Stephenie Meyer
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I thoroughly enjoyed Twilight. New Moon was not as enjoyable, although I am still a sucker for what has been touted as a "star crossed romance". Clearly Meyers is writing about Romeo and Juliet here as vamp and human respectively, and those clever types out there looking for more logic and realism are going to be heavily disappointed. This is a series about love - irrational, passionate, and totally imbued with an adolescent desperation that is immune to anything but having that love of your life at your side.
IMHO, anyway. This book leaves us where Twilight left off, except Edward is having some serious second thoughts about his relationship with Bella. He ends up dumping her, and she spends a good portion of the book agonizing about the "hole" in her chest. She also meets up with a character I like far more than Edward, namely Jacob Black, who has a secret of his own - much like Edward did in Twilight (that he was a vampire, but of course). Bella spends almost 400 pages strengthening her relationship with Jacob, and frankly I found it frustrating that Jacob (aka Paris in R & J) is not given his due. At the end of the book I was frankly hoping that Bella might ditch Edward and give ol'Jacob a trial run!
But that's not what these stories are about, my friends. At any rate, Meyers gives us more bad guys (recycled from Twilight, I might add), and Bella's endless dasmel in distress. I got tired of reading about her being carried around all the time - she's like a Victorian heroine ever about to faint. Get the girl some smelling salts of her own already! So Bella hasn't grown much here - her tendency to sulk (very adolescent, I might add, and therefore somewhat realistic to my mind) are here, and her love for Edward is unchanged.
We don't see Edward much in this book, although the ending brings them together yet again along with a trip to Italy that seemed a tad forced. However, I enjoy these books b/c Bella is still an intelligent narrator, and the action and romance, to me, are fun and handled well, all things considered.
If you can sidestep some of the more annoying aspects of this series, namely Bella's inability to see beyond the end of her nose (that being Edward), there is much to enjoy here. This is pure escape - and if you take it as such, you will have a highly entertaining read.
Editorial Review:
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.
