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New Moon (The Twilight Saga, Book 2) |  | Author: Stephenie Meyer
Publisher: Little, Brown Books for Young Readers
Category: Book
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Rating:  2204 reviews
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Media: Paperback
Edition: First Paperback Edition
Reading Level: Young Adult
Pages: 608
Number Of Items: 1
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Dimensions (in): 8.2 x 5.5 x 1.7
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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 Is New Moon better than Twilight ? March 9, 2010
Jane E Lydon (Edina, Minnesota United States)
Well, for me it's tie. If you liked the gret action and mix of romance in the 1st one than you will like New Moon. Although it's not the same without Edward. O im giving to much away! Anyway,New Moon doesn't fail to entertain.
 New Moon March 8, 2010
Daphne L. Ellis
The book was terrific. I received it in the time I was told. I had no problems with ordering or understanding the process.
 Wrong Message of Love and Relationships March 7, 2010
Sara (Bahrain)
I have not heard of the Twilight saga till after the frenzy rocked nations worldwide. So naturally I wanted to know what the hype was all about. What gives this series an edge over other books? After reading the debut and the sequel, I am still dumbfounded. Sometimes I wonder if we are all reading the same series.
Even though I found the story entertaining enough to continue reading and would have given it higher stars if it were not for the fact that I was not impressed with the overall message of Twilight and New Moon. I'm twenty-something and I know that this series is targeted for young adults and that is why I find it worrisome. It essentially imparts the wrong message to teenage girls about love and relationships.
Bella struck me as a timid person with no personality and doesn't have much of a backbone to boot. Her life orbits around Edward and her reiteration of his beauty which after 300 pages, grew tiresome.
I like characters that are strong-willed, passionate and feisty but Bella is too weak-willed and needy for my liking. She whines throughout the book. I simply cannot fathom how Bella has become such an iconic protagonist, especially in the 21st Century where female self-empowerment and autonomy are welcoming attributes. As a female, it offends me how the book perpetuates the idea that a girl is incomplete without a guy. Having a guy is great, but it shouldn't send anyone into a tailspin if she is single. Some smart women would remain in an unhealthy relationship due to the social stigma that is attached to single women.
Being in love with a gorgeous vampire is nice, but other than rescuing her in the nick of time, Bella's narration does not include why she is so irrevocably in love with him. Enumerating his phyiscal attributes hardly makes for a sound criteria. Other than smelling delectable, what draws Bella out of all the girls to Edward over the centuries? As reviewers before me had said, their relationship is based on superficialities. The mixture of phermones, lust and the clandestine nature of their relationship seems to be the driving force. The distinctions between love and lust have become blurred. People romanticize the idea of forbidden, unattainable love, but the foundation of Bella and Edward's relationship is dubious. It seems to me that his love borders on possession and hers on obsession. As reviewers before me have said, Edward watching Bella sleep at night while unbeknownst to her is creepy. This reflects a predatory behavior and no girl should find this romantic. Ever since the advent of the Internet, the proliferation of predators have alarmingly increased. Themes like Twilight makes it easier for predators to convince impressionable girls of shunning their family and friends all in the name of love.
Additionally, I found her self-castigation disturbing. Belittling herself, saying that she is not pretty enough for him, not good enough for him, that she's compartively plain and ordinary, blaming herself all the time and his calling her silly, weak, and criticizing her action. Moreover, Edward telling her what to do instead of asking and consulting with her while Bella complies without any demur. Does this really portray a mutually understanding union? If it were to be translated into reality, I'd say that their relationship has the potential to turn abusive. The idea that girls might view domineering behavior as acceptable is unnerving. If I had a friend whose boyfriend dicatates to her and follows her everywhere she goes, I would seriously be concerned about the soundness of her relationship. I wish Bella's self-recriminations ends there, but alas it continues into New Moon.
Since I dislike watching a movie without reading the book first, I decided to give New Moon a read and hoped that Bella has stopped whining and developed a marginal degree of automony in this installment. Unfortunately, Bella's character does not improve in the slightest. While in Twilight she appeared somewhat in control of her mental faculties, in New Moon she loses her marbles - using her college trust fund in order to repair a motorbike in the hopes that it'll endanger her life is a sign of disordered thinking. It's one thing to attract danger; and another thing to throw yourself in harm's way.
