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 enlarge | Author: Stephenie Meyer
Publisher: Little, Brown Young Readers
Category: Book
List Price: $10.99
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Rating:  1097 reviews
Sales Rank: 4
Media: Paperback
Reading Level: Young Adult
Number Of Items: 1
Pages: 608
Shipping Weight (lbs): 1.2
Dimensions (in): 8.2 x 5.4 x 1.5
ISBN: 0316024961
EAN: 9780316024969
ASIN: 0316024961
Publication Date: May 31, 2008
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 Full Moon??? December 1, 2008
0 out of 1 found this review helpful
I may not be Stephenie Meyer's target audience. But I do love vampire books (Anne Rice, Poppy Z. Brite, White Wolf novels, P. N. Elrod, Laurell K. Hamilton, to name a few), and I've always been attracted to the forbidden love theme. Being a huge fan of Shakespeare, including Romeo and Juliet, one of my favorite plays, it's immensely enjoyable to see this theme throughout her novels.
Now to the novel... I don't want to give away anything. The novel picks up where the first in the series of novels left off. Bella has been rescued from the clutches of James, and all would seem well in her world - or so you would think. Bella is in her last year of high school, and all of the events of "normal" human life are paralleled with numerous supernatural events. A number of threads from the previous novel carry over into this one, including some enemies thought gone and an expansion of some of the mythology introduced in the first novel. One of the most significant events involves the absence of some important characters in Bella's life and her subsequent reaction to that happening. Bella spirals into depression, but comes out of it with the help of Jacob Black and her newly discovered reckless side of her nature.
Much like the first novel in the series, this novel climaxes at the end of the novel in a very exciting way that will, no doubt, leave readers of the series very satisfied. A number of characters and locations mentioned in the first novel are expounded during the climax at the end. The ending clearly lays the foundation for future novels.
"New Moon" is as exciting as the first novel in the series, and I would easily recommend it to fans of the series.
 Least favorite of the four November 30, 2008
I was so excited to read this, once I had finished Twilight. However, it was dull in comparison. I struggled to get through it. The beginning 100 and last 100 pages were okay, but the ones in the middles could have definitely been condensed. They were almost painful. However, you must read this to get on to Eclipse and Breaking Dawn, which are both definitely worth reading.
 i just started reading this..... November 30, 2008
I just started reading this book and I am hooked just like the first one.You should read the whole saga.
Beautiful vision that lacklusters... November 30, 2008
I bought this book after seeing the movie adaption of the first book "Twilight" with my sister who has read all four books and is definitely obsessed. Based on what my sister told me I was expecting the continuation of a story about a vampire and a teenage girl whose love defies logic. It took me less than three days to finish it and while it was entertaining, the middle 400 pages are very drawn out and boring. Not Jacob just the writing. Edward's absence for most of the novel doesn't help matters but quite honestly it's the writing. Bella is written as a depressed teenager desperate for someone in her life after Edward breaks her heart. She genuinely cares for Jacob but is just plain desperate. But I can't fault Stephanie Meyer completely since she never intended to write a sequel to Twilight and from what I know about the publishing industry was probably rushed into writing a sequel at the expense of quality story telling. All that said, I do plan on reading the third novel just to see what happens.
 Bad Moon November 30, 2008
After reading Twilight, I really expected to be even more wowed by New Moon, but that was no where near the reaction that I had to this sequel.
I found myself bored and sad for most of the book. It was kind of beating to read. I do believe that some of it was necessary to further the story, but I believe it could have been done in a much more interesting and different way. I didn't really find any of it interesting until the end, so when you read it, just keep in mind that the third one is better, so its worth the boredom.
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