Breaking Dawn 206-360

I was right. Well, I was mostly right. No big battle happened. But I was wrong about the big, intense build up leading to the non-existing battle. The build up didn't even happen. So, essentially, nothing happened. But talking. Why isn't Kevin Smith directing these movies?

So instead of a battle, what happens? Jacob defects from the rest of the pack and starts his own pack. Yeah, apparently he can do that. Convenient. Eventually two others join him and they warn the vampires of the attack and begin patrolling a perimeter around the Cullen house. So now it's werewolves versus werewolves and vampires. Not that they actually fight.

Bella keeps getting worse and is on the verge of death when Jacob hypothesizes that, if the baby is part vampire, maybe it wants some blood to drink. Well, duh. But, for some odd reason, this is a complete revelation to the vampire clan. How did they not think of that before? The thing inside Bella is a freaky vampire abomination. What is the most basic part of vampire mythology? They drink blood!

So Bella starts drinking blood (the vampires apparently have a stash of O-Neg on supply because Bella is so accident prone. Right.) out of a sippy cup and her condition improves. There's a bunch of angst and drama as everyone talks and mutters about who wants to save the baby and who would rather save Bella.

Since this portion is still from Jacob's POV, we see how much Bella really tortures him. Even though she's married and pregnant, she still lights up and swoons whenever Jacob enters the room, like he's the love of her life. This, of course, makes it near impossible for Jacob to get over his crush on Bella, which he knows he has to do. From seeing things from outside of Bella's mind, you really see how aggravating her stubbornness and overall behavior is. Why someone didn't slap her across the face during the course of these chapters is beyond me.

Ahem. Moving on...

Jacob gets fed up, borrows a car, and goes to Seattle to try to pick up a girl. But he fails and after a couple hours goes back to the vampire house. Yeah, that was a rather pointless couple of pages.

Baby Blade wants to come out. Bella undergoes some emergency surgery but dies due to extreme loss of blood and Blade biting her. But before she goes under, she sees that the baby is a girl and names her "Renesmee." Yeah, I refuse to type that again, so we're just gonna keep on calling her Blade. Jacob tries some CPR on Bella to no avail and sulks away as Edward tries to revive her by injecting her with vampire venom. He has a syringe full of vampire venom on hand just for such purposes. Sure.

Elsewhere in the house, Rosalie, one of the female vampires that wanted to save the baby, is now caring for and playing with Blade. Jacob decides he's going to attack her and kill this monstrous baby creature that killed Bella. But then he see's Blade's face and falls in love. Maybe. What?

Ok, let's back up to what has so far been unnecessary information. Something happens to some werewolves called "imprinting" which is similar to love at first sight. Only it's complete, absolute, devotional love at first sight for both parties. It's happened to others of his werewolf clan. One even fell for a toddler. That dude hangs out with the toddler, but is obviously waiting many years for it to get less creepy to act on it. Or something. I guess it's supposed to be a setup so we can find Jacob imprinting on a newborn baby half-vampire to be perfectly acceptable.

At least, that's what I think happened. The chapter (and Jacob POV portion of the book) ends suddenly at this point without anything specifically said about the imprinting part. That's just what I read into it. Oh, and Bella may have been revived and/or may be turning into a vampire.