Hey there and welcome to Olivia's
Catastrophe. I am Olivia-Savannah and
today I'm here for my third
read it backwards video. If you don't
know what read it backwards is I will
have a video down below and also linked
up there that you can go check
which will explain the whole situation
to you. For today we are reading
backwards New Moon
by Stephenie Meyer. And I do need to say
two things first.
The first of all is that the
representation of Indigenous people
in this series is really really bad and
therefore,
every time I mention this series I'll be
donating to the tribe itself that
Stephenie Meyer misrepresents. And I'll leave a link to that down below
if you feel driven to donating
yourself. And also this video contains
spoilers.
New Moon, the second book in the series. And it's the one I've reread the least.
Even less than Breaking Dawn. It's the
one I like the least because it's the
one that has the least Edward
and the least Cullens in it. And that's
what I'm kind of here for
with this series. I also almost dnf'd
the whole twilight saga the first time I
read this series all the way through
because in this one Edward disappears. And when edward disappeared I stopped
reading. I have this thing where if my
favourite characters die or disappear
I'm a lot less likely to continue in the
series or in the books.
Which means I have to choose my favourite
characters very very carefully. I might
have spoiled myself and then kept
reading. But yeah,
so it's the one I know the least about. I
can't even think of a tabbing system.
That's how little I know about it. So I've got two tabs so far. Green is
going to be for Jasper. That's been
running through all of my read it
backwards. And Jasper Cullen is the best vampire.
And even though the Cullens do a
disappearing act in this one, I do know
that Jasper features a lot in the
beginning because he's the catalyst
for the events that happen in this book. And the second tab I have is yellow and
that's gonna be for when Bella and Jacob
have cute friendship moments because
they do have cute friendship moments in
this book.
And Jacob is most likable in this book
if my memory is correct.
As for my two other colours which are
orange and pink...
we're just going to wait and see which
patterns reoccur. Hello!
So I've read the first 50 pages. Let's
talk about it.
The book starts off with Bella's dream
which is of her being a granny and still
dating Edward. And that dream always
makes me wonder why we don't get
more vampire books where the vampire is
significantly older than the person they
fall in love with. And it starts off Bella on her over
dramatic age fixation where she
really worries about being older than
Edward.
18 to 17 is not that big of a difference.
It's not
a big gap at al. Also in
Eclipse I was like: oh, Bella has a job,
wow. And I was assuming that Bella got a
job when Edward left because she had all
of that time to herself.
That she might have started to get a job. But no. In this one Bella's already got a
job and she's trying to get days off for
her birthday. And I was just like: wow,
she must have got a job in the first
book. Also in this one we get to see
Bella defending her truck. I kind of love
when Bella defends her truck.
We don't get to see it at all in
Breaking Dawn because by then she's in a
different car. And in Eclipse she spends so much time
being driven places by Edward
that we don't get to see her defending
and loving her truck. So
I'm happy that we get to see her just
saying like: don't hate on the truck! Then we also have our introduction into
the Volturi. And it's when Edward and
Bella are watching Romeo and Juliet.
And I did mention that every single book
Stephenie Meyer kind of focuses on one
book
and drives home hard that analogy
between the two. And in this one we have
Romeo and Juliet.
I do like the play Romeo and Juliet but I
don't like that the thing they nail home
in this is the self --
the lack of self preservation. Because
Edward and Bella have no
self preservation whatsoever. They're
always like: if he dies I'm gonna die. Or
if she dies I'm gonna die.
And it's just too dramatic. I don't enjoy
reading about this. I think I forget that
the reason I don't like this book is not
even just the fact
that Edward's not there, it's also that
when Edward is there
it's all of this lack of
self-preservation, wanna die without you
stuff that I don't enjoy reading about. And I don't particularly care about.
At one point Edward says that they want
to celebrate Bella's birthday because
the last real birthday they had
was Emmett's birthday in 1935. And I
questioned how could that happen
because Rosalie tells Emmett's story in
Eclipse and she says that
she discovered Emmett when he was dying,
carried all the way back
and then Carlisle changed him into a
vampire. Which means they would have had
no time at all with Emmett when he is
simply human. So they couldn't have
celebrated Emmett's birthday in 1935.
Just saying that doesn't add up. Okay,
then the whole thing happens with Bella
getting a paper cut
at her birthday and Jasper attacking. And
it's about time that I mentioned two
things.
