It will be released nationwide on December 12, In just two years, Stephenie Meyer has become a worldwide publishing phenomenon. The sequel, New Moon , was released in September , and spent over 30 weeks at the 1 position on The New York Times bestseller list.
Eclipse , the latest book in the series released on August 7, , catapulted to the 1 slot on bestseller lists nationwide after selling , copies its first day on-sale. There are over 5. For more information, visit www. February 7, The official release date for Breaking Dawn will be August 2, ! She would rather just stay in the house and have sex all day, every day, for weeks at a time. Also defying any sort of logic is the fact that once she realizes she might be pregnant, it is confirmed by the fact that her stomach has a little bulge and she feels the baby kick.
The five-day-old embryo. By the time I finished reading the honeymoon scene, I was having to shut the book to collect myself. I felt my mind had been violated, like Stephenie Meyer had just mind-raped me through nearly pages. I had to force myself to continue reading. It only got worse. What sort of structure is that? Once Bella becomes pregnant, she ceases to be Bella. Since when did Bella want to be a mom? Plus, the thing grows at an alarming rate. This image disgusted me.
First of all, I would rather not imagine a pregnant 18 year old, married or not. Second of all, the logistics of it bother me. Like oh, of course she gets through 9 months of pregnancy in roughly four weeks. Then the birth — grotesque, disgusting. Um, sick? I can only hope the movie version of this saga ends with Twilight.
I can't imagine them trying to dilute the honeymoon scene, let alone the birthing scene. I can just picture the awkward energy radiating in the theatre during a movie like this.
I wouldn't be surprised if there were nothing but crickets at the end, moviegoers awkwardly shuffling out of the theatre, avoiding eye contact with those they came with. But moving on, how about the lovely celebrity-coupleish name they burden her with? Gag me. I wonder what Stephenie Meyer was even thinking. And to further her perverted, illogical tirade, Stephenie has Jacob imprint on the infant Renesmee.
Of course, how perfect for Bella. She can have Jacob in her life AND have him be happy. Great solution. I would rather he imprinted on Leah. That would have made much more sense. Once Bella becomes a vampire, she continues to remain the exception to every rule while being utterly oblivious to the fact.
You are unusually graceful! Was that jump good? Your mind can block everything out, you have super powers! And oh, you can conveniently use them to protect the ones you love! Is that good? Am I being modest enough? How convenient to the plot that Bella can skip over all the newborn vampire nonsense and just be herself.
How convenient that her passions for Edward only intensify. Who needs human experiences? How convenient that Charlie gets to know the Cullens are not human. How convenient that he happily accepts that two months after giving his daughter away, he already has a grandchild the size of a 3 year old.
The whole plot line reminded me of a child who got bored playing the same old story with her Barbies and suddenly decided that Barbie and Ken were going to have a baby, and that baby was born and became a functioning member of the family within two minutes of play time. I was a little hopeful when the Volturi arrived for what seemed to be an inevitable war. I recalled back to when Bella mentioned something about not being able to imagine the Cullens without their head, Carlisle.
I thought for sure Carlisle would make some ultimate sacrifice to save Edward and Bella. In true predictable fashion, Alice returns and saves the day. Pathetic Bella, the damsel in distress, the one who always had to be protected and saved, now the one protecting and saving everyone else. How convenient. No fighting occurs, Renesmee is assured a life of immortality and will conveniently grow up extra fast for Jacob.
Bella and Edward live to have more sex. Everyone lives happily ever after. View all 28 comments. Jul 24, Teresa rated it did not like it Recommends it for: People that would jump off a bridge just to meet Edward. It's okay to abandon your parents after graduation literally 2. When a vampire wants to kill you, hide out on a mountain and run for your life while your boyfriend's family fight to protect you.
It is the most romantic and beautiful thing in the world when a guy you barely know oils your bedroom window to watch you sleep when you don't even know it.
Beg your boyfriend to screw you over after he asks you to marry him 5. If your boyfriend leaves you forever, it is perfectly understandable to give up on life and stop living.
There is no hope of you moving on, so what's the point of existing in the world? When you have two guys fight over you, choose the more perfect, beautiful, flawless one For me, he's a possessive, controlling asshole.
