"Breaking Dawn" (Little, Brown and Company, 754 pages, $22.99) by Stephenie Meyer: The heartbreakingly beautiful vampires, patriotic werewolves and emotionally torn humans ar back for one last round in "Breaking Dawn," the fourth and lowest installment in the fanatically loved "Twilight Saga" series.
It's a rule book with some surprises. But the big event takes place near the tale's beginning, going away the rest of the pages free to detail (and detail, and detail) the shockwaves.
Like the other books in the series, "Breaking Dawn" is a story of a community of vampires living relatively peacefully among humans. It examine what happens when a lamia and human fall in love, and the implications for their friendships, families, and life itself.
Fans will enjoy a satisfying exploration of the relationship of the lamia Edward, the human Bella and the werewolf Jacob - a relationship reeling from a real curveball. The look at Bella and Edward takes the issues of freewill, sacrifice and egoism to a new level.
Meanwhile the folks of Forks, Wash., where the vampires have set, have their own problems as the tenuous pact between the vampires and werewolves is tested, stretched, and re-tested.
Series fans testament find much here to love: piquant characters, dandy humor, a distracting obsession with beaut, focus on the minutiae of emotions.
But casual readers may thwarted with a lot of build-up and little action.
(This version CORRECTS Corrects spelling of author's name to Stephenie alternatively of Stephanie)
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