|  | Author: Stephenie Meyer
Publisher: Little, Brown Books for Young Readers
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Rating:  2095 reviews
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Languages: English (Original Language), English (Unknown), English (Published)
Media: Paperback
Reading Level: Young Adult
Pages: 608
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Dimensions (in): 7.9 x 5.1 x 1.2
ISBN: 0316024961
EAN: 9780316024969
ASIN: 0316024961
Publication Date: May 31, 2008
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Showing reviews 11-15 of 2095
 Perhaps the worst book I ever forced myself to finish November 11, 2009
R. T. Wilcoxon
3 out of 3 found this review helpful
I was late to the Twilight series. I bought all 4 books at once after friends told me how great they were (good thing for Stephanie Meyer because I would definitely not bought another one after this if I didn't already have them).
I thought Twilight was an average book that got better and better by the end. I felt Meyer definitely hit her stride. It left me with great hope for New Moon. Sadly that hope was misplaced. This book felt like Meyer wrote the story in about 150 pages but realized she need a bigger book to make the fans happy. So she quickly added about 350 pages saying nothing more than Bella's moping around whining about how beautiful Edward and his family is, how plain she is, how lucky she was to have spent any time with him at all because he is just that amazing and she didn't deserve it, how it "left a whole in her chest" repeated about 100 times, blah, blah, blah. It turned what could have a character everybody could relate to into a self-loathing, pathetic, whimpering, annoying brat. Not only did it successfully turn fans against the main character, it was a complete waste of time.
I was going to stop reading the series but a friend encouraged me to read the next book. Since I already bought it, I did. Thankfully, it is the best book in the series...but nothing good can be said about New Moon.
 Better than the first book! November 10, 2009
January Dockery (Georgia)
0 out of 3 found this review helpful
This book was even better than the first book to me. The first book was awesome...don't get me wrong, but it was slow compared to this book! In this book the story really takes off. I was pissed off a little throughout the book, but isn't that what a good book does...gets your emotions going! This book is wonderful and I cannot wait for the movie to come out. I am reading Outlander right now, but will be putting it down soon to re-read this book to refresh for the movie!
NEW MOON November 10, 2009
T. Sanchez (AZ)
0 out of 3 found this review helpful
Ordered for nephew in prison, was sent to him quickly, per nephew, great quality..I am please again with Amazon!
Should have stopped at 1 November 9, 2009
Ren_A (Missouri)
4 out of 4 found this review helpful
After being hounded to read the latest and greatest of teen literature fads...I finally cracked when I had nothing else to read and found a paperback copy of Twilight at Walmart for like eight bucks. I read it, I was interested, though had some issues with it and continued.
This book was so mind numbingly ridiculous to read as Bella "held herself together" with her arm I could hardly finish reading it. I don't think Meyers has ever gotten her heart broken, or I've never truly been in love. I cannot stand the melodrama of Bella not being able to live without Edward. Seriously? I know all teens say that(scratch that, even people who haven't grown up)...but when I got broken up with from my first love it sucked...for about a month...and then it got better.
Edward and Bella are SO made for each other but they hardly even know each other! How can they possibly be in love? Is Edward attracted Bella for any reason other than her scent? Is that reason enough for a vampire? Apparently. There's never any other reason that I've seen that explains why Bella is attractive to him other than her scent. Oh, and her clumsy idiocy is just oh so endearing! I don't know what Bella knows about Edward because all I ever saw about him was how gorgeous and god-like he was. I mean, sure he's talented too...but what about, you know, what really matters like their opinions on issues, beliefs, life, goals, dreams etc. It doesn't much matter if you like the same music if you have nothing else in common.
Then Edward leaves and BELLA BLAMES HERSELF FOR NOT BEING GOOD ENOUGH! Great idea, let's give this to 15 year old girls who already don't have enough self-esteem to think they're worth anything without dating the most popular boy in their school. And where does Bella go? To another boy...not to Angela or Jessica or any other girl she knew before hand to let them support her...no she goes to Jacob. Not only that but she contemplates how Jacob could be her fall back and she would be content... Great job, Bella, teach us some more about how women can't be anything without their men. Oh, and don't forget to have Charlie's supper ready when he gets home!
