****SPOILERS AHEAD****
A few days ago, I finished Stephenie Meyer's Breaking Dawn, the fourth installment in the Twilight Saga. While I was reading, I noticed many things wrong with it. Too many to count.... Yet, I still found my self absorbed in the story. I find this quite frustrating, not knowing whether I liked it or not. Very interesting predicament. But let me list some of the things that troubled me in Breaking Dawn.
1. Bella is so freaking whiny. "Oh, no! My fiance' bought me a pimpin' tricked out convertible and now people are looking at me!!" Get over it!
2. Renesmee. What kind of crap name is that!? At least give this pointless character a real name, like Betty. I don't mind if you get a little creative with your character names, just let sound good. She isn't even supposed to be able to exist, according to Meyer's former rules, which she threw ouut the window just to make the story work for her. That's bullcrap.
3. The only character development I see is Meyer completely changing everyone's character. Why is Alice such a wimpy shopaholic? Why is Edward abusive and completely OOC? He hears the baby's thoughts, so he automatically goes from wanting to kill the half-breed fetus to loving it so much. Then he asks Jacob to knock Bella up. That's just wrong. Later on, he call Jacob "my brother, my son." What the heck! In Eclipse he didn't even let Bella see Jacob at all by blocking her way and breaking her car (obsessive, much?). When he found out Jacob had imprinted on "Nessie" (even more disturbing), even though it didn't say it directly, he was pissed. Which brings me to my next point:
4. Jacob imprinting Bella's, the girl he was madly in love with, daughter? ...... Gross.... This is YA, right? Does pedophilia fall under the category of "appropriate for kids?" "Don't worry Bells, I won't marry her until she's seven."
5. Jazz, Ed, Bells, Rose? Where did those come from? They suddenly get sick of multi-syllables and have dumb it down for us? MMKay.
6. Perfect, happy, and not to mention BORING ending. This the the biggest cliche' of literature. Walking into the [metaphorical] sunset with everyone alive and happy. Having avoided a battle with the Volturi just adds to the nothingness and boredom of this plot. At least give us something! Kill somebody, we can deal. Add to the plot a little bit, make us feel something besides anger for being cheated out of twenty bucks (I didn't actually buy the book, so this doesn't apply to me, but it does to other people. Kill Esme, if you want, we could have gone without her; all she did was put her hand to her face in surprise and worry.
There is even more wrong with this book, but I'll stop for now.
Midnight Sun..............
I'm sure you all heard the first twelve chapters of Meyer's rough draft of Midnight Sun were leaked on the Internet. We waited and waited and waited for a response to the phenomenon. Being the airhead she is, Meyers waited until it's been spread all over to respond on her website in a particularly whiny post. Just because people read it and she got her feelings hurt she's punishing us by throwing in the towel and not writing it at all? Throw a hissy fit why don't you.
I'm sick of her telling us that we don't like Breaking Dawn now, "but the Rob effect will kick in." No, it won't. Then she disses her fans by saying "I think it's sad that they waste her time writing about other people's characters and not their own." Someone needs to shut her up before she gets bitch-slapped.
But not to worry, she's writing ten other books about time-travel and mermaids, so we'll have plenty of Stephenie Meyer to laugh at!
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