Breaking Dawn
Stephenie Meyer, 2008
Fantasy Young adultRomanceHorror
The fourth Twilight novel: Bella and Edward marry, and every supernatural faction in the Pacific Northwest has an opinion about it. The voice is intimate and intense, with passion and longing pushing through calmer, serene stretches.
Feels like passion, longing and serenity. About love, society and identity.
Who it’s for
You may like it if you've followed Bella and Edward and want the wedding and its fallout to take center stage. It is the fourth Twilight novel, though, so starting here means stepping into years of established history and loyalties.
Why read it
If you want a dramatic, romance-heavy continuation that widens the supernatural world around Forks, this closes the original quartet.
A page from the book
What it feels like to see an ordinary room with the volume turned up.
The brilliant light overhead was still blinding-bright, and yet I could plainly see the glowing strands of the filaments inside the bulb. I could see each color of the rainbow in the white light, and, at the very edge of the spectrum, an eighth color I had no name for. Stephenie Meyer.Meyer has said the idea for Twilight came from a vivid dream about a vampire and a human girl in a meadow.
Books that feel like this
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Twilight
Stephenie Meyer, 2005
A girl moves to a rain-drenched town and falls for a boy whose beauty is inseparable from danger. Mood, appetite, and bad decisions.
New Moon
Stephenie Meyer, 2006
A girl who has lost the person she built her life around has to learn how to keep breathing—and whether the old stories in her town are real.
Eclipse
Stephenie Meyer, 2007
Bella's engagement to Edward collides with Jacob's love and a string of killings in Forks, forcing a choice she can't make cleanly.
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Questions readers ask
- Is Breaking Dawn for me?
- You may like it if you've followed Bella and Edward and want the wedding and its fallout to take center stage. It is the fourth Twilight novel, though, so starting here means stepping into years of established history and loyalties.
- What is Breaking Dawn like?
- The voice is intimate and intense, with passion and longing pushing through calmer, serene stretches. Feels like passion, longing and serenity. About love, society and identity.
- What should I read after Breaking Dawn?
- If you liked Breaking Dawn, try When He Was Wicked (Julia Quinn), A Kingdom of Flesh and Fire (Jennifer L. Armentrout) and Bride (Ali Hazelwood).
A taste of the feed
The exact moment unspoken feelings become too powerful to contain.
Why?Why? Why?” He gave each one a different tenor, as if he were testing out the word, asking it to different people. “Why?” he asked again, this time with increased volume as he turned around to face her. “Why? It’s because I love you, damn me to hell. Because I’ve always loved you. Because I loved you when you were with John, and I loved you when I was in India, and God only knows I don’t deserve you, but I love you, anyway.” Francesca sagged against the door. “How’s that for a witty little joke?” he mocked. “I loveyou. I loveyou, my cousin’s wife. I loveyou, the one woman I can never have. I loveyou, Francesca Bridger-ton Stirling.
When He Was Wicked · Julia Quinn
Desire that arrives as need, not want.
I need to feel your lips on mine.“ He planted his hands on the carriage wall, caging me in. ”I need to feel your breath in my lungs. I need to feel your life inside me. I just need you. It’s an ache. This need. Can I have you? All of you?
A Kingdom of Flesh and Fire · Jennifer L. Armentrout
A house built around the one thing that could kill you.
The first things I notice are the two walls of windows, which is exactly what Father wants. Every Human I’ve talked with assumes that Vampyres hate light and relish darkness, but they couldn’t be more wrong. The sun may be forbidden to us, toxic always and deathly in large quantities, but that’s precisely why we covet it with such intensity. Windows are a luxury, because they need to be treated with absurdly expensive materials that filter everything that might harm us. And windows this large are the most bombastic of status symbols, in a full display of dynastic power and obscene wealth.
Bride · Ali Hazelwood
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