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Published Aug 2008
768 pages
Genre: Romance
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Breaking Dawn, the final book in the #1 bestselling Twilight Saga, will take your breath away.
Twilight tempted the imagination. New Moon made readers thirsty for more. Eclipse turned the saga into a worldwide phenomenon. And now, the book that everyone has been waiting for...
"Meyer's first three novels touched on something powerful in their weird refraction of our culture's paradoxical messages about sex and sexuality. The conclusion is much thinner, despite its interminable length. Ages 12–up." - Publishers Weekly.
"Don't be confused by comparisons with Harry Potter in the media coverage of this book and make the mistake of buying it for a 10-year-old. It is about sexual desire: specifically, sex with a vampire.... Although this book concludes the Twilight Saga sequence, those whose thirst is still unsatisfied have the toothsome prospect of Meyer's next novel, Midnight Sun, which will retell events from Edward the vampire's viewpoint. For all but enslaved addicts, however, the strongest aftertaste of this series is soap." - The Times (UK).
"This ick factor goes through the roof in Breaking Dawn, which is, frankly, dreadful. It's difficult to imagine teenage girls identifying with 18-year-old Bella's marriage to Edward shortly after her high school graduation, especially when the wedding is followed by an extended soft-focus honeymoon sequence, which is almost immediately followed by Bella's sudden loss of appetite and puking in the bathroom .... The most devoted readers will no doubt try to make excuses for this botched novel, but Meyer has put a stake through the heart of her own beloved creation." - The Washington Post.
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Any "Author Information" displayed below reflects the author's biography at the time this particular book was published.
Stephenie Meyer was born in Connecticut in 1973, but grew up in Phoenix, Arizona and considers herself a native. She went to high school in Scottsdale, Arizona. She was awarded a National
Merit Scholarship, and she used it to pay her way to Brigham Young University, in
Provo, Utah. she majored in English, but concentrated on literature rather than
creative writing.
Meyer is the author of the Twilight series, as well as the stand-alone novel The Host. She lives in Cave Creek, Arizona with her husband and two sons.
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