Hi guys, it's Olivia here from Olivia's
Catastrophe and today I'm here to start
with my first read it backwards video and
we are going to be reading and
discussing Breaking Dawn by Stephenie
Meyer.
So before we get started I just want to
bring it to your attention that
Stephenie Meyer has said and done some
racist things in the past. And I'm not
excusing that. And I also know that
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and it's misrepresented. And I love this
series. It's kind of nostalgia I'm kind
of trash for it but I do acknowledge
those things. So every time that I
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box. I reread Twilight once a year and I
don't read the whole thing. I reread one
book in the series. More often than not I
choose the first one. Sometimes I reread the whole series but
it's been a hot minute since I reread
Breaking Dawn. I think two years? Two or
three years. So I usually don't get to
this one just because it's the biggest
one and it's not one of my favourites. But
I pretty much know what's gonna happen. I
know what's gonna happen and I probably
could quote you some lins. Okay, so I just
read the first three chapters which is
46 pages of Breaking Dawn and I've
decided I'm gonna start tagging and I
have a tag system. So for green I'm gonna
tag the ship that nobody else ships. Nobody ships this. I've checked the fanfiction
websites. I've never seen fanfiction
written about this but I believe that
Carlisle and Jacob would make an amazing
ship. Okay, Carlisle
is the one vampire that Jacob doesn't
hate in the beginning. And he -- just him
and Carlisle just have this dynamic that I
truly believe could've been a ship. Then
for pink I'm gonna tab any moments that
I think are romantic or I think actually
kind of cute. Cause sometimes Bella and Edward
would have those moments that are cute.
Or something that I want to remember. Then for yellow I've got problematic.
I've read 46 pages and there's quite a
lot of yellow so that's just... it's gonna
probably be the most dominant colour. And
last but not least I've orange and
that's for any moment that Jasper Cullen
is mentioned. Jasper is my favourite
vampire of the gang and he is like,
amazing. He's one of the best characters.
First of all, I forgot how dramatic the
prefaces are in all of her books. She
always has most dramatic intros to her
books. Then there's a mention of like, a
new car and I that kind made me sad because
like, that damaged truck is such a big
thing in the first book and now I start
reading the series and there's no truck.
Makes me a little bit sad. But I'm
learning to deal. And then I forgot that
Jacob ran away at the end of the third
book or something. Like, he just goes on
the run and so Jacob's missing and she's
like 'my Jacob' and that's where the
problems start. The fact that she still
calls him my Jacob is very problematic.
Bella, you need to let him go. You need to
let him recover. At one point when she's
talking about how much she misses Jacob, 
she's like, oh, I'm trying to hide my
emotions so that Edward doesn't get
upset. And that was when one of the big
red flags began to me. If you're trying to
hide your emotions because of how it's
gonna affect your partner rather than
think about yourself, that's already a
very problematic thing. And then there
was mention of Seth and I forgot that
Seth Clearwater is the cutest human
being ever. He's just an adorable little
cinnamon roll in this series. And also I
forgot how much like, it's not even
foreshadowing, it's hitting you over the
head with what the plot of this book is
gonna be. Because when they sit down to
tell Charlie that she's getting
married now Charlie's like, you're
pregnant aren't you? And then later on
they have a conversation where Edward was
like: oh, I really wish I could -- like, we
could be pregnant but that can't happen
because once you're a vampire you can't
be pregnant. And then they talk about
Tanya and they go into this whole
backstory about immortal children. And
then she was a dream about immortal
children which they changed in the film
to be about the wedding slash an
immortal child. But either which way, it's
really going hard on the foreshadowing
that she's gonna get pregnant, she's
gonna have an immortal child. I don't see
how twelve-year-old me did not see that
plot twist coming. One point Edward was like,
'I don't want to diminish her choice,' when
talking about Bella and I'm like,
literally the third book he spent the
whole time diminishing her choices. So
don't you go and talk about diminishing
her choice. I love a good wedding so I
did like the wedding scene.
