Bella Should Have Dumped Edward: Controversial Views on the Twilight Series

Written by Michelle Pan

Narrated by Tara Ochs

EDWARD OR JACOB?

The fourth Twilight book is out, but many controversial issues remain unresolved and open to debate. Now the devoted Twihards at BellaAndEdward.com argue passionately about what really happened and what should have happened.

•Who should Bella have ended up with, Jacob or Edward?
•Should Bella have become a vampire?
•Which character was miscast the most in the movies?
•If you could be any Twilight character, who would you be?
•Which movie has stayed truer to the book?
•Which event in the Twilight saga was the most surprising?
•Should Breaking Dawn have ended with a fight?
•Which character's story would make the best sequel?
•Which vampire power would you rather have?

• Language: English
• Publisher: Everand Productions
• Release date: Dec 21, 2021
• ISBN: 9781094434599

Michelle Pan

Michelle Pan is the owner of BellaAndEdward.com, one of the largest Twilight saga fansites on the web. She has been interviewed by many media outlets including ReelzChannel.com, Business Week, and her local news station, KXAN. Michelle has had the opportunity to attend the Twilight premieres and interview many important cast and crew members, including author Stephenie Meyer. She lives in Austin, Texas.

Reviews for Bella Should Have Dumped Edward

[Jeff · Rating: 5 out of 5 stars]

Explained the twilight series biggest questions and debated points perfectly!

[booklizard_1 · Rating: 3 out of 5 stars]

I received this book through the Early Reviewers program. I was disappointed that it didn't contain controversial views or debates. It's basically just excerpts from posts by fans on a message board with a summary for each question by the author/editor. The author poses a question and the fans give their opinions. There's no back and forth debate and some questions everyone agrees on the same answer. Where's the controversy in that? Twihard fans might like reading what other fans think or using the questions as a starting point for their own debates, but the book doesn't live up to the promise of its title.

[mandie5-1 · Rating: 3 out of 5 stars]

Bella Should Have Dumped Edward is just a fun book. It is questions that are aswered by fans and then the author gives her final say. Was it aweful? No. Was is great? No. It was just OK. I have had these same discussions with other Twifans so I guess it was fun to see others point s of view. Nothing controversial at all.

[pureimagination_1 · Rating: 3 out of 5 stars]

Bella Should Have Dumped Edward is a fun book for any die hard (or shall I say Twi-Hard) Twilight fan, but it doesn't live up to its name. The book is made up of questions on different Twilight related subjects and they are answered by various fans. Sounds fun right? It is, but there is nothing controversial about it! The questions were just simple and the answers were what you would expect from fans. Regardless of that I still think it was a fun book and a quick read.

[kirbyowns · Rating: 1 out of 5 stars]

Bella Should Have Dumped Edward is a collection of fan answers to common questions. I could find nothing controversial about either the questions or answers. I did receive this book as part of the Early Reviewers program and was really excited when I was notified that I had received it. I am a fan of the Twilight Saga of books, and was very disappointed of the content of this book. I find it hard to recommend this book to my friends and fellow lovers of Twilight when they can find the same information from fans on the internet.

[jonilee73 · Rating: 4 out of 5 stars]

I really enjoyed this book. I am a big Twilight fan so getting to read other fan's opinions of the saga was very interesting. I loved that there was a variety of ages among the fans that offered their opinion. I recently lent this book to my friend and she has passed it around her college and a few of her friends even went out and bought their own copies. This was a fun, interesting book and a nice add to my library.

