Stephenie Meyer is Causing Me Sleep Deprivation

New Moon
Stephenie Meyer
563 pages

I knew we were both in mortal danger.
Still, in that instant I felt well. Whole.
I could feel my heart racing in my chest,
the blood pulsing hot and fast through my veins again.
My lungs filled deep with the sweet scent that came off his skin.
It was like there had never been a hole in my chest.
I was perfect - not healed, but as if
there had never been a wound in the first place.

Not even an hour ago, I flipped the last page in the second book of The Twilight Saga. This book did take me longer to read than the first not just because it was approximately 100 more pages, but because I was missing Edward. Yes, he does leave in this book, and in that time, Bella is in a state of miserable depression.

Meyer writes so well, her analogies between a "new moon" and the characters' feelings in the book are in-depth as well as puzzling, in a good way of course. Her characters and their relationships are so carefully crafted, the romance so perfectly limited, and the action so thrilling, readers (like myself) will find themselves reading way past their bedtime.

One negative (in a sea of positives) about this book is that the climatic scene is so far towards the end of the book, and it flies by between two or three chapters. There is so much rising action, that the middle of the book became a bit lacking for me.

Aside from that, New Moon will surely leave readers gasping for Eclipse.