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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Product Details

• Amazon Sales Rank: #7 in Books
• Published on: 2008-05-31
• Released on: 2008-05-31
• Original language: English
• Number of items: 1
• Binding: Paperback
• 608 pages

From School Library Journal
Grade 9 Up–Recovered from the vampire attack that hospitalized her in the conclusion of Twilight (Little, Brown, 2005), Bella celebrates her birthday with her boyfriend Edward and his family, a unique clan of vampires that has sworn off human blood. But the celebration abruptly ends when the teen accidentally cuts her arm on broken glass. The sight and smell of her blood trickling away forces the Cullen family to retreat lest they be tempted to make a meal of her. After all is mended, Edward, realizing the danger that he and his family create for Bella, sees no option for her safety but to leave. Mourning his departure, she slips into a downward spiral of depression that penetrates and lingers over her every step. Vampire fans will appreciate the subsequently dour mood that permeates the novel, and it's not until Bella befriends Jacob, a sophomore from her school with a penchant for motorcycles, that both the pace and her disposition begin to take off. Their adventures are wild, dare-devilish, and teeter on the brink of romance, but memories of Edward pervade Bella's emotions, and soon their fun quickly morphs into danger, especially when she uncovers the true identities of Jacob and his pack of friends. Less streamlined than Twilight yet just as exciting, New Moon will more than feed the bloodthirsty hankerings of fans of the first volume and leave them breathless for the third.–Hillias J. Martin, New York Public Library
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From Booklist
Gr. 8-11. "Which is tempting you more, my blood or my body?" Things are heating up between Bella Swan and her vampire boyfriend, Edward Cullen, in this sequel to the immensely popular Twilight (2005). Then Bella is injured at her birthday party, and the Cullens' reaction to her blood sends Edward's family packing. Bella is inconsolable until she discovers that reckless behavior allows her to hear Edward's warning voice in her head. To keep him close, she decides to live as dangerously as possible, acquiring two motorcycles and developing a close friendship with Jacob, who helps her rebuild them. Romantics will miss Edward's presence, but the suspense created by a pack of werewolves bent on protecting Bella from a vindictive vampire will keep them occupied until the lovers can be reunited. The writing is a bit melodramatic, but readers won't care. Bella's dismay at being ordinary (after all, she's only human) will strike a chord even among girls who have no desire to be immortal, and like the vampires who watch Bella bleed with "fevered eyes," teens will relish this new adventure and hunger for more. Cindy Dobrez
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Review
All is not well between demon-magnet Bella and Edward Cullen, her vampire Romeo. An innocent papercut at Edward's house puts Bella in grave danger when various members of the Cullen family can barely resist their hunger at the smell of blood. The Cullens promptly leave town, afraid of endangering Edward's beloved, and Bella sinks into an overwhelming depression. Months later, she finally emerges from her funk to rebuild her life, focusing on her friendship with besotted teen Jacob from the reservation. Bella's unhealthy enthrallment to Edward leads her into dangerous and self-destructive behavior despite her new friends, and supernatural complications are bound to reappear. Bella's being hunted by an evil vampire, and Jacob's adolescent male rage turns out to be incipient lycanthropy: It seems many Quileute Indians become werewolves in the presence of vampires, their natural enemies. Psychic miscommunications and angst-ridden dramatic gestures lead to an exciting page-turner of a conclusion drenched in the best of Gothic romantic excess. Despite Bella's flat and obsessive personality, this tale of tortured demon lovers entices. (Fantasy. 13-16) (Kirkus Reviews)

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Customer Reviews

I still don't get it.
I still cannot figure out the appeal of this series. I read Twilight without expectations of a fantastic literary experience but at least hoping for a fun read that I wouldn't be able to put down. I certainly didn't experience fantastic literature and while I read the book in one day, it was NOT because it was so thrilling I had to know what happened. Rather, I was just bored and had nothing else to do that day, and the book is almost insultingly easy to read, so it took me about 4 hours.

New Moon was recommended to me and again, I had a free day in which I could read another easy book, and again, I was far less than impressed. The story is alright, but the fact that Bella goes into such a deep depression for so long when Edward leaves is just pitiful. She's known him for a few months and already her life isn't worth living without him. What kind of a message is that to young girls? That its OK to completely fall apart when your boyfriend leaves? Come on. And the fact that Bella needed another guy to get a bit better is just pathetic.

I won't even get into the ways that Bella purposely endangers her life so she can imagine Edward's voice in her head. The disturbing implications should be pretty self-explanatory. Overall, this is another work with under-developed characters, a mediocre plot, and LOTS of purple prose, which, to me at least, makes it virtually unreadable. Don't waste your time.

LOVE IT
New Moon (The Twilight Saga, Book 2)

I got this book and within a day I was done reading it! I couldn't put it down. I just recently finished the entire series and have begun to read it again. I am hooked.

For ANYONE who takes these books to literal, just remember these ARE INFACT FICTIONAL characters. How they are living in the book is not real. And personally I would love to have an Edward, over protectiveness and all!!

New Moon by Stephanie Meyer
This book is fantastic, a real page turner. The shipping was quick and the book arrived in perfect condition.