Breaking Dawn – Twilight Saga Book 4

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.