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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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Rating:  1292 reviews
Sales Rank: 4
Media: Paperback
Reading Level: Young Adult
Number Of Items: 1
Pages: 608
Shipping Weight (lbs): 1.2
Dimensions (in): 8.1 x 5.3 x 1.7
ISBN: 0316024961
EAN: 9780316024969
ASIN: 0316024961
Publication Date: May 31, 2008
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Product Description
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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 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.
 Great story and characters, okay writer January 8, 2009
Story keeps getting better...her writing style is okay, a bit annoying at times but good enough.
 stephenie meyer twilight series January 8, 2009
i read all 4 of the stephenie meyer's twilight in a little over a week, i couldn't put them down. they were outrageous, i didn't want the last book to end!! can't wait to see the movies
New Moon: ONE OF THE BEST BOOKS EVER!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! January 8, 2009
New Moon is an awesome book! It will make you laugh, cry, and you won't be able to put it down. With tons of romance and suspence, it is a perfect sequal to Twilight.
GREAT! January 7, 2009
I became a twilight series fan after seeing the movie. I have to say, I'm impressed at the development of this series. Little side conversations that seem like they were just added "fluff" become important as the series goes on! Bring your tissues for this one...
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