New Moon by Stephenie Meyer
My rating: 3/5 cats
oh, hai, just me here, reading new moon on my nook simple touch…
this twilight craze…the books are not as bad as the haters say they are, but they are also nowhere near as good as lovers of this series believe. this installment was just kind of…bland. despite my reading it on the fine e-ink technology of the new nook.
she did one thing right—one wonderful thing. i assume it is too late to actually “spoil” anything in the bellaverse, so i am just going to barrel ahead—but when edward leaves bella in the woods. that moment—when she just loses her mind and her desolation and her emptiness and her self-destructive impulses shoot straight to the surface. it was pretty well-done. because let’s face it, we have all been left behind by someone we are still in love with. even me. wonderful, wonderful me.
and having recently rewatched my favorite movie, head-on, i have to point out the best scene in it, and how it mirrors this book. this is a spoiler for head on. which you should all watch. and be gutted. View Spoiler »
that is the kind of heartbreak bella has here and lord, do i get that impulse. and bella keeps it up the whole book—testing the boundaries of her own mortality to get that rush of maybe-edward each time she is close to death. and that’s pretty ballsy for teen fiction.
but i don’t know how many near-death experiences one girl has to have in order to become interesting. this book was fine, but mostly just one-note. she misses edward and likes but doesn’t like-like jacob. for nearly four hundred pages. but my, how slender four hundred pages can be on the new nook!
so—yeah —i am reading on a freaking robot. i was forced to borrow one from work so that i could get on board with the emerging technology. did i do all right, john petrie?? are you proud of my commitment to excellence?? do you see i read a whole book on a machine?? a book that i read for the express purpose of getting to eclipse so i can be a completist in my reading books that are “based” on wuthering heights quest?? and no one looking at me knew what i was reading. the freedom from shame was well worth it…
nook. lightweight. tiny. capacious. good for hiding your books from nosy subway riders. may contain traces of new moon…
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