Product Description

To be irrevocably in love with a vampire is both fantasy and nightmare woven into a dangerously heightened reality for Bella Swan. Pulled in one direction by her intense passion for Edward Cullen, and in another by her profound connection to werewolf Jacob Black, she has endured a tumultuous year of temptation, loss and strife to reach the ultimate turning point. Her imminent choice to either join the dark but seductive world of immortals or pursue a fully human life has become the thread from which the fate of two tribes hangs. Now that Bella has made her decision, a startling chain of unprecedented events is about to unfold with potentially devastating and unfathomable consequences. Just when the frayed strands of Bella's life - first discovered in TWILIGHT, then scattered and torn in NEW MOON and ECLIPSE - seem ready to heal and knit together, could they be destroyed...forever?

Product Details

• Amazon Sales Rank: #21 in Books
• Published on: 2008-08-04
• Original language: English
• Binding: Hardcover
• 768 pages

Review
'The sexiest vampire tale for years arrived in Stephenie Meyer's TWILIGHT, about teenage Bella's chaste romance with a beautiful vampire boy. Their intensely erotic feelings are endangered by more predatory types. Guaranteed to suck in sulky 13+ girls for hours.' The Times "Will keep readers madly flipping the pages of Meyer's tantalizing debut." Publishers Weekly

About the Author
Stephenie Meyer graduated from Brigham Young University with a degree in English Literature and lives with her husband and three young sons in Arizona. She is the author of The Twilight Saga and The Host.

Customer Reviews

Rubbish
This book makes a mockery of the whole Twilight series. The first book in the series was brilliant, the second okay, the third better than okay, but this is plain rubbish. The diologue is rubbish, the story is boring and dull and what I hate most *Warning spoiler* is how the character of Jacob imprints on Bella's daughter. It makes his love for Bella a waste of time and this was part of the reason the Twilight saga was so good. The story would have gone a bit better if he had imprinted on someone like Leah. I also found Bella annoying in this book, and sometimes found myself wanting to tell her to shut up.
Overall, a horrible read and I was so happy when I finished it. If you have only read the first three books, leave it at that as if you read this book, it will change how you feel about Bella and Edward. They aren't the same as in the other books and not in a good way.

Thank God that's over.
I loved 'Twilight', but I wish it had just stopped there (or at any rate that I had), because following book 1 this series rapidly succumbs to Series Disease - editor apparently checks out, author rapidly loses the even more rapidly evaporating plot, and everything that made the first book unique and fresh gets repeated until it's formulaic with a vengeance.

Before I started reading this, I chuckled over an amazon reviewer who called it 'emetic', thinking it couldn't be that bad. After 700+ pages, though, I'll not only give him emetic, I'll riff of it too because, given the subject matter, I couldn't help comparing the reading experience with morning sickness: increasingly nauseating, all-consuming, and inevitable. In fact, once I figured out the premise of this book (and really, I never thought she'd stoop so low!), I was tempted to hurl it across the room. Stayed my hand because that would probably have resulted in a broken window (this is a tome of Potter-like proportions - RSI sufferers be warned!)

I hung in there solely because it seemed there would finally be an all-out, blood-and-guts vampire showdown at the end. Rue the misplaced hope! Because instead of the fight the second half of the book seems to promise, we get thirty-odd pages of vampirical squabbling, which culminates in the bad guys - and the Volturi had SUCH potential as bad guys! - stomping off in a snit because...well actually, I'm not really sure why. It had something to do with their inability to do anything else because then everyone might figure out they're not the righteous vampire police they pretend to be. Um, but didn't we already know that?

Oh, never mind. I'm sure my misanthropic reviews can't sway anyone who wants to like these books. And in the end I'm not so much out to trash them as to protest the waste: I mean, aren't vampires bloodthirsty predators first and foremost? Civilised as the Cullens might be in their stately home, it would have added a dimension to, say, Esme, to see her rip Aro's head off. I guess I'll just go back to Buffy and Anne Rice and stay away from teen horror series. For the moment, anyway...

So Disappointed......
I was really looking forward to reading this book. I have loved the series. Loved Twilight, really enjoyed New Moon and loved Eclipse and then we got Breaking Dawn, which in my opinion was very disappointing. So much so I rushed through the last 200 pages. I just could not be bothered to give it anymore of my time.

I thought the book started off well, and I was really enjoying it. But when a certain unexpected thing happens to Bella, for me it went down hill. I found myself slogging through the book instead of enjoying it.

It felt like I was reading an entirely different book from the series, all the personalities of the characters seem to disappear, and the book just seemed empty and bland. I felt it was far too long and the story was just dragged on and on....
The book should of just ended when they got married, as the rest of it is complete rubbish. Having to slog through so much boring stuff, just to get that perfect ending.

But, although I disliked this book, I'm not going to put Stephenie Meyer down, as I really did enjoy the first three. She gave us Edward, Bella and Jacob. They are three of my most favourite characters. It's such a shame this book didn't live up to the other three (imo).