Following Twilight we have New Moon. The second part of the trilogy teachs us two main things: when you don't have what you want, try to go for the next best thing and to be a Mary-Sue is very attractive (for a pedo vampire). Why is that you may ask. The answer is simple: Bella Swan, the clumsy girl from Twilight managed to date Edward Cullen and they're living a very beautiful romance. So far so good. Their time in paradise ends when Jasper tries to attack Bella on her birthday party and Edward decides it's too dangerous for her to stay close to him and his family. He disappears without a trace with the Cullens leaving a very depressive girlfriend behind. Because she's like a drug addict, Bella becomes a zombie for like months until she notices her chilhood friend, Jacob Black. Jake was just a skinny kid with long hair and a cute smile who suddenly became a damn male model with great abs and an eight pack that a girl cannot ignore (so I can't blame Bella). They become close and she starts to smile again and then Jake disappears too. It seems that Jacob is actually a werewolf (but not like the ordinary ones from the movies...he's basically a shape shifter). He has to kill vampires (when he's not in classes, of course) with his pack brothers: Sam (the leader), Jared, Paul and Embry to protect innocent people but they have a peace treaty with the Cullens because they're "vegetarians". So yes, Bella decides that since Edward's gone, Jacob can take his place (nothing wrong here because Jake doesn't mind). Now let's talk about Jake. Seriously...he seemed to be a nice character, although a bit young (16 years old), but from the moment he starts to fall in love with Bella he lost the interest (for fuck sake isn't there any other girls in that shit hole!?) Why Bella? She is boring and clumsy and...boring. Geez...But fine, Jake likes Bella (and apparently so do Embry and Quil), and she enjoys his company until Edward decides to go all suicidal and goes to Italy to die (I could think of better places to die...but Italy's fine). The tricky question is: aren't vampires already dead? Yes. And Stephenie tells us that all the way through the story. Vampires are dead, period. Apparently they can die once and for all if they mess with the Vampire's Mafia, the Volturi. The reason why Edward became a fucking emo was because he thought his beloved Bella was dead too. She should be because she jumped out of a cliff but stupid Jacob saved her life (again we were so close to have a good ending). Then Alice comes back and takes Bella to Italy to save Edward. They reunite and they kiss a lot and the Volturi let them go. The happy couple goes back home, Bella literally breaks Jacob's heart and Edward asks her to marry him. Oh and she also decides she wants to become a vampire (that's something I don't agree with Stephenie (amongst many other things :P) because Bella should at least consider a few things before taking that step, but she doesn't even flinch.).
In all this book is boring as hell but we get to know more characters and more stuff about Jacob and the pack. It's refreashing to have more details on the wolves and that's all. On to Eclipse.