I forgot that Jacob showed up at the
wedding and Jacob was really trying his
best to keep it together. I am NOT a fan
of Jacob from Eclipse and Breaking Dawn.
Mostly in Breaking Dawn because I rember he has a
point of view and I remember that I
didn't care. But at the same time I'm
grateful that he has a point of view
because then we have less pregnant Bella
internal thoughts. Also there's a moment
where Edwards like: let's talk about my
wife and he says like, Mrs Cullen and
he's really proud. And I read that I was
like, I want someone to call me Mrs
Cullen. Not Edward but like, I wanna be
Jasper's Mrs Cullen. Move over Alice. And
then we got to the scenes. The scenes
that everybody was like, fussing over
this book for which are the sex scenes.
Which don't exist because they fade to
black.
It fades to black. There's no sex in it. But we have to talk about the
technicalities. How it wouldn't actually
work because no blood moves around the
vampire's body so they're just missing
some key things that you would need to
make things happen. And I know Stephenie
may have said that it's venom that helps
things go... Like, it that doesn't work for
me. It's weird. It's odd. And Edward's hard
as stone and with he's ice cold. I rest my
case. I don't think it would have worked
out between them. Bella trying to
seduce is basically Bella making a deal.
Which brings me to an essay that I wrote
last year when I did children's
literature which included young adult
literature. I wrote an essay comparing
Katniss to Bella. And I argued that Bella
has more autonomy and self-control than
Katniss does. Bella gets everything she wants
eventually. She gets -- she wanted to date
Edward, she dated Edward. Even Edward
didn't want to date her at one point. She
still ended up dating Edward. She wanted
to be a vampire, we know that she becomes
a vampire. She wanted to have some
experiences while she was human, she gets
to have those experiences while she was
human. And we all know that she's gonna
get pregnant in this one and she's gonna
get to have her baby. So literally
everything Bella wants, whether the
Volturii don't want her to have it,
whether Edward doesn't want her to have it,
anything she gets wants, she gets. Everything
she wants. And I'm not saying she's a
strong female character because of that.
There's lots of other elements to her
which make her not a strong female
character. But then we have to talk about
the aftermath of like, the sex
scene. Edward like: I bit a pillow or
two. And I'm just like: what is going on?
What is going on that you don't notice a
headboard being ripped up and absolutely
destroyed and destructed? I don't know
what is happening in those fade to black
scenes because that stuff is crazy.
Edward, after the first time he's like: oh
yeah, and I just I talked to Carlisle
about what I should expect, you know,
being a vampire. And I'm just like ?? You
just casually mentioned talking to Daddy
Carlisle about your future sex life. And
then Bella was talking to Jake about her
sex life before they left. Who has not
heard about this sex life that hadn't
even started happening yet? Bella has
more dreams about this baby vampire to
come. However, in these dreams she even
mentions feeling protected for the baby
vampire. There is no way anything is
gonna surprise me in her books because
she always over does the foreshadowing. And we're gonna see the Cullens from the
perspective of someone that's not Bella
for the first time. I am so excited for
that to happen. I always love seeing the
Cullens from a different perspective. And
the found family trope is one of my
favourite trips of all time. Oh, I forgot
my hair is a mess. Oh, we're just gonna
ignore that. Yeah so, the found family
trope is one of the ones I love the most.
