New Moon

4/5⭐️

I enjoyed this one a lot more than the first book. I think watching the movie before i read the book honestly helped me paint a better picture in my head haha.

I think the time that Edward and Bella were together really helped their relationship in this book, and Meyer did a great job of portraying the emotions every character, especially Bella, felt in this book.

Overall, a good read. The end of the epilogue did have me loling though i can’t lie.

Parts of this book were better than the first one don’t get me wrong. Unfortunately the lows were WAYY lower as well. I loved the whole middle section with Jacob and learning about the werewolves. It was great and sweet and cute and pretty much exactly what I would want from a simple YA paranormal romance. Was the explanation and exploration of depression and suicidal thoughts surface level and boring? Yes but it was fine. I have my expectations set low in these books

The last fourth of this book takes such a wild and incomprehensible u turn that I cannot justify giving this book a higher rating. If the book had decided to do anything else for the ending it could have been better than the first book. Flying off to Arizona randomly for two chapters just for Bella to have a near death experience in the last book was already over the line but now

we need to go to Italy to raise the stakes?

Bella is also so annoying with Edward. Edward do you really love me? How could Edward love me? Edward must not really love me. Do you think Edward really loves me? SHUT UP!

HE TRIED TO KILL HIMSELF BECAUSE HE THOUGHT YOU WERE DEAD HE LOVES YOU.

She is really an anxious attachment, codependency queen.

Note to anyone reading this that isn’t already an adult, if your entire happiness is attached to the men in your life, go to therapy. She dated Edward for 6 months, he is gone for like 4.5 months by the time she is hanging out with Jacob. Then that whole fiasco is at least a month if not more. If the depression is lasting longer than the length of the relationship itself, then you have some serious attachment issues.

The middle was fun, the rest was annoying. Bella is really starting to annoy me as a protagonist.

P.S. Team Jacob

I loved the parts with the werewolves and Bella's relationship with Jacob. I even empathized with Bella when Edward left...but the sappy, unrealistic reaction when he came back made me gag. "Oh, I can't *live* without you!" Stephenie Meyer, learn to write realistic character depictions, okay, bye.

This review is about the whole "Twilight" series, as the books weren't interesting enough to separate.

I read the Twilight series over one weekend out of sheer curiosity. A lot of my "Harry Potter" friends were talking about it and my 13 year old cousin was raving about it. I find the series mildly entertaining, but that's all. Not great writing. My biggest problem with these books are the fact that the two main characters, Bella and Edward, are so annoying. Their love is so melodramatic and co-dependent. Bella is a weak female lead, and her near-suicide when her boyfriend leaves, is a terrible message for pre-teens. Edward is just as obnoxious - violent, jealous, and controlling at times - but teen girls tell me he's "perfect." It makes my skin crawl to think these are the gender and relationship messages being spoonfed to the tweens and they are eating it up. The secondary character of Jacob is slightly better developed, but he is also another male figure that constantly has to rescue Bella from her many idiotic scrapes. Overall, these books play greatly into stereotypical gender roles and glorify relationships that associate sex with violence.

This was better than the first book in my opinion. This book has more of a twist than the first one, therefore this would be my favorite in between the 2 but not the whole saga.

As much as I loved Edward, I was angry. I was angry at him for leaving and I was angry at him for thinking it was for Bella's own good. And I was just angry. It made it really hard to feel sympathy towards Edward because I hated him. I hated the fact that he considers dying. It was his fault he left. I hate that Bella goes to save him because he should be saving her. And as much as I began to hate Edward, I fell in love with Jacob.

And I really started to want it to be Jacob and Bella but Edward was always holding them back and it felt like it could be so right and it frustrated me something shocking. Meyer makes you feel so connected with the characters that you can't help but hate the emotional rollercoaster you're taken on.

Apart from that though, the writing was brilliant as per usual and the book clearly draws the reader in, if it wasn't for the horrible hatred of Edward and anger that Bella and Jacob can't be together I would've gave 5 stars. But I can't because Twilight was perfect and this was only a step up from me completely hating it.

Better than the first book in the series, but not by much.

I was talked into reading the first book in this series when I was in high school (before the books had received recognition and gained popularity). I would have stopped there, but I have OCD, and have to finish a series no matter how painful it is to do so. This is why I only start a book if I am confident that I'll enjoy myself. I take EXTRA caution in selecting a book series, because I don't want to get stuck reading trash for years.

When I was introduced to this book, it was the only one in the series to be published, and at the time, no plans were made (to my knowledge) to continue the novel as a series. I was uninterested in Twilight BEFORE I started reading, so I may be biased (although I try to be as open-minded and fair as possible when I read). If I had known it would turn into four books, instead of one, I would have done a better job of avoiding it in the first place. I loathed this series.

Let me start off by warning people that this series is to be avoided if in search of a story with plot. If you are seeking a story with interesting characters/character development, do not read this book. If you are are looking for a trashy, insipid novel written for illiterate children, you have come to the right place.

Although, I didn't particularly warm to Bella or Edward, I did like the other characters, especially Bella's father and Aro of the Volturi. I also enjoyed the use of Quileute legends involving shapeshifters which added an interesting element.