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New Moon by Stephenie Meyer

29 reviews

ceceliareads's review

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adventurous dark emotional mysterious sad tense slow-paced
  • Plot- or character-driven? Character
  • Strong character development? It's complicated
  • Loveable characters? It's complicated
  • Diverse cast of characters? Yes
  • Flaws of characters a main focus? It's complicated

5.0

this book made me violently sob when
jacob turned into a werewolf and bella didn’t know what was going on and jacob was trying to make her understand, i was just a hot mess.
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book_soulsbee's review

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adventurous dark emotional mysterious reflective tense medium-paced
  • Plot- or character-driven? A mix
  • Strong character development? Yes
  • Loveable characters? It's complicated
  • Diverse cast of characters? It's complicated
  • Flaws of characters a main focus? Yes

3.0

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stindex's review against another edition

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adventurous
  • Plot- or character-driven? A mix
  • Strong character development? No
  • Loveable characters? No
  • Diverse cast of characters? No

0.75

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revolverreads's review

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dark emotional sad tense medium-paced
  • Plot- or character-driven? A mix
  • Strong character development? It's complicated
  • Loveable characters? Yes
  • Diverse cast of characters? It's complicated
  • Flaws of characters a main focus? It's complicated

3.0

This December, we took a page out of Edward Cullen’s High School Survival Guide: Bad Breakups 101, or the guide on how to not break up with your underage girlfriend whose self esteem is practically nonexistent. 

In The Twilight Saga, New Moon, Meyer reintroduces us to Bella Swan, however this time around she’s not our decisive, and determined protagonist. Rather, we begin this tale with 17 going on 80 year-old Bella Swan who finds herself devastated when Edward Cullen abruptly leaves her, sending her spiraling into a deep depression. Bella’s emotional turmoil and grief is difficult to digest. Dumped by her vampire boyfriend, Bella is barely making it through the day. She categorizes herself as a “fixer upper”, broken and worthless of not only Edward’s affections, but everyone else’s as well. Meyer delves into the depths of her grief, capturing the rawness of her heartbreak and abandonment. 

That is, until she reconnects with long time family friend (and literal ray of warmth and sunshine)  Jacob Black. Somehow this 16 year old boy is better than a 100 year old vampire at communicating. Jacob is patient, thoughtful, and understanding (at least in this installment), and despite undergoing a very traumatic transformation into a literal wolf, proves himself to be the best friend a traumatized girl can ask for.  After all, as feminists, we support women's rights as well as women's wrongs. And that includes motorcycle rides, and hanging out with supernatural beings that could permanently disfigure you in a moment's notice. That is until Bella finally decides to fling herself off of a cliff and call it cliff diving. 

Bella’s near death experience brings back the only Cullen who had any common sense, Alice. Together they hurry to Italy and into the dangerous grasp of the Volturi, as Bella tries to save Edward from exposing himself to the humans. Despite hundreds of years of living on planet earth, and a plethora of academic distinctions, Edward has the intelligence of a potato. That’s fine, we love a good spud. 

Ultimately, this time around, we found ourselves not team Edward, or team Jacob but rather team Bella. Team Bella needs to go to therapy like Charlie suggested. 

So please, grab your galoshes and your teenage angst and join us as we get into much more detail on our podcast. Check us out at Revolver Reads: A Bookclub Russian Roulette on your podcast platform of choice, or simply @revolverreads on Instagram and let us know what you think. If you’d like to email us any future book suggestions for our roulette wheel, feel free to send them to [email protected].
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alyssapusateri's review

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adventurous dark emotional mysterious reflective tense medium-paced
  • Plot- or character-driven? A mix
  • Strong character development? No
  • Loveable characters? Yes
  • Diverse cast of characters? It's complicated
  • Flaws of characters a main focus? Yes

3.5

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magdi_thealien37's review against another edition

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adventurous dark emotional sad slow-paced
  • Plot- or character-driven? Character
  • Strong character development? No
  • Loveable characters? No
  • Diverse cast of characters? No
  • Flaws of characters a main focus? No

1.0

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miacorkum's review against another edition

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adventurous emotional sad tense medium-paced
  • Plot- or character-driven? Character
  • Strong character development? Yes
  • Loveable characters? Yes
  • Diverse cast of characters? Yes

3.5

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__romancereader__'s review against another edition

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adventurous emotional sad tense slow-paced
  • Plot- or character-driven? Character
  • Strong character development? It's complicated
  • Loveable characters? Yes
  • Diverse cast of characters? It's complicated
  • Flaws of characters a main focus? Yes

5.0

-This book is so good it was definitely more sadder and tense then the first one but given the fact that i watched the movies a good 7000 times in the years since 2015 it was expected but like i said the first book they really left allot of good stuff out of the movies or they flipped it into something similar but not like the movies i loved how Edward spoke to her and i was so excited when they reunited if you have never read the books before my personal opinion i would highly recommend to watch the movies first as much as you would think it would spoil the book they left out allot and flipped allot of parts from the book i mean so much that i was not expecting it it definitely was comforting for me that i watched the movies before i read any of the books because i have terrible anxiety that gets easily triggered especially when happy couples break up even though in the books they normally get back together but still so i was comforted to know that they were guaranteed to reunite but i do also wish like the first book that they would’ve put some parts into the movie they left such good parts out when they made the movie and like i also said when i read the first book that i 100% think no questions asked that the books are better then the movies are the movies are still good though i rated this book 5 stars right along with the first one⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️-
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harrietcarrot72's review

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emotional sad tense slow-paced
  • Plot- or character-driven? Character
  • Strong character development? It's complicated
  • Loveable characters? It's complicated
  • Diverse cast of characters? No
  • Flaws of characters a main focus? Yes

4.25

it got better once Edward came back (which was near the end of the book) /spoiler>
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dramagirl2003's review against another edition

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adventurous emotional tense medium-paced
  • Plot- or character-driven? Character
  • Loveable characters? Yes
  • Flaws of characters a main focus? Yes

4.5

Love it, love it! I expected it to be a little boring waiting for Edward to rejoin the story, but it was really great! I loved the friendship dynamic with Bella and Jacob, it's more detailed than it is in the film
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