my favorite.
so i actually finished this book almost two weeks ago and have just been rereading and...digesting it, i guess. i've had to. i can't let go yet! it's the last one and it was perfect! i still have it in front of me on my desk, just in case i want to take a mental break and go through it. truth is that this book has been helping me through a rather rough time; every time i need my brain to stop thinking about whatever it is it can't stop thinking about, i would grab this book and find one of my many favorite sections, then read on from there until i was okay again.
so here are my thoughts:
though i've loved this series, i'm going to admit that i've had a slight issue with bella ever since the beginning. it's not that i disliked her character at all. i thought she was very 17, and endearing to a point as well. but it was her absolute lack of self-preservation when it came to edward that (though completely understandable) grated on my nerves sometimes. i mean, the obsession was one thing (again, completely understandable), but when he left, and came back again, she was just...waiting there for him. and it's just not the type of person i am or care for. you can obviously see that i've had trouble getting over "new moon".
BUT, in this book, bella redeems the hell out of herself!
vamp bella kicks ass. i thought that stephenie meyer did a great job of showing how bella was really meant to be in that lifestyle. her character just...really came into her own after the conversion. and once the conversion took place, the only flaw i ever found with edward (his way too overprotective, we're-doing-this-my-way-you-dim-witted-female tendencies) vanished! he's perfect again! and they're great together! i was so happy that they could finally be happy, after all the non-happy moments in the rest of the books! and can we just take a minute to say how absolutely about-time fabulous it is that they could finally get it on without the threat of apocalypse?
it even made up for the fact that their child was named renesmee.
*sigh*
as for the child. i have to admit that i was a tiny bit disappointed with the pregnancy. not that it wasn't predictable. and i guess it's not that they're too young (come on, the were on the clock at that point!). so i don't really know why i didn't necessarily want the kid to arrive. but as it turns out, it didn't bug me as much once she was there. i liked that she gave edward an "out" to having to kill bella, because i feel like that would have tarnished the morality of the edward i've gotten to know in the books. and renesmee gave bella a center, i feel. it made her automatically a stronger, older woman. and that was refreshing.
i have no opinion on the imprinting shinanigans. honestly, it rates rather low on the how-much-i-care radar. i care about bella and edward. jake is peripheral. but speaking of jake, i LOVED the blonde jokes for rosalie. especially the one about the golden retriever. i've actually already told to it someone. hilariousness.
and as for alice. *another sigh*. i have a girl crush on alice, so when she left it broke my heart. i knew she and jasper were coming back (really, did anyone not know that?), but i was a bit miffed about what it did to the image of her character until her last minute entrance.
speaking of. now, apparently, some people were put off that there wasn't some huge bloody vamp massacre at the end of the series. like the deep breath before a jump that will never happen. i, on the other hand, very much preferred this. i liked the fact that it was possibly the longest, most drawn-out build-up to a war that never happens since lord of the rings. i almost cried with the birage of good-byes that went on, and felt so sad when bella and edward prepared to say good-bye to renesmee and jacob. i liked that it was an out-smarting rather than an...out-strengthening?...that won the day.
and at the end of the day? the last 2 pages? my absolute favorite scene.
it ended as well as it began, i think.
i guess it's time to start all over again. lol.
so here are my thoughts:
though i've loved this series, i'm going to admit that i've had a slight issue with bella ever since the beginning. it's not that i disliked her character at all. i thought she was very 17, and endearing to a point as well. but it was her absolute lack of self-preservation when it came to edward that (though completely understandable) grated on my nerves sometimes. i mean, the obsession was one thing (again, completely understandable), but when he left, and came back again, she was just...waiting there for him. and it's just not the type of person i am or care for. you can obviously see that i've had trouble getting over "new moon".
BUT, in this book, bella redeems the hell out of herself!
vamp bella kicks ass. i thought that stephenie meyer did a great job of showing how bella was really meant to be in that lifestyle. her character just...really came into her own after the conversion. and once the conversion took place, the only flaw i ever found with edward (his way too overprotective, we're-doing-this-my-way-you-dim-witted-female tendencies) vanished! he's perfect again! and they're great together! i was so happy that they could finally be happy, after all the non-happy moments in the rest of the books! and can we just take a minute to say how absolutely about-time fabulous it is that they could finally get it on without the threat of apocalypse?
it even made up for the fact that their child was named renesmee.
*sigh*
as for the child. i have to admit that i was a tiny bit disappointed with the pregnancy. not that it wasn't predictable. and i guess it's not that they're too young (come on, the were on the clock at that point!). so i don't really know why i didn't necessarily want the kid to arrive. but as it turns out, it didn't bug me as much once she was there. i liked that she gave edward an "out" to having to kill bella, because i feel like that would have tarnished the morality of the edward i've gotten to know in the books. and renesmee gave bella a center, i feel. it made her automatically a stronger, older woman. and that was refreshing.
i have no opinion on the imprinting shinanigans. honestly, it rates rather low on the how-much-i-care radar. i care about bella and edward. jake is peripheral. but speaking of jake, i LOVED the blonde jokes for rosalie. especially the one about the golden retriever. i've actually already told to it someone. hilariousness.
and as for alice. *another sigh*. i have a girl crush on alice, so when she left it broke my heart. i knew she and jasper were coming back (really, did anyone not know that?), but i was a bit miffed about what it did to the image of her character until her last minute entrance.
speaking of. now, apparently, some people were put off that there wasn't some huge bloody vamp massacre at the end of the series. like the deep breath before a jump that will never happen. i, on the other hand, very much preferred this. i liked the fact that it was possibly the longest, most drawn-out build-up to a war that never happens since lord of the rings. i almost cried with the birage of good-byes that went on, and felt so sad when bella and edward prepared to say good-bye to renesmee and jacob. i liked that it was an out-smarting rather than an...out-strengthening?...that won the day.
and at the end of the day? the last 2 pages? my absolute favorite scene.
it ended as well as it began, i think.
i guess it's time to start all over again. lol.
1 comment:
Sadly, I couldn't disagree more. I hate to be one of those people, but I hated Breaking Dawn for 346509 reasons I won't list here. It almost ruined the series for me, but then I got over that. I'm glad that you enjoyed it, though!
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