“I’m a little miffed that you waited so long to tell me. “Well, Bella,” Renee had said after I’d choked and stuttered out the impossible words: Mom, I’m marrying Edward.
Maybe Alice, but I hadn’t thought to ask her. Who could have foreseen her response? Not me. Early marriage was higher up on her blacklist than boiling live puppies. Sure, at the time, Charlie’s words had terrified me.
I paused with my hand on the doorknob, smiling. “But you have to tell your mom! I’m not saying one word to Renee! That’s all yours!” He busted into loud guffaws. Then she is thinking about telling Charlie about getting married which happened sometime in the past and this immediately segues into Bella telling her mother sometime after telling Charlie but sometime before the present time. For example, in the first “chapter” Bella is in the present talking to her friend. The transitions from one scene to another to a flashback weren’t clearly denoted and half the time I hadn’t realized that I was switching times and scenes until a quarter or half the way through. The first section was very difficult for me to follow. And some strange info dump in the beginning that is randomly inserted about immortal children and how turning them is a danger. Despite that, we readers are treated to pages and pages of descriptions about the wedding. Of course Bella does not like pretty dresses or pretty decorations or being the center of attention. The first section is told by Bella and relates her marriage in great detail. I confess that when I first started reading this I wondered what fan had ghost written it because it reads like total fan fiction. I totally loved Twilight, was less than enthralled with New Moon, watched the wheels fall off the bus in Eclipse, and now have come to this sad and somewhat crazy conclusion. My overriding thought when I was reading Breaking Dawn was that it was a good thing this wasn’t the first book because I wonder how many people would have glommed onto the series after reading this mess of a story. Jane D Reviews Stephenie-Meyer / Twilight Saga / vampires 187 Comments AugREVIEW: Breaking Dawn by Stephenie Meyer
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