Her human morality contrasts her lover, Edward, who is an immortal vampire. She is caring, yet vulnerable given her dangerous relationship with the Cullens. Her most notable quality is her caring devotion to her friends and family despite her frequent inability to protect the ones she loves. Bella lives with her divorced father in Forks, Washington, where she attends high school. She is of average height and weight and has a pale complexion, brown hair, and brown eyes. We are thankful for their contributions and encourage you to make your own.īella Swan is an average, yet slightly gawkish and unconfident teenage girl. Another plot appears to be underway to kill Bella.These notes were contributed by members of the GradeSaver community. In the story their abilities are used to protect the people of Forks, WA.Ī powerful vampire clan brings a victim in to feast on. They are at odds with the “bad” vampires who consider themselves superior to the human race and still kill/bite people.

The hero and his family are “good” vampires who’ve chosen only to feed on animals, not humans. Bella and Edward’s desire for each other is very obvious. Huge amounts of romantic tension between them, though. Still very little physical sexual contact at all. There was a little bit more swearing in this novel compared to the first. New Moon has a repeat of the whole rescue-Bella situation, and while in the first book, everything was new, it’s starting now to feel a little redundant. Which counts as a triumph for any writer, I think, to be able to capture something so vividly. I remember thinking about a loss I’d experienced and feeling like, yes, this is how this feels. When I read the part of the book in which Bella grieves for a loss, I remember feeling like I’d never read anything that captured that emptiness so well before. He’s pushy and impatient, and maybe you can argue that he knows Bella better because they’ve got this long history, but I don’t get the sense that he values her needs above his own. But when battle lines are drawn again, she finds herself torn between mortal enemies, and she must choose between them.Ĭan I be brutally honest? I never understood Team Jacob. As she struggles to cope, and to carve out some semblance of life around the edges of her wound, she at last finds a friend. She finds herself alone, feeling as if a gaping hole exists through the center of her very being. But the party spawns a sequence of events that shatters Bella’s world. It’s Bella’s birthday, and despite her wishes that there be no fuss, the Cullen family make quite an occasion of it.

The sequel to Twilight, New Moon picks up a few months after its predecessor. Published SeptemAmazon | Barnes & Noble | Goodreads

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