| New Moon (The Twilight Saga, Book 2) |  | Author: Stephenie Meyer
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Legions of readers entranced by Twilight are hungry for more and they won't be disappointed. In New Moon, Stephenie Meyer delivers another irresistible combination of romance and suspense with a supernatural twist. The "star-crossed" lovers theme continues as Bella and Edward find themselves facing new obstacles, including a devastating separation, the mysterious appearance of dangerous wolves roaming the forest in Forks, a terrifying threat of revenge from a female vampire and a deliciously sinister encounter with Italy's reigning royal family of vampires, the Volturi. Passionate, riveting, and full of surprising twists and turns, this vampire love saga is well on its way to literary immortality.
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 Amazon Rocks January 8, 2009
My daughter loves them! She was tickled pink when she received them for Christmas! Amazon was awesome! I will use them again!
 I think I read it even faster than Twilight... January 8, 2009
I just couldn't stand for them to be apart...I remember how that feels, being in love like that and feeling incomplete without him, so I can relate even if he IS a vampire!! I did enjoy the developing friendship with Jacob, even if she selfishly led him on (she WAS fairly honest with him, I'll give her that). The reunion was almost anti-climactic after the terrifying visit with the Volturi, but I still found it satisfying. Anway, if you don't have the book handy to read, I would recommend NOT reading the teaser chapter at the end of Twilight!!! I did whatever I had to, to get my hands on this book and see what happened!
 Review: New Moon January 8, 2009
New Moon continues the story of Bella and Edward's relationship and the troubles that they face together or apart. I really want to enjoy these books but that is difficult when I don't like the main character. Bella is moody and self-absorbed through the entire book. She only decides to hang out with Jacob Black at the insistence of Charlie and to feed her need to hear Edward's voice in her head while doing stupid, dangerous things. Bella is very aware of Jacob's feelings for her but decides to use him anyway. Although the vampire family is not physically present for most of the novel, they are never far from Bella's thoughts and motivate many of her actions. Although I can understand the lure of the handsome, mysterious vampire I also think that most teenagers would have enough sense to understand the danger that the vampires (and other supernatural creatures) pose to a mere human. Instead of running screaming, Bella heads straight toward the danger begging the family to make her one of them.
I did greatly enjoy the section of the story when Bella is thinking about Edward and Jacob and is comparing her situation to Romeo and Juliet. It is clear that Bella is very aware of her actions and how she might hurt Jacob but she manages to rationalize their relationship. Despite knowing how many people she might hurt, Bella continues to forge forward with reckless abandon. I realize that teenagers can be full of angst, especially in first love relationships, however I feel Meyer pushes it a bit over the top in Bella. I do want to like her and these books but I am finding it very difficult to do so.
I will finish reading the series since I'm already halfway through and now I want to know what happens to Bella and Edward but unless Bella becomes more sensible and likable I doubt my reaction to the last two books will be more favorable.
New Moon January 8, 2009
The Twilight Saga is one of my favorite series--well written and delightful to read. This paperbook version, though still large, is an easier size to hold, particularly while lying down.
The story was with Jacob, not Bella January 8, 2009
I honestly felt that this book had more depth to it than the first book. There was alot of character development going on...almost too much. Because while the characters became more real (by getting to really know them), the plotline didn't really seem to move. At first I thought, "okay, I guess I can get used to Jacob being the focus". And as the book went on I really expected Bella & Jake to hook up. But as the book continued, I realized the string-pulling wasn't going to end. Jake was just going to keep warming up to Bella, and she was just going to keep leading him on. The story went nowhere until the very last portion of the book.
It was a constant struggle. The book was hugely about Jacob, but it was written from Bellas POV, so any plotline that could have developed via Jacob was unable to be adequately portrayed from Bella's POV. Jacob was growing attached to Bella, he was learning of his own fate, dealing with shape-shifting, no mental privacy from the pack, and so on. But all of that, which could have made for an interesting read if told from Jacobs POV, was overshadowed by Bella. All we got to hear was her constant whining. Eventually it just got old. I got tired of her stringing Jacob along, I got tired of her constant depression, I grew tired of the daredevil antics; it was a neverending cycle. All I wanted was for the plotline to move forward in an interesting way.
However, I can say that (like Twilight) the last portion of the book was very good. And while I understand that her depression & plight was necessary in order to paint the end scenario in the proper light, there was no need to drag her depressive nature & antics out through the whole book. It should have been; Edward leaves, we see that she has a major nervous breakdown, and then switch to Jacob's POV for the rest. At that point we know she's hurting significantly, and we can see her dependency on Jacob through his POV, while at the same time giving his plotline the main focus to keep the book interesting. The ending still would have had the same impact had the book went that direction, rather than keeping the primary focus on Bella.
In the end, this book was a more maturely written, but the characters didn't mature. The characters actually seemed to regress somewhat. Everyone was using each other for their own gains. Bella used Jake to make herself feel better. Jake took advantage of Bella's situation by trying to be the rebound guy & use that as a permenant "in". Charlie used both Jake & Bella; constantly pushing them together to keep Edward out of the picture. Sam & Billy were both constantly pushing Bella away once Jake started "maturing". The whole book would have worked out well & actually had some direction if it had switched to Jake's POV near the beginning, and then waited until the end to switch back to Bella (where she actually had a plotline again).
I enjoyed the book because it went really in depth with descriptions and came off as less of an adult novel. However, the way Bella acted, and the length that it went on for, was just really grating on my nerves. She just didn't have enough of a story in this book to warrant leaving the vast majority of the book dedicated to her constant whining and Jacob puppetry. She did have just enough interesting events to keep me reading, and just when I was about to give up on it picking back up, she'd have another small moment of interest just in time. In addition to that, Jacob's story made me enjoy the book, even if I didn't get to see it from his POV. However, that didn't make it any better, or me any more satisfied with the book. I did enjoy it despite her cyclic behavior, but there were definitely better ways to have written the book. When you've reached a seemingly dead end with a character, don't continue beating a dead horse...consider it dead & move on to a different character. The other character's POV can breathe new life back into the story, at which point you can come back to the "dead" character later on when they won't seem so dead anymore.
The end of the book did really make me interested in buying the third book, really hoping that I'd get to see more drama, ending with a little "changing" on Bella's part...and then hoping that book 4 would finish off the series by detailing her new life & discovering her new self.
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