The first one is a thing that I should
have mentioned a long time ago but I
wanted to wait until we were at this
book and at this scene.
And that is the fact that Jasper goes
crazy when Bella gets a paper cut.
And in all of the first book and also
this book
Jasper is always keeping his distance
from Bella because he's scared he's
gonna want to eat her because Bella just
smells so appetizing.
However, I think that the book seems to
forget that Jasper is in school
in the first book. He's in school, all the
time surrounded by these delicious
smelling humans where he probably is in
close contact
with a lot of them by sitting next to
them in class or having to work with
them. So I just don't understand or don't see
how
they can be lik, Jasper's taking
precautions. Jasper can't handle being
near Bella.
When it's explicitly stated that Bella's
appetizing smell only pertains
explicitly
to Edward. And therefore to Jasper she
smells like any other human. And he's around all of the humans all
the time. The second thing I wanted to
mention is how on earth are they able to
hold Jasper back? When Jasper is teaching them how to
fight in Eclipse he easily outfights
all of them. He knows how to outfight
Edward, he knows how to outfight Emmett and
he definitely knows how to out fight--
well, not Edward. But Emmett and Rosalie
so
it doesn't make sense that they can so
easily restrain him. Especially if he's
driven on getting better-- if someone like him is set on getting
their prey. He's probably always going to
get it.
The only reason why I think that he's so
easily restrained is because while he
physically wants to eat Bella, mentally
he wants to
not eat Bella. He's still got some of his
mental grip
which is the only way they could have
captured him. However, I do think it would
have been interesting if we had a bit
more of a fight and a bit more trouble
restraining him. Then we go back to
Edward
not being able to be around Bella while
she's injured because he has to hold his
breath and he really struggles with that. And it's just a bit nice to see because
in Eclipse, by then, he's already got it
all sorted out.
Bella's scent of blood doesn't bother
him at all. So now he's back to being
very much a vampire. I feel like in the
third book and the fourth book Edward
doesn't seem like a vampire anymore just
because he's so over wanting to eat
Bella. But this one we get to see him be all
vampiric. And we also get to hear a bit
about Edward's backstory. It's Carlisle
who tells it to us
but it's nice enough to get his
backstory. It's not so interesting. It
doesn't really revolve around Edward
himself,
but it's interesting to hear a little
bit more about Carlisle's backstory into
why he always works at the hospital.
And he's just such a good person and
he's such a strong vampire if he's able
to,
you know, not even be attracted to blood
whatsoever. And just use it to help
people.
It just highlighted to me how amazing
Carlisle
truly is. And then last but not least at
the end of the part that I stopped
reading at
we get to see Edward give Bella a
dramatic
goodbye kiss because he doesn't -- he's
decided he's going to leave Bella. But
Bella doesn't know so he just gives her
like,
one last intense kiss. And Edward's just
so dramatic like that. How many times have they had one last
dramatic kiss over
the read it backwards series? But also
over the whole four books. So many times! Okay, so let's talk a
little bit more about New Moon. So Bella is given this camera and she's
taking photos of everything as if
she and Edward are going to be leaving
together because of the problems that
happened around her birthday.
And it's a bit sad to see her taking all
these photos and thinking that they're
going to go together,
when the truth of the matter is that
Edward is going to be the one who's
going to be going
without her. Also the way that Bella
regards herself is really so sad. She
doesn't see herself as beautiful or
lovable at
all. And I feel like in early young adult
there were lots of female characters who
felt this way. And it was probably because it was a
problem that a lot of
female teenagers were relating to back
then and are probably still relating to. But it's kind of being told in a
different way because
Edward's job as her boyfriend in this
series seems to be to remind her that
she's beautiful all the time.
And Bella never believing it. But
nowadays in young adult I feel like the
characters either are very comfortable
in their own skin
or if they have those doubts, they learn
to get over them or
accept themselves themselves rather than
needing somebody else to
help them or accept them or encourage
them on that journey. If that makes any
sense. But I just noticed in this one
that Alice disappears and never really
gets to say goodbye to Bella
and there's nothing worse than going through
a breakup and losing a best friend
at the same time. That's just a double
whammy and is
extra extra painful. There's also some
brief mentions
of the children on the reservation being
seen as a cult
or being seen as a nuisance. And already
that makes me uncomfortable. It's just another element of showing how
the representation of the tribe is done
badly because they're --
those are thoughts that some people have
in real life. And it's kind of being
perpetuated in this book. I's
misrepresentation.
