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 enlarge | Author: Stephenie Meyer
Publisher: Little, Brown Young Readers
Category: EBooks
List Price: $10.99
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Rating:  1065 reviews
Sales Rank: 2
Format: Kindle Book
Media: Kindle Edition
Reading Level: Young Adult
Pages: 608
Number Of Items: 1
Publication Date: August 8, 2007
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 AMAZING!! November 19, 2008
N. Perez (New Jersey, USA)
I completly loved this book. Once you begin with the first book of the series (Twilight) you will be tangled with the Bella & Edward love story. I also love that the books are good for all ages so mothers & daughters can enjoy them together.
NEW MOON November 19, 2008
Pamela J. Lewis (Lebanon, Oregon)
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
Jacob Schriftman
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.
- Jacob Schriftman, Author of "The Crack Beneath the Worlds"
Delaneys Review November 18, 2008
CHERYL C PARENT (RANCHO SANTA MARGARITA, CA United States)
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
Yoichi
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...
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