Breaking Dawn

Well, here is the review of Breaking Dawn.

Book 1

Bella and Edward's wedding goes according to plan and is comparable in extravagance to Alice's other parties. The wedding has a minor blip in a confrontation between Jacob, Bella and Edward. Bella attempts to lock up her anger in order to not ruin her wedding night. Edward and Bella soon depart for their honeymoon. Edward takes her to Isle Esme off the coast of Brazil, where Edward fulfills Bella's wish and makes love to her. The next day they argue because Edward's passionate lovemaking left dark bruises all over Bella and therefore he refuses to sleep with her again, although Bella doesn't care about the injuries. They spend day after day on the island, Bella begging Edward to make love to her once again, and Edward continuously refusing, as he does not wish to injure her further. Later, however, he caves in. During this time, Bella keeps having a dream of a small, green-eyed child that she feels compelled to protect. Soon after these dreams start occurring, Bella finds herself constantly hungry and then sick, only to realize that her period is late and she has become pregnant. Even though Bella had never wanted a child, she is instantly attached to the idea once she realizes she's pregnant. Edward, however, is only concerned for her health, especially after hearing stories from a local woman (who suspects what he is) of a similar story involving the mother's death, and wants to be rid of the baby. Book 1 ends with Edward preparting to bring Bella back home where it's presumed Carlisle is going to 'take care of it'. Although it's clear Bella doesn't want to lose the baby, she doesn't yet voice her objections, and secretly calls Rosalie for help.

Book 2

The book is then told from Jacob's perspective, as he receives news of the Cullens' return. Carlisle had told Charlie that Bella cannot see anyone because she contracted a rare disease in South America, and is being quarantined. Jacob assumes the worst (that Bella has been bitten and changed), and is upset when Sam Uley, acting Alpha of the pack, declares that the pack will not retaliate. Jacob, full of anger, decides that if the pack will not retaliate collectively, he will by himself. He runs to the Cullen's house, contemplating how to attack. When he arrives, however, he realizes that things aren't as he expected. Bella, as opposed to being a newborn vampire, is already heavily pregnant with Edward's child. Everyone realizes that the child's rapid growth is starving Bella, as anything she eats is thrown right back up. Tensions are running high in the Cullen household as Rosalie steadily supports Bella's decision to have the child and aids her in every way possible, while Edward is furious at her intentions, which divides the family. When Jacob returns to the pack, he informs them of Bella's child. It causes fear and anger among the werewolves, who don't know how this child might act, being the off-spring of a vampire. Sam commands the pact in the double-timbre of the Alpha, to obey his decision to destroy Bella and her unborn child. Jacob, feeling it is the wrong way to go about things, revolts and assumes his inherited Alpha position and leaves Sam's pack. Seth and Leah Clearwater soon join Jacob's pack, and it is discovered that the collective mind of the packs are separated, and neither can hear the other pack's thoughts while Jacob and Sam are Alphas. The three patrol the Cullens' territory as a means to warn them of any impending werewolf attack. Esme treats them like she would treat any of her children and provides them with food and clothes, seeing how their clothes are too often destroyed by phasing. As the werewolves spend this time together, Jacob and Leah learn to tolerate each other, as each forms a more complete understanding of the other. As the baby continues to grow abnormally fast, Bella's health worsens. Her stomach is bruised in multiple places from the baby's movement, her ribs get cracked, along with her pelvis, and she has an unhealthy pallor. Her body continues to reject human food, and Jacob sarcastically thinks about the "creature" wanting blood. Edward overhears this thought, and the Cullens allow Bella to sample some donated, human blood. To Bella's surprise, the blood smells and tastes appealing, and revives her to an extent. During Bella's pregnancy, Edward realizes he can read the child's mind, and is astonished to discover that it already loves Bella. Edward's position changes as he hears his child's thoughts, and finally begins to love it as Bella does. Jacob struggles with his feelings for Bella. Every time she sees him, she is outrageously happy, and this confuses Jacob. At first, he says to Leah that he doesn't want his feelings for Bella to just disappear, but eventually things become too difficult for him to handle. He tries to imprint on random girls he sees in a park, but nothing happens. Eventually, Bella goes into labor approximately a month after the honeymoon. The hard placenta that surrounds the child cracks, and Bella begins vomiting blood. The child breaks free, with Bella very near death. Edward delivers the baby, a girl, and sets to work on making Bella a vampire. He injects his venom into her heart and bites her in several places. Jacob and Edward perform CPR to try to keep Bella's heart beating. Jacob, believing Bella dead, leaves the room and goes on a rampage to find the baby whom he holds responsible. He finds her in Rosalie's arms, but takes one look in the baby's eyes, exactly the color of Bella's, and he imprints on her.