It's awful. I also need to highlight a
moment because
Charlie gets so much amnosity from some
people
for the fact that after a couple months
of Bella being depressed and not
reacting to anything
he says I'm sending her back to
Jacksonville. Back to Renee. And I don't think that's a sign of bad
parenting I actually would like to say
that's a sign of good parenting.
He's tried to do everything he can to
help Bella get through it.
He's given her time and space. He's been
watching her carefully
and you can see that nothing is changing. Rather than letting her wallow in that
and continue on the trajectory that
she's on,
he then says let's try and see someone. Let's send you
to someone who can help you. Can talk
about your feelings. Bella immediately
shuts down that path of thinking. And then Charlie says: I really don't
know what to do. I want to send you to
your mother who might be able to help
you more. And it's okay to be out of your depth. I
really think it's healthy and okay for
people to say:
I don't know what to do in this
situation. I'm going to refer you to
or give you over to someone who can help
you more. We do need to normalise being
accepting when we don't know how to do
something. And charlie only wants the
best for Bella and he's accepting that
he doesn't know
how to give her that best treatment. And
he thinks that maybe Renee knows how to
do it better. I don't think that's bad parenting. I
think that's a sign of good parenting. Also Bella really does Jessica dirty
when she
goes to that movie with her. And they
watch this zombie film. The way that she treated Jessica... the way
that she just
ignores her or just leaves her by
herself
while she goes walks on the street. I
just--it hurts my heart. I understand why
Jessica is so angry and frustrated after
that. Also we need to talk about a
distinct difference
between Bella chasing adrenaline and
Bella
just putting herself in danger. So in the
situation that she's with Jessica at the
beginning with the film situation and
walking towards these stranger men,
it's putting herself in danger. I don't
like those moments. I don't like
the later on what's going to be the
cliff dive. I don't like any of that. I
think putting yourself in danger
is a bit ridiculous. However, when it's
like chasing an adrenaline rush, I can
understand that. And you can
chase the adrenaline rush in safe ways. Go on a rollercoaster, Bella.
Ride some motorcycles if you consider
that as a safe thing to be doing.
You can get your adrenaline in safe ways. That said I want to acknowledge that
Bella is
depressed in this moment and is supposed
to be depressed. And I've never had
depression. So I don't know
what it's like to not feel anything and
to be chasing after
the small amount of feelings that you
are feeling. I can't speak for that. So
I just want to acknowledge that. And then
last but not least I've created a new
tab colour which is orange. And orange is
going to be
for every time that ghost Edward appears. I honestly have nothing better to tab.
Also the more I read this book... I'm like 100
pages in of 500, the more I realise that
I don't like this book. Do you guys have that? Do you guys have
when you have a favourite series and you
love that series,
but nonetheless within that series
there's just one book that you just
don't enjoy. That's me with New Moon. Bella and Jacob
are being mechanics and they're just
fixing up the bikes. And it makes me
think that Jacob and Rosalie would
actually be very good friends because
they're both into
doing whatever mechanics do, if they
didn't have that playful feud going on. As well as that, seeing Bella and Jacob's
friendship is just so pure. They're so
happy together.
And it's actually the most casual and
relaxed we see Bella like,
ever? Across the whole series? Because in
the first book she's busy trying to
figure out who Edward is
and the other ones there's just always
some reason where she feels tension. When
she's with Edward
where she doesn't feel good enough for
him or she
feels like she's making him jealous or
whatever. So I feel like
when it's just her and Jacob being
friends it's the most relaxed we've
seen her even. Though she's still
emotionally hurting. We are seeing some
problematic things in terms of
descriptors.
We have Jacob saying that the members of
the tribe
are all like: our land, they're all like:
tribe pride and
protectors. They call themselves
protectors. And I'm putting this because
they're all quotes. But it's kind of mocking them for that
which I don't think is something
somebody should be mocked for.
If they're taking pride in their
ancestry and their heritage
and their tribe, then they're allowed to
do that and that's fine.
Leah is also described as being exotic
and it's just... it's
it's just something that we see so much. Anybody who's dark-skinned is described
as exotic. It's a bit exhausting. Think of some other adjectives. There are
more ways to describe someone
than exotic. There's a moment where
they're all around Billy's for dinner
and Seth is there. And I absolutely
forgot that we get to
see Seth and Leah and Jacob interacting
pre-transition. I forgot that that happens. And Seth is
just as cute
before as he is afterwards. He's still
hanging on to Jacob's every word. He's
still the purest.
