This book blew my socks off.
I feel like the first three books were just building the backstory for this incredible ending. If you’ve read my reviews, you’ll know i didn’t care much for Eclipse, and New Moon left me feeling like i wouldn’t like how the story ended.
Ahem. I absolutely loved how the story ended.
*** Spoilers below ***
More than that, the writing improved dramatically to my mind. Bella GREW UP. She was no longer the insecure teenager who “reasons” through everything in her head and comes to irrational conclusions. And nothing in the story was predictable, as it had been in the earlier books.
The pregnancy, the switch to Jacob’s perspective, Jake’s imprinting, the turning of Bella as a necessity to save her life, the relationships between the werewolves and vampires, the confrontation with the Volturi… everything was just so extremely satisfying. From now on i will recommend this series to others. I may preface it with “just get through the first three books, and then the fun really begins!” but i will recommend it regardless.
January 9th, 2009 8:40 am
Yay! I’m glad that you enjoyed it. I wasn’t sure whether it was just because I hadn’t read the series in over a year or if this book really was better. I definitely felt like it was, but I thought it could be the same phenomenon that makes you think mediocre food is REALLY tasty when you haven’t had food in hours and hours.