Breaking Dawn by
Stephenie Meyer My review
rating: 4 of 5 stars
I'm pasting my comment from the twilight group I'm in. Some women were getting really upset by this book. Issues like "teen pregnancy" especially where magazine covers read, "Babies, the Hottest Hollywood Accessory"were coming up. The Morals of Stephanie Meyer were put into question, especially when we live in a world where teen pregnancy rate is sky high. One lady said, "It's so bad that mothers can drop their unwanted babies off at a fire department, no questions asked!" Here's what I think...
It's funny that Bella's age is coming into question with teen pregnancy. Didn't everyone go through this with the first book when we found out how old Edward truly was? So we took the point with us that love is love. We had to, or we couldn't enjoy Edward and Bella's romance.
Besides that Bella was an adult, she'd graduated from HS. Everyone makes their own decisions after that point in their lives.
The trend (on a larger scale) in the world today is to wait to be financially stable with a career and home, finished with college, etc before we have children. Women all over the place run out of "time" to have kids, then regret it.
Being a mother is a big responsibility (which Bella didn't skirt) and it isn't always fun, but it is the most amazing thing in the world. I love my kids more than anything and I would do anything to protect them. I don't mind that Stephanie portrayed a little bit of the "magic of motherhood" in this book. Maybe teens will think twice before dropping their babies off at the fire department because that's not what Bella would do. Who knows, may be that's not such a bad thing.
You may think this isn't a young adult series anymore, or that teens shouldn't read this. Obviously, I'm a mom, so maybe it was written more for mom's, who knows?? Kind of like the HP books, they were children's books in the beginning, but by the last few... not so much. Too dark. But kids still enjoyed the magic, only adults complained (resulting in book burnings etc).
I have enjoyed reading all the Twilight books. Not because of the message (although it did remind me of how much I love my husband) but because they were fun and entertaining to read. I liked the unpredictable 4th book. I was way off guessing what would happen, I like that. If I could have guessed I would have been disappointed.
Do I think that teens will want to run out and have babies because Bella did? Probably the same girls that did it because their favorite celeb. did. Those would be the same that aren't taught differently at home. Let's not forget about the responsibility of parents. This book is great, it opens up a channel for parents and teen daughters to talk about an important decision in a low risk non-confrontational way. Teens are smarter than what they get credit for. We all (even as adults) do stupid things in life from time to time; lets not go out and say "the book made me do it!" That's a little over the top and takes away individual accountability. Plus, remember it's genre is fantasy. It's not real life, were talking vampires and ware wolfs.
I have enjoyed reading other posts, to see what others thought of the book. It's interesting. I enjoyed reading Breaking Dawn, but there were a few things that bothered me (loose strings in the resolution etc). But overall, I have enjoyed Stephanie Meyer and her Vampire stories!
led the 5 hours between our arrival time and Mckay's performance time. Berlynn jumped in line with Paris, who had been waiting for an hour, to get her face painted. Soon Paris Berlynn, and Princess all had their faces painted. Berlynn is a butterfly, Paris an ice princess and Princess, a Cat.
the innocence of youth, that would have put a strain on mine and Tera's relationship if our kids were 10 years older. Haha. Berlynn was just waiting her turn, with Roman in the port a potty.
