Slacking and Breaking Dawn

To say the least, I've been completely on my summer schedule, which means nothing has a set time and I've been trying to get my master's research done in lieu of teaching regular classes. Nonetheless, I have been reading. A lot. The book that led me into summer was Breaking Dawn- for better or worse.

And that's what it was about: for better or for worse, Bella and Edward actually are married. Yes, Bella gets pregnant and everyone freaks out about it. Jacob is still Bella's weird friend-love interest, but Bella keeps Jacob at a safe distance. The book is written from Jacob's perspective and Bella's perspective, but surprisingly it never takes Edward's perspective- which was a disappointment. It seemed that a large focus of this book was vampire sex- without ever saying the word sex (if i remember correctly). Bella also starts to find herself dreaming about a child and not so surprisingly we find out she's pregnant- even though all of the vampires didn't think that a vampire could impregnate a mortal- despite distant legends of such things.

Of course the entire Cullen family dotes on Bella, and Bella needs it because she's being broken from the inside by her vampire baby. Bella does have the baby under dire circumstances and she gets ripped open by the other vampires in order to save her (vampire's teeth are the only thing that can open up her calloused belly0. And on this note, as Bella is dying on the makeshift delivery table in the Cullens' home, Edward transforms her and she begins her recovery process. The only thing I could think during this scene was "How are they going to put that in a PG-13 movie?" While the rest of the books were pretty tame, this one does include some gruesome stuff- then again that's pregnancy. No one ever said it was pretty.

Of course the Italian Vampires are ticked about the potential of an immortal child. But, the child isn't immortal- it's just 'gifted'. So, the Cullens are on the run until Alice hatches a plan and then 'runs away'. We find out Bella actually does have a 'gift'- which is the highlight of the whole book. (So I won't actually give that away.) Was it worth reading 600 some pages? Nope, except to know that any movie version will be so bastardized and potentially gruesome that it probably won't happen.