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She jumps off a cliff just for fun. She has become her grandmother while Edward hasn't aged at all. This results in Alice coming back to Forks because she's seen Bella jump and fears the worst. He's still 17. She is saved by the wolves that've been causing trouble for tourists in the area. Edward tells her the Cullens are leaving. She doesn't want this, so she makes an effort to reconnect with her friends.She's successful in reconnecting with Jacob.
He's no good for her, and he doesn't want her to come along. She takes pictures of Edward and her friends. He makes her promise not to do anything reckless or stupid, and then he leaves. And so we end the book with Bella fretting over her desire to become a vampire while Edward remains opposed.
The book opens with Bella suffering a nightmare on the eve of her 18th birthday. They forge a bond over motorcycles and reckless behavior because Bella has discovered she can hear Edward's voice when she is reckless. His voice gives her guidance when she gets herself in trouble, which is often.One day, she meets the vampire Laurent in the woods. To make things even more difficult, Jacob is now avoiding her. She's numb with shock, and Ms Meyers conveys the deadness by having November, December, and January pass as single words on the page. So then it's a race against time for them to save Edward from himself.Of course, they're successful. Bella continues to brood and by the third chapter, Bella is having premonitions of trouble. Edward is distraught and goes to Italy to seek permission from the Volturi to end his life.
She runs after him and falls exhausted in the woods where the search party finally finds her. Her father threatens to send her back to her mother since he can't make her happy anymore. When Alice finds Bella OK, she realizes that her sight has holes where the werewolves are concerned. Just to make things really interesting, the Volturi have made this a condition of their freeing Edward, Alice, and Bella.
I am an Edward fan for sure, so even though I loved reading this book. I really couldn't wait to get to the parts about Edward. I have not read in years, and I simply could not put this series down.
I just can't get enough. I have read all the books at least five or six times.
Relationship wise Meyer could of saved her series by having Bella get with Jacob and get over Edward. I was hoping that would happen but no it didn't, Jacob is the healthy non-controlling shoulder to lean on there for you guy any girl should want. Not a controlling stalking obsessive abusive guy like Edward.
By the end of the novel, we are so in tune with Edward and Jacob that it's easy to picture their moods, movements, and have a good guess at what they'll do next.The downside of "New Moon": The Twilight novels are very slow paced, which is fine. It may sound far fetched if you haven't read any of the Twilight series, but Meyer's presents even the most bizarre senarios in a way that makes them believable.I believe Stephanie Meyer's magic lies in the way she makes the reader feel so closely connected with Bella. I totally enjoyed Stephanie Myer's "New Moon", a sweet yet dark tale of a girl and a vampire kept apart by circumstances, and a little emotional fling on the side with a werewolf. This one just doesn't seem like they've gotten very far by the end, and it felt like it was more or less setting the reader up for what is to come in "Eclipse". And I'm not just talking about the 1st person POV. It's as if the reader feels like they know Bella on a personal level (whether they choose to love her or hate her), and the prose makes it feel as if we crawl inside her head, spellbound by her stream of consciousness. But, that said, I would still highly recommend this book. The prose is magnificent and pulls you along, while the characters are unique and prolific.
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