Lee's Library

New Moon is the second installment in the Twilight series by Stephenie Meyer. I must start off by saying that the first half of this novel was a bit of a disappointment. It lacked the fast-paced writing that Twilight has. The second half is so much better than the first. This book is more focused on Bella and Jacob rather than Edward.

*****Spoiler Alert!
Edward takes an "extended leave" and leaves Bella to take care of herself. If you don't know, Jacob is a werewolf.
End Alert*****

Okay, sorry about that but I'd rather not ruin it for the people who have not had the chance to read this novel. I know I would not want it ruined for me, so I try not to ruin it for others. Let me talk about Alice for a minute. I love Alice! I think she is awesome. She always wants everything to be perfect and will go through pretty much anything to get it, especially for Bella. You never can surprise Alice though, with her power and all, that's really hard to do. I quite enjoy Emmett too because he thinks that almost everything is fun especially fighting. I said in the last post that I would talk about Rosalie so I'll talk about her here. Rosalie seems very "stuck up," but really she just has her own issues. She feels as if Bella wants to throw away all of her human life just to be with Edward. Let's get back to the first half of the book, shall we? Like I've stated before, the first half was very slow. It had just enough action / drama in it to keep me interested. The story does come back to Edward in the second half and the writing speeds back up and possibly goes even faster than Twilight. Overall, this is not the best novel that I've read. One thing that is interesing is that the Volturi show up once again. I do like Jacob, but at the same time I'm quite fond of Edward by this point. I think introducing Jacob was necessary, especially because he becomes quite a large charater in the later novels. Something else that happens is that Victoria comes back to Forks. So far, this is all I'm going to talk about for this novel.