I finally broke down and started reading the Twilight series. I hadn’t been planning to but after hearing so many people rave about them and after noticing that Stephanie Meyer had three (or was it four?) of the top five selling books in 2009 I decided it was time.
New Moon continues on where Twilight left off with Bella and Edward happily in love and together. This quickly changes after an accident at the Cullen household where Bella gets a paper cut and starts to bleed…leading to a potentially dangerous situation as she is in a house full of vampires. Edward breaks up with Bella and the family moves away, but only after Edward makes Bella promise to be careful.
After she goes through a period of depression she decides the only way to bring Edward back to her is to start living dangerously. She befriends an old family friend, Jacob, who begins to repair a motorcycle for her and who also develops a crush on her. They become very good friends until Jacob goes through a change. Bella later finds out that he is a werewolf, with the goal of hunting vampires. She also learns that a vampire is in the area to get her as revenge to the Cullens.
Bella continues to take risks, including a cliff jump that Edward’s sister sees and interprets as a suicide attempt. Edward, thinking that Bella is dead, goes to the leading vampire family in the world to ask for death. Bella is able to barely stop him but because they learn that she knows about them they need to promise to turn Bella into a vampire.
As I read through this summary, I have to think that my initial reaction to this book still holds true (to me). It was an interesting story line but not the typical genre that I like to read. I like books that I can believe in, stories that ring true. I was entertained by this book but I did not feel that it was something that really touched me in ways that many other books have.
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