Because the Twilight saga is at it's very best a love story, I found this book to be both heartbreaking and frustrating. With the leading man out of the picture I discovered just how weak the character of Bella truly is. Though understandable that a love triangle can make for interesting reading, the character of Jacob, no matter how pathetically he throws himself at Bella, could never contend with what had already been written as a one and only true love. I found his pushiness irritating at best and Bella's inability to draw clear lines for him even more so. The redeeming parts of this book for me were new insights into the vampirical governing society and the dynamics of Bella's relationship with her father. Overall, New Moon is a story about dwelling in heartbreak and depression and--I think the reason Jacob has become such a popular character-- the glimpses of light that can be found in very dark places. ( )

Jacob is soooooooooooooooooooooooooo hot.

Well what can i say about this amzing heartbraking book! honestly, from my opinion i liked it very much beacuse not only beacuse of the moral but because of the way the story goes, such as, when jacob comes to rescue bella but yet he edward is still thinking about her and thats what makes there love so strong and powerful!. Lets just say this book got all my attention and grabed me the reader very strong. ( )

Slow until rescued by the appearance of werewolves but the contrast between the intensity of Bella's responses to her abusive vampire boyfriend and the flat prose in which this is described was too great a hurdle for me to cross. ( )

Reading about this break-up was so heartwrenching, I couldn't stop crying. That's all there is to this review. Maybe it's a simple teenage story, but this one's powerful, somehow. ( )

This book is an emotional mess! Edward is gone after having ditched Bella at the end of the last book. Bella once again violates the norm of how a high school girl typically deals with a breakup. Instead of being bummed, eating ice cream and bashing the ex with friends and moving on, Bella slips into a virtually catatonic depression. So much so, that she literally misses 6 months or so of her life. This is ridiculous! She met the guy, was sleeping with him within a day or two of their first date, professing undying love right off the bat, and the world ends with his departure! Yes, high school girls can be a bit melodramatic, but seriously?!

Read this passage... Charlie (her dad) is talking to Alice (Edward's sister) about Bella's depression. Bella interjects a thought in the flow of the conversation for the sake of the reader:

"It was like someone had died--like I had died. Because it had been more than just losing the truest of true loves, as if that were not enough to kill anyone. It was also losing a whole future, a whole family--the whole life that I'd chosen..."

She's 18... most people these days don't get married until they're around 30. She has a LOT of time to find another love (ahem, Jacob), get married, have a family... She's merely being melodramatic!

Then, Edward reappears and says he had never stopped loving her. She immediately welcomes him back into her life (and her bed) without hesitation! Really?! Here sits Jacob, a sweet guy who has treated her with nothing but respect and was there for her when no one else was... he brought her out of her depression, was able to make her smile again, loved her even as the damaged goods she was... And who does she choose?!?! The guy who left her wandering in the forest! Even when Jacob was going through the most horrible and terrifying phase of his life, he managed to make time for Bella, to see her and make sure she was ok. And at the end of it all, she picks the guy who abandoned her, because she's brainwashed herself into thinking she and Edward are soul mates.

These books are awful. Stephanie Meyer has a poor perception of what true love is and doesn't understand the teenage psyche well enough to be writing about it. ( )

** spoiler alert ** I definitely missed the presence of Edward through most of the book. I just find the Bella/Jacob moments a little dull. I realize that they ride motorcycles and dive off cliffs, but the interaction of the characters isn't nearly as exciting. The end of the book made it all worthwhile. ( )

In New Moon, Edward dumps Bella and flees to Italy with his vampire family. Bella mourns for months until she rekindles her friendship with Jacob, a Native American boy who lives on the local reservation. Jacob is smitten with Bella and the two seem to have some sexual tension that is only exacerbated by Jacob's confession to Bella that he is a werewolf. Conflict arises when Edward's sister, Alice, returns to Forks to find Bella and bring her back to Italy where Edward has decided to kill himself. ( )

Clearly teen novel but fun and many messages to be gleaned from the story. ( )

Meyer opens the second book of her series with a quote from Shakespeare’s Romero and Juliet as an acknowledgement of the themes shared by both stories. Bella is torn between her obsessive love of Edward, the vampire, and her growing feelings for Jacob, the werewolf, knowing that neither will be capable of any kind of normal human relationship.

