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| New Moon (The Twilight Saga, Book 2) | 
 enlarge | Author: Stephenie Meyer
Publisher: Little, Brown Young Readers
Category: Book
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Avg. Customer Rating:  956 reviews
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Media: Paperback
Reading Level: Young Adult
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Pages: 608
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Dimensions (in): 8 x 5.4 x 1.5
ISBN: 0316024961
EAN: 9780316024969
ASIN: 0316024961
Publication Date: May 31, 2008
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 More Navelgazing July 9, 2007
63 out of 95 found this review helpful
Wow. And I thought the first novel was bad.
I honestly don't understand how anyone could be so taken in with Bella as Edward and Jacob. She is a selfish, self-absorbed brat with no thoughts for anyone but herself. Her relationships are one-sided, needy and downright sick. She needs to seek professional help for her serious co-dependency issues. I would not recommend this to any teenager. Heaven forbid one of them perceive this dreck as a true romance.
Get a life, Bella.
A book that should never have been written *spoilers* October 12, 2006
61 out of 84 found this review helpful
First, let me say that I ABSOLUTELY ADORED Twilight and so did my daughter. I'm 43, she's 15. Twilight is probably one of my all-time favorite books and that puts it on top of thousands! But, this sequel is one book that should never have been written. It was a great disappointment for me.
HERE'S WHAT I RECOMMEND:
Read chapters 1-3, then skip to chapter 17 and finish the book.
You won't miss much. In between, all that happens is Bella gets depressed because Edward has left and she keeps trying to harm herself, in improbable ways, to get him back. Jacob tries to save her, but of course falls in love with her. In the meantime, Jacob and several of his friends turn into werewolves, who just happen to be the natural enemies of vampires. Also, Harry Clearwater, Charlie's good friend and fishing partner, dies and Edward somehow comes to think that Bella has died.
There! I just saved you a whole lot of wasted reading time. Now, if you care to, you can spend some of that time reading the rest of my thoughts below. :)
The plot starts off strong and then quickly dies when Edward leaves, pretending not to love Bella anymore. Yeah, right! Like we are supposed to believe that. From there, the plot quickly spirals down into nothing but trite, over-done, melodramatic mush. I was extremely sorry to see this happen. The book was so PREDICTABLE.
I couldn't stand that the new 'love interest' in Bella's life was Jacob. I thought he was the most irritating character from the first book. In this book, he drove me insane with his goofy, love-struck stupidity. Bella started to drive me insane by acting like she was a spoiled, rotten brat.
Bella's relationship with Jacob had little originality of its own. It was just Bella's and Edward's relationship re-written with a few words changed. White to brown, cold to hot, hard to soft ... you get the picture. It's still 'dangerous' and 'all wrong', just for different, uninspired reasons.
I think I knew WAY too soon that the story was going to involve tribal werewolves, Bella trying to get Edward back by being reckless, and Edward's eventual return. It was just too obvious and transparent. The Italian vampires were a little interesting, but not much. Everything was just too over the top, and it felt like the book had been rushed to meet some publisher's deadline, typos included. How sad that I found myself actually BORED and skimming over part of the middle of the book. Much of it was too make-believe anyway.
Alice was interesting, though. Her showing up was like a breath of fresh air. I never thought I'd be so relieved to `see' a vampire again!
***Update*** My 15-year-old daughter is reading New Moon and loves it. She doesn't agree with my assessment. It took her much longer to figure out what was going on and she's actually a pretty bright girl. So, all is not lost. Some of you will really like this book.
