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Loading... New Moon (The Twilight Saga, Book 2) (original 2006; edition 2008)by Stephenie Meyer
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I absolutley loved this book. I know I am 40 why am i even reading it? Well to say the least this book was exciting and very compassionate. ( ) 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.
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. 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. Is contained inContainsHas the adaptationHas as a student's study guideAwardsDistinctionsNotable Lists
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. No library descriptions found.
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