New Moon (Twilight Saga)

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Customer reviews

review by: date: 2008-07-30 rating:
WARNING: This series is highly addictive!!!!
I got 'NEW MOON' as a mother's day present because, after a few inquaries from my husband, all I could think of that I really wanted after reading 'TWILIGHT' was to get my hands on the rest of the books in this series! So my husband although a bit confused dutifully went to the teen section of the local bookstore and purchased my copy of 'NEW MOON' and from the time he brought it in the house until I finished it I was barely able to put it down.

Although it is hard to say I think that I may have liked 'NEW MOON' even better than 'TWILIGHT'. One reason for this is that the action started much earlier in the book. From Bella's discoveries about the LaPush Gang, to the return of her nemesis, all the way to the mysterious and ancient vampire sect, the action in 'NEW MOON' rarely slows.

The second reason I liked 'NEW MOON' so much is Jacob Black. It was a joy getting to know his character and to see Bella blossom when interacting with someone outside of the Cullen Family. Don't get me wrong I love Edward and the entire gang but in my opinion, Jacob Black brought out all of the best qualities in Bella whereas Edward seems to reduce her to a love sick, disagreeable...well...brat. Not to mention Jake is just an all around sweetie!! For these reasons, I am reluctant to say that no matter how much I love Edward (and I do) I am officially on Team Jacob!

On one last note, I cannot recommend this series enough. If you have not read it hurry and get on this ban wagon now! It doesn't seem to matter how old you are or what sex you are for that matter, I have not met one person who has read this series that has not become completely addicted to it (What DO you put in these books Stephenie Meyer??). Do believe the hype it seems to just get better with time.

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review by: date: 2008-07-13 rating:
thank goodness for that
I was very weary when I started reading this book. I'm not a Jacob Black fan and it irritated me to the very core that his presence took over almost the whole book. The only thing that kept me going was the fact that Edward was always on Bella's thoughts and that she could hear him talking to her. I felt at least that he was still around. I kept flicking to the end to see if he would turn up (I know, I'm terrible but I'm sure i'm not the only one!)...and then the last couple of chapters sent me into a frenzy! I have never been so tense and excited about an ending in my life. It was such a relief to get rid of Jacob, for a while at least.

I'm just about to start the third one tonight and again I'm weary about it. I'm not sure I'll enjoy the love triangle thing but hopefully Bella will be sensible and pick her TRUE love - who we all know is Edward :)

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review by: date: 2008-06-24 rating:
'Riveting' and 'deeply moving'...
'New Moon' (NM) is the second book in The Twilight Saga, written by the amazingly talented Stephenie Meyer.

'New Moon' starts roughly four months after the end of 'Twilight', with Bella's eighteenth birthday. What should be a trouble free birthday party turns into a disaster, after Bella gives herself a paper cut. This event, in a way, shapes the whole book, as it's the reason why Edward does what he does (no spoilers here), and the reason why he starts to re-think his relationship with Bella.

'New Moon' focuses more on the character of Jacob, who we were previously introduced to in 'Twilight'. He becomes very important to Bella, and plays a pivotal role in The Twilight Saga.

'New Moon' is just as compelling as 'Twilight', and raises many new questions, which will both shock and surprise you. The back of the book describes it as 'riveting' and 'deeply moving', which I 100% agree with. Just a word of advice: try not to skip forward. I know it's hard, but do your best. You'll know what I mean when you read it...

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review by: date: 2008-06-16 rating:
Still got it
S.M still had my undivided attention with this one, although I found the first book to be a bit more exciting than the second. This is often the case with a new series as it's all so new and exciting. While I liked the development of Jacob and Bella's friendship, I kept wishing for Edward to sweep in and stop it all from going too far. I still prefer Edward to Jacob, although it sounds like things are heating up in the 3rd book!


review by: date: 2008-06-10 rating:
Growing old...fast...
****SPOILER ALERT****

I enjoyed reading the precursor to this, 'Twilight' - though I thought it was good, I didn't think it was great, simply because of the writing, as it were.

I have a few problems the way the story is now turning out or has panned out in 'New Moon.'

My main annoyance is Bella herself. I didn't really particularly like her, and couldn't understand when so many people thought she was totally relatable. *shrug* To me she's selfish, naive, stupid, moany and lost in another world that is totally unrealistic. I totally predicted that Meyer would create 'we have to be apart' scenario. The refreshing moments came across in Bella's easy and unforced relationship and deep friendship with Jacob, probably the saving grace of this novel. IMO, there was something so true about this relationship to me, I could totally relate to this on every level and thought it by far the more heartwarming, heartbreaking and therefore real thing in Bella's life. Nothing about it seemed particularly forced, esp the ease of dialogue. With Edward on the other hand, we are subjected to paragraphs of ridiculous sickly words akin to something out of Austen rather than today. Maybe that's the point but Edward behaves like a 14 yr old teenager and Bella isn't that much mature.

Unfortunately, even the Jacob thing had to get screwed and even though it brings in a very interesting vampire-werewolf dynamic, it just became a repeat of Twilight where Bella needs to figure out what's going on, and Jacob is the guy 'who is not right for her' yada yada but this time instead of being cold like marble the time, he's always hot, an obviously set up contrast. Only when she does figure out, again IMO, it's more heartbreaking, because their friendship is so strong, it really means something. While I didn't get what was the big deal with Edward and Bella's love, apart fromt the fact that he's like some godlike Apollo and is, oh yeh, a vampire. To me, there's something fundamentally missing - a gaping hole, (god how many times did we hear that metaphor????) - about the depth of their love, i.e why? apart from Bella thinking he's gorgeous in everyway, what is Edward all about in terms of loving him and what does he see in her? Ok, he blabs about it at the end or something but I found myself skimming over that stuff because frankly it's boring and old now. And doesn't stick. All the girl ever does is get herself into ER.

And then Bella's so called decision at the end - so flippantly regarded by all apart from Edward. Hello? What about your parents? What about what humanity actually means to you? The whole idea of being human is tossed aside by Bella without any thought, like it doesn't matter, I mean it's only who you are. And for all some romantic notion. This is where it goes a little OTT - I love romance, but I can't stand ridiculous romanticism of together forever no matter what, when it disregards the very character you are. I can't understand that kind of selfishness, not only because that kind of love isn't real anymore, let's get a little more practical shall we? (the guy doesn't have any blood in any veins, any future potential problems with that?) Actually I don't know why I'm ranting because I just realised I'm probably the wrong target audience for this completely - its fairytale craziness really and thats the whole point. But I missed it somewhere.

Especially since by the end of the book I had ascertained that Bella is indeed very selfish.

No offence to Meyer but she did say that Edward and Bella came to her in a dream in the meadow scene in 'Twilight' and well then she produced a story around that first interaction. Sorry to say, its obvious the characters (not necessarily the characterisation) are not fully 3D here and development is non existent. A real shame.

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