New Moon was my least favorite of the Twilight books. It has been almost a year now, since the first time I read this book, and even though I have read it at least 5 times since then, it is always the bump in the road to get the the next novel. I actually have sticky notes permanently fixed in my copy, telling me which parts to skip over. These are of course all the parts without Edward, Alice, or any of the Cullen family.
New Moon picks up where Twilight left off. Bella (the lovestruck human) and Edward (the heartbreakngly beautiful vampire) are happy, but Edward still worries he is risking Bella's life with his nature, and her humanity with his presence. He is again proven right, when something as simple as a paper cut causes a family member to strike out at her, and he must defend her against his brother. He finally decides that she would be better off without him, and leaves her with the idea he doesn't love her anymore. And she believes it. Bella goes though emotional torture. The pain of losing her great love, her reason for existing, drives her into a deep depression - worse than that, really.
Enter Jacob. Bella can breath again. She has found a kind of weak love in her shaggy (soon to be werewolf) friend. He, of course, feels more than friendly, and Bella contemplates letting it go there, just to try and fill the void, but she will never really love anyone as she did Edward. She imagines she can hear him scolding her when she does stupid and risky stunts, so she keeps putting herself in danger to get her auditory hallucination fix. She takes it one stunt too far, and even though she is saved by Jacob, Edward believes she has killed herself and decides to follow her.
He goes to Italy, to pester an ancient group of vampires in the hope that they will literally put him out of his misery. Alice and Bella have to race against the day to try and save his life, and reunite the lovebirds.
As I said, not my favorite of the books, but still a good story. I am definantly a member of "Team Edward" because I want to see the pure, fairytale love. I do know a lot of Jacob fans though, who feel he is the better man and should ultimatly win Bella's affection.
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I saw the funniest thing today. A little old lady hobbled out of her dilapidated old Lincoln past a bumper sticker fixed to the trunk that read "I drive like a Cullen" I think I almost peed myself laughing. These stories really do resonate with every age. In fact, the main age group of followers is not the young teenagers I expected, but the 30-somethings.
So I saw the movie....
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I know the books have a level of romantic corny-ness to them. You can get past it on the page. It even has a charm, but when literally translated to the screen, it feels a little ridiculious. I never sunk into the film. It was too full of mediocre acting and flamboyance. Plus, I can't imagine being a movie-goer who had never read the books. I would have been totally lost.
I will say - Jasper was better. And Jacob and Charlie were hands down the best actors/characters in the movie. And I hate Jacob, so that is saying something.