As usual...Spoiler Alert!
I really enjoyed reading Breaking Dawn, but I am so sad that the series is over!! I felt like there was so much suspense building up to this book and I had so many theories and there was so much speculation as to what would happen, but I NEVER would have guessed anything that actually did happen! (Well, I did guess about the pregnancy part, but I figured that it would be impossible and wouldn't happen).
Here are a few points that I hoped we could discuss because I am interested to hear how you felt...
The honeymoon:
I thought that Stephanie Meyer was very tactful and tasteful in the way that she presented the sex scenes. We all knew that there would be some since they got married and all, but I was curious how she could still keep this a book appropriate for teens but include that in there. I appreciated that she was able to show us their "desires" but just skip over the parts we didn't need to read. I have heard a few people say that it was really inappropriate and that they wouldn't be allowing their daughters to read it. What do you think about that? I feel that what Edward and Bella were doing was completely moral and acceptable within the confines of marriage and that Stephanie Meyer kept it clean enough for me to allow my daughter to read it (well, if I ever have one...but I know that my Young Women at church have read it and I think it's fine).
Jacob:
For all you Team Jacob fans out there, I am curious how you felt about how everything turned out for him. At first, while I was reading and I flipped to book 2 where Jacob was going to begin narrating, I was really disappointed. I couldn't believe that I was going to be left hanging and not know what was going to happen with the baby!! However, after I read on, I really began enjoying being in Jacobs head. I liked that we could hear more of what the pack was thinking and seeing Bella and Edwards relationship from the outside. I think that it also smoothed things out for me when Jacob ended up imprinting on Renesmee because I probably would have been mad like Bella and Edward were at first if I wasn't rooting more for Jacob at that point. I was excited that Jacob imprinted on Renesmee, I believe that was what was the main thing that helped everything end up so well in the end. What do you think about Jacob's imprinting??? How did you react when you figured it out?
Renesmee:
Where do I start? Can you believe they had a baby?! What is up with the name Renesmee??? Couldn't she have named her after her favorite sister Alice or something? Yuck. Although, the name did end up growing on me more by the end of the book, but I am still with Bella and hate the nickname Nessie. I liked her talent and thought it would be interesting how she would use it when she grew older. Speaking of that...I wish there was another book where we can see her grown up.
Talents:
Did you expect that Bella would have the same talent that she had when she was human? I kind of did, but I always wondered if there would be something more. I loved how at the end she was able to pull back her talent and let Edward read her mind.
Charlie:
Do you think that now that Charlie is dating Sue that Sue will eventually tell him that Bella is a vampire? How do you think that he will react?
Did you like the book?
I read a few reviews where the readers were very disappointed in the book. What about you? Did you like it? Did you hate it? I liked it and I think that it had a happy ending which was what I had hoped for. I am reading it again to my husband right now and it has been just as fun to read the 2nd time around. The only thing I hated was that it was the last book!!!