Do not, under any cost, choose the less beautiful, flawed guy. It's okay not to have any aspirations, dreams, and goals for the future. When you have a hot sexy vampire boyfriend, it's okay to give up a promising future to be with him instead. Make friends at school and then literally ignore them and pretend they don't exist. After all, your life centers around only your smokin' boyfriend.
When you fall in love with someone for their physical attributes or because they smell good, it is considered beautiful, undying, irreversible love. If your precious gem of a boyfriend leaves you, it is alright to become an adrenaline junky, manipulate your friend into helping you conjure up hallucinations, and jump off a cliff months later.
Kiss your best friend in front of your fiance after repeatedly saying you don't have feelings for him. Saved the best for last You still love Meyer? Update: There was this crazy Twilight fangirl the other day who was like," I want to jump off a bridge to meet Edward. Your venom spreaded pretty far. You Edward lovers still think the Twilight series is amazing? View all 27 comments.
Aug 04, Ann rated it did not like it. Dear lord. I cannot believe I wasted my time with this book. The deeper and deeper I got into the absurdness of it all, I realized what it reminded me of: a bad fan fiction. What the hell was she thinking? Now that I read Meyer's statements more carefully, I realize that she never actually said it was impossible Dear lord.
Now that I read Meyer's statements more carefully, I realize that she never actually said it was impossible for a male vampire to impregnate a human girl, just that a female vampire couldn't bear children.
I guess we the readers just jumped to conclusions with that. But regardless, I have never thought of Bella as particularly maternal. So imagine my surprise when the fried chicken she makes one day nauseates her! My reaction: " It can't be! She can't be! It's impossible, damn it! And then shortly after it goes into "Book Two," which is Jacob's point of view.
Now, I hated Jacob. I guess it was more dislike, since I don't usually hate things. But anyways, I was expecting his view to be boring and disappointing. But as we got further into it, I started to have a better understanding of him. It was refreshing to get a glimpse into his mind, to see his feelings. I have always been one of Team Edward before now, so imagine my surprise when I realize that Jacob is now one of my favorite characters!
Seth and Leah are great characters too. Leah really developed--all she needed was to be able to push away from Sam. I have always liked Leah, truthfully. But even though I liked her, I could never truthfully say she had a great personality. Breaking Dawn changed that. And in Jacob's point of view, we see how badly the pregnancy is affecting Bella--this is also a good part of the book. Too often in fan fiction I see pregnant!
Bella having a blissful time. But the pain and misery of it in Breaking Dawn is absolutely wonderful. A new take on it, I thought, and my opinion of the book increased as I got to that part. But then the book just HAS to go to Bella's point of view again. And shortly after she gives birth also plenty of pain there , she is dying, and Edward has to change her into a vampire quickly. I can't say I like the circumstances for the change, but alright. But the disappointment comes during the change.
She mentions the pain, the monstrous fire that keeps licking at her skin and causing her pain at every moment. But she fails to describe it well--after a while, she's grown used to it. How exactly do you get used to being in a fire? I just don't get that. And one other fact--she stays still throughout the whole transformation. She should be screaming, thrashing about. How did she suddenly become this "strong, silent type?
She wakes up, and all her senses have been magnified: the entire world looks different. That's not the disappointment, though. The big disappointment is that there is barely any mention of thirst.
Know why? Because she has this super-self-control that allows her to completely skip the typical YEARS of savageness, the newborn stage! Yes, everyone. She is that awesome. She has become a Mary-Sue. If you don't know what that is, go look it up on Wikipedia now.
Is that not enough to convince you of her Sue-ness? Well, as if that's not enough, a little later she discovers that she can protect people with her mind! But that's for later. Right now, let's rewind a little bit.
Remember Bella's kid? Turns out it's a girl. What's her name? You heard right. Try pronouncing that. Correct pronunciation: ruh-NEZ-may. Combo of Renee and Esme. And as if that were not enough, she's nicknamed after the loch ness monster. I mean, most of us want him to eventually get over Bella, right? But the way Meyer does it? It's like, POOF! The moment he sees Renesmee, Bella vanishes!
She was never there! It's laughable. Using such an easy way of getting rid of Jacob. Meyer could've at least spent time on the solution. Meanwhile, a series of events which I don't feel like explaining happen which lead the Volturi to come to try to kill Nessie. Nessie is Renesmee, if you can't figure it out.
