New Moon

When Stephenie Meyer ended Twilight with a certified happy ending, it seemed things couldn't be better for lovers Bella Swan and Edward Cullen. But die-hard fans knew about the coming sequel, and theories about its plot began to circulate.

Then, when it finally hit the shelves, copies were immediately grabbed and taken home to finally know what's up with the title "New Moon" and the bloody flower on its cover.

The book starts about Bella having a cryptic dream which involved her as an old woman and Edward young as ever, and she awakes to her eighteenth birthday. Revealed is her hatred for turning older, because Edward would never age, and she still insist that he should change her soon. Edward shrugs this off and goes on to take her to the celebration the Cullens prepared.

All seems well until a accident makes a cut appear on Bella's finger, and the smell of human blood was all too tempting for Jasper. Things spin wildly out of control, but Bella thinks it's not that big of an incident until Edward breaks the news to her: the Cullens were moving away, and leaving her behind. Translation: she was getting dumped.

The morning of his departure begins Bella's downward spiral into depression, and the only things that kept her holding on was her strengthening friendship and budding romance with Jacob Black, a werewolf and a vampire enemy, and hearing Edward's voice in her head every time she was in danger.

Her obsession with Edward's lingering memories and her new drive for adrenaline leads her to take a literal plunge, which turns things upside down again and soon leads to a suspenseful and heart-racing journey to stop Edward from a fatal, and probably last mistake.

New Moon might displease Edward lovers, as he disappears for four hundred pages or so, and make those who were hoping for a Bella-Jacob romance deliriously happy at the start, but for all the fans of Twilight, Meyer's descriptive and gripping writing and fulfilling endings remain, enough to make readers thirst for the next installment, Eclipse.