New Moon (Twilight Saga, Book 2) (original 2006; edition 2006)

by Stephenie Meyer

Series: Twilight Saga (2)

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When the Cullens, including her beloved Edward, leave Forks rather than risk revealing that they are vampires, it is almost too much for eighteen-year-old Bella to bear, but she finds solace in her friend Jacob until he is drawn into a "cult" and changes in terrible ways.

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Member:	marsha.carmichael
Title:	New Moon (Twilight Saga, Book 2)
Authors:	Stephenie Meyer
Info:	Little, Brown Books for Young Readers (2006), Edition: First Edition, Hardcover, 608 pages
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repechage | Dec 26, 2024 |

I loved this series. It is not complex, but well developed and clearly told. It keeps you wanting more, but is an easy to read book. (

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jodiebc | Dec 1, 2024 |

it was cute

but I can see why it was removed. it was very un-Bella like. lol

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Loved it. Loved them all. (

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Trisha_Thomas | Nov 14, 2024 |

sometimes the movie is better i'm pissed that the "bella where the hell have you been loca" quote isn't in the book (

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gluchie | Sep 22, 2024 |

Sometimes I’m glad almost none of my social media people pay any mind to my Goodreads activity.

Yes, I read this in 24 hours. I get the criticisms of this book, especially Bella’s behavior in response to heartbreak. I also related more than I want to admit to “the blank chapters” (in a lesser fashion, being not a dramatic teenager of course). Bella may not respond in the healthiest ways to this tragedy in her life, but I can’t deny she comes across as human and flawed. Sometimes characters are not good role models. Sometimes characters are more infuriating than we want them to be - cough EDWARD. The romance is still pretty ridiculous, but oddly enough, it’s almost like the pure romantic element is not the main focus of this series for me. At least, not in the obvious way it’s written. It’s the constant morality questions, the nostalgia of being a teenager, the nostalgia of being a grown adult wounded by lost love, the adventure, the lack of sex scenes and so forth.

I liked it. (

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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.

added by timspalding | editSchool Library Journal, Hillias J. Martin (Jul 13, 2009)

This best-selling sequel to “Twilight” — which introduced Edward, the world’s most gentlemanly 17-year-old vampire, and Bella, an ordinary teenager in Forks, Wash. — appropriately begins with an epigraph from “Romeo and Juliet”; love and death are once again entwined in their curiously absorbing romance.

added by Shortride | editThe New York Times Book Review, Julie Just (Oct 22, 2006)

Despite Bella's flat and obsessive personality, this tale of tortured demon lovers entices.

added by ncgraham | editKirkus Reviews, Francesca Belham

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Author name	Role	Type of author	Work?	Status
Meyer, Stephenie	Author	primary author	all editions	confirmed
Gelada Fuster, Laura	Translator	secondary author	some editions	confirmed
Kadushin, Ilyana	Narrator	secondary author	some editions	confirmed
Pallarés Sanmiguel, José Miguel	Translator	secondary author	some editions	confirmed

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Twilight by Stephenie Meyer

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New Moon

Original title

New Moon

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2006-09-06

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Forks, Washington, USA

Volterra, Tuscany, Italy

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Epigraph

These violent delights

have violent ends and in their triumph die,

like fire and powder, which, as they kiss, consume.

Romeo and Juliet, Act II, Scene VI

Dedication

For my dad, Stephen Morgan —

No one has ever been given more loving and unconditional support than I have been given by you.

I love you, too.

First words

I felt like I was trapped in one of those terrifying nightmares, the one where you have to run, run till your lungs burst, but you can't make your body move fast enough.

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Times passes. Even when it seems impossible.

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When the Cullens, including her beloved Edward, leave Forks rather than risk revealing that they are vampires, it is almost too much for eighteen-year-old Bella to bear, but she finds solace in her friend Jacob until he is drawn into a "cult" and changes in terrible ways.

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I knew we were both in mortal danger. Still, in that instant, I felt well. Whole. I could feel my heart racing in my chest, the blood pulsing hot and fast through my veins again. My lungs filled deep with the sweet scent that came off his skin. It was like there had never been any hole in my chest. I was perfect - not healed, but as if there had never been a wound in the first place.

I FELT LIKE I WAS TRAPPED IN ONE OF THOSE TERRIFYING NIGHTMARES, the one where you have to run, run till your lungs burst, but you can't make your body move fast enough.... But this was no dream, and, unlike the nightmare, I wasn't running for my life; I was racing to save something infinitely more precious. My own life meant little to me today.

FOR BELLA SWAN THERE IS ONE THING more important than life itself: Edward Cullen. But being in love with a vampire is even more dangerous than Bella could ever have imagined. Edward has already rescued Bella from the clutches of one evil vampire, but now, as their daring relationship threatens all that is near and dear to them, they realize their troubles may be just beginning....

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