If you haven’t started reading the Twilight Series by Stephenie Meyer you have a great read ahead of you.  “Breaking Dawn” is the fourth volume in the series.  It follows “Twilight”, “New Moon” and “Eclipse”. Hesitant to read the last book in a series first, I suggest you begin with  “Twilight”.  I read all four titles in four days.  It is a tribute to the series that the 700+ pages in each book were rapidly consumed.   These books follow the convoluted romance between Bella (human), Edward (vampire) and Jacob (werewolf).

Where often Vampire fiction is overly bloody, violent, evil and stomach turning, this series reworks the dark myths into something that is actually innocent, funny and often moralistic.  As a YA writer Meyer is a master craftsman.  Maintaining all the romance and mystery of forbidden love she manages to reach to a moral high ground as she delves into the supernatural realms. 

This series is a worthy heir to the success of Rowling’s Harry Potter books.  

As the final book in the quartet it is a book filled with suspense, adventure, hope and tenuous happy endings.  There is no mystery why so many young women responded to the siren call of the Barnes Noble midnight book release party.  It is a romantic fantasy for the innocent of heart.  With danger always in the background the good triumph.

Characters are diverse, engaging as well as mysterious and repellent in some cases.  The idealistic, vegetarian vampires (They only drink the blood of wild animals or blood bank donations.) have an aversion to killing humans and maintain a mutually beneficial truce with the shape shifters in a neighboring Indian tribe.    They have created a family of individuals held together by common ideals and love. 

Unusual and wonderfully refreshing, don’t miss reading these books.