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Breaking Dawn Broke My Brain!
After I finally finished reading all 768 pages of my copy of Breaking Dawn, the 4th sequel to the absurdly popular Twilight romance saga written by Stephenie Meyer, I was shocked by how such a plotless and shallow book could have possibly been written by the same author who had won the New York Times Best Seller award and mesmerized so many teens with her previous ‘magical’ and ‘enchanting’ books.
The entire Twilight series consists of 4 books – Twilight (2005), New Moon (2006), Eclipse (2007) and Breaking Dawn (2008) – which tell a typical tale of a love story between ordinary and commonplace (if not over-exaggeratedly normal) 17 year-old teenager Bella Swan, and stunning, magnificent vampire Edward Cullen whose every act oozes perfection and glam. In Breaking Dawn, the story of Edward and Bella take an idiotic turn when Bella brainlessly agrees to marry Edward and skip university, being lured into this ludicrous decision with promises from Edward of getting turned into a vampire and, Bella’s ultimate goal, being allowed to bear his child (which, in my opinion is a pretty pathetic reason for wanting to skip graduation and throw your future away). Afterwards, when Bella does get the child of her dreams and is also turned into a vampire, she realizes that by deciding to have a child with her ‘beloved’ husband, she has put everyone around her in danger. This is because creating immortal children is illegal in the vampire world, and there can be only one sentence to such a crime: death.
Though I have never understood how such a commonly schemed Saga like the Twilight Saga managed to receive so much attention when there are so many other better novels in the world to compare it to (such as Harry Potter, Artemis Fowl etc.), I must admit that it was Breaking Dawn which disappointed me most. At first glance Breaking Dawn may be as wonderful and hypnotizing as the other books in the Twilight series (if you would call them hypnotizing; personally I would refer to them as dully entertaining) but after a more in-depth observation, you would see that Breaking Dawn is merely a bunch of ideas listed one after another and bound in a published book. This is probably because the transitions between each of the events aren’t as smooth as they ought to be; things happen much too fast, and though this gives a surreal effect, the effect is much too overdone.
It gives a slight impression that although there are many happenings in the book, aside from the romantic scene on ‘Isle Esme’ (which may be the reason why Breaking Dawn is so popular - but which I find highly inappropriate, considering the fact that more and more younger readers have joined the already-too-big-group of Twilight fans), the author didn’t seem to have any other ideas for the book, so she continued writing, jotting down every single idea that popped into her mind and ending up with a load of pages filled with rubbish, which everyone mistook for the long awaited masterpiece ending.
All in all, if you are the type of person whose head is constantly filled with foolish fantasies of striking up relationships with dazzling people - most of whom don’t exist - then I would highly recommend you read the entire series, without skipping any books – unlike me, you won’t want to miss any of this saga that’s filled to the brim with stupidity and sickening love.
If you are however, a person who knows how to appreciate the true art of good novels – such as Artemis Fowl and Harry Potter – you would be much better off avoiding the entire series altogether. Of course you may, out of curiosity, try reading the first page, chapter or book, but be warned; by reading this saga of nonsense you put a lot at risk. You could stain the perfection of your reading history, filled with wonderful classics and other books which deserve their title of ‘must-reads’, simply by glancing at the first few words of Twilight.
So remember, you have been warned.
