Here's the thing. Twilight has got to be the most sexist series I have ever read. The first book I found wildly entertaining but progressively, the relationship between Bella and Edward descended into something I can only describe as unhealthily co-dependent.
I completely agree. Couldn't have said it better myself.
i think people relate to her because, and i mean based on twilight, bella is just an average girl. she isn't popular, she doesn't have the greatest clothes or a nice car, and she isn't gorgeous. but people still look her for who she is because she is different in her own way
Despite that at the beginning of the series, Bella is described as ordinary and plain. I don't feel as if readers can relate to her at all. I think that it's just the romance and fantasy teenagers crave when they pick up this series.
When I was reading this book, one thoughts was constantly on my mind. "What on Earth is Stephenie Meyer trying to get through to her fans?"
I know that Bella has never been an independent person - she needs someone to take care of her to the point where it becomes needy and annoying (and there she was complaining about Renee doing the same), but is anyone realizing that she has no other interests beyond Edward? I was hoping that in the last book, Meyer would be clever enough to allow Bella to come into her own as an individual - be comfortable in her own skin, but she doesn't. Instead, she decides to send out a lovely message: Bella's character is only defined by the existence of others.
Meyer also decides to tell her fans that: HEY! Don't worry. Your problems will
all work out! Bella didn't lose anything; she didn't make any sacrafices. She keeps Edward, the baby, immortality as well as her friendship with Jacob. And when Jacob imprints on her
daughter, which I must add, I find creepy as it's Edward and Bella's child, I just thought that it was a complete cop-out. Frankly, life doesn't work out that way. Love comes and goes, but in the author's world, vampires and werewolves are all a big and happy (albeit twisted) family. I can already imagine Jacob saying 'Hey, I used to fantasize about your mom. We even made out once, did she tell you that? ... But hey, you'll do... By the way, do you like motorcycles?', which creeps me out beyond relief. Poor Jacob is bound to this family for eternity.
Another point I would like to make is that Meyer is depicting not going to college to receive a good education, getting pregnant and marrying at 18 and
not developing as a person as a great--no, wonderful!--situation. BECAUSE IF YOU HAVE A GORGEOUS HUSBAND AND A BEAUTIFUL CHILD, IT WILL ALL BE OKAY. This is the most sexist message I have read in a long time and I read a lot of books, I can tell you that. Teenagers don't need to be reading this between the lines.
I understand that it's a fantasy novel at the end of the day and a sense of realism isn't expected, but then why did the author decide to give her protagonist a child? And what I hated so much was the inconsistency. Bella never wanted a child, Edward and Bella never wanted a child, but oh no! BELLA WANTS
THIS CHILD - A LOT. She's growing a vampire inside of her and she doesn't even freak out. She can possibly die (and I won't get started on her lust, despite that she can kill herself) and she doesn't even care. Instead she's praising and saying "my heart has grown".
Also, someone who does dangerous things for the delusion of her ex-boyfriend's voice is hardly fit to be a mother. It just seems completely illogical that within moments, she went from wanting to be overprotected to wanting to protect someone else.
I like happy endings, I didn't mind if Bella turned into a vampire and I would have liked some sort of resolution with Jacob and of course, I was expecting the return of the Volturi, but this happened for all the wrong reasons. The ending was a terrible cliche and cop-out. I was also upset that we didn't see more reaction from Jake, regarding Bella changing. Maybe not accepting her or coming to terms with it. Part of me wanted him to move on, but definitely not with Edward and Bella's
daughter.
I didn't expect this book to be a literary genius as I've always known that Stephenie Meyer is an abysmal writer, but anyone could have written a better book than this. I've stayed a reader as I have always loved the plot of the
Twilight Saga, but after reading this, consider me off the wagon. The messages she has sent to young girls around the world are terrifying and wrong. I would have rather the series end with the third book, leaving an open ending.
Anything would have been better.
ETA: I'm so sorry for ranting, but I just had so much to say.
Feel free to dispute.
All I can think of is Lisa Simpson swooning over the teenmag "Unavailable Boys". 