I think it's my favourite trope and the
Cullens are the found family trope. They
are friends who've made a family and I
guess the pack is the same thing. But I
don't really care about the pack as much
as I do about the Cullens. I'm for the
Cullens, okay. I'm Team Edward. And we have
made the switch into Jacob's point of
view. I'm surviving. So here's a fun fact
about me. I don't ever read chapter
titles like, at all. I think I didn't read
them when I was younger so my brain just
completely ignores them and crosses over
them. So for one I'm also reading the
chapter titles here and I noticed that
while Bella's point of view gets really
boring chapter titles that are one word,
Jacobs chapter titles are more in the
Jacob kind of tone. Where it's like:
didn't expect this! And I think Meyer does a very good job
of making the two of them sound very
different. And you can see that they're
different people. Whereas sometimes when
you have multiple point of view and you
switch between them, sometimes it feels
like the same person. It was also
interesting to see the pack dynamic. This
is the first time we get to see it from
Jacob's point of view and it is cool to
see how they think in each other's ways,
and understand
the dynamic a bit better. I guess
that's one of the cool things about
getting to see Jacob's point of view. A
scene that I always forget happens is
that Jacob spent some time with Quill
who's just imprinted on Claire, who is a
child. And he's like: this is awkward. This
is weird. Why doesn't he date other
people? And they have that whole
conversation. And I guess that's
foreshadowing for the fact that Jacob's
gonna imprint on the baby because we see
it... like, child dynamics so we know it's
possible right before it happens to
Jacob. So I guess that is foreshadowing.
Well done, Stephenie Meyer. Fangirl Olivia
is here and she's here to stay. I have
emotions and I know that with read it
backwards it's just gonna keep on
happening. Edward and Jacob have that
conversation. The conversation. And Edward's
like, 'You know what? If Bella wants to
have babies with you, she can have babies
with you.' And I feel like it's just a
good way of showing how broken down and
far gone Edward is. If he is offering
that Jacob have a baby with Bella. Like,
first of all, it's wrong that he hasn't
talked to Bella about that. He's offering
this to Jacob, his worst enemy. Let's say
Bella hypothetically said yes and went
down this path. He'd be able to see those
memories in Jacobs mind all of the time.
He's willing to lose her. He just wants
her alive and I don't blame him. But also
guys, just imagine. Imagine if he'd gone
in that direction and then it'd been
like, the triangle that's actually a
triangle. And then imagine if Edward and
Jacob started to like each other
throughout the thing. Then it turned into
like, this poly relationship? There has to
be fanfic about this. I've never
looked into Twilight fanfic except to
check if there was Jacob and Carlisle fanfic.
But there was none. But maybe there's
like, Edward and Jacob and Bella all
three being a thing. And this scenario
shows that that could potentially have
happened. I just love the dram. Jacob
does not hate Carlisle and he later says
like: 'If there was such thing as a safe
vampire, it was strangely the gentle
leader. ' 'I would stay away from
Carlisle when the fight started.' I rest my
case. There's no evidence for my case but
the point is he doesn't hate Carlisle
and if he hates all vampires but he
feels that way just about Carlisle
that shows how much she cares about him
in some form of way. Even if it's just
friendship.
Jacob made the offer to Bella and Bella
was talking about how Jacob is going to
imprint. So I feel like again that's
foreshadowing. First of all I read the part where Leah
joins the gang
and they're so so so mean to Leah. It just
makes me so sad to see how sad they are
to Leah. And I also don't like the fact
that Jacob kind of later on in the story
starts to understand where Leah's coming
from and the only way that he starts to
understand and sympathise for Leah is
because of the fact that he's
experiencing the same thing with
watching and Edward of Bella. And yes,
being able to be in the same situation
as someone does make you emphasise more. But I wish he came to that realisation
without having to be in exactly the same
situation. We need to normalise
emphasising with people before you're in
the same situation as them because there
are some situations where you will never
be in the same situation as them. And you
should still emphasise with others and
understand their struggles and be a bit
kinder to people, Jacob. Also we have this
scene where Bella has to try drinking
like, human blood out of a sippy cup. People, when they read this book and they
read that situation, they don't think
about how disturbing it is what Bella's
doing. Like, drinking human blood. Is that
kind of cannibalism? Like, it's so horrible.
