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New Moon | 
 enlarge | Author: Stephenie Meyer
Publisher: Little Brown and Company
Category: Book
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Rating:  24 reviews
Sales Rank: 15
Media: Paperback
Edition: 1
Reading Level: Young Adult
Pages: 608
Shipping Weight (lbs): 1.2
Dimensions (in): 8.2 x 5.4 x 1.5
ISBN: 0316024961
EAN: 9780316024969
ASIN: 0316024961
Publication Date: May 31, 2008
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 Boring. October 10, 2008
I have to admit i had high expectations for this book, i read twilight and LOVED it but when i read this...i was bored and got to the point where i put the book down and called my friend [who had previously read new moon] and got her to explain the chapters up until when edward comes back, thats when the book becomes good again...i dislike jacob a lot, when you get to the 4th book you'll understand...i especially hate how he treats edward, just so everyone knows when you read this book scan through the pages...dont let the whole 'its a major in the next book' thing scare you, because its not.
 massacre of a guilty pleasure October 4, 2008
TWILIGHT was definitely a guilty pleasure for me. The writing was juvenile at best, the adjectives were just horrendous - but i kept reading it and could not stop talking about it for the feeling it gave me. It felt like i was going through the motions of my first crush again, the kind where you still think that love conquers all and the heart trumps the mind.
New Moon was unbearable and turned me off the rest of the series. My complaint has to be with Bella Swan's characterization. WHY must she be so useless? WHY has she courted the affections of every male body in town when she has absolutely nothing to be admired? In Twilight I accepted she had that certain, je ne sais quoi, but I still see no proof of anything. Hurting herself and putting herself in harms way just to hear the imagined voice of her beloved, is compleTELY asinine. The two main male characters in her life have blatantly said that she is completely useless and needs their 'protection'. She faints and swoons and screams and has nightmares from unrequited love - she dooms herself to failure because someone is not returning her affections.
It kills me to know that teenage girls are reading this and think Bella Swan is someone to be idolized. She's the antithesis of what a capable, strong woman in our century and beyond should be like. Both Edward and Jacob are too stereotypically masculine.. this is unbearable. Please find another female heroine worthy of your time.
 The only good thing about the book was Jacob September 24, 2008
I only picked up the second book because I wanted to understand the fascination with such a mediocre series. I picked up this book and thought that I should give it a chance and it might change my mind.
It once again didn't change my perception of how shoddy the plotting and pacing were done once again. I think that a better editor would have benefited this book greatly, because it had a promising premise, but it all fizzled out in the end.
I think the main problem that the author created a character that was more sympathetic and realistic and more suited to the heroine. Jacob worked better with the one again empty shell of Bella than Edward ever could. The book actually worked when Bella and Jacob interacted, because the reader got a glimpse of how much potential there was in Bella. She was actually, ironically, more plausible when being in pain.
Bella, as a character, didn't grow with Edward. She was empty and pointless because Edward himself was that. Apart from his attraction her blood, there was nothing else to Edward. He didn't grow. He was shockingly immature and manipulative, like a child with a favourite doll. In Jacob, there was a potential for growth and equal partnership, which would have elevated the book from the badly written mire it sunk into with Edward's return.
Once again, skip this book unless you want to be frustrated with what could have been a more rewarding and complex series.
MUCH better than Twilight. A compelling read. August 30, 2008
The first time I read Twilight, I did NOT like it unlike 98% of those who read it but I decided to give it a chance and re-read it and found the book was better the second time but still overly hyped and mediocre. I was so intrigued and curious about what would happen to Bella and Edward that I decided to read "New Moon"; it did not disappoint.
New Moon is a more well written book (that doesn't sound like fanfiction-like Twilight) and is far more mature. It's a great read. The book is full of action and emotion that is written in a way that you can't put down the book. It drew me in intensly and I found myself feeling, fearing for the characters. The characters were better developed and more interesting in this book. The introduction of werewolves and new charactetrs into the saga was smooth and very interesting.
My only critism is that...(SPOILER!!!!!!) I didn't like how fast Bella dropped Jacob when Edward came back. He was more than nice to her and she just forgot about him immediately. (SPOILER!!!!!)
In summary, this book is MUCH MUCH better, more interesting, more compelling, more intense, more gut-wrenching than the first...and all these qualities make the book an amazing read. You will not be able to put it down. Read it, cry, laugh, gasp, and enjoy. I'd give it 4.5/5. :)
Very disappointing August 18, 2008
2 out of 2 found this review helpful
Belle went from being independent and confident to being a whining co-dependent child. She annoyed me throughout this book. The relationship that she has with Edward went from being intriguing to deeply disturbing. I was hardly able to finish this book and don't care enough about the characters to bother reading the next book in the series.
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