Helpful Score: 4
I loved the first book, it was to die for.
This one dragged a bit in parts...not horribly, but it's a long book, and I think it would have been just as good if it was a quarter shorter. All the agony Bella was going through - for sure I'd have felt the same way if Edward left me. But her father Charlie capsulizes it very well as he explains to Alice what Bella had gone through: that she was practically catatonic, not eating, near hospitalization. I feel that Charlie could have had that illuminating conversation with someone earlier in the book, maybe Billy or Harry. All those pages surrounding Bella's misery could have been axed, and we still would have gotten everything we needed to know.
I also don't get the part about the 'voice' she was hearing. I believe the author was going in a particular direction with that (that there was a psychic connection between Edward and Bella) and then abandoned the idea, but instead of removing the lines of Edward's voice from the book, she wrapped it up in a statement near the end, as Bella explained the voice she heard to Edward...a move which left me unsatisfied. Unless there is further exploration of the voice in Eclipse and Breaking Dawn, it was an unnecessary plot line which added nothing to the story.
New Moon leaves you hanging which I usually DON'T like...but since Eclipse is already available I'm not that annoyed. This book isn't as good as Twilight. It might be to kill for...but not to die for.
This one dragged a bit in parts...not horribly, but it's a long book, and I think it would have been just as good if it was a quarter shorter. All the agony Bella was going through - for sure I'd have felt the same way if Edward left me. But her father Charlie capsulizes it very well as he explains to Alice what Bella had gone through: that she was practically catatonic, not eating, near hospitalization. I feel that Charlie could have had that illuminating conversation with someone earlier in the book, maybe Billy or Harry. All those pages surrounding Bella's misery could have been axed, and we still would have gotten everything we needed to know.
I also don't get the part about the 'voice' she was hearing. I believe the author was going in a particular direction with that (that there was a psychic connection between Edward and Bella) and then abandoned the idea, but instead of removing the lines of Edward's voice from the book, she wrapped it up in a statement near the end, as Bella explained the voice she heard to Edward...a move which left me unsatisfied. Unless there is further exploration of the voice in Eclipse and Breaking Dawn, it was an unnecessary plot line which added nothing to the story.
New Moon leaves you hanging which I usually DON'T like...but since Eclipse is already available I'm not that annoyed. This book isn't as good as Twilight. It might be to kill for...but not to die for.
