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Shut up, Bella! SHUT UP SHUT UP SHUT UP!
no. 2 lost a star because I'm definitely TEAM EDWARD and this was a tad too Jacob-heavy for me. Still unbelievably great.
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Bummer ... I made it to the end, but was sorely disappointed. My series reading ends halfway ...
More mindless entertainment. This one is getting worse. But I'm committed to finishing the series....
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This entire book can be described by one word: emo. It was riddled with teenage angst. It had little real plot. It had little character development--either further development of Bella or the other known characters, or initial development of newer characters like Jacob. The whole vampire/werewolf conflict is cliched.
That said, I still liked it immensely. I give it 2 stars because I can't in good conscience bring myself to rate it higher. But I still liked it. :) ...more
That said, I still liked it immensely. I give it 2 stars because I can't in good conscience bring myself to rate it higher. But I still liked it. :) ...more
ok, NOW I'm sucked in. This series isn't perfect, in my opinion--for one, I think this particular book could have been about 200 pages shorter--but it's a fun read. I lost a lot of sleep over this book, both in staying up too late to read it and having weird, restless dreams because of it. I'm really curious what's going to happen next--this book was much more of a cliff-hanger for me than the first one. Will be reserving the next book at the library, stat.
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I think New Moon is a stronger book than Twilight. It deviates from the female protagonist, Bella Swan, constantly being saved to a position where she actually saves her boyfriend - and even though the author portrays her through the entire book as being obsessed with Edward, it does show her cultivating other relationships and interests - all in all, it makes her look a lot more healthy and well rounded of a character than the previous novel.
Not as good as the first one. It seems like this series really describes what it is like being a teenager in love. This story has Bella without Edward and her struggle to deal with it. She finds someone new in Jacob (a werewolf), but she can't let Edward go. He does return in the end, setting the stage for the triangle in Eclipse.
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Okay. This book didn't "destroy me" as one of my students told me it would. But I found parts of it interesting. Not as page-turning as the first, although I did like the development of the character Jacob
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See me review of Twilight.
Sep 24, 2008
LaRaie
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