Meyer seems to have settled in a little more in this book, as the frequency and skill with which she uses strong, descriptive language has grown. She develops a few other characters with more background and interesting detail. To be fair, though, it may be that these characteristics are present because she sends Edward away for a good half of the book, leaving Bella forced to focus on something besides her obsession.

Frankly, the absence of Edward, and, with it, Bella’s constant mooning, was a relief. It gave me time to discover that I don’t really much like Edward.

One of the things that bothered me about this episode in the series is that neither Edward nor the rest of the Cullen coven ever consider that Edward’s attraction to Bella is her very humanity. Edward is constantly talking about the smell of Bella’s blood, the blush of her skin, and the fragile nature of her human existence, all things well out of Edward’s reach as a vampire.

On balance, Meyer has done a better job with this second installment, more fully developing themes of fate and redemption, more carefully drawing characters, and more carefully writing her prose.

Bottom Line: An improvement on the first book; more readable and interesting.

(A side note: The movie seems to have taken away all of the best parts of this book, intent on meaningful and pain-filled yearnings and stares.) ( )

The Movie Adaptation.

Ages 12 and Up. This second installment of the Twilight Saga has a slightly different feel over the first one. Under new direction and filmed in a new location, the dark grey and green visual-ness of Twilight is gone, which might be good news due to the darker themes and Bella's post-abandonment emotional destitution. The film begins with Bella's birthday; she is turning 18 and, in a sense, aging on Edward. Clearly, she would like him to change her as soon as possible. But an accident at her birthday party leads to a close call with Edward's more unstable 'brother' Jasper, and Edward leaves Bella under the belief that this will protect her. The blank month by month pages that Twihards delightedly recall from the novel following this abandonment is wonderfully captured by the film by a rotating camera of Bella staring blankly out her window as the seasons change. Billy Burke, as Bella's father Charlie, proves again that he is the best actor/character in the films with his heartbreaking but clueless desire to help his daughter.
Eventually, Bella begins a friendship with Jacob that helps take her out of her funk, but, as we all know, this gets complicated when he begins to change into a werewolf.
The film balances the darker aspects of this chapter of the saga with some humor and deliciously awkward moments that Twilight geeks adore. New characters - the Volturi - are wonderfully creepy and well-cast. While there are issues of female character strength, Quileute presentation, and half-naked minors well-discussed in the media, New Moon, as with the whole of the Twilight Saga, is simply supernatural, teen-angsty fun.
Recommended for public library movie collections. ( )

I am sure that someone out there loves this audio book but I did not. There wasn't one thing about it that I liked except the fact that I finally stopped listening to it. I found the voices distracting and in turn I was distracted listening to it. Although it follows along with the novel, I still coudln't appreciate it for what it is. I guess I am a little old fashioned and would rather hold a book in my hands and keep my eyes busy with the text. I suppose it would be a great thing for a non reader or someone who is sick in bed, is blind or has a long way to travel by car....... ( )

Still addicted... ( )

'New Moon' is my least favorite of the Twilight series. I was bored reading this book; the action is terribly slow and it seemed like there was nothing happening most of the time. ( )

