New Moon (The Twilight Saga, Book 2) | Stephenie Meyer

New Moon (The Twilight Saga, Book 2) | Stephenie Meyer | Full Moon???

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	New Moon (The Twilight Saga, Book 2) Stephenie Meyer Little, Brown Young Readers, 2006 - 608 pages average customer review:based on 1098 reviews view larger image
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highly recommended

i just started reading this.....

I just started reading this book and I am hooked just like the first one.You should read the whole saga.

Full Moon???

I may not be Stephenie Meyer's target audience. But I do love vampire books (Anne Rice, Poppy Z. Brite, White Wolf novels, P. N. Elrod, Laurell K. Hamilton, to name a few), and I've always been attracted to the forbidden love theme. Being a huge fan of Shakespeare, including Romeo and Juliet, one of my favorite plays, it's immensely enjoyable to see this theme throughout her novels.

Now to the novel... I don't want to give away anything. The novel picks up where the first in the series of novels left off. Bella has been rescued from the clutches of James, and all would seem well in her world - or so you would think. Bella is in her last year of high school, and all of the events of "normal" human life are paralleled with numerous supernatural events. A number of threads from the previous novel carry over into this one, including some enemies thought gone and an expansion of some of the mythology introduced in the first novel. One of the most significant events involves the absence of some important characters in Bella's life and her subsequent reaction to that happening. Bella spirals into depression, but comes out of it with the help of Jacob Black and her newly discovered reckless side of her nature.

Much like the first novel in the series, this novel climaxes at the end of the novel in a very exciting way that will, no doubt, leave readers of the series very satisfied. A number of characters and locations mentioned in the first novel are expounded during the climax at the end. The ending clearly lays the foundation for future novels.

"New Moon" is as exciting as the first novel in the series, and I would easily recommend it to fans of the series.

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Beautiful vision that lacklusters...

I bought this book after seeing the movie adaption of the first book "Twilight" with my sister who has read all four books and is definitely obsessed. Based on what my sister told me I was expecting the continuation of a story about a vampire and a teenage girl whose love defies logic. It took me less than three days to finish it and while it was entertaining, the middle 400 pages are very drawn out and boring. Not Jacob just the writing. Edward's absence for most of the novel doesn't help matters but quite honestly it's the writing. Bella is written as a depressed teenager desperate for someone in her life after Edward breaks her heart. She genuinely cares for Jacob but is just plain desperate. But I can't fault Stephanie Meyer completely since she never intended to write a sequel to Twilight and from what I know about the publishing industry was probably rushed into writing a sequel at the expense of quality story telling. All that said, I do plan on reading the third novel just to see what happens.

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Least favorite of the four

I was so excited to read this, once I had finished Twilight. However, it was dull in comparison. I struggled to get through it. The beginning 100 and last 100 pages were okay, but the ones in the middles could have definitely been condensed. They were almost painful. However, you must read this to get on to Eclipse and Breaking Dawn, which are both definitely worth reading.

Media frenzy

I read "New Moon" about 6 months ago after seeing the author's name mentioned in an article about vampire stories. It was OK, I guess--I did get a bit bored by Bella's overreaction to even the sound of Edward's name after he left--I mean, come on, how many times can you fall into the pit of despair and reopen the gaping wound and fill the huge hole where he used to be, etc. I didn't plan to even go ahead and read the first book. There was no talk of a movie and no one I knew had ever heard of the author or the series. Then, suddenly, a few months ago, "Twilight" is everywhere, every high school kid wants to read the books, theatres are sold out of seats for the movie...what did I miss?! I'd really like to meet the spin doctor who pulled this one off. "Twilight", the book, was published in 2005. What happened in those three years to produce this media frenzy?!

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