An interesting sequel; turns the emo to 11. Bella’s heartbreak is well presented– it’s impossible to go three pages without a reminder of her pain and abandonment, even when she’s currently fighting off the loneliness.
I dread imagining how this one will be handled in a movie; so much of the motivation and struggle is internal even Edward’s voice and her quest for danger to provoke it. The book does a good job of showing how grinding depression and abandonment are…
The Voluturi and wolves are interesting– similar to White Wolf’s takes on their analogs, but the differences are significant enough to keep it from being a clone. I’m curious about the next book and hope to read it before I see the matching movie.
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If you’ve not seen the movie yet, there are a few liberties taken with the adaptation, but it also is fairly faithful to the book’s storyline. I was very pleased, both in the book and in the movie with the sequence used to show the 3 months transition in the story immediately following Edward’s abandonment of Bella. It nicely set the stage for the start of Bella’s recovery.
Unfortunately, I found the first 2/3rd of New Moon to drag too much. I didn’t care about Jacob or any of those characters and felt (personally) that the entire sequence could have been abbreviated greatly without my feeling like I’d missed much (yet honesty compells me to admit that it would have cheapened the emo descent or her steady recovery from Edward’s departure if the story had been shortened.)