But it's interesting to see how their
perspective on Leah is just
so very different. And we have the moment
where Angela's talking about bear
sightings with Bella's friends at the
table.
And it's nice to see Bella's friends
interact and her kind of be a bit more
involved in their lives. Seeing as
the Cullens are not there. The only
frustrating about thing about that is
that now
Mike's seeing bella wake up, he's like, do
you want to go to a film? Do you want to
maybe go on a date? And he just keeps
hinting.
Honestly, Bella is the best rejecting
people. She rejects Edward. Rejects
Edward's marriage proposals for so
long. She rejects like, Mike, Tyler,
Eric. She knows how to reject people but
it's just a bit exhausting. It reminds me
again of how annoying Mike is. Always
trying to like worm his way in there.
When she says no she means no. And last
but not least
Bella's talking to Angela and she
mentions that it's been
a year since she moved to Forks and I'm
just like D:
Whoa! It's only been a year which makes
sense because this is only the second
book. But she spent four months of that year:
October, November, December
and January in her depressive haze.
Which means that her time with Edward
has been approximately eight months of
dating. Probably seven months because I know
there's at least a month where she's
trying to figure him out,
and you know fitting into Forks. So her
reaction
is from a seven month relationship. It is
supposed to be
the relationship for her. The one that
like makes her life complete and all of
that. But I had in my head an impression that
they've been together
for much longer than just seven months.
Even though seven months... I'm not saying
like, your seven-month relationship
is not that deep. But I'm just saying
it's only been seven months... So I've
mentioned in previous books that Edward
and Bella have their field that they
always go to and it's really their place. But Bella is now searching for this
field with Jacob and she mentions that
she's only ever been to the field
once. Which is probably at the end of
Twilight so I'm starting to think
that maybe they don't spend that much
time in the field. They don't go to the
field in Breaking Dawn if I remember
correctly. Or maybe it opens in the field?
I don't even remember. But I know that
they go to the field once in Eclipse and
I'm pretty sure they go once in Twilight. Which means they only go to the field
thrice or maybe four times. Maybe at the
end of this book?
So they actually don't end up in the
field as much as I
remember them being in the field. And
while Bella and Jacob are looking for
this field, Bella jokes that no -- Jacob jokes that
maybe
something will eat Bella while she's out
there. And Bella's like oh, maybe it will
happen. And they're joking about it
which I guess is foreshadowing because I
know that eventually Laurent is going to
turn up in the field and actually try
and eat Bella. So that joke is like, a
little bit of foreshadowing. Then Bella goes on her awkward three-way
date
with Jacob, Bella and Mike because
everybody else cancels. And that scene is so awkward. Where
they're both in the
cinema and like, Jacob's waiting for
Bella to hold her hand --
waiting for Bella to hold his hand. And
Mike's also waiting. And the like, animosity that Mike and
Jacob have
towards each other. It's literally like,
the
love triangle that happens before the
love triangle with Edward and Jacob. But
it's already like,
a bit of a shame, because already the the
best friendness for Jacob... it's still
there essentially. But Jacob's already
been like: oh, I fancy Bella so it's
already
shifted their friendship. Didn't
have as much friendship time where it's
purely just friendship as I thought.
Already it's morphed into Jacob fancying
Bella and Bella not fancying him
back. But Bella still holds his hand a
lot and is still like,
being all cosy up to Jacob. And she's
again having the thoughts such as: I
shouldn't be this friendly with Jacob
because it means something different to
Jacob. And at this point I've so had enough. I
know this is the first time that we're
seeing Bella have these thoughts about
how she needs to put more distance
between her and Jacob.
However, because I'm reading the series
backwards I've seen these thoughts for
three consecutive books and I'm kind of
fed up of hearing about it. Just do it if
you are so torn up
that it lasts three books. Which is about,
I don't know, 800 pages total? Just do it. Stop
complaining about it and just do it. Also in this one Jacob is weirdly
perceptive. He notices that Bella doesn't like music
because it reminds her
of Edward. He notices that hearing the
name Edward or Cullen
does affect Bella so he never uses those
names. He says like the other one or just
cuts himself off before he says
Edward's name. And in the other books
Jacob doesn't come across
as that observant to me just because
he's always pushing his
own wants. He's always pushing his own
narrative of I want Bella to realise
that she loves me. Or I want Bella to
realise that the wolves are just as
strong as the vampires. And he's so busy pushing his own
narrative and all in the other books... 
the other two, essentially... that
he loses that observation and actually
kind of caring element. I know that he
still cares for Bella
but in this one he seems to be so much
more caring and so much more attentive
than he is in the other two books.
