Twilight: New Moon by Stephenie Meyer

By Nate Feldman

Twilight: New Moon is the second book in the original four-book Twilight saga by Stephenie Meyer.  In this story, Bella is in love with Edward, an immortal vampire who is one of her classmates.  Edward and the rest of his family, the Cullens, no longer drink human blood for sustenance.  However, when Bella goes to his family's home for an event, she cuts herself, and in a brief moment, one of the family members have to be controlled from trying to attack her.

Because of this, Edward decides it is too dangerous for him to be around Bella, and he vanishes.  This leaves Bella completely broken hearted.  She begins getting into risky behavior, such as driving motor cycles too fast because when she does, she can hear Edward's voice.  Bella also begins hanging around Jacob Black, a friend of hers from high school.  She doesn't love him like Edward, but Jacob seems to love her.  Things are further complicated when Bella learns that Jacob is in fact a part of a pack of werewolves, the sworn enemies of the vampires.

Meanwhile, people are beginning to get killed in the woods, and a wolf is suspected.  Bella suspects it may be Jacob and his pack doing the killing.  But, in fact, it is Victoria, a vampire, who is trying to kill Bella that is the killer.  Jacob and his pack promise to protect Bella from her.  

When Bella decides to jump from a cliff, she almost drowns, but is rescued by Jacob.  However, Edward hears a rumor that she died, and now he has decided to confront an old family of vampires in Italy with the hope of being killed himself.  So, Bella must go to Italy with Alice, Edward's sister, to stop him from doing this.  Will she be in time?

These books, and the film series based off of them, were incredibly famous 15-20 years ago.  The story is entertaining, and the characters are interesting.  I definitely was curious to see where the story was going and found the idea of vampires that don't drink blood to be unique and interesting.  So, it is worth a read.

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