Just the measure of it. The measure of
the horror. Carlisle thanks him so much
and Jacob's just like don't mention it
and then something happens and Jacob's
like, 'I wanted to be angry with him but
he was making it so hard.' And then for
the first time Jacob is kind of like,
seeing Carlisle as a person and just
talking to him normally. Calls him Doc
for the first time and that term of
endearment always, always gets me. He's
like, 'You're losing me doc, can you dumb
it down?' And Carlisle chuckles once. Like, he's making Carlisle laugh. Have we seen Esme do
that yet? I don't think we've seen as Esme
do that yet. Then this is Jacob thinking
about how he doesn't hate him. He's like,
'I sighed too. It been so easy to hate
Edward for the same ignorance. I still
hated him for it. It was just so hard to
feel the same way about Carlisle.' Because he
loves him guys. Okay, and then later on
they talk about chromosomes and Carlisle
mentions having tested Jacob. And Jacob's
likes okay, Doc he didn't mean any harm. They just have a really cute
conversation. And like, Carlisle laughs again. They're in love, guys. First of all, the
issue with clothes happens with Jacob,
and he's like, he's got no clothes. And
then they offered some vampire clothes
and the fact that he was like, tying the
shorts to his leg just reminds me of the
fact that he's only wearing shorts. Are
all the werewolves going around commando? Which also begs the question when Leah
was offered clothes and stuff, which Esme did. Did she offer underwear because
wearing somebody else's underwear? I'm
just not sure. So I kind of love this
tentative friendship that Jacob and Leah
have formed. And also that Jacob and
Edward formed. So now they've gone from haters to
friends and I just find that very very
interesting. Also Jacob falls asleep in
the actual house. He falls asleep in the
Cullen's house. That just takes some level
of friendship and trust because the
truth is before this whole... before all of
this happened he never would have done
that like that. Just shows how much he
has changed. Alice and the headaches
equals an unpredictability tactic.
She's already used this before. Meyer's used this before in the previous
books where the werewolves mean that she
can't see
Bella anymore and therefore like,
anything to do with the werewolves
involved, like, any fights that they have
after the second book I believe,
everything she can't see. And that's just
the best way to do it because after we
were introduced to Alice's power in the
beginning it kind of makes her too
powerful. It kind of makes her too much
of a wild card. It kind of drives away
from the plot. So the werewolves always
being involved with the Cullens from the
second book onwards means that we can
still have an unpredictable plot. And
it's kind of being used again. The baby.
Like, it's interesting how the baby's
kind of got close to the werewolves kind
of thing, where Alice can't see them. It's
just because we need some
unpredictability otherwise the plot is
kind of null and void. So it was a smart
move. Got some Carlisle Jacob stuff. So, 'It
was Carlisle asking so when I turned
around again my face was probably less
disrespectful then it would have been if
anyone else had stopped me.' And then they
have a conversation where Jacob's like: Oh,
anything goes wrong with your family
it's on me. And Carlisle's like no, that's on me. And that just echoes so many
conversations that Bella and Edwardd
have had about placing blame. And also can we
just take a moment to acknowledge that Seth
is so nice and pure and kind. He's
literally the Raven Cycle Matthew Lynch
of this series. At one point Bella and
Jacob are having a conversation about
why Bella is always so happy to see
Jacob. And Jacob is like: I will never be
a part of your family. And I guess that's
just again, foreshadowing of the fact
that Jacob is eventually going to be
part of the family at one point. And Meyer made a
joke about how they're not vampire canon.
And I was like: please don't mention
vampire canon. You're vampires are so far
from vampire canon. Ee shouldn't even have the
word campire canon in this series. Also
there's the whole joke with Rosalie and
a
doggie bowl which is just a
funny moment. I find it so hilarious and
I love it so much. There's discussion with
Leah about infertility and everything
and I found that such an interesting
discussion. I kind of wish there was more
time spent on it because Leah is really
having like, a lot of discussion about
her gender and also about like, what it
means to be a female werewolf. And I feel
like she could have her own story and I
would definitely read. And I'd definitely
be intrigued with where like, that
storyline would have gone. Because Leah,
like, Leah is actually the most reasonable
character in his whole thing. Later on
she goes to debate with Bella about what
she's doing to Jacob. And I felt like,
that was legit. Like, that is the truth. That's exactly what I would have wanted
to do. And I was kind of glad that she
finally did that.
