New Moon

Bella Swan is recovering from her vampire attack in Phoenix, Arizona. She doesn’t have a cast on her leg anymore but that’s not what she’s worrying about. It was her birthday. She was older than Edward, not technically, but she wasn’t happy because she was a year older than Edward and they would never be the same age as each other. Alice was planning a party which Bella wasn’t excited about. Because her boyfriend is a vampire, she can’t decide not to go. All Bella wants for her birthday was for Edward to cave and turn her into a Vampire but her chances of that were very slim.

A party that was supposed to be fun, turned into a night she’ll never forget. Blood streamed down her arm as Emmett and Edward kept Jasper away. Regret washed over Jasper later and he left town with Alice. After that night things weren’t the same between Edward and Bella. There were long silences between them and he wasn’t coming over as often. Edward just wasn’t acting the same.

A walk in the woods, which wasn’t really a walk, left Bella dead inside. Edward was leaving her. It was time for his family to move because Carlisle could barely pass for thirty and he was claiming thirty-three. No matter what happened at the party they still needed to leave. She didn’t want him to go, she tried to make him stay but he wouldn’t.

Bella didn’t know what to do with herself, so she starts to spend time with Jacob Black. He lives in the Reservation. Bella finds herself spending most of her time with Jacob. Charlie tells her she needs to spend more time with other people other than Jacob. When she does her friends see how much she has changed. She doesn’t realize how much she needs to be around Jacob until he stops making any contact with her. He doesn’t return any of her phone calls and is never home.

Bella gets sick of it and she’s determined to find out why he’s spending his time with Sam after he was afraid of him just weeks ago. On a windy night Jacob shows up at her bedroom window. He tries to make her remember the legends she heard at La Push. But it was the middle of the night and she couldn’t think straight.

While she was sleeping she had a dream that Jacob was a Werewolf. It all clicked he really was a Werewolf. Since she had figured it out without Jacob telling her it was ok. Now that they are spending time together again she’s happy, but not all the way. Something was missing. Bella finds out that doing reckless things makes her hear Edward’s voice trying to convince her not to do what she was doing.

The voice made her want to do more and more reckless things from riding motorcycles to jumping off cliffs. After jumping for the first time off of the cliff she thought she was dead. Jacob saved her. When Bella got home she had a visitor waiting for her. Could it be Edward?

No. It was Alice. Alice saw in her vision Bella jumping and she thought Bella killed herself. Jacob ruined a phone call which made Alice and Bella race to the airport. They had to go to the Volterra. They arrived and Bella was running, she had to save Edward before he did something that they would both regret.

The sun shone like a million diamonds off of Edward’s bare chest. She ran into him. It knocked him down. He thought he was dead. After Bella convinced him that he wasn’t dead the Volturi had shown up. If they were lucky they would leave alive or unharmed. No one knew their fate.

The theme of the book is a heart-broken girl getting stitched up by a good friend and almost getting it broken again after she tries to save the love of her life that had already broken her heart. The book supports the theme by adding these events in the book. I can relate somewhat to this. I haven’t fallen in love with anyone because I’m only fourteen years old, but I had a really good friend. It broke my heart to see her make the decisions she’s making but I made a new friend that helps me. Now my new friend and I are the best of friends.

As I was saying earlier I relate to this book because a friend of mine broke my heart. It didn’t happen exactly like the book but she was making some decisions that I didn’t agree with. I gave her the choice: to change and be my friend, or not to change and not be my friend. (I know it sounds bad, but her decisions were really bad.) She took the second choice. It hurt me so much. It was horrible. I got a whole busload of new friends and an especially good one.

This book relates to the world in some ways and then doesn’t in other ways. This book relates to the world because girls get their hearts broken tons of times because they give away their hearts to boys that may or may not mean a lot. Some girls claim to be in love with her boyfriend and are willing to do anything to make them happy. I find it ridiculous when girls my age say they are in love with their boyfriend. First of all they shouldn’t even have a boyfriend! Second they aren’t in love because love is a strong feeling that you can’t feel until you are old enough and mature enough to understand it.

This book doesn’t relate to the world because sadly, I hate to admit it, there is no such thing as a Vampire or Werewolf. And not a lot of people find their soul mates in High School. It’s very rare to find that happening.

I enjoyed reading this book even though it had too much Jacob and hardly any Edward. I liked it because it had some intense parts in the book, it’s a sequel to Twilight, had a surprise in it, had a happy ending and had a heart-breaking part. (I actually cried when Edward told her he didn’t love her anymore and that they were leaving. It broke my heart because I thought that he was leaving forever! Thank goodness he wasn’t!)

I would recommend this book to just about anyone. First of all you have to be a Twilight Fan. I would recommend this book to anyone who has read Twilight, enjoys an intense book, and likes Jacob, surprises, happy endings and a sad heart-breaking part. I think that because if you don’t like some of these things then it would be a waste of your time reading New Moon. Oh and if you like hearing stories about Legends, Werewolf’s or Vampires then this would be a good book too.