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Breaking Dawn took me by surprise. Of course, this is not my first time reading it, however, it felt different the third time around. This was my first time as an adult and even though I was editing the book throughout, like the others in the series, I was actually entranced by it.

You could see Meyer's writing steadily becoming better. Her description was better in this book compared to past Twilight books. She writes decent dialogue, but her description had always been off for me. It wasn't perfect, but it was better. The action scenes were also more pronounced and easily followed.

*Mild Spoilers - not too telling, though*

I loved meeting other vampires that live different ways compared to the Cullens. It was my favorite part of the book, seeing what these other vampires could do and what their lives are like. I also loved learning about Nessie and how her life is going to progress. I thought the ending, in terms of actual plot, was genius. Meyer was able to tie up loose ends, even though some of those ends were newly introduced.

Now, her actual ending... like the last few pages of the book... needed work. I hate it when books end happily-ever-after style. There needs to be a more satisfying ending than and then we were happy for the rest of our lives. That felt like the fakest way to end a book, much less a series. However, the scene she ended with wasn't bad. This is where her writing comes into play. She could've executed that scene better to leave a more satisfied feeling when it came to the last sentence.

Okay and her name... I hated reading that the first time and I still hate it: Renesmee. What kind of name is that? I get that it's combining two people's names into one, but come on! And the fact that her nickname became Nessie... just no. I'm with Bella on that. Why would you nickname someone after a sea monster? What about Ren?

Sorry, rant over. Overall, I felt like this book's plot was much sturdier than the other books. The plot was much more complex and it resulted in more intense scenes. The characterization was better in this book comparatively speaking; I was able to visualize and remember all of the new characters she introduced.

There were a lot of good things about the ending of this series.