It would have been a great prank......

I'm still thinking about Breaking Dawn. Rachael and I had decided after reading the spoiler chapters online that they had to be a hoax, perpetrated by none other than Stephenie herself, with the help of Pel from the Twilight Lexicon and possibly some more of the TL mods. There were clues around that convinced us that this must be the case:

• Stephenie has admitted to writing a spoof called "Breaking Down" where she wrote things that would agitate her fans--OCC, out of character and canon, things that we didn't want.
• She warned us in the weeks preceding the release to watch out for spoilers, and that something put out on the internet was likely to be a hoax.
• She has said she loves to mess with people.
• She gets carried away with things.
• Speaking of getting carried away, the gals at the Lex revamped (pun intended) the whole huge website for APRIL FOOLS DAY to make it look as though the Volturi had taken over the site. It was very funny, very clever....and a huge amount of effort for a prank that didn't last very long. So we know that they have it in them.
• Pel has a banner with a picture of her and a picture of Stephenie. Pel's caption says, "Let's break fandom's heart, Okay? and Steph's says, "Okay!"

So I was very disappointed when I got the book, and no joke, the spoilers were the real story. I'm still trying to figure out how much of the disappointment is actually with the book itself, and how much of it is because we didn't get this great prank played on us that I had all figured out.