Sarah's Library

This book loses ½ a star because even after reading it twice before, the departure of Edward and the intervening months before Bella finds him always make me cry, and not just a tear or two running down my cheek, it’s full on crying with blubbering and snot galore.  I do not enjoy this book as much as Twilight, simply because there are too many sad tears for me.  There is not nearly as much humour, no action and to begin with it looks like the small amount of romance is going to end very depressingly.  Most of the time I like Jacob, except when he’s pushing Bella and causing friction between Bella and Edward and himself.  I dislike Rosalie even more in this book because it seems to me that she tells Edward about Bella jumping off the cliff to spite Bella and to say “told you she wasn’t good enough for you” to Edward, which I think is an absolutely despicable thing to do to both of them.  After I finished New Moon I realised there was a parallel between some of the vampire characteristics in the Twilight series, Buffy and the True Blood TV series (originally the Sookie Stackhouse series of books by Charlaine Harris).  In the Twilight series Edward is a vampire who can hear everyone’s thoughts except for Bella’s (his one true love).  In Buffy there is an episode where Buffy is contaminated with some demon blood and begins to hear people’s thoughts except for Angel (her one true love).  In the True Blood TV series, Sookie (the main character) can hear everyone’s thoughts except for Bill, a vampire (her one true love).  I’m not suggesting that anyone stole ideas from anyone else, I just thought it was interesting the way the writers/authors of three different shows/books so closely parallel each other on this one idea of mind reading.