Breaking Dawn is the fourth and final installment (from Bella‘s point of view) for Stephenie Meyer’s very successful Twilight saga. I feel the anticipation that readers had for the final installment was wasted on a book that could have been much more. Don’t get me wrong, Breaking Dawn was a good book, but it was only good in my opinion, where the others in the series were great. This book left me wanting much more then it delivered and since it was the last in the series I suppose my yearning to know more will never get answered. The book feels like three different novels just shoved together to make one and in a way it is. The overall mood of the book changes dramatically three different times, in the beginning Bella is still the narrator and times are happy with the looming wedding and honeymoon, afterwards the narration is switched to Jacob where everything turns moody, and after the moodiness Bella once again takes over the book, but things are still not back to the happy carefree mood we were at the beginning of the book instead everything is tense as we see a battle on the horizon.

In the beginning the book starts off with Bella getting ready for her marriage to Edward and their honeymoon. I have to admit the wedding was beautiful, I loved it. Everything had gone perfect for Bella until Jacob shows up with his friends to say goodbye to his human friend. The two friends start fighting and things turn ugly, both Jacob and Bella upset by the end of their goodbye. The honeymoon was very interesting, the private island seemed the perfect place and after experiencing Edward and Bella’s “nightly agenda” adds to how perfect the island was. For one reason or another I didn’t find Bella becoming pregnant very shocking, I don’t know why, but as soon as she started getting sick I was like, oh well she’s pregnant. On the whole the beginning of the book seemed to be exactly what Bella wanted and I enjoyed it as well.

Jacob’s section of the book I found the most entertaining, he was moody and funny, I laughed a lot reading his thoughts and some of the stuff he just said. The tension between the Cullens’ and the werewolves seem to become worse, now that the wolves take it upon themselves to kill Bella’s baby. Of course Jacob gives his loyalty to Bella and refuses to take any part in this. Soon the baby is born, Renesmee, I have a bit of a problem with the name no matter how sweet it is being a combination of Renee and Esme, it’s a weird name. Everything starts getting back to normal and things seem great until Alice sees that the Volturi are coming.

The ending of the book is where I have the biggest problem. A large part of the book is used to build up just how bad . It was anticlimactic to say the least. I have a hard time believing that after everything the Cullens and their friends went through preparing for a possible fight that looked inevitable didn’t happen. It felt like the Half-Blood Prince movie was pushed back an extra nine months, the fight was within touch and without warning it was taken away, except this time we will never get a fight.

Despite the faults this book has, I feel it is still worth the read. I would read it again, now that I know how everything works out it might not be that big of a let down.