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The final book in the Twilight series by Stephenie Meyer, called Breaking Dawn, is different in the fact that it’s divided into three parts. The first part of the vampire book begins with the long anticipated and awaited marriage of Edward and Bella. The happy couple go off on a romantic honeymoon to a very private and secluded island on the Brazilian coast. Of course, nothing ever happens like Bella and Edward expect. Two weeks after their nuptials, Bella figures out that she’s pregnant. Not only that, but the baby is developing faster than any normal baby would. Carlisle is contacted, confirms the pregnancy, and the couple head back to Forks, where Edward wants Bella to abort the child because he’s afraid she’s in danger. Bella, feeling a strong connection with the baby, refuses to do it and goes ahead with the pregnancy.
Part Two of Breaking Dawn is written from the point of view of Jacob Black. The news has gotten around that Bella is pregnant and that the baby is not exactly normal, since the pregnancy is progressing rapidly. His wolf pack decides that they need to kill both the child and Bella and get rid of any risk that it may pose. Jacob, despite the fact that he hates that she married Edward, decides he doesn’t like this idea and forms his own pack with Seth and Leah Clearwater. When Bella gives birth, the baby injures her badly, breaking bones and causing her to lose a lot of blood, since she is still human. Edward knows that the only thing he can do is to change her, so he injects the venom right into her heart and makes her a vampire. Complicating things further, Jacob is there when the baby is born and imprints on her immediately, meaning that Renesmee is his soul mate.
Part Three of Breaking Dawn goes back to Bella’s point of view. She’s very busy now, considering she’s a new mom with a super baby and a vampire to boot. Things get worse when Renesmee is thought to be a child who was turned into a vampire, which is something that is frowned upon by the Volturi. After a meddling vampire named Irina tells the Volturi this, they decide that both Renesmee and the whole Cullen clan need to be destroyed. Facing certain doom unless they do something, the Cullens rally other vampire clans from around the globe and ask them to witness for Renesmee. After confronted with evidence that Renesmee isn’t a human child that was turned into a vampire, the Volturi carry out the immediate execution of Irina. They would have killed Renesmee as well if it hadn’t been for Jasper and Alice, who had located another vampire just like her. The Volturi back off and the happy little family is able to live happily ever after, a great ending to an enthralling series.
I predict that the Twilight Saga will become a classic vampire book, especially among the young adult crowd. Get Breaking Dawn, the last book in the vampire series.
The third of the Twilight books in the series, Eclipse is a book that pretty much picks up where New Moon ended. Bella is facing the end of her high school years and graduation, and the fact that she is going to be leaving the town of Forks for good. The story that everyone is hearing is that she’s going to college, when the truth is that she plans to become immortal like Edward.
If you are someone who loves the drama and angst of love triangles, you are going to absolutely love Eclipse, because Bella is town between two men that would do just about anything for her.
First, there’s Jacob – her friend, her confidant, and a guy who she only thought of as the cute little boy next door until he turned into a big fluffy fur ball who sprouted mega muscles along with fur and fangs. Jacob worships her and would do just about anything for her, and in a perfect world they probably would have been together.
Then there’s Edward, the man of her dreams. He’s gorgeous, he’s hot, and he’s never going to grow old. How perfect is that? As soon as he gives her the ultimate love bite they can stay teenagers and live happily ever after.
Making this love triangle more complicated than it already is is the fact that Edward and Jacob hate one another. And we’re not just talking about the fact that they are both hot for her bod. We’re talking about an ancient war that has been going on for centuries. You see, werewolves and vampires are mortal enemies, and usually they try and kill one another.
So what is it that makes these mortal enemies not exactly kiss and make up but simply put aside their differences? Nothing more than the fact that there’s another big bad bloodsucker on the horizon that made a bunch of new vampires to terrorize Forks. You guessed it. Victoria’s back with a vengeance and she is not happy. So these two creatures that everyone thought didn’t exist decide to join forces to rid Forks of these unspeakable horrors. Unfortunately, while the battle ensues and Bella, Edward, and Jacob hide out, Jacob accidentally overhears that Bella and Edward are engaged and that she’s going to become a vampire. He throws a fit, threatens to join the fight and get himself killed(hmm, kind of sounds like Edward going to the Volturi, doesn’t it?), and to appease him, Bella kisses him. She then realizes that she loves him as well. After a few more complications, the battle ends and the result is that poor Jacob goes running off with his tail between his legs.
Despite all the teenage angst and the love triangle, this was really a good book with a good plot. It moved along well and it holds the reader’s attention like the other two Twilight books. It’s definitely one of the Twilight books that is worth reading and one that keeps you guessing til the end. It’s one of the Twilight books that a lot of teenagers can identify with.
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New Moon picks up where the Twilight movie left off. It’s Bella’s birthday, and much to her chagrin, both her dad and her absentee mother have gone out and bought gifts that she had told them not to. Not only that, but the whole Cullen clan decide to throw her this elaborate birthday party with much too expensive gifts, and, the best surprise gift of all, almost getting killed. Danger prone Bella cuts her finger on the wrapping paper, causing it to bleed, and igniting the blood lust in Jasper. While his siblings calm Jasper and stop him from killing Bella, Carlisle tends to Bella’s arm, which she cut when she fell.
Fast forward a couple of days and it finds Edward telling Bella that the clan is leaving because it’s much too dangerous for them to be there. Edward walks away, Bella lays down on the ground and basically waits for death to come. Death doesn’t come but Sam, one of the guys from La Push, finds her and brings her home.
After finding out that Edward and the other Cullens are gone for good, Bella falls into a deep depression. She simply exists and her father decides it’s time to send her back to her mother. That snaps her out of it, and after an experience with a biker guy she finds that she can actually see and hear(or so she thinks) Edward when she’s in danger, she decides that she needs to start being adventurous so that she can see the love of her life all the time.
So during the next few months, Bella has a really full schedule. She reignites her relationship with Jacob and stands by his side while he rebuilds a couple of motorcycles that were destined for the junkyard, she learns to ride one of them, and finds out that not only are there vampires in the area but there are also werewolves. In fact, her friend Jacob, who is looking better and better now that Edward isn’t here, is one. She also discovers that there is a vampire who is seriously ticked off and wants her dead because Edward killed mate. Since Edward is stuck on Bella, Victoria figures its only fair that she get to kill Bella. Laurent, who is also a part of Victoria’s clan, almost finishes her off but the werewolves from La Push do him in first.
While the wolves are out tracking down Victoria, Bella decides she wants to see her love again and decides that cliff diving is the way to do it. She takes a flying leap off the cliff, almost drowns but Jacob rescues her, and everything should be fine.
But thanks to another person’s death, a ill timed phone call, and a mixed up message that got to the wrong person, Edward is under the impression that Bella is dead and decides to do the only sensible thing – head for Italy to royally tick off the Volturi, a group of vampires that stick to the old ways and don’t want any human to know they exist.
Alice comes to find Bella, they race to Italy in time to stop Edward from making a serious mistake, and the Volturi let them go on the condition that Bella is made a vampire.
This Twilight movie was much better than the first Twilight movie in my opinion. The CGI effects were great, as was the action and the horror. By now you can probably watch the movie at one of those dollar theaters which is a good deal since movies are so expensive!
