BREAKING DAWN: Chapter 4-Gesture

CHAPTER SUMMARY: MORE sap abounds as Bella and Edward have their reception. Jacob briefly shows up but nothing happens when he shows up and it's all very dull and my Kindle tells me we're already ten percent into the book and I'm apparently halfway through Bella's Part in this book.

COMMENTARY/THOUGHTS/REACTIONS/NOTES:
We start off with the reception part of the wedding. This is a very description heavy chapter and actually nothing much really happens aside from continued sap and repeat scenes leftover from Eclipse so notes for this chapter won't be very long.
Like I said, it's all very sappy. Because Alice is super planner, everything is done beautifully and perfectly. Guests start lining up. Seth and the wolf pack are up first. Leah is naturally not there and so Bella decides to villianfy her mother instead. Sue is painted as a fragile ignorant little woman with a boyish haircut (that of course Bella takes the time to sneer at wondering if she did it just to show solidarity with her daughter. Really, why does short hair on women in this book equal bitch?). Bella also automatically takes time to assume she knows what's going on in Billy Black's mind and this is one more way Meyer is a lousy writer. She is forgetting that this is FIRST PERSON NARRATIVE. First person narrative means that the person DOES NOT KNOW WHAT OTHER PEOPLE ARE THINKING. Unless of course you have the deux ex machina device that is mind reading. But EDWARD is the mind reader, not Bella. Really, get this through your head Meyer. It is okay for your main character to actually NOT know something or what a other character is thinking because that makes it so the reader doesn't know and makes us interested and actually WANT to keep reading. For excellant examples of first person narrative see things like Sookie Stackhouse, Hunger Games, hell even Harry Potter which keeps this rule in mind even though it's not even in first person pov.
Where was I? Oh yes. The guest line. Denali clan show up and of course Bella is utterly jealous for no reason and what do you know? Tanya is cool. So of course that conflict is shot out of the water so quickly I wonder why the possibility of it was even brought up.
Usual wedding stuff goes on. Cake eating (Bella makes sure to note she thought the cake was way to fancy for the setting. Way to be ungrateful, Bella), garter throwing (oh on a side note, Jessica and Mike are holding hands. But we are of course told that Mike STILL is hung up on Bella. God), and much much dancing.
Then we once more get the scene of Edward assuring Bella that she is utterly beautiful even though we're supposed to believe she's a plain jane. Really, Meyer. Pick one. She's either beautiful or plain. You can't have it both ways. But then something possibly interesting finally happens: Jacob shows up!
But even that is turned to sap and he dances with her and then it's turned boring as once more we get the "I'm turning into a vampire, no I won't let you!" scene that made up half of Eclipse. Sigh. New material, Meyer. Please.
Though to give her credit, she does try to throw in a twist. Jacob finally has enough and starts to attack Bella/Edward. But naturally this conflict is stopped by Seth and Sam and he is taken away before it gets to dangerous. Sigh. Meyer, conflict is a GOOD THING. It makes things interesting and can be known to create character growth. Which is probably why you don't think it's needed as you seem to be under the (very mistaken) impression that your characters don't need to grow at all.
Naturally, after he leaves Bella blames herself for the fiasco. Edward of course immediately assures her that no, it's in no way her fault. Except...it sort of is. If she had never let Jacob believe they actually had a chance and would also, I don't know, leave him alone after dumping his butt, he probably wouldn't be as bad off as he is now. Though to be fair to her, a lot of this is his own doing as well as Edwards. So really...all three of them are to blame. But of course, as Bella is the female, she naturally assumes it's all on her.
Last pages are basically more sap as Bella packs and she and Edward head off toward their honeymoon. Please god, tell me something happens in this book soon? If I were a Twihard and reading this for the first time, I would feel very cheated right now. I understand why so many of them were disappointed in this. Though I still say why were they expecting anything huge because really this is just more of Meyer's crap writing. It's just now she's not even bothering to try.

WORD LIST: gravelly
GENERAL ANNOYANCES: The wedding flowed into the reception party smoothly-proof of Alice's flawless planning.-Er...how is this proof of this exactly? Lots of weddings go right into the reception with no hitches.
His mother, Sue, was tight by his side, eyeing the guests with wary intensity.-I'm going to assume this was a typo and Meyer meant to say she was "RIGHT by his side" because "tight by his side" makes absolutely no sense.
I saw Sue shudder delicately.-Because of course, she is fragile female. Sigh.
Eleazer as a name? Really?
Edward manfully swallowed his portion as I watched in disbelief.-How do you manfully do anything? What does that even MEAN?
Really, really, really bored with this now.