|  | Author: Stephenie Meyer
Publisher: Little, Brown Books for Young Readers
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Languages: English (Original Language), English (Unknown), English (Published)
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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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 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)
4 out of 4 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.
 new moon!!!! November 8, 2009
meg cabot & elizabeth scott
0 out of 2 found this review helpful
loved this book. It was a bit more exciting than the other one, it wasn't necessarily better it was just good in other terms. It's good because in this one the damsel in distress has to save prince charming adn it's just a change. This book also introduced an whole new world aside from the world of the vampires, and it intensifies when the werewolf falls for the same girl that the vampire is inlove with because now it's become a love triangle and she has to pick one: either the werewolf of the vanpire. i think this series is like the next romeo and juliet.
 Frustrating November 5, 2009
Mariah Higgins
4 out of 4 found this review helpful
I read Twilight and didn't finish it. I read The Host and didn't like it. So why did I get New Moon? Because I have to have something to read and I thought I'd see what all the hype was about.
You go into the stores and see all this merchandise with Twilight and New Moon on it, teen girls are snapping up the books or any books about it. They love it, love Edward or Jacob, want to be Bella. But what frustrated and distrubed me about the Twilight saga, but mostly New Moon is the message that the book delivers.
You need a man, a strong and very handsome man to be happy and to feel whole. Break ups hurt, espically if you loved that person deeply. But to spend months in a daze is pathetic. Bella can't even remember the months she was a "zombie". She wakes up screaming bloody murder every night from nightmares brought on by Edward's leaving. A more normal reaction would be grief and loss and pain, then anger.
She feels she doesn't deserve him because she's not beautiful like him. What kind of message is that! Who is Bella? We don't know, all we know is how beautiful she thinks Edward is, how she can't bear to live without him. We don't know what she likes, the kinds of food, music, books, clothes. For the first book it's about how beautiful Edward is, how lucky she is, and how she loves him so much. The second book is about how she misses him so much. Oh, and Bella is clumsy and gets hurt a lot. I mean, A LOT. That girl needs to be put in a bubble.
She uses people, like Jacob. Like her friends. And she admits it!
I haven't seen the movie, maybe it's better. But this isn't a book I'd want any girl I know reading. And if I saw her reading it while recently suffering a break up of her own, I'd tear it out of her hands and burn it. I don't think I'd want my boys reading it either (if they were old enough and would dare to be seen reading it) because it sends a message to them. That girls are totally dependent on them and don't have any thoughts of their own and will idolize any man who claims to love them.
The ideas behind Twilight and The Host are wonderful and creative. I just wish they had been written differently. It was such a disappoinment to see those brillant ideas twisted into a codependent and selfish nightmare.
I swear Bella is the kind of character that would get into a relationship with a guy who beats her with an extension cord for overcooking the spaghetti noodles and she'd claim she deserved it. Way to go, influencing a generation of young people to be codependent and passive doormats.
 Impressed despite my apprehension November 5, 2009
M. Ethridge
1 out of 1 found this review helpful
So I am one of those people that loves to read.. therefore, I tend to avoid the "hype" books such as the Twilight Series. Add to that I am a woman in my late 20's and I was adamantly against reading these "teeny-bopper" books. Well I was sadly mistaken to believe that because Stephanie Meyers books were being advertised primarily to these young people that it wouldn't be a good read. I was persuaded by a friend of mine that is an avid book reader of great intelligence to read new moon and I was greatly surprised by how much I enjoyed it! I read the book in two days and quickly picked up Eclipse afterward. Meyers writes in a way that draws you in and allows you to feel every emotional aspect of what the character would be feeling. There wasn't a lul in the text or a part I felt I could or wanted to skip over. Do not fall into the stereotype of beliefs that this isnt good writing just because the teenagers love it.. adults love it too.
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