Book 3

The book then returns to Bella's perspective. She has just given birth to her daughter, and is now undergoing the transformation from human to vampire. She finds herself unable to move, and this is due to the morphine that had been put in her system in an attempt to dull the pain. As the pain begins to wear off, so too does the limiting effect of the morphine, but Bella remains as still as possible to prevent Edward from feeling guilty and agonized over her pain. Bella can overhear pieces of conversation near the end of the transformation. When she opens her eyes, she feels a warm hand on her. She is startled, and moves instinctively to a defensive position. She realizes that Edward now feels relatively warm to her, and that she has just become a vampire. The Cullens are wary of Bella, who is supposed to be unstable as a newborn, yet Bella manages to show some self-control unseen in most newborns. She wishes to see Renesmee, her daughter, but is unallowed, due to the fact that Renesmee is part human, and the family believes Bella will be unable to deny her newborn thirst if she sees the child so soon, and without hunting. Edward decides to take Bella on her first hunt to ease her thirst. Before they go out, Alice shows Bella her reflection. She is stunningly beautiful, but not "herself" as when she was human, and has red eyes. Bella experiments with her new body on the hunt. She is graceful, strong, and fast. While hunting, she accidentally crosses a human scent, but resists the urge to kill and runs away to avoid bloodshed. Edward is astounded, as a hunting newborn shouldn't be able to deny their instincts. Upon returning, Bella is allowed to see her daughter, in part because of the recent encounter with the human scent in the woods. Renesmee has already grown astonishingly fast, and looks older than she should be. Bella learns of Renesmee's gift - the ability to communicate by sending images to people's minds through touch. Bella becomes furious when she learns that Jacob has imprinted upon her daughter, and attacks him, breaking Seth's collarbone and shoulder when he steps between the two. Eventually, she manages to calm down. The Cullens give Bella and Edward a cottage for Bella's birthday for them to live in with their baby. That night, Bella and Edward make love for the first time since Bella has been changed and is equal to Edward. They find it very difficult to satisfy their desire for one another, something Edward tells Bella is normal for vampires when they begin a physical relationship, which usually takes years to control. Renesmee, matures quickly and soon is able to speak, walk and hunt. The baby also leads to a truce between the Quiletes and the Cullens because of Jacob's imprinting. Differences between Sam and Jacob's packs are soon settled as well, with Jacob leading them. Unfortunately for the Cullens, the Volturi have made their decision to come after them because they received word from Irina, a vampire from the Denali clain, that Renesmee is a forbidden immortal child. The Cullens know that Irina was mistaken and decides the only way to stall the Volturi long enough to explain is to build a following of their own. Alice suddenly leaves the Cullens with Jasper, leaving a note with Sam Uley from the copyright page of Shakespeare's The Merchant of Venice. Bella sees this as a sign to her, since it was her copy of the book, and when she returns to the cottage she finds that Alice left an address on another page of the book. The family doesn't know why Alice and Jasper left, since they didn't give a reason to anyone. When Bella goes to the address, she finds that it is the office of a lawyer who can forge fake documents. Bella forges documents for Jacob and Renesmee, just in case she needs them to escape. Meanwhile, nomadic, vegetarian, and clans of vampires arrive on the Cullen's land after the family begins seeking out their friends to help with the Volturi. Some of them take a liking to Renesemee and agree to bear witness to the Volturi that she is not an immortal child. Bella also discovers her power of mind-privacy has a shielding effect she could possibly carry to others. During the month of preparation for the Volturi, several of the vampires with quantifiable supernatural talents help her learn to expand the barrier, which comes into great effect as the Volturi come for confrontation. When the Volturi finally come, all of the vampires, along with the werewolves meet in a clearing in the forest. Although they discover that they were misinformed, the Volturi are not satisfied to leave because they want to fight and take the vampires with gifts for themselves. Bella's gift disables the Volturi's offensive fighters, Alec (who causes one to lose their senses) and Jane (who creates the illusion of pain in the victim) because she can shield everyone on her side. Aro, Caius and Marcus are going to vote on whether or not Renesmee is going to be a danger to the vampire world when she grows up. Caius thinks she will be, but Marcus disagrees. Just before Aro casts his deciding vote, Alice and Jasper return with another half-human, half-vampire from South America who is now over one hundred years old. He and his two sisters (who are also half-vampire, half-human) have never causes any danger to the vampire world. Facing no other choice, Aro chooses to give up the fight, and the Volturi flee. However, before they leave, they reveal that the so-called werewolves are not actual werewolves, but rather "shape shifters", who adapted to only be able to shift into wolf forms. The vampires celebrate their victory, along with Edward and Bella, who have successfully protected their child. After leaving the Cullens' home for their own, Bella and Edward tuck Renesmee into her bed and head off to their bedroom arm in arm. Bella tells Edward she wants to try something with him, that she wants him to see her human memories. She places her hands on his cheeks and tries to push her shield away, something that she had been working on secretly. She brings up all of the specific memories she wants to see, and Edward is finally able to see them. She shows Edward special moments between the two of them from her perspective, letting Edward see for the first time just how deeply she loves him. Edward is thus unable to control himself from kissing her, and breaks her concentration and so she stops, but she tells him that now he knows that no one loves anyone as much as she does him. He asks her if she can do it again, and she tries, but he still can't resist kissing her. The book ends saying And then we continued blissfully into this small but perfect piece of our forever.

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