The Movie Adaptation.

Ages 12 and Up. This second installment of the Twilight Saga has a slightly different feel over the first one. Under new direction and filmed in a new location, the dark grey and green visual-ness of Twilight is gone, which might be good news due to the darker themes and Bella's post-abandonment emotional destitution. The film begins with Bella's birthday; she is turning 18 and, in a sense, aging on Edward. Clearly, she would like him to change her as soon as possible. But an accident at her birthday party leads to a close call with Edward's more unstable 'brother' Jasper, and Edward leaves Bella under the belief that this will protect her. The blank month by month pages that Twihards delightedly recall from the novel following this abandonment is wonderfully captured by the film by a rotating camera of Bella staring blankly out her window as the seasons change. Billy Burke, as Bella's father Charlie, proves again that he is the best actor/character in the films with his heartbreaking but clueless desire to help his daughter.
Eventually, Bella begins a friendship with Jacob that helps take her out of her funk, but, as we all know, this gets complicated when he begins to change into a werewolf.
The film balances the darker aspects of this chapter of the saga with some humor and deliciously awkward moments that Twilight geeks adore. New characters - the Volturi - are wonderfully creepy and well-cast. While there are issues of female character strength, Quileute presentation, and half-naked minors well-discussed in the media, New Moon, as with the whole of the Twilight Saga, is simply supernatural, teen-angsty fun.
Recommended for public library movie collections. ( )

I am sure that someone out there loves this audio book but I did not. There wasn't one thing about it that I liked except the fact that I finally stopped listening to it. I found the voices distracting and in turn I was distracted listening to it. Although it follows along with the novel, I still coudln't appreciate it for what it is. I guess I am a little old fashioned and would rather hold a book in my hands and keep my eyes busy with the text. I suppose it would be a great thing for a non reader or someone who is sick in bed, is blind or has a long way to travel by car....... ( )

Still addicted... ( )

'New Moon' is my least favorite of the Twilight series. I was bored reading this book; the action is terribly slow and it seemed like there was nothing happening most of the time. ( )

New Moon by Stephanie Meyer is the sequel to the first book, Twilight. New Moon is about a girl named Bella Swan who is left by her "love", Edward Cullen who is known as an irresistible vampire. Once Edward leaves, for supposedly the safety of Bella, troubles start to arise again; like James trying to slaughter Bella as read in Twilight. In New Moon, for example, Bella becomes reckless from the emptiness in her heart that Edward has left. So, Bella must cope from her hardship, therefore, she goes to Jacob Black to receive comfort. Jacob is a werewolf who appears as a human, but can change to a werewolf when there are vampires around, or his strength is needed to fight; or just the fact that he’s sixteen so he’s of age to transform. Although, a few days later after Bella spends time with Jacob, he gets sick with what the hospital thought was mono and so Bella thinks that he would be out for a month; so that put Bella in more distress. However, it was just a virus and Bella eventually gets the twenty-four hour flu too. After months have pass, Bella still feels sad that Edward isn't present with her, so as a result she continues to do more reckless things, like cliff jumping, and attempting to get on the back of a guy’s motorcycle (but she doesn’t) in hope that Edward will return to her. More occasions occur, and Edward feels like he needs to "punish himself" for leaving Bella because he thinks that Bella is dead because of all the things she has done , so he goes to the Volturi. The Volturi are a group of vampires (they could almost be like a dynasty) resided in Volterra, Italy who enforce laws for about three thousand years. They are also the place where vampires who don’t want their special abilities anymore “turn themselves in” and then they collect the ability and allure those vampires to join their group or they can kill the vampires. However, Bella is really the only one that can save Edward because if Emmett (Edward’s brother) could try to stop him physically, they could convince him that Bella was alive, but the Cullens can’t sneak up on Edward because he can hear their thoughts. Plus, if Edward saw the Cullens he would speed up the process of his suicide. However, if after reading this review, the book is not your "cup of tea", then I recommend that you see the movie; although, reading this book is such a better experience if you haven't read Twilight and then New Moon already because it’s not exactly the same as the movie, meaning as in plot and suspense. ( )