Okay, so we've rehoused ourselves
upstairs because literally everybody
just came home. But we got some more Carlisle Jacob moments. So, 'Carlisle put his hand
on my arm. The icy touch did not feel
good but I didn't jerk away. I
held still half in surprise and half
because I didn't want to hurt his
feelings.' So then Bella talks about her names and
legit, she has the worst names ever. The
male name that she had in mind was EJ
and like, it's not awful but we all know
it's because Edward Jacob. And just how
messed up is this love triangle that
she's thinking of naming her baby after
her husband and well, admittedly, her
husband at her best friend. But it's her
husband and her best friend who is still
in love with her. Like Bella, what are you
doing?! And then Renesmee. Well, that's not much better. We're at the part where they can hear the baby's thoughts
and if that whole situation wasn't so
messed up, that might be cute. But the
fact that they can hear the baby's
thoughts is not cute. It's just freaky.
And then the whole scene happened with
the baby being born and I think that's
one of the most horrific pregnancy
things I've read so far. I mean like, her
spine breaks. It just... everything about it
sounds absolutely awful. I like how it
was realistic. Like, Rosalie can't take it.She starts to feel hungry. Like, although
she does let Jacob win, I still feel like
it's realistic. And for a moment that I
forgot that they were vampires because
Edward was just so chill. Like, the fact that
Edward is so chill with Bella like,
bleeding all over the place just goes to
show how he has reached top tier. Like,
there's top tier and then there's Carlisle
level. And he's reached Carlisle --
I really say that name wrong, oh my gosh.
There's Carlisle level and yeah, he's reached Carlisle level. It shows how much
he's progressed from the first like, book
where we first meet him. And he's like: I
can't even be in the same room. And now
she's like bleeding all over the place
and he's like: I can chill here for as
long as I want. I just want to take a
moment to say something about the pacing
of this book. But it was just perfect
timing. Just when I thought I don't
really want to hear more about the
pregnancy, Stephenie was like: actually
people are gonna be fed up. Now,
let's do the pregnancy thing now. And she just...
pacing is so on point. And that makes me
so happy. And last but at least we have to talk
about the fact that Jacob was imprinting
on Renesmee. And I feel like it was like
really well done for what it is. I still
find the concept of him imprinting on a
newborn baby that literally just came
out of the womb really weird. However, the
way that the author describes it kind of
makes it as normal as you possibly could.
Of the way that she describes all the
strings holding him to the earth
revolving around Renesme seems almost
maternal. Like, less like: oh, I've fallen in
love. More so like: and now I need to care
for this person. So the first thing that
happened was Bella has turned into a
vampire and I remember when I first read
this book I wanted to like... I felt a bit
disappointed that we didn't get to see
like, the vampire actually being
bloodthirsty and like, all vicious and
everything. But again, it was smart on
Stephenie Meyer's side because we didn't
have time to like hear about all of that. If you wanted an actual story, an actual
plot, we couldn't just have Bella going
with her instincts. Again, very smart
placing off the power choice that she
gives her. Also I remember I really liked
finally getting a vampire point of view
because it was just so interesting to
see what they could see, what they could
do, how easy it was for them. And I feel
like that's one thing that she described
very well and I was very interested in
hearing described. Also Jasper's featured
a little bit more. We get to see Jasper
kind of trying to be the bodyguard and
play the bodyguard role. Because we're
all worried about Bella like, attacking
Renesmee and Jacob and all the other
humans. But like, Jasper being a bodyguard
character. It's just so me. I love a good
bodyguard. I also love when Bella sees
Jasper for the first time and he's got
like, these scars on his face and for the
first time she actually feels that fear
of him. And jJasper like, reads the room and reads her expressions. It was just like
she's noticed. Like, it just -- I love
Jasper. He's literally the best character.