Concerned, the Cullens gather seventeen other freaking vampires as witnesses. Don't ask me for what, I don't feel like explaining. And obviously all of these vampires get along, even though most of them prey on humans and a whole neighborhood of them live a few miles away. And as if that weren't enough, almost all of them have superpowers, completely deflating one of Meyer's earlier claims. So here they are, all gathered, when suddenly the Volturi get convinced that Nessie is not a threat and they all leave peacefully--though not without killing Irina, who ratted all of them out but did so on a false claim.
And then they lived happily ever after. Yes, that really happened. The title of the last chapter was even "Happily Ever After. But then, even after all this, you still say, "But at least Alice was there to make the story better, right? She was barely there for anything. Which takes away a lot of the series' appeal. And while we're on the topic of characters, may I also add that no one was acting in-character?
And while we're on the topic of out-of-character-ness, I would also like to say that Charlie found out about werewolves and that the Cullens weren't human he doesn't know they're vampires, just that they aren't human , but guess what?
He barely cares about it! Who would've thought? Remember earlier, when I said this was like a bad fan fiction? Let's weigh all the characteristics. Everything that happened in cliche fan fiction happened here, including: - Pregnant Bella - Stupid names - OOC-ness Out Of Character, if you can't figure it out - The commonness of gifted vampires - Bella's self-control gift - Two gifts for Bella - Jacob imprinting - Charlie knowing the secret I'm sure there's more, but I don't want to think a lot.
Please don't read this. I'm not going to write another review, because I'm still in denial that the book was actually okay. So I'm just going to say that I respect it. I'm never, ever going to like it, of course. But I respect it. I hate this book again with a passion. I no longer respect it or Meyer. View all 21 comments. Jun 18, Zoe Carstairs-Herondale-Blackford rated it did not like it Shelves: no-god-please-no , where-is-the-flavour , romance-books , dumpster-fire. Now you may be thinking: Zoe, how could Twilight get any worse?
I am about to go on for a good 3 pages and tell you exactly how. Warning: There will be spoilers and swearing in this review. I'm sure you already know their names but if ya dont here ya go: Edward: Mr Light Bulb. Because apparently vampires sparkle in the sun now instead of burning? Bella: Little Miss Dumb: Because well aparently someone who wants you for your blood is attractive? Soooooooooooooooo, this book is exactly pages of me laughing at how amazing Stepheine Meyer is for thinking all of this is a good idea.
Yes, I counted! Well remember when Bella gave birth to her child? And then remember when she was in a coma after Light Bulbs venom got rid of her humanity? And there is this whole fight lalalallalla. But I dont care about that. So after all of that Miss Dumb and Light Bulb go off to a cabin because the family did not want to hear them do the devils tango because they can now do that without Light Bulb killing Miss Dumb. Young Zoe was not a good Zoe.
This is a five part series where me and one of my best friends write reviews about Twilight. A big shout out to another one of my best friends TY for editing this mess of a review for me!! View all 29 comments. Nov 01, Shannon rated it it was amazing Shelves: romance , paranormal , vampires , shape-shifters , , ya , urban-fantasy.
I'll preface by saying that I did enjoy this book - I love the story overall, and the characters, and the premise and all of that. I don't have a problem with Bella, and it was funny seeing her through Jacob's biased eyes - on the contrary, I like Bella. I wouldn't be able to read these books if I didn't. What really bothers me most about this series are the obsessive fans.
This is one of those series where the obsessive fans take the story away from the author, writing their own versions, coming I'll preface by saying that I did enjoy this book - I love the story overall, and the characters, and the premise and all of that. This is one of those series where the obsessive fans take the story away from the author, writing their own versions, coming up with their own theories and all the rest of it.
I don't begrudge them that, but what really annoys me is when they say that Meyer has it all wrong, that that's not what vampires are like, and on and on. I came across a few discussions over what would happen in this book, which I tried to avoid, but people were coming up with all sorts of things: about babies, about what Bella's special gift would be, about the wedding and so on.
I would have thought that this book would have completely satisfied people, but from the glimpses I've caught much to my annoyance , a lot of fans seem almost scornful of how things panned out. Maybe it's because there was too much of a build-up, like with the last Harry Potter book, and it creates an anti-climax. I'd like to pat myself on the back for avoiding that feeling, by steering clear of all the online discussions - though it's hard on Goodreads, because people's comments pop up on your updates page.
