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debdesign1 wrote:

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I'm reading Breaking Dawn also. My daughter is reading it for the second time. And yes, it's the 4th in the series. We went to a Breaking Dawn party to get the book Aug.1st at midnight, my daughter (13) stayed up almost all night reading. Then we spent a week at the beach in North Carolina, she finished it in 2 days. I think it's a little adult for a 13yo, but what the hey, it's marketed for 12 and up. What do I know?

I think Breaking Dawn was a little too adult for me, and I'm 27. I'm kind of surprised the publisher allowed some of those plotlines in a YA imprint when the rest of the series didn't touch on such adult themes. I, personally, couldn't relate to a lot of the character decisions in this book, and I hated that the thing that made the first three so awesome (the tension of Bella and Edward's star-crossed romantic relationship) was completely replaced with a different kind of relationship teens couldn't possibly relate to (being vague so I don't spoil). Anyway, I was highly disappointed in the book, and I'm a huge Meyer fan. (I also went to a release party, and the NYC concert, and read the book pretty much non-stop until I finished 22 hours after I purchased it. I was afraid to go online all week due to leaked spoilers I didn't want to know in advance). (I think Meyer is a little confused about her target audience. Breaking Dawn should have been on an adult shelf, while I felt her adult novel, THE HOST, should have been on a YA shelf. It's great that she writes novels with cross-market potential, but from interviews I've seen, it seems she doesn't think about audience while she writes, and I think that's a mistake because obviously she's not quite grasping which elements are appropriate for which market and I think BD alienated a lot of her fandom because of this, based on message boards I've been reading.)