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New Moon
Book 2 of Twilight
- 563 pages · about 9 hours
- First published 2006
- 88 editions
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1 About this book
Bella Swan is beginning her last year of high school in Forks, Washington, and is deeply in love with Edward Cullen, who is a vampire. At her eighteenth birthday party at the Cullens' house, a paper cut nearly gets her attacked, and soon afterward Edward and his family leave town, to protect her. Bella sinks into months of depression. What slowly brings her back is her friendship with Jacob Black, who is warm and cheerful and has a secret of his own. New Moon, published in 2006, is the second novel in Stephenie Meyer's Twilight series.
- Romance
- Young adult fiction, romance
- Vampires
- Werewolves
- High schools
- Schools
- Washington (d.c.)
- Young adult fiction
2 What to expect
The second Twilight novel: when the vampire she loves leaves town, Bella falls into a long depression and finds comfort in her friendship with Jacob Black. Heartbreak and the pull between two very different attachments fill most of the book, and its supernatural world widens beyond vampires. Edward is absent for much of it, the middle is slow and inward, and the pace picks up sharply near the close.
Good for readers who want: paranormal romance, heartbreak and a love triangle, and the next chapter of Twilight.
3 About Stephenie Meyer
Bio adapted from Wikipedia (CC BY-SA 4.0)
4 More by Stephenie Meyer
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