[papercrystals · Rating: 2 out of 5 stars]

The title is a little misleading- it's not controversial at all, it's a collection of short essays from die-hard fans of the series about different questions.Questions like:If you could be a character in Twilight, who would you be?Who was your favorite character?Which movie was the best adaptation of the book?...and so on. Not really hard-hitting, and they don't discuss any of the really controversial issues that arose from the books. No talk of Edward's disturbing creeper habits. Nothing about Bella's manipulation of Jacob. It's all very light, even the discussions that go slightly deeper into opinions on imprinting and the way Jacob's personality changed when he became a werewolf.As someone who loves the Twilight books but still maintains a distance from the obsession, this was not the book for me. Yes, I love the books, but I also am well aware of the unhealthy relationships portrayed and am amused to no end by the purple prose.If you love Twilight and want to read the positive gushing of your fellow fans, this is a great book for you... for those of you with a bit more skepticism- just re-read the series.

[jayde78 · Rating: 2 out of 5 stars]

This book is just questions and fans of Twilight giving their answers. The questions werent that good and the answers got repetitive. I was hoping for some deeper question then What was ur favorite character? Its not a bad book but not something i would recommend to friends or even twilight fans.

[highvoltagegrrl · Rating: 1 out of 5 stars]

At first glance of this book I was expecting something a bit deeper delving into the Twilight books. Something along the lines of “Buffy the Vampire Slayer and Philosophy” or “Finding Serenity: Anti-heroes, Lost Shepherds, and Space Hookers In Joss Whedon's Firefly”. What I got was a smattering of various fans views on different questions such as “which vampire power would you rather have” and “which movie has stayed truer to the book”.Each section is divided up by the question presented. We are given a few answers and the fan’s reasons of why they chose the way they did. At the end of each section we are given “The Final Call” which I expected to be the answer chosen by most of the Twilight fans that responded to the question. Instead, we are given the authors choice. So basically this book is like having a conversation with other Twilight fans about what you like, don’t like, and think about the books and movies. I love Twilight, but I don’t feel the need to own everything with the word Twilight written on it, so maybe that’s why this book isn’t for me.

[jenreidreads · Rating: 3 out of 5 stars]

This book, written by the creator of the website BellaAndEdward.com and the fans who wrote in, is a collection of "controversial" questions about the Twilight series answered by the people who love it. Unfortunately, the questions asked aren't very controversial. "Which Twilight saga movie character is least accurately cast?" "Should Summit Entertainment have replaced Rachelle Lefevre under the given circumstances?" Um...why does that matter?? The answers given by the fans tended to be all the same, too. The title question got a resounding "no," as was to be expected (for the record, I say "yes!"). There were a couple questions which could be considered somewhat controversial - "What is one major downfall of the series?" had a nice variety of answers, one of which was, ironically, "the obsessive fans." I was mildly disappointed by this book because I found the title so misleading. But upon closer inspection, it's basically exactly what it claims to be - fan perspectives on Twilight, written as you'd find on a website. It was a very quick, light read, and obviously only recommended for fans of the Twilight series.

[book_worm127 · Rating: 4 out of 5 stars]

Going into this I wasn't really sure what to expect. I used to be a Twilight FANATIC, but then I got over it, and I was a little apprehensive as to whether I would enjoy reading so much about a series that I'm kind of luke-warm about now. I shouldn't have worried, if anything this book brought me back to the first times that I read the books and reminded me why I loved them.The book is divided into sections, each section is a question with a few responses by fans and then The Final Call made by the editor. I enjoyed this format. If there was a question that I didn't really care to read all of the responses to I could just read The Final Call for a summary. I liked most of the questions, especially the ones that made me think. The question "How would the book be different if Edward were the human and Bella the vampire" actually made my head hurt a little trying to wrap my mind around all of the different scenarios. Something that I noticed throughout the book is that most of the answers are by the same people. There are some others randomly thrown in, but I saw the same names a lot. I'm not sure if this is because they answered the questions more completely than others, if they worded them better, if they answered every question or what.I also found it odd that they decided to compile this book when only two of the five movies were out. There were quite a few questions about the movies in here, and I think that it might have made more sense to wait until they were all out. I guess that the demand wouldn't be as high if they did that though.Basically this was enjoyable. It changed my mind on a few points and validated my opinions on others. And then there are the ones that I just plain don't agree with. Read it if you like or have ever liked The Twilight Saga.