Oh, I've also decided that Jasper's
definitely infj. So at the point where he
realises that Bella can control his
instincts he's like: I can't take this.
He's like: I literally can't understand
it. I need to go run away into the woods.
And Edward legit says: what does Edward say? Edward says, 'He needs a moment
alone to readjust his perspective on
life.' And if that's not infj vibes I
don't know what else is. Infj people, they
just tend to have this pattern that they
follow that they think is like, how they
expect people to behave. And when
someone's behaviour is like the polar
opposite from their expectations, they
struggle with that and adjust. But he's
struggling with that now. I know that
there's some other things that Jasper
does which seemed very infj like. His
history as far as I can remember is that
he used to play this bodyguard role to
this person who betrayed him. And then
once he portrayed her he'd, I think
he kills her? But I feel like that's like,
a door slam moment. Like, he does the infj
door slam. It's also... there's a moment where
Bella and Edward go hunting and in that
moment when Bella watches Edward hunt
she's like: oh, this is so sensual. And
when she describes watching Eddard hunt.
I immediately just had this like, tangent
thought of Fifty Shades of Grey which I
have not read. But I have heard that like,
Grey... Grey is his name? Christian! Christian Grey like, eats food
and then like, thinks of sex or something?And I was like, I know it's Twilight fan
fiction. But like, did that little like,
morsel of fascination come from the fact
that Bella watches Edward eat and
then was really turned on? And therefore
that translates into Fifty Shades of
Grey? Maybe I'm reading too much into it.
The fact that Bella liked Jacob because
she was carrying and Esme... like, it makes
so much sense and like, it makes so much
sense but it's still so strange. And
Reneesme's gift is just so smart. And it
makes so much sense because it's Edward's
gift reversed. That it means we get to
know so much more about her at
such an early age. And I just I love the
fact that her gift is Edward's one
reversed. We have to talk about the
funniest scene in Breaking Dawn entirely.
It's the funniest scene in the film. It's
the funniest scene in this book. And that
is the famous you named my daughter
after the Loch Ness monster scene. Like,
it's so just peak funny. I just find the
scene in the film hilarious. I find the
scene in the book hilarious. Like the
scene,
it's funny but like, it's even more funny
in the book. Bella's frustration and
Bella's anger. But at the same time like,
while this is all going on you hear like,
Emmett, Esme, Carlisle, Edward... they're all like,
having some banter in the background. And
that's just interspersed into it which
makes it all the more funnier because I
do see Twilight as the found family
trope. And I feel like in that scene you
get to see the found family-like banter,
quips thing going on on the side. Well,
you also get to see Bella just being
iconic and fierce and vampire-like. And
also it's just funny.
I noticed that Edward calls Bella love and I
don't remember if this is something that
he did in previous books or if it just
happened as she switched into a vampire. So I guess that's something I'll have to
look for in Eclipse. And the other ones
when I read it backwards. I also want to
talk a little bit about their like,
vampire intensity because Edwards like:
Oh, Bella, you've been sleeping nights. You
don't know what they get up to at night
time. I'm just like?? They all share a
house and if they're always like, intense
and active and vicious and loud as
Edward says... Just imagine living in
a house where every night there's like,
three couples of vampires having really
hot whole sex? Must be quite place to
live. I also remembered reading this
section that I just finished reading. That this is actually one of my least
favourite books in this series. So my
favourite books in the series are
typically Twilight and Eclipse because
the ending is just not my favourite thing.
Like, the ending of Breaking Dawn isn't
bad. But after the whole pregnancy drama
like, it's too easy. Like, they all have a
common enemy. Jacob and Edward's
relationship is fine. They're all just so
happy. Like... what does it say about me
that this is the least problematic
Edward and Bella's relationship is and...?
But I feel like Charlie is a very
underrated dad in the fiction world.