The pregnancy took me by surprise, but I loved it. It was plausible, it was scary, and by switching Point-of-View to Jacob in the middle there an ingenious device , we not only get a more fleshed-out perspective of that period, a wise move, but it makes Bella's life more fragile, precarious, uncertain. For a while there I was extremely worried that she wouldn't survive. Edward's pain was so very real, and really got to me. The baby device is quite common in fantasy - the baby that will save the world or the baby that will unite people and so on.
Here it was much more personal though, and I appreciated that. Renesmee was a little too perfect, but her bizarre nature balanced it enough that she wasn't too sickly sweet. I wasn't surprised at Jacob imprinting with her - and it was certainly an effective way of handling that pesky problem!
I wonder, though, was Bella less interesting when she no longer had to worry herself over two men? As for the other characters, apart from Bella and Jacob, they're very much in the background, which was rather disappointing. Playing their typical support roles, it felt a little rushed at times, almost like Meyer's heart wasn't really in it - as I understand it she wrote this book because her publisher wanted her to, like with the previous two; Twilight was meant to be a stand-alone novel in the beginning.
But it still felt a bit rushed and half-hearted in places. He gets an awful lot of airtime here, which gives us a chance to feel really comfortable with him, and he has a nice irreverent tone, but it still leaves many of the other characters thinly sketched.
Even Edward, I never really feel like we break through his mystery and outward charisma to the person beneath. Bella sees him as a kind of idol, and as such, he's almost inhuman ha ha. His emotions come across, but not so much his reasoning, or motivations. I'm not sure, maybe that's not it exactly, but I always want more Edward and want I'm given just doesn't satisfy me. Now, it was always going to be tricky, writing Bella as a vampire.
All her main quirks as a human are gone - the clumsiness, the blushing, the sweetness - which Meyer always used to define her character, so I was really pleased at how she managed to make Bella a convincing vampire while still retaining enough to make her familiar. Her voice doesn't really change, but her actions have. She's much less vulnerable, and that's bound to change anyone. But her body language has been altered, and her confidence too.
It worked well. Edward, too, no longer treated her like a fragile human but effortlessly shifted his perspective and treated her as more of a partner, less as an eccentric pet. The climax was less climactic than the other books, but the fact that it didn't end on violence like the previous book gave the end of the series the right kind of ending, a peaceful one. Bella's special ability made sense, and while it's not visibly impressive, it's certainly very useful and fits her character: always trying to protect others.
Is it just me or do all the books start with Bella in a car? I can't remember how the others started and I didn't get a chance to have a look, but it seemed like they do. If they do, it's an interesting comfort zone. I love Meyer's version of the vampiric species - it's original and very well fleshed out, and differs at important points from the more generic, Anne Rice version, making them much more attractive, less vulnerable creatures. This is an addictive series, with as many detractors as fans, and with as much hoo-ha as Harry Potter.
They're not as well written as the Harry Potter books, but they're nothing to cringe over either - you don't read them for the prose, but for the story, which is emotionally intense and very, very addictive. It's a classic love story, it's just that the circumstances are a little different. So, I guess the long and the short of it is, I loved the book, yet it wasn't wholly satisfying, like there was something missing, some part of character development maybe, or maybe I'm just wishing Edward was more fleshed out, now that Bella's like him and he's no longer an alien species.
I can't quite put my finger on it. But there were lots of surprises, and the plot was well-structured in three parts, three distinct stages, with all the emotional gut-punching I've come to expect from Meyer. Truly, she puts me through the wringer like Diana Gabaldon - and for this alone I will always love these books yes, I like the feeling of being put through the proverbial emotional wringer!
It's also a great romance, though too much time was spent telling us of the bond between Bella and Edward, and not enough time showing us. Perhaps that was what bugged me? Mar 12, Mari rated it did not like it Shelves: , finished-series , fantasy , worst-books-ever , snark-squad.
The fact that this has an above 3 rating on this website is a travesty. It's taken Snark Squad over a year to read and recap this book, in large part because it was actively awful. Listen, this isn't hating on a popular series because it's cheesy or a love story or any of that other nonsense.
