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New Moon (2006)

by Stephenie Meyer

Other authors: See the other authors section.

Series: Twilight Saga (2)

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When the Cullens, including her beloved Edward, leave Forks rather than risk revealing that they are vampires, it is almost too much for eighteen-year-old Bella to bear, but she finds solace in her friend Jacob until he is drawn into a "cult" and changes in terrible ways.
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 Someone explain it to me...: Twilight28 unread / 28LetumTactus, September 2012
 Hogwarts Express: Book discussion: New Moon (Twilight Series #2)19 unread / 19kartermarie3, July 2011

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One of my favorite pieces of Escape Fiction. I love the characters and the drama and re-reading this was a perfect way to pass a Sunday afternoon. ( )
  Linyarai | Mar 6, 2024 |
Excellent. Books are always better than the movies! ( )
  paulneocube | Mar 3, 2024 |
I mentioned in my first-time read & review of "Twilight" last month that I surprisingly had a lot of fun reading the first book, and thought it was overall enjoyable. Unfortunately, that enjoyment did not carry over into this installment. There's an array of ways I didn't enjoy this, but a few main ones are:

-the way mental health and depression are dealt with. Bella is given little to no real help, and instead treated with an attitude of "get over it, it's been long enough".
-the passive role women take when men are around; there is this feeling of women being submissive bystanders to men's strength or, even more frightening, their anger. Even in the first book when Edward started to get angry, Bella didn't put up with it- in "New Moon", both Bella (for the most part) and Emily seem to take backseats to whatever the men are doing/want.
-The pacing is all over the place? The first part begins to lag almost immediately, then there's is a brief good stint while Bella and Jacob become friends, then pacing goes OUT the window. It makes for a very stilted kind of read. Additionally, the dialogue is just...not enjoyable. There are a few points where it's fine, but honestly it becomes very repetitive and dryyyy.

At first I really enjoyed Bella and Jacob's friendship, and I loved seeing them work on motorcycles and hang out and just be friends. But then (after That Thing We All Basically Know Happens) it just becomes borderline toxic, and I felt like everything they had was thrown out the window, which was sad.
I DID enjoy when Alice finally came back in the last fourth!! Alice and Bella have such a beautiful friendship, and I stand by my opinion that Meyer wrote that relationship wonderfully (in an alternative universe, "New Moon" is a Bella x Alice romcom where they travel through Italy in that Porsche
On the whole I didn't really enjoy this. There were some fine parts, but "New Moon" is a far cry from the fun of the first book. I hold no nostalgia for the series either, but even if I had read this as a teen I'm not sure I would have like it more than this. ( )
  deborahee | Feb 23, 2024 |
I read this when I was much younger. For a young-adult book, I actually enjoyed this series. Reading it as an adult, not as much but that is to be expected. Fantasy/vampire/magic books have come a long way since this was written but for its time, it was a good read and fun! ( )
  wood0360 | Jan 8, 2024 |
“Alice, I know I told you I didn’t want anything” “But I didn’t listen,” “ Open it.” “ Shoot” “ No” “Jasper no shh it's okay” “It's Just a little blood.” “ Alice Don’t even think about it.” “I am so sorry Bella.” This book is all about Cullens ( Vampires) and Jacob and Sam’s followers ( Werewolves) who are trying to save Bella from Victoria who wants to kill Bella.

The conflict is Edward is a vampire and he loves Bella but the problem is Bella is a human and wants to be killed by Victoria. Edward leaves Bella. But when Edward was away Bella and Jacob were hanging out. Bella jumps into the water where Victoria is.

This book gives you Bella's perspective of Bella and what she does for her friends and Edward. Bella will do dangerous stuff in order to see Edward. Edward will try and do something to himself because of what Bella did to herself. Alice had seen what Bella did and drove all the way to Bella to make sure she was okay.

Jacob, Edwards siblings, and Edward try to keep Bella safe. Which had a lot of blood and death in it. Bella tries to help her friends and deal with her mental health after Edward leaves for 6 whole months to keep Bella safe. But Bella does some bad stuff that ends up making Edward do something bad to himself.

I think the theme is romance, death, blood, drama, and sacrifice because there is a lot of romance between Bella and Edward. The Volturi kill Vampires that don’t follow the “rules” and they kill them. There is Blood when stuff happens to Bella that makes Jasper and Alice gets mad. There is sacrifice when Bella will do anything for Edward, which may cost both of their lives. There is drama when Jacob and Bella fight because Jacob wants Bella to move in with her mom but she does not and to keep Bella safe Jacob does something.

I recommend this novel because it is a good mixture of vampires, werewolves, and humans working together to protect Bella, but if you don’t like gore, romance, death, and sacrifices then you might not like this book, so if you like vampires and werewolves in your books then I would recommend “New Moon” to you. ( )
  izzie_l | Dec 8, 2023 |
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Less streamlined than Twilight yet just as exciting, New Moon will more than feed the bloodthirsty hankerings of fans of the first volume and leave them breathless for the third.
added by timspalding | editSchool Library Journal, Hillias J. Martin (Jul 13, 2009)
 
This best-selling sequel to “Twilight” — which introduced Edward, the world’s most gentlemanly 17-year-old vampire, and Bella, an ordinary teenager in Forks, Wash. — appropriately begins with an epigraph from “Romeo and Juliet”; love and death are once again entwined in their curiously absorbing romance.
 
Despite Bella's flat and obsessive personality, this tale of tortured demon lovers entices.
added by ncgraham | editKirkus Reviews, Francesca Belham
 

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Gelada Fuster, LauraTranslatorsecondary authorsome editionsconfirmed
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These violent delights

have violent ends and in their triumph die,

like fire and powder, which, as they kiss, consume.

Romeo and Juliet, Act II, Scene VI
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For my dad, Stephen Morgan —

No one has ever been given more loving and unconditional support than I have been given by you.

I love you, too.
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I felt like I was trapped in one of those terrifying nightmares, the one where you have to run, run till your lungs burst, but you can't make your body move fast enough.
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Times passes. Even when it seems impossible.
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When the Cullens, including her beloved Edward, leave Forks rather than risk revealing that they are vampires, it is almost too much for eighteen-year-old Bella to bear, but she finds solace in her friend Jacob until he is drawn into a "cult" and changes in terrible ways.

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I knew we were both in mortal danger. Still, in that instant, I felt well. Whole. I could feel my heart racing in my chest, the blood pulsing hot and fast through my veins again. My lungs filled deep with the sweet scent that came off his skin. It was like there had never been any hole in my chest. I was perfect - not healed, but as if there had never been a wound in the first place.

I FELT LIKE I WAS TRAPPED IN ONE OF THOSE TERRIFYING NIGHTMARES, the one where you have to run, run till your lungs burst, but you can't make your body move fast enough.... But this was no dream, and, unlike the nightmare, I wasn't running for my life; I was racing to save something infinitely more precious. My own life meant little to me today.

FOR BELLA SWAN THERE IS ONE THING more important than life itself: Edward Cullen. But being in love with a vampire is even more dangerous than Bella could ever have imagined. Edward has already rescued Bella from the clutches of one evil vampire, but now, as their daring relationship threatens all that is near and dear to them, they realize their troubles may be just beginning....
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