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jinyu
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New Moon - Stephanie Meyer - A review
Saturday. 5.17.08 11:38 am
This is the second in a trilogy (soon to be saga) about a set of non-blood drinking vampires, American Indian werewolves, and the supernatural loving girl between them.

Pros

Interesting characters - I liked the characters. I think I like Alice best right now because she�s the only one who has not been an idiot lately... and I like her name, but when it comes down to it, Meyer creates a good picture of these people in your mind, she knows how to develop characters.

Good Problems - These characters are dealing with problems that not only can float a story, but also are problems that bring out a lot of different sides of them and allow them to work through some interesting issues. Again, it goes back to character development, you have to have good problems to be able to understand good characters. It really is the reason why I am writing a supernatural book, because of the implicit problems in facing oneself being a monster. It is something that I think a lot of people can identify with.

Cons

Problems with Rising Action - The book is just a little disorganized. The story is dealing with a lot of different plot lines that really are not speaking to each other. Because of this, it often feels like the story is not going anywhere.

The characters talk too much about their feelings - This actually� was one of its biggest faults to the big horror writers in the nanowrimo forums. It was too touchy feely, they said, vampires and werewolves are monsters, they�ve got to be tough. I think that vampires and werewolves can have complex emotions, but I also think that there is more than one way to characterize emotion. Instead of saying, �I am really pissed off at you right now.� A character could throw a chair across the room. Instead of saying, �I am upset about how things are working out. I imagined that we could still be friends with the feelings I had for you, but I am beginning to think that I really care about you too much and it might be better off if we didn�t see each other.� you could say, �You know what� I just.. can�t do this right now.� or �I HATE YOU!� What can I say, it�s more authentic.

If I were to rate this on a scale from one to ten, one being "very poorly crafted and I don't know how it got published" and ten being "OMG I can't believe its over, I want to read it again and again", I would give this a 6. It's good, but there are still a couple of things that would take it from good to great.

(6 out of 10)
Coming soon: Review of Thud
1 Comments.


have u seen the casting for the movie??
» renaye on 2008-05-18 09:13:39

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