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Breaking Dawn

By Stephenie Meyer

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| Paperback | 9781905654291

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In casa dei Cullen fervono i preparativi per le nozze di Bella. Alice, sorella dello sposo Edward, ha preparato tutto per quello che si preannuncia come un vero evento. Bella combatte contro gli ultimi dubbi, ma quando vede il suo sposo all’altare no ... (read full critics)

mangialibri published on Fri, 17 Feb 2012

Book Review: Breaking Dawn by Stephenie Meyer Share

It is no secret that I have highly ambivalent feelings about the works of Stephenie Meyer. Perhaps it is because I was the independent and headstrong girl who got involved with a psychopathic control-freak and was nearly destroyed by his madness. Mor ... (read full critics)

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As with every other SM book, I finished it in one day, painful as it was. The book itself is written in a much better way than Eclipse, which was an unbearable read with all those useless and endless conversations, Jacob acting like a jerk and Bella being the most annoying female on the planet! BD a ... (continue)

As with every other SM book, I finished it in one day, painful as it was. The book itself is written in a much better way than Eclipse, which was an unbearable read with all those useless and endless conversations, Jacob acting like a jerk and Bella being the most annoying female on the planet! BD actually narrates the events and that's good. The problem is that said events are... uneventful!! Everything is so dull and boring and simple and predictable... you almost see the Teletubbies in the far corner of the setting smiling and waving, saying it'll be alright! Not even something "gruesome" as Bella's pregnancy (as far fetched and completely absurd as it is) manages to affect the reader, for it's implicit in SM's style that it'll be just fine. Not to mention Bella and her new vampiric self, coming out just perfect and uber cool (although with a ridiculous power!) her human traits completely gone and forgotten. And Charlie? Seriously, when did the lobotomy happen?! I must've missed the chapter (or maybe it'll come out in the outtakes!). There's no tension in this book, no drama (well ok we probably had enough of that in the previous books, but still), no pathos, no danger, no sacrifice... nothing! Even the supposedly mortal battle with the Volturi is incredibly boring and never ending... And honestly, how on earth can you call the last chapter "The happily ever after"?! Not to mention Renesmee Carlie. PLEASE. TW and NM are amazing books. Eclipse was sort of ok... BD is... yes, an EPIC FAIL!!!

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Embla said on Aug 3, 2008 about the Hardcover edition | 2 feedbacks

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The End

Childhood is not from birth to a certain age and at a certain age
The child is grown, and puts away childish things.
Childhood is the kingdom where nobody dies.
Edna St. Vincent Millay
La Meyer è riuscita a risolvere tutto con un gigantesco e zuccheroso happy ending holli ... (continue)

Childhood is not from birth to a certain age and at a certain age
The child is grown, and puts away childish things.
Childhood is the kingdom where nobody dies.
Edna St. Vincent Millay
La Meyer è riuscita a risolvere tutto con un gigantesco e zuccheroso happy ending holliwoodiano (pure la rimozione "at will" dello scudo mentale di Bella, per la gioia di Edward). La trama fin dall'inizio si snoda prevedibile e imperturbabile, la Meyer non osa nessun colpo di scena. D'altro canto, nonostante una scrittura semplice e poco virtuosistica, l'autrice sa far leva sadisticamente sui nostri più beceri e lacrimevoli istinti romantici. E quindi sono tre stelline.

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ζ Roberta ζ said on Sep 5, 2008 about the Hardcover edition | Add your feedback

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Worst character development (and character!?) goes to Bella. If begging for sex at every spare moment (and agreeing to remain human for another few years---because wow, the sex is great) didn't set women back another forty years, then the sudden transformation of a clumsy, immature, whiny teen who n ... (continue)

Worst character development (and character!?) goes to Bella. If begging for sex at every spare moment (and agreeing to remain human for another few years---because wow, the sex is great) didn't set women back another forty years, then the sudden transformation of a clumsy, immature, whiny teen who needs protecting into a protective, motherly figure at the moment of the knowledge of her pregnancy will definitely get there. And of course, the vomit inducing ending, where everyone gets what they want, Bella is perfect, and so is her baby.

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juvo said on Aug 7, 2008 about the Hardcover edition | Add your feedback

Vediamo: darei un buon voto alla scrittura e alla trama. Scorrevole la prima e innovativa la seconda. Di certo il libro non è "lento da leggere" e la tensione rimane più o meno costante. Tuttavia secondo me rimane un libro per adolescenti emo "vuoti a perdere". Nonostante sia abbastanza nuova come t ... (continue)

Vediamo: darei un buon voto alla scrittura e alla trama. Scorrevole la prima e innovativa la seconda. Di certo il libro non è "lento da leggere" e la tensione rimane più o meno costante. Tuttavia secondo me rimane un libro per adolescenti emo "vuoti a perdere". Nonostante sia abbastanza nuova come trama in questo campo è sempre la solita storia d'amore impossibile vista e rivista. Un po' più arricchita certo ma sempre quella.

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Niko1005 said on Feb 20, 2012 | Add your feedback

Peccato...

Ho letto il libro dopo aver portato mia figlia a vedere il film sulla prima parte, ero curioso di vedere come andava a finire. Francamente deludente nonostante alcuni spunti narrativi interessanti. Finale melenso da dimenticare.

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Filippo E. said on Feb 15, 2012 about the Mass Market Paperback edition | Add your feedback

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