Worth Reading: Certainly yes. This is quite different to her Twilight series.

Summary: Wanderer has lived on many worlds, and lived many different lives. Now she is on Earth. She likes this life, all five senses are giving her an overload of information she’s never experienced before. Because of her travels she is strong, but is she strong enough this time?

Melanie is on the run. She saw it start and with her younger brother managed to scavenge and survive without being caught. She is constantly on the lookout, fighting, worried what will happen if she’s not around to protect the ones she loves. Melanie has not finished living one life when it is interrupted by an unwanted visitor. Now she must fight just to stay herself.

I found this story excellent and is such a contrast to Stephenie Meyer’s Twilight series. Once again the lead character in the tale is female, but this time she is strong, whichever form she takes.

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Worth Reading: If you’ve come this far you may as well finish the journey. However, I for one, found this installment of the series to be the worst.

Summary: Bella and Edward are reunited, or “united” at last. Their blissful honeymoon is followed by Bella becoming pregnant. With her pregnancy comes dreams, dreams that involve a threat to her and her new child.

Much to the distaste of the Cullen’s, with perhaps the only exception being Carlisle, they must work together, vampire and werewolf, to overcome a threat to both sides. The vampire family is faced with destruction, and by a twist of fate, the werewolves are face destruction through a twist of fate that cannot be denied.

I found the best part of this part of the story involved Jacob and the wolves, which falls in about the middle. The start and finish which primarily involved Bella and Edward, were difficult to get into, and I was left not wanting more at the end.

The Twilight series has played itself out with this final book.

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Worth Reading: If you’ve come this far through the Twilight series then you’ll want to continue, if only to NOT leave a saga unfinished.

Summary: Edward is back with Bella, but there is trouble brewing. There have been unexplained deaths. Unexplained to everyone except the Cullens. They know what is behind it, but not who. This part of the Twilight series has the Werewolves and the Cullens at an uneasy truce to fight of a common foe.

Bella is once again surrounded by danger. Danger, because she is still mortal, much to Jacob and Edward’s delight. Danger, much to Victoria’s delight. A Danger that will have Jasper teaching the Cullen’s how to fight and kill their own kind in a battle for survival.

This saga is growing on me.

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Worth Reading: If you read and liked the first book of the saga, then you’ll want to continue. Even if you didn’t particularly like the first book, you’ll probably want to know how this all ends.

Summary: Bella has been brooding in a pit of despair. Edward and his family have left Forks. For months she’s been moping around until she figured out how to get Edward’s voice playing to her again. Her promise to Edward before he left was that she’d stay safe, and now it seems that when she does something particularly unsafe, his warning voice speaks in her head.

As Bella starts on her path of unsafe activity she ropes in Jacob, unknowingly, to help.

However, Jacob has his own secret. One that will bring him into conflict with both Bella and the Cullen family.

This is a continuation (second book) of the Twilight Saga. It is a good read, though I found it rather fast, finishing this book in two nights. Stephenie Meyer’s writing style is like a movie script and there is plenty of space between the lines of text. I can imagine that New Moon will set up factions in her fans, between Edward Cullen and Jacob Black.

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Worth Reading: Yes, I think so

Summary: A Vampire tale with a twist from Stephenie Meyer.

Bella has returned to Forks, this time to live. Her first days at her new school are bland until she spies the Cullens. The Cullens stay apart from the other students, always seeming aloof and uninterested. She shares a class with Edward Cullen and his reaction to her is extraordinary. Extraordinary in that it seems to Bella that Edward cannot stand being anywhere near her. How wrong she is.

This is not a standard Vampire tale, there is no blood-letting and killing which is what I was expecting. The group of vampires in this tale have sworn not to hunt humans, even though the temptation is still there.

This story is the romance between two people, one human and one vampire. It is in danger of falling into the gushy teenage romance genre, but if you can look past this, it is a rather good read and ends up being quite good even without the standard vampire type blood-sucking we probably expect from such characters.

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