However, granted, I found it to be better than Twilight partly because she thankfully stops gushing incessantly over Edward's remarkable beauty and how much she adores him, although it appears that it got substituted for her lamenting about the hole in the chest.
Plus, the re-introduciton of Jacob (and fleshing him out a little bit) and his clan were the only thing that held my interest. I personally prefer Jacob over Edward because he is multifaceted and likeable and I grew infuriated with Bella that she could not see what a catch Jacob is! He is non-controlling, personable, and consistent. As the reviewer, The Puddled Rizzler had said, "this book's saving grace is Jacob Black."
However, it dismayed me how it continued to send the wrong message following the event after Edward leaves her. Getting dumped by a guy should not be the end of the world. At first I sympathized with Bella's grief and wanted to console her but then after months of moping and turning into a recluse and reiterating the hole in the chest phrase, I grew annoyed whenever she would fall apart because someone would make the slightest allusion to Edward.
Bella's morale would increase whenever she would hear Edward's voice inside her head. Even though he's absent from her life, he continues to rebuke and control her. Bella's self-esteem and morale is tied to Edward and his approbation. And Edward is a volatile character - so Bella's self-esteem ebbs and flows depending on Edward's mood which hardly makes their relationship a very sound one.
Like any other ordeal, pain builds character; makes you stronger; adds depth to your personality. What kind of message does this send? That if someone leaves you then it should be measured in catastrophic, epic proportions? That basically life is devoid of meaning? It unnerves me knowing how young girls today might follow in Bella's footsteps if their romantic relationship turns sour. Bella drawing an analogy that losing Edward is equivalent to dying just compounds the wrong message. I wanted to go inside the book and shake some sense into Bella. Tell Bella to get her act together and stop being such a weakling and that the sun, moon and the stars do not revolve around Edward and neither should she. That when a guy leaves you, you dust yourself off and continue living. Certainly not living in the shadows of your former life and lamenting about how you are not good enough for him, not to mention, trying to find ways to off yourself so it'd look like an accident.
Okay, let's face it. Breakups hurt - a lot! But we try to find ways to pull ourselves up from the trenches. Commiserate with our girlfriends, listen to empowering songs like " I will survive," read enlightening books like " Why Men Love Bitches" and "He's Just Not That Into You." We emerge from the experience a brand new person - stronger, hopefully wiser. Bella's entire universe was Edward - and once you remove that element, what remains is a disjointed mass of her former self - which remains nebulous since her character was molded by Edward.
I can't believe that publishers aren't aware of the insidious, subliminal message found in this book, especially since its readership consist mostly of teenage girls. Millions of malleable girls worldwide are inhaling the Twilight series and it worries me that they will apply the same unsound idea to their romantic lives. Are we trying to correlate love with a marked lack of self-worth? I can't believe that anyone would create a character whose passion doesn't go beyond her paramour. This is an entertaining fantasy but it should come with a cautionary warning.
 A little disappointing but I'll read the next one... March 7, 2010
J.R. Reardon (Washington, D.C.)
Stephenie Meyer's "New Moon" is a little disappointing, but I will read the next one. Like some of the other reviews, I too felt there was a little too much "whining" in the main character, Bella. It is obvious that Ms. Meyer was attempting to place the reader in Bella's position, especially since the story is told from her perspective. However, the emotions were repeated a little too much in my opinion. I think the story could have been written tighter in that respect.
I also felt like I did not gain much from reading this book....it reminded me of one of the Harry Potter books where the story abruptly stops without much progress to the storyline itself.....that would be fine, except that this book is over 500 pages.
Still, I do look forward to reading the next book. Ms. Meyer may have, in my opinion, went overboard in describing Bella's emotions, but I do feel she did capture the emotions of a teenager.
J.R. Reardon
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Excellent Book! March 4, 2010
L. Larsen
This is a good read. The end of each chapter makes you want to read on to the next chapter.
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