This is an actual garbage story. Bella and Edward "can't" have sex while she's a human, because if they have sex, Bella will probably The fact that this has an above 3 rating on this website is a travesty. Bella and Edward "can't" have sex while she's a human, because if they have sex, Bella will probably actually die. For the entire series, Bella's sexuality is held hostage to Edward's rules and whims. Edward lords sex over her as a means of control. When she finally "gets to" have sex, it's physically dangerous for her.
After she has sex, she has to repeatedly apologize for it. Bella enjoys sex, but she's "too fragile" to have it. Bella has to beg, plead and scheme her way into more sex. Bella gets insta-pregnant and it kills her. Breaking Dawn is also racist in a lot of little, strange, micro-aggressive ways. And then it's racist in very overt ways. Stephenie Meyer made the Native Americans in her story werewolves, and then spends the entire series calling them feral, wild, dogs, smelly and assuring us they are the lesser supernatural race.
Then, in this book, we get vampires from all over the world, and all of the people of color are wild or described in the most painful and stereotypical ways. At BEST, it is child grooming. At worst, we have to read about a pedophile over and over again.
If that's what you need to tell yourself to feel good about reading a man fall in love with a days old baby. I, for one, hated it. It's gross, especially because it's meant to be this epic love. Imprinting as a concept is messed up because it robs agency from especially the women in the equation. But okay. Let's say you don't care about all the awful messaging in this book, from misogyny to pedophiles, and racism in between. This also is not a good story?
In the last 30ish pages, we get the big "showdown," but after gathering all of these incredibly powerful vampires, the big showdown is a bunch of people talking in a field for 4 chapters. And then that's it. And then it's over. It was boring, plot-less, repetitive, Bella consistently cheats her way through narration, knowing things she couldn't possibly know. Meyer plays fast and loose with her own vampire rules.
Bella is immediately the best at everything, so there is absolutely no tension there. And then in like one hot second it's like "lol, it's okay, Bella is too special to be dangerous. Nothing makes sense, everything is the worst, why do people like this, please send help. View all 7 comments. Aug 04, Lauren rated it did not like it Recommends it for: Nobody. I gave Breaking Dawn several days' worth of chances and it did nothing but stun, anger, and disappoint me.
I enjoyed the first three books, despite how badly written and full of grammar mistakes and typos they were, because they were fun and exciting and took me away from a sucky year at college. Breaking Dawn, however, was so shockingly awful that I actually burst into hysterical laughter every time something drastic happened.
I actually was unable to read it in one sitting like I wanted to bec I gave Breaking Dawn several days' worth of chances and it did nothing but stun, anger, and disappoint me.
I actually was unable to read it in one sitting like I wanted to because my brain couldn't handle the ridiculousness for more than an hour at a time. Not even considering how insanely bad the plot and writing were, the morals the book presents made me wonder how Stephenie even managed to get it published. Moral 1: Marriage is easy. Bella doesn't have to pay for, take care of, or do anything in the way of keeping her marriage going.
Not even touching on the whole Mr. Perfect issue. Moral 2: The only thing worth staying alive for is sex. Bella never stopped considering her choice to become a vampire until she had sex with Edward and then suddenly wanted to hold back. Crying and begging him to screw her because her happy dream was over? Come on girl, have some pride. Pull yourself together, Bella.
Sex isn't everything. Moral 3: Women are only good for babymaking. Stephenie thinks so. Moral 4: All of your problems will be solved for you, so don't try to fix them. That year of wanting to drink human blood? Don't worry about it, you'll just skip it anyway. That baby who's killing you from the inside? Don't sweat it, Edward will just make you a vampire and then you'll be fine. Annoying cub boy won't fall out of love with you? Chill out, he'll imprint on your babies and then you won't ever have to worry about them getting in the way of your perfect love life again.
And that leads into Moral 5: Pedophilia is okay! Just wait until they get old enough or in Renesmee's case, wait until they're 6 years old because then they'll look old enough and you're good to go. I could keep going with the morals but I feel the need to touch on the fact that the ending was the biggest and most awful cop-out I could've imagined her writing. The other books had incredibly kickass, awesome action scenes that pulled me in and wouldn't let me stop reading. Breaking Dawn just built up and built up and then the Volturi just decided, whatever, no battle.
Go home with your mutant baby. See you in six years when she tries to make babies with the werewolf and we get pissed off at you again. There were no struggles. There were a lot of solutions springing from midair and the preparation for sacrifices that were never made.
