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I have to say I was very disappointed with this book. I feel that the whole series has been dragged out and could easily have been completed in 3 books, or at least this book be well written and half its size. I found myself very bored and just wanting it to get to where I knew it was going, instead of dragging it out over page after page with long boring drawn out conversations between the characters. It had me wishing "for goodness sake get on with it".

Once Bella is turned it loses the plot - funny how out of all the vampires, she manages to control herself. I know none of it is supposed to be believable, but making her struggle a little more and maybe one or two lapses would have been a vast improvement instead of her being Miss Perfect.

The bit about Jacob and imprinting on their daughter (how was she conceived anyway - Edward is a vampire?) doesn't sit very comfortably with me either. The imprinting thing I can go along with, it is fiction after all, but not when it is on babies.

It seems the way the vampires are and what they can do, was made up as Miss Meyer went along, to turn it into some sickly, twee love story of two totally perfect immortal beings and the happily ever after just had me shaking my head in disbelief.

The first book was really good and I enjoyed New Moon. I thought Eclipse could have been better, but did enjoy it to a degree, but this one should really have been thought out a little more - it's a great disappointment.

Average Rating:

Rating: - Not good at all...
I have to say I was very disappointed with this book. I feel that the whole series has been dragged out and could easily have been completed in 3 books, or at least this book be well written and half its size. I found myself very bored and just wanting it to get to where I knew it was going, instead of dragging it out over page after page with long boring drawn out conversations between the characters. It had me wishing "for goodness sake get on with it".

Once Bella is turned it loses the plot - funny how out of all the vampires, she manages to control herself. I know none of it is supposed to be believable, but making her struggle a little more and maybe one or two lapses would have been a vast improvement instead of her being Miss Perfect.

The bit about Jacob and imprinting on their daughter (how was she conceived anyway - Edward is a vampire?) doesn't sit very comfortably with me either. The imprinting thing I can go along with, it is fiction after all, but not when it is on babies.

It seems the way the vampires are and what they can do, was made up as Miss Meyer went along, to turn it into some sickly, twee love story of two totally perfect immortal beings and the happily ever after just had me shaking my head in disbelief.

The first book was really good and I enjoyed New Moon. I thought Eclipse could have been better, but did enjoy it to a degree, but this one should really have been thought out a little more - it's a great disappointment.

Rating: - breaking dawn
I bought this book for my grandaughter's birthday, and she didn't put it down untill she finished it she said it was brilliant!

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Rating: - Absolutely fantastic
This final book in the twilight saga was fantastic. I could picture every scene in the book as though it was coming to life as i was reading it. Stephanie Meyer is a genius and this saga is the best i have read in a long time. What a way to end it.

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Rating: - Fail...
OK,Twilight wasn't a literary masterpiece - but it was an enjoyable read. I loved Stephanie Meyer's the Host (tons better than Twilight!!!) but this was just a letdown.

Maybe she hired a ghostwriter, or was just rushed to a deadline but this was more like badly written fanfiction then anything else.

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Rating: - Good, but rushed and unbelievable
I never found this saga particularly well written or believable in any way, but they were still enjoyable. I also found this last instalment enjoyable, but it was totally rushed and the characters seemed to lose a lot of their charm and personality. Bella goes from being well, Bella, to almost a side character during the middle of the book! Events seemed to just go on around her when she was pregnant. (Which I don't think should be possible...Edward being a vampire and all =.= seems a bit too unrealistic) and if Carlisle already KNEW this could happen...WHY DIDN"T HE TELL THEM FIRST?! Edward also goes from being calm/controlled Edward to sappy, suicidal and just annoying Edward =.= At least Jacob stayed true to his character, until everything was all too quickly resolved after he imprints on Nessie....Bella's child. I know I am not the only one who thinks this was just Meyer taking the easy way out to stop the love triangle between Bella, Jacob and Edward. I also found it a tad sick...like....he loved Bella but then just suddenly doesn't anymore and loves a baby instead.

I didn't really like Bella's dramatic character change from human to vampire. Nobody's personality should change that much...I mean I know she's a different species, but she just changed so much that it wasn't her anymore. I also found that the Cullens, apart from Edward, were fairly absent from the story line, apart from occasionally Rosalie who was there just to play mother to Bella's kid!

This brings me to the last point that annoyed me the most: big gathering of vampires that took chapters upon chapters to assemble vs. Volturi and witnesses. I was expecting some fighting, some action or at least some tension! But no; the tension was that of a tea party =.= They had a little chat, and Jane tried to launch her telepathic death mojo on them....but nothing happens because Bella's power 'conveniently' allows her to shield all of the party from her attacks =.= The volturi are then like...oh no, why isn't it working, more talking, Nessie touches Aro and he decides that they're all telling the truth and they pack up and go home, and they all live happily ever after! I mean...Puh-lease! I wanted a happy ending, but not one this...this convenient!!!

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