Twilight Scribe
Bitters Worst Nightmare
I don't think that Stepanie was rushed at all... i mean the book is the biggest one in the series and it is my favorite. Also the book goes from Bella to Jacob and bac to Bella so i like Breaking Dawn a lot!! Just because it's big doesn't mean that it wasn't rushed. Which it was.
Actually, in truth, I don't think it was rushed. Stephenie has stated multiple times that the rough outline for Breaking Dawn, was the original sequel she had written, Forever Dawn, shortly after she had finished Twilight (I think she may have said that she used bits and pieces from the original). She's had this book planned out loner than any of the others she wrote, plus there was a full year in between the release dates of Breaking Dawn and Eclipse (longer that that of New Moon and Eclipse, which was about 11 months, and many consider Eclipse to be the best in the series).
I think what gives the feeling of a rushed story is that entirely new characters were invented in this story and the plot holes that Stephenie tried to justify (I'm referring to Renesmee here). I felt as though both Edward and Bella (but mostly Bella) stepped right out of their characters and became someone new. As I've said before, I don't feel as though being parents fit into either Edward's or Bella's characters, and by making them joyous parents the whole foundation of which they were built was shifted. And it didn't feel the same anymore.
Next, I think it was because the book was too perfect. I think it goes something like this: Bella is so happy and she's getting married! Bella is so happy because Edward agreed to have sex with her AND change her! Bella is upset for 3 pages because he won't have sex, but then he does so she happy again! Bella is dying, but she's happy and she loves her murderous baby! Edward is a little crazy, though. Bella is still happy, even though she dying for about 250 more pages, then Bella is happy because all her dreams came true for about 350 pages. Then Oh OH! The Volturi come to kill the baby, but 50 pages later everyone is happy again! It's way too perfect, it was completely not relatable anymore because nothing in real life happens like that.
It would have been like 10 million times better if the Volturi had just killed the baby. Think of the drama and agony that would have caused! It would have been just great.