It's the first time that I noticed that
Laurent is basically there doing the job
that Riley is supposedly doing
in the third book. But he's doing it
himself and not doing a very good job of
it.
I also want to note that everything
Jacob does is basically an
echo of what Edward does but in a
different slightly different order.
So let's go. Hacob tries to stay away
from her to keep her safe.
Jacob decides he likes her too much to
keep away.
Jacob comes in through the window at
night. Jacob has her guess the secret.
But in Jacob's case everything happens
quite a bit faster.
Also when Bella is seeing the turmoil
that Jacob is in about recently becoming
a werewolf
she's like: why don't we just run away
together. You and me just run away from
it all.
And I was just -- such a teenager and such
a young adult thought.
Like, that's a thought that I had
countless times as a teenager that I
couldn't help but smile. Like, that's young adult to its core. When
it really truly
just sounds like a teenager. Honestly, I
read the line:
no, it's not that you're a wolf, that's
fine,
and cracked up so much. Literally, you
only get comedy gold like this
in the twilight saga. Where the writings
just -- the writing is just either so bad
or just so outrageous that you can't
help but laugh. Also it's a wolf thing. Can I just say
that it's a marvel that the wolves have
been able to keep themselves secret for
this long. Jacob exchanged like, three words with
paul in front of
Bella and then boom! Paul just transforms
into a wolf right then and there and
then Jacob immediately transforms into a
wolf. It should not be this secretive. Like,
honestly, half of Forks must know their secret at this point.
If that's all it takes to set them off
into transformation. I know in the
beginning it's hard because they're all
testy
and it's more emotional for them and all
of that jazz in the beginning. But still,
if this is how it really goes in the
beginning
and as many people have been seeing them
around as
others imply it, makes more sense that
more people know the secret because they
just can't keep it to themselves. Next thing's next, I was smiling so
hard at the pack banter. Especially when
we see that moment
with Jared and Embry when
Bella has just, you know, witnessed the
wolf transformation and is being driven back. The banter that them two have is just so
cute. And then the moment where they go
back to Emily
and they're all together... Sometimes I
forget that the pack is
also a found family within this series. However, we spend
so so little time with the pack that we
can forget
that not only are the Cullens found
family but the pack is also a found family.
And like the time that we have the
Cullens, it's underrated and not that
there. When we can see,
you know, that element of friendship.
Which is a bit of a shame because I
would love more of that but
Stephenie Meyer was busy doing her thing. But also I just need to mention that
this book is so slow. I'm on page 300 or 500 and we've
literally only just
found out that Jacob was a werewolf. So
essentially, all that's happened is
breakup, Jacob's a werewolf
and now we're getting this like, Victoria
plot line which I don't think lasts that
long
because I'm sure Bella's about to jump
off the cliff any moment. Hello! I finished reading New Moon so
let's talk about it
because I read 200 pages last night and
I have a lot to say. So first of all, Bella pretty much made
up her mind that she was going to be with
Jacob and just tried to give Jacob as
much love as
she was physically capable of giving him.
And I didn't realise that team Jacob was
literally that close to winning. I forgot
that she actually
made up her mind to truly give in to Jacob.
I just
completely forgot that. And we also have
a moment where Alice turns up and then
Charlie's talking to alice about how
terrible and awful it was
truly. Truly was when Bella was first in
her depression. And it broke my heart to read that. And
Charlie really did his best... And it's
just a bit --
I can't imagine being a parent and just
feeling so lost
and not knowing what to do. What to give
their child. What they can
best do to help them. And it made me a
bit emotional to read that because I
think I've probably reread this series
countless times but never really focused
on that scene and that moment. I just realised that the reason that
Charlie is so angry and dislikes Edward
so much in Eclipse
is because he's seen Bella so broken
after that break up
and he really dislikes Edward for that
reason. Like, I knew that he really
disliked Edward but I thought it was
because
Bella suddenly disappears and goes to
Italy and doesn't tell Charlie. But
that's not actually
the reason why Charlie is angry at
Edward. It's because he broke his
daughter's heart
in the first place. And that makes
perfect sense. And I would be
just as angry as Charlie is in the third
book.
