: Breaking Dawn, Stephenie Meyer, Atom, Rs 550
The teenage world is suddenly alive with handsome vampires, etc
As any teenager will attest to, it is hard to concentrate on calculus and successfully two-time boyfriends at the same. If one of the boyfriends happens to be a devastatingly handsome vampire, and the other a werewolf devoted to you, it is a toss-up figuring out who to date and who to dump. Stephenie Meyer is back with Breaking Dawn, the fourth instalment in her Twilight series. As dramatically packaged in red, black and white as her other books in this saga, New Moon and Eclipse, it again traces the love between her passionate teen heroine Bella Swan and the two men in her life.
Bella is preparing for marriage to the gorgeous Edward Cullen. (For the previous 1,500 pages, Bella has been alternately bewitched and frustrated by Cullen’s tousled bronze hair and long pale fingers.) Cullen, however, is one of those rare, old-fashioned guys in the teen world who won’t make a move on a girl even if she throws herself at him. Part of a clan of vampires who’ve sworn off Homo sapiens, Edward has conquered his instinct to devour Bella over three books with succinct phrases like “the smell of your blood makes me lose control”.
Bella, though, is hooked from day one. She hasn’t for a moment doubted their eternal love and is impatient for the wedding night and for Cullen to drain her blood to transform her into a vampire-predator like himself.
Meyer is one of those rare authors like J.K. Rowling who can drive young adults into screaming hysterics over books. She captures the angst and frenzy of teenage love and their struggle to make the right choice. Should Edward kill Bella, turn her into a vampire and deprive her of the right to pursue a normal human life?
