By: Stephanie Meyer

New Moon is the sequel to Stephanie Meyer’s remarkably good debut novel Twilight

The pain

that Bella feels when

Edward

abandon

s her is

extremel

y well

written

and is

really

what this

story is

about

Bella has been

going out with her vampire

boyfriend Edward for six

blissfully happy

months.

The only thing

that worries her

is his st

eadfast

refusal to even

consider

making her into

a vampire like

him.

On Bella's eighteenth birthday, Edward

manages to persuade her to come to his

house on the evening of her birthday for a

party thrown by Alice.

Bella receives a paper cut

while opening one of her

gifts, causing Jasper

(Edward's brother, also the 'newest' member of

the family) to try to attack

her.

Edward believes that

she would be safer

without him, his

family, and his

dangerous style of life,

so he and his family

leave Forks

Bella sinks into a deep

depression for four

months, until she is

'awoken' out of her

depression by Charlie,

her father. He threatens

to send her back to live

with her mother in

Jacksonville, Florida

Still depressed, she

becomes closer friends

with Jacob Black, who

fixes a motorcycle for

her and teaches her to

ride.

Through small clues he drops,

she finally realizes what

has happened to her best friend:

he has become a werewolf.

Alice sees Bella

jump, a cliff she

believes Bella had committed suicide, and

subsequently

returns to Forks

Edward attempts

to convince a

group of Italian

vampires, the

volturi, to kill him

Together with his sister Alice, Bella

rushes to Italy and stops Edward

before the Volturi can destroy him

She eventually forgives him entirely, and they continue with their relationship as

though Edward had never left

with the exception that Bella has ties

that cannot be broken with a

werewolf named Jacob Black

Bella successfully seeks the support of Edward's

family on turning her into a vampire.

While Edward is furious at the

prospect, he later agrees to change

her himself if she agrees to marry

him first