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New Moon (The Twilight Saga, Book 2) | 
 enlarge | Author: Stephenie Meyer
Publisher: Little, Brown Young Readers
Category: Book
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Rating:  1059 reviews
Sales Rank: 3
Media: Paperback
Reading Level: Young Adult
Number Of Items: 1
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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Product Description
Legions of readers entranced by Twilight are hungry for more and they won't be disappointed. In New Moon, Stephenie Meyer delivers another irresistible combination of romance and suspense with a supernatural twist. The "star-crossed" lovers theme continues as Bella and Edward find themselves facing new obstacles, including a devastating separation, the mysterious appearance of dangerous wolves roaming the forest in Forks, a terrifying threat of revenge from a female vampire and a deliciously sinister encounter with Italy's reigning royal family of vampires, the Volturi. Passionate, riveting, and full of surprising twists and turns, this vampire love saga is well on its way to literary immortality.
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 NEW MOON November 19, 2008
OOOOHHHHH MY GOSH !!! This is a GREAT READ!! The series is AWESOME!! I could hardly put any one of these books down. I recommend them HIGHLY!-I also would not say that this is a" teeny bopper" book, adults will enjoy all 4 books. Buy them, you' ll miss sleep but you'll love it!!
Fascinating Concepts Add Zest November 18, 2008
Due to circumstances involving my local library, I never read "Twilight" but only this second book in the series, "New Moon."
It's a Young Adult Fantasy novel, which is a genre that I love even though I don't belong to its target audience anymore. I'm not a teenager nor female, a combination which would be ideal for maximum enjoyment of "New Moon." So I probably did not get maximum enjoyment out of it, but I liked it well enough.
The book starts with Bella Swan, the protagonist, spending her eighteenth birthday with her vampire boyfriend Edward and his family, but because of an unhappy accident during the party, Edward decides that Bella is not safe in his family and they ought to move far away. Which they do.
Left without her boyfriend, Bella struggles with depression and meets someone else ...
The story goes on from there.
What I liked about the book was not the love story as such, but fascinating concepts such as Bella having hallucinations of Edward's voice when under an adrenaline rush and consequently seeking ever more dangerous situations in order to keep hearing Edward's voice - a quest that eventually puts both her and Edward into great peril.
That twist and the ending of the book added the necessary zest to what might have otherwise been a fairly bland and overly teenage-pleasing story.
I can't say that this has been my favorite Young Adult novel I've ever read, but it was worth the read. And who knows? Maybe, if the situation at my local library had been different and I'd read the first book in the saga first, I would have enjoyed the second book even more than I did. I certainly do not recommend starting with this book, as I did.
Given that it's my own fault to not have read "Twilight" first, I give "New Moon" 4.5 out of 5 stars.
Delaneys Review November 18, 2008
This is one of the best books inthe whole world. i am telling you though not to read this one if you did not read twilight or you will be very confused. i ccant wait to see the twilight movie. best series ever. ipersonally thought it was gonna be stupid with the whole vampire thing but i read it all in one day
 New Moon does not meet high expectations November 18, 2008
While the first novel Twilight was an exciting and gripping book, New Moon failed to meet the high expectations that Twilight automatically raised. The idea of a relationship between a vampire and a human girl is a unique and thrilling story, and it does make sense that Edward believes that Bella would have a better life without a vampire as her boyfriend. But spending time on hundreds of pages without Edward there, and instead hearing about werewolves and Jake, who falls in love with Bella, is not what I had expected to read. This is a story about Edward and Bella, and so I wanted to read more about both of them: how they relate to each other, what difficulties they have to face together, and how their love develops. I was prepared for a sequel that would continue telling us about the life they have together. Instead, the reader is presented werewolves and Jake, who not only falls in love with Bella, but who also becomes a werewolf. By presenting Bella another unusual 'boyfriend' besides Edward, the uniqueness of the story and the unusual relationship between Edward as a vampire and Bella as a human girl gets lost. It turns into a story in which werewolves fight vampires, but the love between Bella and Edward fades from the spotlight. For nothing are we waiting for the excitement that always grabs us when we read about Edward and Bella when they are together. Now we have to get used to Jake, who turns out to be a strong and fearless werewolf, but who still lacks the maturity that makes Edward so attractive.
Another point that speaks against the book is that Meyer changed her language style by trying to write more complex sentences. It should be praised that she tried to get away from the very simple language that she had used in Twilight, but she does not know how to handle complex sentences to compose a well-written novel. As she knows much better how to write simple sentences, she should accept that and stick to her style. Twilight reads so well and easy, and the language style perfectly matches the plot. She should have kept the style for New Moon as well, for I believe that then at least the language would have been enjoyable and met a simple plot of an unimaginative story of werewolves against vampires.
But given that plot and language style, New Moon failed to meet high expectations. In fact, it is a book that I just continued reading because I hoped that Edward would come back soon, and I was curious about how the story between him and Bella would go on...
 Why is Bella so Annoying!!! November 18, 2008
I enjoy the Native American story line in this series, finally a look at life as a Native in a fun and contemporary setting that I will be able to share with my kids. But I have to admit, I am not a fan of how selfish, needy, and love torn the main character, Bella, is written. She is not a strong character, but in this book she begins to develop a healthier relationship with Jacob, a character I love. Jacob is underserved and not presented in realistic manner as a 16 year-old shape shifter. The fantasy part to the vampires and werewolves deserves more than the unbelievably annoying and over-exaggerated, hard-to-believe character development of that Bella, Jacob, and the father (Charlie) are given. Other than that I enjoyed this book better than the others because of the presence of Jacob and his family!
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