I feel like Charlie really just does his
best to be like, a good dad. And I guess
in this one he doesn't have too much of
a spotlight. But he did just meet Renesmee
and like Jacob phased in front of him
and he's still like sticking around and
just do the best he can. I feel like it's
a bit unrealistic that he doesn't want
to know anything. But I guess there's
people who don't wanna know the truth.
As we could see lately. I also really
enjoyed the scene where Emmett has this
arm wrestling match with Bella. I guess
one of the good things about this book
is that because it's so big Meyer had
more time to show like, the family just
messing around and
being a family. And it's just been
announced at the Volturi are coming and
then Alice and Jasper do their
disappearing act. And I think they
disappear until the very end as far as I
remember. But it's just so funny when
they disappeared because Alice is like:
quick you've got to get them all! I and
it's just kind of like -- I've never even
watched Pokemon but it still gives me
the Pokemon vibe of gotta catch them all!
Like, right before she leaves. And
Jasper's totally confused but he just --
every time I see Alice and Jasper interact
it's just so clear that Jasper trusts
Alice would like, literally everything. If
Alice tells him not to worry he like,
stands down. Other people tell him not to
worry he doesn't stand down. And also and
she's like: we got to go! And Jasper's got
confusion plainly written on his face. He
still just allows himself to be pulled
away from Alice because he just trusts
in her absolutely, wholeheartedly and
completely. And we love it.
I finished Breaking Dawn. I didn't have as
much to say about the end as I did about
the rest of the beginning of the book. Just because the ending is just not my
favourite part. But I do have a few things
to say. So first of all Bella says that
the middle name of Renesmee is Carlie. As
in Carlisle and Charlie put together. Again,
we acknowledge that Bella has a horrible
taste in names. She should never have been
allowed to make the decisions. And I
really like the how Stephenie Meyer just
perfectly closes up the plot holes when
it comes to Bella's powers. And she does
it so seamlessly with her power of the
shield and why Edward can't hear her
thoughts. And I don't know if she
intentionally planned this but I feel
like it's more like Meyer was trying to
cover plot holes that people have been
poking in the book rather than something
that she planned from the beginning of
the series. That is okay
authors are allowed to do that. I found it
very interesting that when she was
trying to use her shield power, it wasn't
working. She couldn't protect Edward
until Renesmee was threatened. I think it
creates an interesting discussion about
the relationships that partners have and
the relationships that a mother-daughter
has. Is it stronger? Is that what this
book is trying to suggest? I don't know. I'm not looking too deep into it but it does
bring up the interesting dynamic. It was
also very interesting to see how when
she protects Sam or Jacob it protects
the entire pack. So like the pack
mentality is just so complex and I feel
it could be so interesting to have
another book that kind of just focuses
on the Wolves. The shapeshifters, I should
say. The shapeshifters perspective and
how that works. Again, I love how at the
end she
closes up some plot plot holes with the
shapeshifters, I should say, rather than
the werewolves because they're not
actually werewolves. And it's like why
didn't she bring this up before. And it was
like, 'it didn't come up'. Which I guess is
fair but still it just really feels like
she's trying to cover her bases at the
end there. But shapeshifters does suit
them a whole lot more than werewolves because
it's so far from the werewolf mentality
other than the fact that they are indeed
wolves. Now, we do need to talk a little
bit about the representation in this one.
I wasn't too happy that when the vampire
gathering started, rather than calling
all of these vampires by their names she
tends to go like: all the Romanians, the
Egyptians. And she'd be like:  I didn't
like the Romanians. And I don't know. That
just felt a little bit uncomfortable to
me. I just would rather she just to use
people's names. And sometimes she does so
I don't see why she couldn't use their
names all of the time rather than being
like, this group of people from this
country I don't like. I just -- it just
niggled at me. And secondly, I just
really, really didn't like the way she
introduced Zafrina and her sister. Like:
in the beginning it just seemed a little
bit a little bit racist, I gotta admit. Because they're the black vampires and
they turn up. And then she's like, so so
uncomfortable Bella. Is so uncomfortable
with the black vampires being there. She's like: they move differently than
all other vampires. They're like, more scary
and then once she has to give them to
Renesmee. She was like: oh, I'm scared for
Renesmee. And even when she's like: oh, I
do like them, I do but they still scare
me. I wouldn't want them near me. And like,
what're you're scared of woman? You're a
vampire, they're a vampire. The only thing
different between them is that they come
from a different culture and they have a
different skin tone. So I don't know, that
also really just didn't sit well with me.
