Breaking Down - er, Breaking DAWN

So, this is a week late, but I didn't have a blog a week ago. So now you get my opinion on the hottest book of the month!

I went out late last Friday night to pick up my book at Borders. Stayed up all damn night to finish it. I'm not impressed.

It just doesn't work for me. It's all too unbelievable - Edward's a vamp, made of stone, with no heartbeat, but he has swimmers and can create a baby???

And, it's not the pedophelia aspect, but I just don't like Jacob imprinting on Nessie. It's just wrong - the wrong thing to do to wrap up the story. Also - RENESMEE???? ICK! Worst.Name.EVER!

Just because it's fiction doesn't mean it can't make sense. The BEST fiction isn't convenient - it's more well planned, and comes across better. LOTR is a perfect example. For those of us that read it BEFORE the movies, the suspense is built, the story is laid. The ending has some surprises (like Frodo's finger getting bitten off) but it was all LOGICALLY built from the beginning.

The best fiction writers have rules and logic to their stories, their magic, their worlds. There are very specific limits as to what can be done and what can't. Even JKRowling - although I was a bit disappointed in the Hallows storyline that "suddenly" shows up in the last book - it still fit. You could easily look back and see that each object that was a Hallows, as well as each Horcrux had been mentioned at some point. We knew they were there, we knew (in most cases) that the item was magical, and yet the surprise was that they were important. Like Ravenclaw's diadem - it was only ever described as an ugly "tiara" in the Room of Requirement - but it was there.

The one thing that really kills me now is SM's interview. When she was discussing the whole "vamps able to have babies thing" she says she was talking about FEMALES not having babies, not MALES. But she never alluded it to it more in the books - the way she initially wrote it in the story, it sounded like ALL vamps couldn't procreate. Then she uses her own "vagueness" (which I don't think was all that vague - it sounded VERY specific) to open up the whole "Edward is now a daddy" plotline. It kills me that she PLANNED to be all double-crossing with a major plot line. Now, I get that we as readers couldn't know that a baby was a possibility - it ruins the suprise. But she completely reversed her "magic" in her world to go from impossible to possible (from the POV of a reader, not her own messed up POV on the subject).

I returned all my Twilight books. I'm that ticked off. I don't want to reread the story, and I don't want the reminder on my shelf. Plus, the best way for me to really express my displeasure with the way the series ended is to vote with my wallet and not "pay" her.

I'm very sadz actually that I'm so pissed off. It's a strange emotion. But I'm just NOT happy with it, and I can't make myself be happy with it. I'm still waffling on whether or not I'll see the movie. I really want to - REALLY want to. But at the same time, I'm just still so angry about the BD ending that I can't bring myself to support it. Maybe I'll feel differently in Dec. Or when it comes out on DVD. I can somewhat convince myself that since we get so many free movies from Blockbuster that I'm not supporting SM as a writer by renting the movie for free. I don't know.

--Miss(ed) Eloquence