and Romeo & Juliet thought they had it bad?

 The fourth and final installment of the Twilight saga. It is so different and in some ways better than the first three books. It starts off with what we have all been waiting for since New Moon, Bella and Edward finally get married. And after their marriage they do what every other couple does and go on their honeymoon, where yes ladys and gentlemen, they do consummate their marriage! I will say this about Mrs Meyer, she keeps the sex scenes at a perfect balance for all readers. It dosn't become to graphic that mothers of teenage daughters would oppose, because honestly they see way worse than that on cable TV. I felt like it was done very tastefully where as it had great potential to become rather raunchy. The happy couple hits a snag a few weeks into their honeymoon though when Bella discovers that she has become pregnant, and not just a little pregnant, a lot pregnant. So they rush home into the waiting arms of their family. Meyer tried something new in her writing style in this book that i thought was interesting and it worked out well from a readers point of view. Instead of having the whole story being told from Bella's sometimes whiny point of view she switches back and forth between Bella and Jacobs minds. It makes the story that much more interesting because we get to see inside Bellas head when she learns she is carrying Edwards child and then the remainder of the pregnancy is seen through Jacobs eyes. This is helpful to the reader to get the full extent of the pregnant condition since Bellas character seems to like to pretend that things arnt as bad as they are, it would have made for an inaccurate description. So through several chapters of Bellas condition going from bad to worse as her pregnancy is accelerated from nine months to just over one we can all see that Bella is going to die. Then after a very traumatic and rather graphic view of her emergency delivery of her half human-half vampire baby girl from Jacobs viewpoint Bellas spine is broken and she is all but dead when Eward injects her with vampire venom and her transformation begins. We get the full agony of the vampirazation from Bellas point of view and also the experience of waking up a member of the undead. I felt that Meyer did a good job of changing Bellas attitude a little bit once she became a vampire. She becomes a lot less self absorbed and whiny, possialby a result of becoming a mother not just a vampire. Then from the middle of the book on we get hit with two major twists in the plot. First Bella awakens to discover that her boy toy Jacob has imprinted upon her half-breed daughter. So now instead of being her eternal back-up plan hes going to be her son-in-law someday. And then as a result of a major mistake, the Volturi are informed that the Cullens have created an immortal child and the entire Volturi guard set out to destroy the family. I felt that then ending of this book was a little rushed and not very well developed. In a matter of maybe 6 chapters we discover that Bella has special vampire powers, Alice has abandoned her family, and we meet about 20 new vampires. The whole thing comes to a head in the last few chapters just like in New Moon. The Cullens live, the Volturi thwarted, and they all live happily ever after. It was a very clipped and underdeveloped ending that leaves many readers disappointed. It was almost as if and impending publishing deadline was influencing the writing quality.