And that is why Breaking Dawn ruined the Twilight series for me. Aug 19, Ishika rated it did not like it. The song is Closer by The Chainsmokers and Halsey. View all 15 comments. Jul 06, Meredith rated it did not like it Recommends it for: a masochist and a moron. Recommended to Meredith by: I'm going to shoot them in the face.
Shelves: ya. I cannot describe the depth of my disappointment and disgust. A baby? A nother pedophil-esque imprint? It was impossible to bond with any of the characters in the book, especially Edward, who became no more than a peripheral sperm I cannot describe the depth of my disappointment and disgust.
It was impossible to bond with any of the characters in the book, especially Edward, who became no more than a peripheral sperm donor. For this I rented a hotel room and stayed-up all night?
Nah, how about a colonoscopy instead? In plot order: 1 The wedding was pretty good, but it was the only time we saw Angela, Mike, Jessica and Ben in the entire book. What happened? SM just kind of abandoned them. And Renee fell off the face of the earth, too. Tension runs high in the Cullen household as Rosalie steadily supports Bella's decision to have the baby and aids her in every way possible. Edward is furious at Rosalie, and the family is divided.
Jacob is furious at Edward for impregnating Bella. Jacob also agrees to kill Edward if Bella dies. Returning to his pack, Jacob inadvertently informs them of Bella's state, this causes fear and anger among the werewolves; they don't know how the child might act since the child is the offspring of a vampire, Sam commands the pack in the double timbre of the Alpha , to obey his decision to kill Bella and her unborn child, still in love with Bella, Jacob disagrees, but Sam takes his will away, to counter this, Jacob assumes his rightful place as the Alpha of the pack, this almost leads to Sam and Jacob fighting for the right to rule, but Jacob controls his Alpha instincts to attack Sam and abandons the pack to join the Cullens.
Seth and Leah Clearwater soon join Jacob and the threesome form a new pack to guard the Cullens from Sam's pack, losing both the element of surprise and pack members, and the idea of fighting their own kind, dissuades Sam and his pack from attacking Bella while Jacob's pack is aiding the Cullens, it is discovered that the collective minds of the two packs are separate; members of each pack cannot hear the other pack's thoughts as Jacob and Sam are distinct Alphas.
Jacob, Leah and Seth patrol the Cullen's territory to forewarn them of any impending werewolf attack. Esme gratefully provides them with food and clothes since their clothes are too often destroyed during phasing. As the werewolves spend this time together, Jacob and Leah learn to tolerate each other, and forming a common understanding. Knowing that the pregnancy is endangering Bella's life and wanting to terminate it but not wanting to deny Bella the experience of childbirth and motherhood, Edward asks Jacob to get her with child.
Jacob is shocked that Edward would ask such a thing, and although he doesn't really want to, he also finds the idea of sleeping with Bella incredibly tempting and agrees to suggest the idea to Bella, for the most part, Bella doesn't realize what he means. When she does, she is touched by Edward's caring for her, but refuses their offer because she considers it repulsive to sleep with anyone other than Edward or have anyone else's baby. As the fetus continues to develop at an alarmingly accelerated rate, Bella's health worsens, her stomach is bruised in multiple places from the baby's movements.
Two of her ribs crack, her pelvis is almost broken, and her pallor is unhealthy, her body continues to reject human food, and Jacob sarcastically thinks about the "creature" craving for blood, Edward overhears this thought, and the Cullens allow Bella to sample human blood, to Bella's surprise, the blood smells and tastes appealing, and revives her almost the instant she drinks it, during Bella's pregnancy, Edward realizes he can read the child's mind, and is astonished to discover that the baby already loves Bella and doesn't mean to hurt her like it does, as he hears his child's thoughts, Edward begins to love the baby as well.
This leaves Jacob feeling betrayed, as he was counting on Edward to suffer and hate the baby more than he did. Jacob struggles with his feelings for Bella, she is outrageously happy every time she sees him and this confuses him, he questions her about this, and Bella says she feels that her family is more complete with him around, but this only makes Jacob feel worse, believing that he can never be part of Bella's family, Leah suggests that he find the girl he is destined to imprint on, so he won't suffer any longer, but Jacob answers he doesn't want his feelings for Bella to disappear, however, things eventually become too hard for him to handle, Edward allows Jacob to borrow his Aston Martin to get away, and Jacob attempts to imprint on random girls he sees in a park, including one named Lizzie who appeals to him because of her niceness and knowledge of cars but nothing happens, frustrated, he returned to the house, Edward approaches Jacob to ask for his permission, as Ephraim Black 's heir, to bite Bella once she gives birth.
