Product Description

The dramatic sequel to Twilight, following the tale of a teenage girl whose love for a vampire gets her into trouble .

Product Details

• Amazon Sales Rank: #35 in Books
• Published on: 2007-09-06
• Original language: English
• Binding: Paperback
• 497 pages

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• Mint Condition
• Dispatch same day for order received before 12 noon
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Review
'The sexiest vampire tale for years arrived in Stephenie Meyer's TWILIGHT, about teenage Bella's chaste romance with a beautiful vampire boy. Their intensely erotic feelings are endangered by more predatory types. Guaranteed to suck in sulky 13+ girls for

About the Author
Stephenie Meyer is a 30-year-old mother of three children based in Arizona. TWILIGHT was her first novel.

Customer Reviews

Review from the older audience
I am in my late 30s and read Twilight because I had heard good things and the hype of the movie was good. I enjoyed it immensely and was drawn in by the love story and taken back to my high school days. I became a bit pathetic and moped around for a few days when I had finished the book...simply because I wanted to read more.

Wanting more and itching to read New Moon, I logged on to Amazon and read the reviews and became a little worried as so many people gave it mediocre to poor reviews. However, I decided just to buy it and read it and I am so glad I did.

I found that it is a much better written book than Twilight. It seemed like Stephenie Meyer actually THOUGHT about what she was writing this time, and didn't just throw stuff on the pages randomly.

The compaint other reviews had was the lack of Edward in the story. However, I did not find this a drawback in the least, it was necessary to keep the emotions running as strongly as they do in this book, and I found the storyline excellent. Please do not be put off by the negative reviews - this book is well worth the read.

If Twilight was overrated then this was just plain awful.
Once again finding myself with nothing to read I decided to give this a go. I had read Twilight a few weeks before so it seemed the logical thing to do.

If Twilight was overrated then this was just plain awful.

Once I start reading something, I like to finish it. I just can't help it. But with each new chapter I found it harder and harder to continue. I became so infuriated with Bella's attitude, I've never seen such mental masochism in teenage fiction! And the sheer over protective, controlling nature of her father drove me round the bend!

The writing style seemed rushed compared to the first novel, I got no sense that the writer even cared about her characters, but maybe that was just my own feelings about this spilling into the book. I noticed multiple editorial errors, some sentences were so badly worded I had to read them twice.

As with Twilight, perhaps I'm just too old to really appreciate these stories. But as far as I am concerned - irritating characters, terrible writing structure, dull story line, and zero chemistry.

A good sequel - just as addictive and sexy
See my review of `Twilight' - again I was utterly addicted from the moment I read the first page and yet, again I agree with the critics and particularly this passage from CB:

"New Moon resembles the diary of an incredibly whiney and depressed teenage girl. Its always important to have an interesting and compelling protagonist and this is doubly true in the case of a first-person narrative. New Moon's leading lady Bella Swan, however, is not only boring and irritating but downright pathetic. What we have here is 500 pages of Bella moping and whining and rambling about how she is depressed, and how she has a hole in her chest, and how her life is meaningless etc. Not only is this rather tedious, but its also insulting to women."

Yes, Bella is extraordinarily self-obsessed and annoying but the feelings she has for Edward are so intense that his departure causes a complete break-down in her, which is only partially healed by her growing friendship for Jacob.

This was probably my least favourite of the four books - because Edward wasn't in most of it (!) - but at least it had a bit more of a plot than the first. Not that it actually mattered - like in the first book, I was just enjoying being immersed in that world again and became emotionally attached to the characters, setting, plot etc until I emerged at the end of the novel, feeling quite dazed and desperate for the next one.

I think these are `Marmite' books (if you're not English, you may not understand this bit) and that those of us who became addicted will remain so and those of us who didn't like them will continue not to like them. The answer is clear - if you didn't enjoy the first two, don't bother reading the last two.

I felt that the style of this book was more 'epic' and less teen angst diary scribblings - Stephenie Meyers had got into her stride and had a bigger vision of the world she'd created than was apparent in the first book. There are now layers of complications which will run on into the next book (hopefully) and I suspect we are building to a massive climax by the end of book four (all puns intended).
Can't wait!