Blog 5

I recently finished reading Breaking Dawn by Stephenie Meyer. Along with the other Twilight books, it is definitely one of the best books I’ve ever read. I really like the story as well as the writing. The very clear writing makes the plot easy to follow, and makes the book go by really fast. Since my last post about Breaking Dawn, a lot happened in the book. (Spoiler…) At the beginning of the book, Bella and Edward got married and then they went on their honeymoon. At this point Bella is still a human. Bella ends up getting pregnant with a half human-half vampire baby, and the whole Cullen family is worried that this baby will cause the death of Bella. Fortunately, Edward manages to save Bella right as she is on the brink of death, and turns her into a vampire. The middle part of the book is all about their child, Renesmee growing up. She is not your average human baby, or your average vampire baby, which ends up making the Volturi- kind of like the vampire government- very worried about whether this baby could be dangerous. The Cullens decide to get a bunch of their friends together to be witnesses to show Renesmee is not harmful. This was probably my favorite part of the book because each character was described so intricately that you could easily imagine each scene in your mind. Finally, the Volturi come and there is a confrontation between the two groups in the forest. After a lot of debate, Alice (Edward’s sister) comes to the rescue with another half vampire-half human baby to prove that they are not dangerous. This probably doesn’t sound very interesting because it is about vampires and is just not something that is easy to relate to, but once you start reading any of the Twilight books, you can’t put them down until the last word is read. Together these books amount to at least 2500 pages and these are probably some of the best 2500 pages I’ve read. Along with the 4000 pages of Harry Potter of course!