***Update*** Both my daughter AND my husband have finished both books. My daughter liked New Moon, but prefers Twilight. My husband definitely preferred New Moon. He likes Jacob and prefers him to Edward. I think he is awaiting Eclipse as anxiously as we are, but he has a hard time admitting it. :)
 Birthday nightmares August 11, 2006
45 out of 53 found this review helpful
Life is far from normal for Bella Swan during her senior year of high school. True, her life is full of drama and boy troubles, but for Bella who sees herself as a danger magnet life holds much much more. Edward Cullen, her ever-handsome boyfriend who just happens to be a vampire, breaks her heart when he leaves after Bella receives a near-fatal paper cut at her eighteenth birthday party. Realizing that his family no matter how determined to avoid human blood, can within seconds be overwhelmed with tempation and violence leads him to place Bella's safety ahead of his own desires. To say that Bella is devastated is an understatment, she becomes zombie-like in her loss, a fact which is finally realized when Bella and one of her friends are watching a Zombie movie. "It wasn't until almost the very end, as I watched a haggard zombie shambling after the last shrieking survivor, that I realized what the problem was. The scene kept cutting between the horrified face of the heroine, and the dead emotionless face of her pursuer, back and forth as it closed the distance. And I realized which one resembled me the most. . . But it was ironic, all things considered, that, in the end, I would wind up a zombie. I hadn't seen that one coming. Not that I hadn't dreamed of becoming a mythical monster once--just never a grotesque, animated corpse. . . It was depressing to realize that I wasn't the heroine anymore, that my story was over." (106) But Bella's story is far from over. Reintroduce into the picture, Jacob Black, the young man who first shared with Bella the fact that she was falling in love with a vampire, this new friendship reenergizes Bella's existence and gives her a reason to continue on. But is her friendship with Jacob any safer for her than her relationship with Edward was? Or is Jacob hiding a dangerous secret of his own? Is Edward out of the picture for good, or will he make a comeback to try to reclaim her heart?
Stephenie Meyer's novel NEW MOON, sequel to TWILIGHT, is an exciting read, and one that I highly recommend.
I loved this story... January 22, 2007
44 out of 59 found this review helpful
... Back when it was called Buffy the Vampire Slayer, literally a decade ago. Let's think about this: girl moves to new town, finds mysterious boy who happens to be a vampire, they date against everyone's better judgement. That's the first book, and coincidentally ("coincidentally"?) one of the main subplots of the first season of Buffy. The temptation to suck blood having to be faced in order to save Bella's life from poison? Angel needing the blood of a Slayer after being poisoned by Faith and having to take it from Buffy. A bit flip-flopped, but still a parallel. And now in this book, Edward abruptly breaks up with Bella and leaves town, stating that it's "For the best." Last few episodes of season three, anyone? Buffy starts going out with Riley, who turns out to be part of a special ops group dedicated to hunting demons, especially vampires. Bella starts spending a lot of time with Jacob, who turns out to be a sworn enemy of vampires along with the rest of his werewolf pack... are you sensing a connection?
And it wasn't just the plot basically being lifted from Buffy that made this book nigh unreadable. This is Bella's first boyfriend. Supernatural or not, when your first boyfriend breaks up with you and you haven't even been going out a year, your life is not over. You may think it is. You may pout and cry and mope... for maybe a month. Not six. I have never known anybody to get *that* depressed for *that* long over their first boyfriend, no matter how much they said they were in love. Bella wins the award for "Heroine you should never, EVER imitate," because first off she was absolutely useless as a person. She forever had to have a man (be he werewolf, human or vampire) come rescue her from the latest scrap she got herself into, and secondly, watching her whine and thrash around in agony for literally three-hundred and fifty of the five hundred odd pages is the most pathetic thing I've ever read. If they were real people, I'd say separation would do them a bit of good, because it is truly unhealthy to think you literally cannot live without a certain person. They'd need time to figure out who they are without each other. It also really bothered me that Bella could not mention Edward's name without saying how absolutely beautiful he was. Every single sentence about him was coupled with that, and usually chased by her saying how klutzy or unremarkable or otherwise unworthy of her vampire boyfriend's affections. To say it got old fast would be an understatment; it was absolutely pointless to begin with. So skip this book. It's not even good as a sleep-aide; you end up yelling at Bella to stop being so stupid.
Agony For the Characters and For the Reader March 31, 2007
41 out of 50 found this review helpful
Twilight was a good read (the first time, not so much the others) so I felt compelled to pick up this one and find out how our "star-crossed" lovers were doing.
Instantly I was launched into a story of angst and Emo! to the extreme, cardboard cutouts, and plot-lackingness abound.
For the majority of the story all Bella does is mope around and play with another boy's affections until Edward finally returns and it concludes with the decision of whether she is to become a vampire or not. In the end nobody goes home a better person and another long and drawn out chapter in the life of the Twilight saga has ended.
I resisted throwing this book at the wall in disgust. Well written, my neck. On the topic of necks, I'm not betting my neck (or Bella's) that the next one will be any better.
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