After some thinking, Jacob agrees because it is the only thing that will save Bella's life. Bella goes into labor approximately a month after the honeymoon, the hard placenta that surrounds the child cracks; Bella begins vomiting blood, the child breaks free and Bella is very near death, Edward delivers the baby, a girl which will be named Renesmee , and initiates Bella's transformation into 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 while the venom transforms her.
Eventually Jacob comes to believe that Bella is dead, and is viciously sent away by Edward. Driven mad with rage over Bella's supposed death, Jacob goes to find and kill the baby whom he holds responsible, he finds her in Rosalie's arms, but before he can attack, the baby looks him directly in the face, Jacob sees that the baby's eyes are exactly the same shade of brown as Bella's, Jacob suddenly feels everything attaching him to the world breaking apart, leaving only a caring for Renesmee holding him to life.
Even making him forget about Bella dying upstairs. Jacob has imprinted on Renesmee. The book returns to Bella's perspective. She has just given birth to her daughter and is now experiencing the painful transformation from human to vampire. After receiving an injection of morphine to mitigate the pain, Bella is unable to move. As the effect of the morphine diminishes, Bella consciously remains as still as possible to alleviate Edward's guilt and agony over the discomfort of her 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 is finally a vampire. The Cullens are wary of Bella as newborn-vampires are volatile. Yet, she manages to demonstrate a degree of self-control unseen in most newborns.
She wishes to see her daughter, Renesmee pronounced "ruh-NEZ-may" , whom she named after both her and Edward's mothers, Renee and Esme, but, since Renesmee is part-human, the family believes Bella will be unable to deny her newborn thirst if she sees the child so soon without first hunting. Edward takes Bella on her first hunt to ease her thirst.
Before they leave, Alice shows Bella her reflection. She has transformed into a stunningly beautiful woman with flawless skin and newborn-vampire red eyes. Bella jumps out of the window, kicks off her shoes and goes barefoot.
She experiments with her new body on the hunt. She is now graceful, strong, and fast. She accidentally crosses a human scent. However, she resists the urge to kill and runs away to avoid bloodshed. Edward is astounded, as newborns hunting shouldn't be able to deny their instincts. Upon returning, Bella is finally allowed to see her daughter. Because Renesmee is growing at an astonishing rate, she looks older than her calendar age.
Bella learns of Renesmee's gift - the ability to communicate by sending images to people's minds, by touching them. Bella is infuriated when she learns that Jacob has imprinted on her. Her self-restraint is tested by this revelation, but she manages to control herself until she finds out the truth behind Renesmee's nickname "Nessie". She loses her self-control and tries to kill him.
Seth steps in, and Bella accidentally breaks his collarbone and shoulder before managing to calm down. Bella and Edward receive a cozy cottage for Bella's birthday from the Cullens. Esme had designed it and renovated it. That night, Bella and Edward make love for the first time since Bella's transformation. They find it very difficult to fully satisfy their sexual desire for each other.
At first, sexual thirst cannot be satisfied. Edward tells Bella that this is normal for vampires when they begin a physical relationship. Satiation usually takes years to attain. Renesmee matures quickly and soon is able to speak, walk and hunt.
Jacob's imprinting also forces Sam and his pack to declare peace with the Cullens the most sacred rule of the wolves is that no wolf ever kill the subject of another wolf's imprinting. Differences between Sam and Jacob's packs are soon settled as well, and Jacob and Sam agree to become co-existent Alphas. Jacob's pack also grows when Quil and Embry join it. Meanwhile, Jacob learns that the Cullens plan to move away from Forks.
Thinking that Charlie is the reason, he phases into his wolf form in front of him and tells him about Bella's change and Renesmee though he doesn't say she has become a vampire. Bella is initially furious, thinking that her father would now have to become a vampire or die. But he tells both Jacob and Bella not to let him know anymore than he needs to know.
This allows Bella to keep him in her new life and allows Charlie to go on with his life.
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