A Female, 19, Single. CA, USA

Singh did a good job of connecting this book to the first - it began with some Lucas & Sasha interaction to satisfy our needs, but gradually shifted into strictly Vaughn & Faith. However, Singh managed to do all of this without forgetting the main objective of this book. Another admirable thing about this book was the clear differences in personalities and positions in the Pack that Singh took into account while writing this story. Unlike Lucas who is the Pack's Alpha, other Pack members didn't play quite the same pivotal role in this book as they did in the first one. Instead, Singh took into account Vaughn's solitary nature and did a really nice job of making that distinction.

While I enjoyed this book, and the Vaughn & Faith coupling, I would have to say that I enjoyed the first book just a bit more. There were parts of this book that were confusing, namely, all the stuff going on in Faith's head, that could have been explained a bit better. Other than that, it was a great book.

Despite what everyone has said about this book, I didn't think it was that bad. Maybe it's because I hated the third book while everyone still loved it, so I was expecting something a lot worse, or maybe it's because I was already forewarned about all the spoilers and complaints (which was not my intent; I was quite pissed when it got ruined for me) but I kind of enjoyed this book, despite the fact that the first half of the book was completely spoiled and the second half was kind of predictable. From an eighteen-year-old, die-hard romantic's point of view, the book was okay.

I still hated Jake. I don't understand why an entire section had to be dedicated to him, really. I don't even really think that Jacob is even really necessary to any of the books except for the second. I think my main problem with Jacob is that he's like this character that Meyer just tried to throw in and make suddenly important as an afterthought, when she decided to make a sequel. And then she became obsessed with him. Much like Bella, she just could never let him go, and it annoys me so SO much because I always feel like Jacob is just this unwanted (by me, maybe not Bella, or even Edward) person who's not really needed and is just annoying, pushy, and really selfish and self-centered. He's very irrational. He doesn't think a lot of the time. And he's just like this annoying kid who won't go away. I feel like HE was the leech, who just stuck around and complained all the time. I hated how he imprinted on Renesmee and just tagged along, because it felt so often like he was just robbing Bella, Edward, and Renesmee of the family time that they deserved together because their kid grew up. I don't mind if Meyer wants to let Jacob have a happy ending, move on, and imprint on Bella's daughter (though it's weird), but I felt so often like Jacob was just barging in on that obligatory family time that should have been just for Bella, Edward, and their daughter alone. And that's the main thing that pissed me off about this book.

I agree, I think that Meyer did a good job with the whole vampire sex part, I agree that Bella is like a freaking child herself, who maybe wasn't all too ready to be a mother at all, but I think the fact that she was a part of a bigger family who helped her raise Renesmee kind of compensated for this a bit. So I'm not really mad about Bella's pregnancy, or Bella (finally) being turned a vampire, or the happy ending that so many people are complaining about. I just really hate Jacob, and it's frustrating and annoying because Meyer loves him and can't let go of him and can't let him be any lesser of a character than he probably should be. It's like she decided somewhere along the way that two main characters wasn't enough; she needed a third, enter Jacob Black.

I have to admit, I almost didn't want to continue reading this book. I had so anticipated reading it but once I started, the first 70 pages failed to draw my attention and capture me. The beginning was slow, but like another reviewer said, I now realize that they were definitely necessary. Once I got past that though, and the plot really began to pick up (which was Part II, basically) this book was really good, and worth the bore of 70 pages or so, which don't seem all that boring looking back on it, having read the rest. At the time, I was so convinced that this book would be a bust, but it wasn't at all. Things were confusing at times, and took a while to sink in and actually make some sense, but the plot, the suspense, and the end were good. The sex was good. The romance was rewarding.

Here's my beef with these books: I'm addicted to them, especially after having seen and loved the movies, but I also have a love/hate relationship with them. I often find parts beyond boring, where I just want to skip through it all and go to the parts I like - mainly Lena & Kostos. Which is why I'm having a hard time rating this book. For so long I hoped that the whole pregnancy thing was just some added twist the filmmakers did, not straight from the books. I guess this killed that notion, and it killed me to have to read it just when I thought all was safe and everything would be okay. I don't know what to say about this book, how to rate it, to say if I loved it or hated it. I got teary at the parts about Lean & Kostos & Bapi, and I liked hearing about Bee finding herself again and playing soccer and all that... but the parts about Carmen and Tibby just really killed me to read, aside from the whole Kostos thing. Carmen was such a freaking BRAT in this book, and also the one before it. She whined and complained about everything, screwed it up, and then whined and complained some more. Tibby was a little better, but I couldn't stand just sitting there, passively reading and hopeless to do anything as she wrote off so many people in her life just to be friends with two losers who weren't even worth it. Not at all.

But I guess that's the beauty of the book too, that it made me frustrated and that it made me feel all these emotions. So I have no idea how to rate this book, or if I would suggest it for others to read. I guess it depends on what you like, what you can take, what you value in a book. Me, I value happy endings. So as long as the ultimate ending of this series is happy (code: Lena & Kostos end up together, none of this Paul bs), then I guess this book will be okay. Good even.

This book was good, but I feel like it sometimes tried to do too much. It would take you away on different stories but then never really finish them. Maybe I read this book while in the wrong mood, but even the romance and love seemed to have a few things missing. The girls became annoying at times, frustrating, when they should have just been portrayed as strong willed and standing up for themselves. It was an enjoyable read, but I've definitely read better.