt as if the first 3 books were truly parts 1, 2, & 3 of a fabulous story, and that book 4 was completely different. Don't get me wrong, I am thrilled that it had a happy ending, but it was almost as if someone else wrote the last book. The first 3 books were a fascinating love story/adventure that found its foundation in exploring the characters and essence of Bella, Edward, and the others. You really felt as if you were the characters when reading it. Breaking Dawn, however, totally went in another direction. It was as if Breaking Dawn was an action movie rather than a continuation of the first 3 books. I was thrilled with the first Bella chapter of Breaking Dawn, but so diappointed that Stephanie decided to experiment with her writing style and switch to the Jacob perpective. It was interesting from a detached book reviewer perspective, but from a fan perspective, I was so sad that over 200 pages of my wonderful story were not from Bella's perspective. Then when we returned to Bella, it was not the Bella that we came to know and love. Once she turned into a vampire, she became the typical "superhero" that we see in movies or other books. That is all good and nice, but I loved the strength that we saw in human Bella -- somehow in her "weak" human state, she was actually very strong and developed such strong bonds with all the characters in the books. Stephanie no longer focused as strongly on the emotional bond between Edward and Bella; it was more just accepted and mentioned here and there. It was much more about the action occuring around them. I guess that I wanted the book to end as it did, but I would have preferred Bella to have not become a parent and suddenly mature so much. She seemed years older in Breaking Dawn than in the other 3 books, and that ruined it for me.

I feel as if I need to re-read the first 3 books to reinatate Bella and Edward in my memory as I came to love them, and simply think of Breaking Dawn as another story....or one that occurs years later. I felt that there were sooooooooooo many more wonderful adventures for Bella and Edward to have. What a shame that we won't get to read about them.