"Not only is this girl seriously melodramatic and clumsy, she's the most weak-willed and pathetic character ever written," wrote a 28-year-old Canadian fan named Claire R.
OK, I've only read the first book so far, but already I knew that. Anybody who is through the first three books and is somehow dissappointed in Bella in the 4th book for being exactly the same as she was in the first book has some serious problems with people staying in character.
Bella is the ultimate pragmatist. She sees things as they are, and not as she thinks they should be, and she very easily changes her worldview when confronted with new information.
She's also entirely in love with a vampire -- but in the 1st book at least, it seems to me Edward is just as hopeless as Bella.
And anybody who thinks they are going to read a vampire book where the girl is perfectly behaved for her parents probably needs to pick something different to read.
I only began reading the books a month or so ago (and what can I say, it's summer!) - the books are fluff. The problem here is that her books have been equated to J.K. Rowling but without the detail and plotting. Breaking Dawn is so far out there from the other three books it's as if someone else wrote it. THAT is what fans are upset about.