Book 2: New Moon (The Twilight Saga, Book 2) by Stephenie Meyer. My least favorite of the 4 books. I felt like Bella was slow to come to conclusions I'd come to early on in the book. It was a bit frustrating to wait out. If this book disappoints, hang in there, the 4th is by far the best. 3 Stars The Twilight Saga: Breaking Character is a blooper reel of sorts, covering most of the movies and including outtakes from cast interviews (including one with Robert Pattinson and Stewart in which she chides him repeatedly for flubbing his introduction), and other in-between-scene footage. There haven’t been many outtakes of the films made available, so this 8-minutes of never-before-seen behind-the-scenes footage might quench a very specific thirst. It’s also kind of adorable. But something that this book does good is how they portray Bellas and Jacobs's friendship. It’s not overdramatic like in the movies. And Jacob actually truly cares in the book, in the movies I couldn’t care less because they don’t show anything about HIS feelings. The movies seem really bad in general at showing remorse and apologizing and they just brush over everything, while in the books people are just apologizing and realize their mistakes left and right. However, I’ve seen people say that New Moon is overdramatic and problematic because of the way she responds to his leaving. But I disagree and I want to talk about it.

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New Moon. Edward's vampire family puts Bella in danger so he decides to leave. Bella is befriended by Jacob who it turns out is a werewolf - the sworn enemy of vampires. Anyways, long story short, I got bullied for liking the books and therefore stopped reading them – when the saga got too popular I didn’t want to jump on the bandwagon again because I had already convinced myself that I hated the books. It also didn’t help that the series/author got a really bad reputation.Anyway, Jacob and Bella have a history of DOING stuff together. Of talking. Of being actual friends that aren’t based on unnatural attraction. He doesn’t treat her like something mindless that can’t handle the truth. I’m not saying that Bella SHOULD be with him though, it’s a free world and no one can change who they love the most. But I can’t justify Edwards's actions and words in this book. I simply can’t see this as real long-lasting love. Like, imagine Edward not being a vampire and Bella can’t just be intoxicated by his smell, or see the pretty skin in the sunshine, or feel the static-thing that happens when a vampire touches a human, or have to deal with his overaggressiveness and overprotectiveness. Would there be any love left for her when all of that is gone and there is no more mystery left neither of eternal life or vampires who have special powers and beauty? He’d just be a normal toxic human boyfriend.

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The books get progressively better in quality from 1-4. The first two generally drive me insane and the last two I like better, the writing does improve as well, but it isn't even as good as Rowling. I think she's better than Paolini's first book or two, but his writing improved as well. Unfortunately the series ends feeling rather unfinished, kind of as if Rowling had ended HP on the 5th or 6th book and Meyer's is being a bit of a jerk about not finishing the rewrite of the first book ala Edward POV because it was leaked. All her diehard fans are chomping at the bit to buy it and she's whining about it being leaked! But I digress. I think the theme throughout all of the books was love and sacrafice. Of course in each book they have other small themes. In the first book one theme would be everlasting love, because Bella falls in love with Edward even though he is a vampire. And in the third book a theme could be Good vs Bad because the Cullens try to kill all the bad vampires. I think the subject of the book was to show that anyone can fall in love. I think that Stephanie Meyer wrote this book because she wanted to write a love story but with an unusual twist. It was mainly to entertain. These books were an overall success because they have been made into million dollar movies and are a household name. The characters were static and very annoying to read, the plot in all four books could be described in one short sentence, the writing was shoddy, and it didn't convey a good message (no, "I would become a vampire for the guy I just met" and "always date crazy-obsessive people" doesn't count.).As The Twilight Saga: Breaking Dawn, Part 2 prepares to re-write the record book, it would be easy to overlook the rest of the top five. However, there are a few other films of note. Firstly, Lincoln, which is expanding this weekend and will nearly be at the truly wide level. Nearly everyone thinks this film will grab a spot in the top five. Also, despite a lot of people predicting Breaking Dawn will break records, a lot of people think Skyfall will hold up pretty well over the weekend. By comparison, last year, Breaking Dawn, Part 1 had an impressive opening, but it was the only thing about the weekend that was impressive, as Happy Feet 2 crashed and burned. There's a slim chance Breaking Dawn, Part 2 will open with more than the combined openings of those two films. Adding in Skyfall and 2012 should come out with a major win this week. We refine our estimates from week to week as more data becomes available. In particular, we adjust weekly sales figures for the quarter once the total market estimates are published by the Digital Entertainment Group. Figures will therefore fluctuate each week, and totals for individual titles can go up or down as we update our estimates. But I will say that the beginning of this book wasn’t as bad as I expected, mainly because Edward was barely there and he was getting his way with marriage so there was nothing for him to complain about. The second part, Jacobs's narrative, is good though. I enjoyed that part a lot. He felt more like ”himself” in that part, in comparison to the other books. And the fact that she becomes a zombie for several months and then ”wakes up” when she gets into trouble is understandable. I am no therapist though but I do understand what she is going through and why she acts the way she does.

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This is so nostalgic. I am still having that stupid smile every once in a while when the story is sweet. I do not hate this. I enjoy this more than I’d like to admit. The one thing I will hand to Stephanie Meyer, however, is that somehow she is still aware of EXACTLY what a teenage girl wants to read. She is aware of the hero the teenage girl wants and the heroine the teenage girl wants to pretend she is. When I first read the books, I loved Edward, and I thought Bella was juuuust like meeeeeeee. As do most of the other girls on the planet, I imagine. Hell - even grown women. So kudos to Meyer for managing to bottle down in *only* four books every instance of wish fulfilment a girl could ever need in her literature. This time there was no waiting and I the outcome....but it was like reading them all new again...I could not stop... felt like a repeat to me. Secondly, that she would put herself in danger just to "hear" Edwards voice, it was difficult to accept. I think the last section of the book with the Volturi was very entertaining and redeemed the book in my eyes.And the more I read of this book the more I am convinced that the only thing really keeping those two together is the fact that to Bella Edward is hot, and for him, it’s the frustration that turns into passion because he can’t read her mind. In all honesty, it could have been a good story if it wasn't Meyer who wrote it. Bella really grated on my nerves. She spends the majority of the first few chapters whining about living in Forks (if she sent HERSELF there I don't know why she's complaining so much, she can only blame herself), and describing herself as "non-athletic, slender but soft, with clear and translucent skin". That's kind of ridiculous; don't get me started on the fact that ALL human skin is technically translucent. Bella insists she's not pretty, yet no less than three guys immediately jump in to flirt with her in awkward high school ways, and from what Edward said, "that's not what every single male in the school was thinking". Twilight. Phoenix girl (Bella) moves to Forks in Washington state to live with her divorced dad. Falls in love with Edward who she discovers is a vampire.