This is the fourth book and conclusion to the wildly popular "Twilight" series. I'm not sure what about this made it so very popular? I enjoyed the books, this one and book one the most, but there are other paranormal authors I have enjoyed a lot more yet aren't popular. Curious. Anyway, Bella finally makes her decision. We all knew what it would be, but this book reveals exactly why Jacob has been so highly involved in the books. There were some amazing parts to this book and some boring parts. The big scene with the Volturi at the end made the whole series worth it for me. That was well done and very interesting and exciting.

People who've already read at least book one of this series. I'm not sure it would interest someone as much if they hadn't read at least that (especially the parts told from Jacob's perspective). But also people who like paranormal romance and conflict.

The honeymoon, Bella's transformation, Bella's coming into her power, as mentioned already, the big scene with the Volturi at the end, a character I can't name without spoiling things... but it wouldn't surprise me if Meyers came up with another series for that character. It'd be interesting to me if she did.

I also liked all the different "witness" characters. That was a great addition to the book.

The boring parts. The whole "book" from Jacob's perspective could have been cut... I guess it would have given less compassion and understanding for the resolution for him but it just didn't add that much to the book for me personally. Definitely, it could at the very least have been shorter.

Also, I didn't buy that Bella would have so readily believed Alice's defection, never mind the rest of Alice's family, who'd known and lived with her for so long.

Go to sleep. It was nice to go to sleep with the way things ended.

Great at the end.... so many different things from the beginning until then.

"Stephenie Meyer's life changed dramatically on June 2, 2003. The stay-at-home mother of three young sons woke-up from a dream featuring seemingly real characters that she could not get out of her head. "Though I had a million things to do (i.e. making breakfast for hungry children, dressing and changing the diapers of said children, finding the swimsuits that no one ever puts away in the right place), I stayed in bed, thinking about the dream. Unwillingly, I eventually got up and did the immediate necessities, and then put everything that I possibly could on the back burner and sat down at the computer to write--something I hadn't done in so long that I wondered why I was bothering." Meyer invented the plot during the day through swim lessons and potty training, then writing it out late at night when the house was quiet. Three months later she finished her first novel, Twilight.
Twilight was one of 2005's most talked about novels and within weeks of its release the book debuted at #5 on The New York Times bestseller list.Among its many accolades, Twilight was named an "ALA Top Ten Books for Young Adults," an Amazon.com "Best Book of the Decade&So Far", and a Publishers Weekly Best Book of the Year. The movie version of Twilight will be released by Summit Entertainment nationwide on November 21, 2008, starring Kristen Stewart ("Into The Wild") and Robert Pattinson ("Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire").
The highly-anticipated sequel, New Moon, was released in September 2006 and spent 31 weeks at the #1 position on The New York Times bestseller list. Eclipse, the third book in Meyer's Twilight saga, was released on August 7, 2007 and sold 150,000 copies its first day on-sale. The book debuted at #1 bestseller lists across the country, including USA Today and The Wall Street Journal. The fourth and final book in the Twilight Saga, Breaking Dawn, was published on August 2, 2008, with a first printing of 3.2 million copies - the largest first printing in the publisher's history. Breaking Dawn sold 1.3 million copies its first day on-sale rocketing the title to #1 on bestseller lists nationwide.
Meyer's highly-anticipated debut for novel adults, The Host, was released by Little, Brown and Company in May 2008 and debuted at #1 on The New York Times and Wall Street Journal bestseller lists.
Stephenie Meyer graduated from Brigham Young University with a degree in English Literature. She lives in Arizona with her husband and sons." Information in quotes is from Amazon

It did have a great bring-everything-together kind of ending and there were a lot of interesting, different and fun aspects of Meyer's version of vampires.

It was boring at times.

I borrowed a copy of this book from my local library.

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