Following hot on the heels of eclipse's events,
Breaking Dawn opens with the impending marriage between Bella Swan our hapless
protagonist and the ever charming vampire Edward Cullen. With Victoria out of the way, the two can focus on the two issues that have been at the forefront of the last book or so, namely Bella's quest for immortality so that she can be with Edward and, well, her longing to be with Edward. It's not that as a male reader I can't identify with a female narrator who is open to her emotions, it's just that they get a bit much sometimes and it all just starts to feel like a soap opera with supernatural elements, like what would happen if the main characters in the bold and the beautiful started sprouting fangs for example.
Although the Twilight saga did breathe new life (excuse the pun) into the genre, and spawned interest in vampires once again if the
bookshelves of most book stores are anything to go by, at the end of the book the story itself feels like a vampire i.e. something that once was alive but has had the life sucked out of it. The final battle between the Volturi and the Cullens which has been brewing for the last two books simply fizzles out and feels more like the X-Men than vampire as it devolves into a battle of superpowers and is then aborted.
All in all, an interesting saga and I'm sure that the teenage girls will love it but for serious readers it's little else than fluff, even for fantasy it's unbelievable and the characters just don't seem real.