And I feel like Breaking Dawn is not one
that I reread often and I can see why. I
prefer the first half. Then all
the drama's gone and then there's like,
iffy feelings of the way that she's
describing other people. I'm just not for
it. So I can't see myself we rereading
Breaking Dawn again. And I guess this
is what read it backwards was for. To see
how I feel the same way about this
series. And I still call the Twilight
Saga some of my favourites because I do
believe once I read the first, second and
third I'm going to like them a lot more.
But Breaking Dawn
it's... not the series ending for me. I
think I won't be read it again. And if I
do reread it I feel like I would reread
part one and then stop at like, part 1
and part 2. And then when it switches
from Jacob's perspective I'd stop reading. A cute moment was when and we've got an
MP3 player for Christmas and that was
advanced technology. And the best thing
you can have. I always just feel very
like, nostalgic when I see like, old
technology being called the newest
technology. And then also something that
was really cute was Kate and Garrett. Like, the way their relationship
blossomed over the course of the book
was just so sweet. It's like such a small
side romance but then Garrett had a
speech I like. There's just something
about the way that Meyer creates all
these characters and ends this series
that is perfect because she closes off
the story so so well. It's an ending. It's
conclusive. You feel like it's done. But
she's left so many avenues where she
could just continue this. I know she's
doing Midnight Sun which is Twilight
from Edward's point of view. But she could
have a whole book about Jacob and
Renesmee, she could have a whole book
about Nahuel who has this situation with
his sisters and his father and being
like, half vampire half human. You can
have a whole story there. You could have
a whole story going into any of the
backgrounds of each and every one of the vampires.
Irina, Tanya, Kate, the sister dynamic and
the immortal children. We could have that
story. We could have the story of Garrett
because he seems to be a nomand but he
seems like the person who could have had
a family beforehand. We could have a
story about Zafrina and then... like,
honestly we could have a story about any
of these background characters. Even the
Cullens had their own backstory she
could have gone into. And I feel like I
much would have rather she did one of those. Rather than The Second Short Life of
Bree Tanner which I've decided I won't be
reading in the read it backwards. Just
cause it just doesn't interest me. I also
want to just laugh at the part where Edward's
like goodbye Jacob, goodbye brother,
goodbye son. And when he says goodbye son
I'm like, that's it. That's too far. Like, I
can understand the relationship has come
a very long way. They can see each other
as brothers but him calling him son was
just the most unnatural thing in the
world for me to read. And lastly,
they're like: Oh, in six and a half years
Esme is gonna have to reach full
maturity. But apparently you know, Nahuel
still looks like quite the child. And I'm
like, how's that gonna work for Jacob and
Renesmee? Is she's still going to look
like a teenager the whole way through? Is that like, gonna stay? Is that gonna
morph into a romantic relationship or is
his imprinting always gonna stay this
like, child brother kind of dynamic?
I'm curious. This book doesn't give me
the answers. But another book could give me the answers, Stephenie...
So that's kind of all I think
about this book. You can see that it's
kind of mixed. I feel like if teenager me,
twelve-year-old me who first read this
book rated it, it would have been a
five-star rating. I doled out the five
stars like nobody's business back then. So I think back then I would have given
that book five stars. And like, the pacing
is still impeccable in this book. I think
I would give it four stars.
I'll give it four stars now and if I was
gonna be like really critical I'd give
it three stars. But I just don't think I
have it in me because it still has the
childhood nostalgia
attached. So I'm gonna say four stars. And
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