Breaking Dawn: Best Seller or Bad End
By Clare Beusch

Most fans of the Twilight Saga would think “How can this series get any better?”  Anyone who has read the fourth book of the thrilling saga will say, “It can!”  Breaking Dawn by Stephanie Meyer is the fourth and most adventurous of the books in the series.

In the previous books and in the beginning of Breaking Dawn, we get a sense of how Bella, a girl who moved from sunny Arizona to dreary Forks, Washington, feels about her vampire sweetheart, Edward Cullen.  Through a series of vampire battles and struggles, she discovers the fantasy world of immortals that she never thought existed.

The second book in the saga, New Moon, shows how Bella’s life is altered again when she discovers that her best friend, Jacob, is a werewolf.  Werewolves and vampires don’t get along, so Bella is constantly conflicted about which side to be on, without hurting anyone she loves. 

Many fans of the saga have different opinions about how they thought Jacob acted.  Some thought that he was way too pushy and mean.  However, Minah Choi (7), one fan of the saga says “Jacob was hysterical in his account.  He came off as being too critical but that is what made him so funny.

In the previous book, Eclipse, Bella decides between her best friend and her true love.  She chooses to become a vampire and stay with Edward forever.  In Breaking Dawn, her wish just might be answered through a series of odd and almost unexplainable events.

Breaking Dawn tells the tale of Bella’s last breaths as a human and the astonishing and unforeseeable events that come with it.  Then the story is turned over to Jacob.  He explains the odd events that follow through a slightly more human perspective.  These events include the coming of a new vampire- well, an almost vampire.  Jacob keeps readers down to earth and shows the true shock and mortification that any mortal would feel in the frantic preparation for the new member of the Cullen coven.  However his disgust for the new, loveable character that hasn’t even arrived yet is shown in a hateful and rude way.  The discovery of the character only comes from his visits to Bella and Edward.  He only hates this new creature because it is causing Bella pain, and he is still in love with her.

After Jacob’s insensitive account of Bella’s painful experience, the story is turned back to Bella in her new and much improved vampire self.  However, Bella isn’t like the usual newborn vampire that is vicious and bloodthirsty.  She has the control to not injure or attack any humans.

The newcomer is much like Bella in this way.  This is one of the reasons why Bella describes it with such adoration.  She loves it so much that she doesn’t care that it caused her pain.  Even though this newcomer is a delight to be around, the Volturi, an evil vampire coven, finds out about it and is out to destroy the entire Cullen family because they believe this newcomer will destroy all existing vampires.

Velvet Sewell (8), another fan, says, “The Volturi are just like Stalin because they both jump to conclusions about possible crimes that are most likely untrue.  They have a ‘kill now, ask questions later’ attitude.”

Despite all of the conflicts in Breaking Dawn, everything turns out exactly how the Cullens envision.  This book is the most action-packed and thrilling book in the series.  It is by far the best way to end the saga.

Choi and Sewell say, “Everyone should read Breaking Dawn.  You won’t regret it!”