New Moon by Stephanie Meyer is the sequel to the first book, Twilight. New Moon is about a girl named Bella Swan who is left by her "love", Edward Cullen who is known as an irresistible vampire. Once Edward leaves, for supposedly the safety of Bella, troubles start to arise again; like James trying to slaughter Bella as read in Twilight. In New Moon, for example, Bella becomes reckless from the emptiness in her heart that Edward has left. So, Bella must cope from her hardship, therefore, she goes to Jacob Black to receive comfort. Jacob is a werewolf who appears as a human, but can change to a werewolf when there are vampires around, or his strength is needed to fight; or just the fact that he’s sixteen so he’s of age to transform. Although, a few days later after Bella spends time with Jacob, he gets sick with what the hospital thought was mono and so Bella thinks that he would be out for a month; so that put Bella in more distress. However, it was just a virus and Bella eventually gets the twenty-four hour flu too. After months have pass, Bella still feels sad that Edward isn't present with her, so as a result she continues to do more reckless things, like cliff jumping, and attempting to get on the back of a guy’s motorcycle (but she doesn’t) in hope that Edward will return to her. More occasions occur, and Edward feels like he needs to "punish himself" for leaving Bella because he thinks that Bella is dead because of all the things she has done , so he goes to the Volturi. The Volturi are a group of vampires (they could almost be like a dynasty) resided in Volterra, Italy who enforce laws for about three thousand years. They are also the place where vampires who don’t want their special abilities anymore “turn themselves in” and then they collect the ability and allure those vampires to join their group or they can kill the vampires. However, Bella is really the only one that can save Edward because if Emmett (Edward’s brother) could try to stop him physically, they could convince him that Bella was alive, but the Cullens can’t sneak up on Edward because he can hear their thoughts. Plus, if Edward saw the Cullens he would speed up the process of his suicide. However, if after reading this review, the book is not your "cup of tea", then I recommend that you see the movie; although, reading this book is such a better experience if you haven't read Twilight and then New Moon already because it’s not exactly the same as the movie, meaning as in plot and suspense. ( )

It starts out with Edward leaving Bella because he feels that, after what happened at her birthday get together, his family is putting her in danger. Bella goes into a deep depression but then she develops a strong relationship with Jacob Black, a family friend. Over the summer after Edward leaves, Bella and Jacob become closer and start to understand each other. Until Jacob starts to avoid Bella after he changes into a werewolf. Jacob and the other werewolves in his tribe must protect her from Victoria, a vampire seeking to get revenge by killing her because Edward had killed her mate, James. A misunderstanding occurs and Edward believes Bella is dead. So when Edward finds this out he decides to commit suicide in Italy but he is stopped by Bella and Edward's sister, Alice. They meet with the Volturi, a powerful coven of vampires, and are released on the condition that Bella be turned into a vampire in the near future. After this Edward agrees to change her soon.

I personally didn't really like the book because it was very pointless to me. New Moon was truthfully the worst one of the Twilight Series but i respect the thought put into it. And it has 563 pages.The book didn't have a lot of exciting parts. Edward left her and then came back, which i didn't like. Other people might enjoy the book but it depends on your own opinion. ( )

In New Moon, the second installment in the Twilight saga, protagonist Bella Swan's life becomes increasingly complex as her relationships begin to change and she finds herself in the middle of an ancient conflict wrought with complications. This story is even more captivating than its predecessor. I read all five hundred plus pages in one eight hour sitting. Meyer's writing is far more bearable this time, as the reader isn't drowned in adjectives describing the beauty of Edward Cullen every other page. If you enjoyed the first one, do not hesitate to pick this one up. ( )

The whole scene in Italy is just fun. It's a thrill ride. ( )

I thought the first half of the book was rather slow, but once Edward returned I was into it again. Can't wait to see what happens in Eclipse! ( )

This book was kind of boring compared to Twilight. Nothing happened in this book. ( )

This is the second book in the series. Bella and Edward's relationship continues but faces some trouble in this book. Edward leaves town and Bella and Jacon grow closer as Jacon reveals a secret.

I love The Book!!!!!!!!!!!!

i am reading this book. don't yell at me! oh wach you gonna do now!

I think Stephine Meyer did a great job describing all the people in the book like Edward and Bella and Bella's father.Its like this relationship of being friends with Jacob is like she is a round sort of person and she has a life to live of her own.And most of all its like Edward is the protagonist in this book and people she red this .Its good. ( )

this book i so different from the first there is no action scenes really but it's really good. stephenie meyer is a greast writer she knows how to make people read her books.
I CANT WAIT TO SEE THE MOVIE!!!!!!!!!!
the author is really fgood at describing all the charecters like she exsplains Rosalie really good and all the charecters ecspecily when bella is describing edward and stuff like that. ( )