{"id":744,"date":"2010-06-20T16:24:24","date_gmt":"2010-06-21T00:24:24","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.lunabase.org\/~faber\/blog\/?p=744"},"modified":"2010-06-20T16:33:31","modified_gmt":"2010-06-21T00:33:31","slug":"review-breaking-dawn","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.lunabase.org\/~faber\/blog\/?p=744","title":{"rendered":"Review: Breaking Dawn"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>If you thought the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.lunabase.org\/~faber\/blog\/?p=702\">first<\/a> <a href=\"http:\/\/www.lunabase.org\/~faber\/blog\/?p=718\">three<\/a> <a href=\"http:\/\/www.lunabase.org\/~faber\/blog\/?p=733\">books<\/a> of Twilight were slow and melodramatic, <em>Breaking Dawn<\/em> is your cure.<\/p>\n<p>We&#8217;re back in Stephenie Meyer&#8217;s world of vampires and werewolves, and the existing characters and histories from the earlier novels are all in place.\u00a0 Right from the beginning, though, things happen much faster here than any earlier Twilight novel.\u00a0 Meyer makes things happen fast without making them seem rushed, which is quite an achievement, given all that goes on.\u00a0 I don&#8217;t want to give anything away, but character&#8217;s fates are decided in ways that are satisfying and logical &#8211; and often very funny.<\/p>\n<p>Overall, it&#8217;s a satisfying conclusion to a fun series.\u00a0 Even if you found the other books slow, you might enjoy this.<\/p>\n<p>Strongly Recommended.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>If you thought the first three books of Twilight were slow and melodramatic, Breaking Dawn is your cure. We&#8217;re back in Stephenie Meyer&#8217;s world of vampires and werewolves, and the existing characters and histories from the earlier novels are all in place.\u00a0 Right from the beginning, though, things happen much faster here than any earlier [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-744","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-reviews"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lunabase.org\/~faber\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/744","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lunabase.org\/~faber\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lunabase.org\/~faber\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lunabase.org\/~faber\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lunabase.org\/~faber\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=744"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/www.lunabase.org\/~faber\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/744\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":749,"href":"https:\/\/www.lunabase.org\/~faber\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/744\/revisions\/749"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lunabase.org\/~faber\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=744"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lunabase.org\/~faber\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=744"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lunabase.org\/~faber\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=744"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}