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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. ( ) 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. “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.
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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