| New Moon (Twilight Saga) |  | Author: Stephenie Meyer
Publisher: ATOM
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Pages: 497
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Dimensions (in): 7.7 x 4.9 x 1.4
ISBN: 1904233880
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Publication Date: September 6, 2007
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Dazed and disorientated, I looked up from the bright red blood pulsing out of my arm - and into the fevered eyes of the six suddenly ravenous vampires. For Bella Swan, there is one thing more precious than life itself: Edward Cullen. It's just as well she feels that way, for loving him will be a deadly game... Edward has already rescued Bella from the clutches of an evil vampire. But now, as their taboo relationship threatens all that is near and dear to them, their true troubles are only just beginning... The second tale of blood, passion and love that defies all boundaries in Stephenie Meyer's hypnotic 'Twilight' saga.
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 catatonia?? July 26, 2010
austen_megabux
You can quibble all you want, but everyone takes something from a book. It's inevitable. What I took from it was that this was not a good book.
See, during the course of this book the-one-sans-self-esteem (hereafter to be known as Bella) enters a state of catatonia because her boyfriend leaves her. The same boyfriend of Twilight, vampire, Edward.
Yes, she does feel like her heart's been ripped out. We've all been there but the main point of this - we got over it.
Yes we cried and we ate lots of ice-cream and watched sad movies and listened to sad music but at the end of the day we had to get on with our life.
See, in my opinion, Meyer is trying to convince us that this one of the great romances that the heroine is so caught up about that she can't live without Edward and she shouldn't have to because it's the great romance.
This same great romance had two 'made-for-other' characters, wonderfully strong and oh! so dazzling God-like Adonis Edward, and poor little plain clumsy Bella affirm their love for each other within a couple of weeks of their meeting. They have no true conversations about opinions and world events and growth as a couple outside of talking about their love again and again and again (as one wonderful Internet article of whiich I forget the name of metioned).
Stephenie Meyer said that some normal girls don't deliver a round-house kick to a guy when threatened. Is that an-oh-so-subtle reference to the Buffy Summers of Buffy/and/Angel fame? The thing was the difference between these two was that when Angel tried to stalk Buffy she (although using violence) basically said 'Stalking isn't a really big turn on for girls.' (Bella's thrilled by it though) Buffy was devestated when Angel left (for her own good) and yet Buffy got over it, she saved the day, she got through it.
So how are we meant to truly believe this is a great love story when it doesn't feel real? It feels fake and contrived and truly quite unhealthy.
 Amazing book July 24, 2010
Aieshea Wheeler (uk)
I loved this book i couldnt put it down. i love the entire twilight series. it is a must read.
Twightlastic! July 13, 2010
cullen
Book was in excellent condition, delivery was speedy and the story itself throughly thrilling. :-)
Just finished reading it July 12, 2010
R. K. Gomes (portugal)
Finished reading "New Moon", the second book from the Twilight saga. Again, I didn't hate it, it was slightly better than the first (mostly due to the fact that Edward was not in it the majority of the time), but it was still not very good.
Starting with Bella; what a boring, whining, self-centered, bland character she is! In the beginning, she's with her one true love, she should be happy, would it kill her to smile a little?
Then, (accident prone that she is) she manages to cut herself on paper, thus driving the Cullen family crazy over the smell of her blood.
Ok, this is where I get confused: I understand that Bella's blood has a unique appeal to Edward, but the "brothers" go to a school full of people, I guess that there are the occasional cuts and bruises, they should be able to restrain themselves, and if Jasper is such a loose cannon, how can he even attend school? And what really bugs me is that, just because of that stupid contrived incident, Edward decides to uproot the entire family and move out!
So Edward tells Bella he is leaving, I would imagine a scene like that would be entitled to a deep dialogue, but no. He says he's leaving because she is no good for him, and she accepts it as an obvious fact. What does this say about Bella? That she is a bit dense, and soooo unworthy of the love of such a "God-like creature" ---sigh--. So she doesn't even try to fight for her happiness. What a spineless girl! Such a great role model!
So, with Edward gone, her life means nothing.
I can understand entering an abyss of despair when losing the one person you loved above all else (although apart from his "smoldering beauty", I don't see any other good qualities about Edward). But what I don't understand, is how someone can simply, for months, ignore friends that try to help, and then proceed to consciously, selfishly use them. Like the scene with Jessica: Inviting her out, not because Bella actually likes her, but because her mindless chatter might be a distraction, then all but ditches the girl at the movies, then places her in a potentially dangerous situation, then simply forgets her the minute she's home. And then, doesn't understand how the girl won't forgive her??? Heck! It didn't happen to me, and I still can't forgive her, as if she even apologized in the first place!
What a good, upstanding person Bella is!
