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Breaking Dawn

By Stephenie Meyer

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| Hardcover | 9781905654185

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Book Review: Breaking Dawn by Stephenie Meyer Share

It is no secret that I have highly ambivalent feelings about the works of Stephenie Meyer. Perhaps it is because I was the independent and headstrong girl who got involved with a psychopathic control-freak and was nearly destroyed by his madness. Mor ... (read full critics)

blogcritics published on Wed, 13 Apr 2011

Breaking dawn

La trama e le recensioni di Breaking dawn, romanzo di Stephenie Meyer edito da Fazi. Per Bella Swan essere innamorata di un vampiro è allo stesso tempo un sogno a occhi aperti e il peggiore degli incubi, un intreccio di sensazioni che si alternano e ... (read full critics)

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As with every other SM book, I finished it in one day, painful as it was. The book itself is written in a much better way than Eclipse, which was an unbearable read with all those useless and endless conversations, Jacob acting like a jerk and Bella being the most annoying female on the planet! BD a ... (continue)

As with every other SM book, I finished it in one day, painful as it was. The book itself is written in a much better way than Eclipse, which was an unbearable read with all those useless and endless conversations, Jacob acting like a jerk and Bella being the most annoying female on the planet! BD actually narrates the events and that's good. The problem is that said events are... uneventful!! Everything is so dull and boring and simple and predictable... you almost see the Teletubbies in the far corner of the setting smiling and waving, saying it'll be alright! Not even something "gruesome" as Bella's pregnancy (as far fetched and completely absurd as it is) manages to affect the reader, for it's implicit in SM's style that it'll be just fine. Not to mention Bella and her new vampiric self, coming out just perfect and uber cool (although with a ridiculous power!) her human traits completely gone and forgotten. And Charlie? Seriously, when did the lobotomy happen?! I must've missed the chapter (or maybe it'll come out in the outtakes!). There's no tension in this book, no drama (well ok we probably had enough of that in the previous books, but still), no pathos, no danger, no sacrifice... nothing! Even the supposedly mortal battle with the Volturi is incredibly boring and never ending... And honestly, how on earth can you call the last chapter "The happily ever after"?! Not to mention Renesmee Carlie. PLEASE. TW and NM are amazing books. Eclipse was sort of ok... BD is... yes, an EPIC FAIL!!!

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Embla said on Aug 3, 2008 | 2 feedbacks

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The End

Childhood is not from birth to a certain age and at a certain age
The child is grown, and puts away childish things.
Childhood is the kingdom where nobody dies.
Edna St. Vincent Millay
La Meyer è riuscita a risolvere tutto con un gigantesco e zuccheroso happy ending holli ... (continue)

Childhood is not from birth to a certain age and at a certain age
The child is grown, and puts away childish things.
Childhood is the kingdom where nobody dies.
Edna St. Vincent Millay
La Meyer è riuscita a risolvere tutto con un gigantesco e zuccheroso happy ending holliwoodiano (pure la rimozione "at will" dello scudo mentale di Bella, per la gioia di Edward). La trama fin dall'inizio si snoda prevedibile e imperturbabile, la Meyer non osa nessun colpo di scena. D'altro canto, nonostante una scrittura semplice e poco virtuosistica, l'autrice sa far leva sadisticamente sui nostri più beceri e lacrimevoli istinti romantici. E quindi sono tre stelline.

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Worst character development (and character!?) goes to Bella. If begging for sex at every spare moment (and agreeing to remain human for another few years---because wow, the sex is great) didn't set women back another forty years, then the sudden transformation of a clumsy, immature, whiny teen who n ... (continue)

Worst character development (and character!?) goes to Bella. If begging for sex at every spare moment (and agreeing to remain human for another few years---because wow, the sex is great) didn't set women back another forty years, then the sudden transformation of a clumsy, immature, whiny teen who needs protecting into a protective, motherly figure at the moment of the knowledge of her pregnancy will definitely get there. And of course, the vomit inducing ending, where everyone gets what they want, Bella is perfect, and so is her baby.

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juvo said on Aug 7, 2008 | Add your feedback

Peccato...

Ho letto il libro dopo aver portato mia figlia a vedere il film sulla prima parte, ero curioso di vedere come andava a finire. Francamente deludente nonostante alcuni spunti narrativi interessanti. Finale melenso da dimenticare.

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Filippo E. said on Feb 15, 2012 about the Mass Market Paperback edition | Add your feedback

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Bebe Girl4 said on Feb 7, 2012 about the Paperback edition | Add your feedback

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E il finale?

Ce ne sarebbero così tante di cose da dire, che preferisco concentrarmi su una soltanto; si dice che un buon libro si riconosce dal finale; bene, non poteva esistere un finale peggiore per una saga che, con tutto il rispetto, era cominciata male, ed è finita anche peggio.
La battaglia finale - inesi ... (continue)

Ce ne sarebbero così tante di cose da dire, che preferisco concentrarmi su una soltanto; si dice che un buon libro si riconosce dal finale; bene, non poteva esistere un finale peggiore per una saga che, con tutto il rispetto, era cominciata male, ed è finita anche peggio.
La battaglia finale - inesistente, nel senso che, dopo pagine di preparazioni e attesa, si è conclusa con un bel discorsetto di pace - non ha fatto altro che confermare l'essenza di questo libro interamente concentrata su una donna che non è in grado di contare sulle proprie forze, e deve ricorrere a quelle degli altri.
Unica nota di rilievo è l'accenno ai mutaforma, tramite il quale finalmente si è chiarito un punto cruciale che era quello di licantropi che si trasformano a loro piacimento. Anche se mi sarebbe piaciuto leggere un approfondimento a riguardo, non credo che leggerei un altro libro di quest'autrice.

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Panda-Lion said on Feb 1, 2012 about the Paperback edition | Add your feedback