I don't think Meyers really meant for the books to come off that way, but it did and it was her job as the writer to make sure what she wanted to come out came out and not something else. There's also no character development for anyone in this novel other than Jacob, and that's simply because he wasn't in the first one very much other than a few scenes here and there. Bella is still this bumbling idiot who walks around and does what she's told, but she's such a strong minded woman, you know (you know...she tells us how stubborn she is...just doesn't back it up until it's time to be retarded in later novels) Edward is this brooding vampire who has to be a martyr and Jacob actually is a believable 15/16 year old kid. Oh, and Charlie is still just this guy sitting on the couch with no involvement in his daughter's life.
And seriously? A paper cut... Since the only thing we do know about Bella is how clumsy she is (and we're reminded of it every ten pages) wouldn't it have just been more believable for her to have tripped and landed in the glass table to begin with? I mean, Jasper held his head when Bella was bleeding out of her head in the first book, but he couldn't for a paper cut?! I don't think I've ever had a paper cut that actually bled either...not saying if you had amazing senses you couldn't smell blood..but that strong that every vampire int he room was totally frozen? Come on...PU leez..
Can't Remember The Last Time a Book Made Me Angry When It Ended November 8, 2009
M. Sherwood (Manchester, NH)
3 out of 3 found this review helpful
Spoiler Alert!!!
I've never felt strongly enough about any book to actually write a review about it, and I may never do it again, but here goes...
I'm not a professional athlete, but I understand the rules to all the major sports and I know when players are breaking those rules. The same goes with writing. As a guy in his early 40s, I'm the first to admit I'm not the target audience for this book. But I read the first book right before that movie came out and because I understood who the book was written for, I was able to enjoy it for what it was. That was certainly not the case for New Moon. In my mind, there are some basic rules to story telling and it seems to me that Stephanie Meyer completely ignored them.
1. For the first half of the book, there is no identifiable plot. It's just chapter after endless chapter of Bella whining about how awful her life is and then jerking around and leading on the person she calls her best friend (the fact that she knows that's what she's doing doesn't make it any better). That's not a plot. That's the author making me seriously disliker her protagonist. The first thing that even resembles an actual plot is when she runs into Laurent and first sees the wolves in the meadow in chapter 10. In a book that's supposedly "about" werewolves, I should not be waiting until chapter 10 to actually see my first werewolf.
2. You don't spend half the book setting up the reader for a final confrontation and then NOT deliver it. When the plot finally did materialize and we found out that Victoria was back to get Bella, the book finally got interesting and I read it to the end, wondering about and waiting for the final confrontation between Victoria and/or Jacob and/or Edward. Instead, Bella suddenly disappears to Italy out of the blue, comes home three days later, and the book ends. Victoria just leaves, with virtually no explanations of why.
3. With the exception of Jacob, not one of the main characters changes or grows in any meaningful way through the course of this book. Bella, Charlie, the Cullens, they are all in the exact same place, physically and emotionally, that they were in at the start of the book. Again, I exclude Jacob from that statement. He, at least, had some serious character growth.
And 4. I admit this is more a personal thing. In a story that has taken place in entirely in one place, you don't suddenly change settings completely three quarters of the way through the book with no warning or set up. Taken by itself, the part of the book that takes place in Italy is actually the best written piece of the story in my opinion. But it felt out of place, like she started the process with a cool idea for a scene in the Volturi's city, and then she was bound and determined to cram it in and make it fit her current story.
I apologize to the fans of the series but for the first time EVER, I'm actually hoping that a movie does not stay faithful to the book.
Take this review for what it is, the opinion of someone well out of the target age range for this book, who picked it up wanting to like it, and was really diappointed.
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