Along comes Jacob, this is the one character I truly liked and he really deserved better than to fall for Bella who is -yet again- using him to escape the void her life has become without Edward. Even though she seems to actually like him, what does this say of a girl who can't survive without a man by her side and decides to settle for a lesser love? The author tries to convey Bella's internal struggle, but really, there is none.
Bella realizes that when she gets into dangerous situations, she hallucinates and hears Edward telling her to stop, so she develops a "love" for extreme sports, like riding a motorcycle and crashing several times, and jumping of a cliff. Because of a misunderstanding, Edward believes she is dead and goes to Italy to provoke a powerful vampire family "The Volturi" (silly name) into killing him. How will he accomplish this? (I will quote this from another review because it is the best description) - "BY PUBLIC SPARKLING!!" Hilarious!
After a series of absurd events with the Volturi, we are, once again, very much aware of how truly selfish a callous Bella is, she witnesses a mass murder committed by vampires, and wonders if "it might be wrong to feel so happy". I would dare say it is a little bit wrong!
Back to Forks.
Charlie grounds her daughter and considers Edward a "persona non grata" she doesn't understand why her dad is being so pigheaded. Really? I wonder if I would have much love for the guy who dumped my daughter and left her in a mess.
There are two good emotional scenes and they are both of Jacob and Bella sayng goodbye. And all I thought was : "What a stupid stupid girl!"
So, not a good book overall, I have read soo much better, but at least I finished it quickly. That's one positive, I guess. It gets so boring at times that I manage to jump pages and it seems the story also moves faster.
Oh, yeah, by the way, Victoria is still trying to kill Bella, but it's such a ridiculous plotline it's hardly worth mentioning.
Woe is me? Put a sock in it Bella! July 1, 2010
madaboutbooks
1 out of 1 found this review helpful
Selfish Bella is back! Still all me, me, me, New Moon focuses on Bella's life without Edward, when he decides to leave after putting her life in danger (too boring an incident to bother spending time on here). So with Eddie boy gone, who does Bella turn her attentions to? Because clearly this is a girl who can't function without draping herself across some guy or another. Well, this time it's the turn of Jacob, the briefly seen young American Indian from the first novel, who clearly has a crush on Bella (although exactly why, is hard to understand). But, as is the nature of dear old Bella, she's horrible to Jacob, stringing him along and using him for her own means. After all, if she can't have the wet vampire, why not have the other guy instead? Especially when you discover that he's got his own little supernatural secret (she certainly knows how to pick 'em!)
My question remains the same from the first novel - what is it about this selfish, self-obsessed girl that all these men find so attractive?! I'm at a loss to work it out. She spends her whole time moping about, feeling sorry for herself and is only interested in something if it directly involves her. For example, when she finds out one of her dad's closest friends has died of a heart attack, her reaction to the news is to state 'Nobody needed to be worrying about me right now.' How very gracious of her! At this point she's just stupidly jumped off a cliff in order to hallucinate Edward's voice (putting herself in danger makes her hear his dulcit tones) only to nearly drown and have Jacob rescue her (he really shouldn't have bothered), but she still manages to bring the whole thing back to her even when she finds out about Harry's heart attack. She may as well have just said, 'Set aside some time to worry about Harry later, 'cause for the next couple of days it's all about me and no one steals MY thunder!'
Then there's Meyer's over use of descriptive words and bizarre phrasing too - something that certainly hasn't lessened since the first installment. Why describe something once, when you can describe it a thousand times in a thousand different ways?!? For example, Bella describes the pain of Edward leaving as like having a hole ripped open in her chest which never heals. Now that would be fine for me - I can understand that and get a feel for what that would be like. But Meyer elaborates. A lot! It's described at various points as ragged, burning, aching, sore, raw, painful, unhealed gashes, that 'throb and bleed.' Someone please take the Thesauraus away from Meyer, she clearly can't be trusted with it!! And because of all this over describing, the book plods along at a snails pace and you start to wish that someone HAD put a hole through Bella's chest to put her (and everyone else around her) out of their misery.
Finally the whole thing with Bella hearing Edward's voice - she only hears him when she puts herself in danger (riding motorcycles, jumping off cliffs - you get the picture?) She hears him telling her not to, but she does these things anyway, mainly so she can prolong the time she hears him. Now anyone hearing voices is not a good sign in my book, even if it is the voice of your undead loved one. No wonder Edward descides to leave at the beginning of the novel - I would too if I knew I'd have to endure another torturess year with the insipid Bella.
The only half decent thing about this book is Jacob. At least he seems to have a bit of backbone - it's just a shame he finds Bella attractive. However, I'd like him more (and the book would score higher) if he told her where to get off!
Overall I'd like to say I care. I'd like to say these novels are having a profound effect on me. But I don't and they aren't. STILL UTTER RUBBISH!!!
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