Then we get the whole scene with the
Volturi and I have to say
I kind of love Jane? I kind of love the
way Jane acts. How she's so
regal and royal but at the same time
just so angry when things don't work.
Like when her power doesn't work for
Bella.
And the films get a lot of things wrong
but they do get quite a few things right.
And one of the things that they got
right
was Dakota Fanning for that role or
whoever plays that role. Because
they played Jane so well and personified
her
so well. It was absolutely perfect. I also
never really paid that many attention to
the other
Volturi such as Marcus and Dimitri and
what their powers were. So it completely took me by surprise
that Marcus's power is the ability to
see relationships.
That's such a cool and unique power that
I don't actually see
in many books where people have powers. So it's pretty cool to note that,
but again, it doesn't really come into
the series much. I have to say
the whole scene with the Volturi is
great. I love the Volturi because
Aro is just a brilliant job of being
bizarre but also
scary but also royal and regal. And I
can't imagine being Bella and just
hearing the frenzy as they're eating but
she's right underground.
And all the people. Like, seeing the
innocent people beforehand...
That scene is actually quite chilling
and again, I feel like because
the twilight saga is supposed to be
a paranormal romance,
people can forget that it can have quite
chilling and
scary scenes. Also when with the Volturi, Aro is talking to Edward as if he
is like, controlling Bella. As if Bella is
a pet to him which you could say in
Eclipse, that does happen because
Edward is so controlling. But Edward just
gets fed up with this
talking about Bella as if Bella isn't
there and at one point he's like:
if you've got questions for Bella just
ask her. And I was like:
yes! You tell them that Bella is an
independent person who can talk for
herself! I was also paying a lot closer
attention at the end of the book because,
I don't know why but,
I think I love Edward a lot more than I
give him credit for. When Edward isn't
there I don't like the book and then the
moment that Edward comes back into the
series I'm like,
actually I'm enjoying the last 50 /
hundred pages of New Moon a lot more
than any of the other
bits of New Moon. So really I'm more of a
softie for Edward than I think.
And because I was paying more attention
towards the end
just because Edward was there, I noted in
her writing
that Stephenie Meyer spends a lot of
time
getting Bella to say like, Edward's
breath is so
sweet. And she just keeps describing
Edward's breath
as a sweet fragrance. And I'm sorry, I 've
never been attracted to someone's breath
before. It just just strikes me as a bit
too far.
Also when Edward is reunited with
the rest of the Cullen family he calls
Esme mum
and that just -- my heart! I know they're
always talking about how Carlisle is
equivalent to their dad
and Esme is equivalent to their mum but
it's so rare that we actually get to see
Edward say like,
sorry, dad, or sorry mum. As in actually
calling them mum and dad. So when I read
that my heart melted a little bit.
Also can I just say I'm completely, a
hundred percent
done, with them forcing the Romeo and
Juliet and analogy down my throat.
This book does it so much and it just
-- I'm fed up of it. She really digs into it
deeper than she does with any of the
other
books that she tries to parallel. Which
might be another reason why I don't
particularly like this one as much. I love Romeo and Juliet but even I am sick
of Romeo and Juliet by the end of
reading this.
Bella's talking about not wanting to
grow old and
still dating edward and I was just like: what
if she grew to be like,
90 and she was about to die and then
Edward bit her? Which led me to thinking
where are the granny vampires? Honestly,
like,
we see Jane who's like practically a
child who's a vampire. And we see adult
vampires. And we even see Aro and
everybody else in the volturi who are
like,
adults but they're just old vampires. But
we have not seen like, any
vampiric grannies and granddads running
around. And I'm curious to know where
they are. Do they get
younger if they're bitten because
they've got to be somewhere. So Edward
is trying to convince Bella that he does
indeed love her and then
at some point right before Bella goes to
the Cullens to have a vote for her
mortality,
she goes hang on a second, I'm having an
epiphany. And I just clearly had a memory of my 12
year old self
reading this book and not knowing what
epiphany meant. And I read it and then I
looked it up in the dictionary. And then
I was like,
oh, that's an epiphany. And I can just
remember running around and every time I
had an idea I'd be like:
hold on, I had an epiphany! And I just
felt so like
on top of the world because I knew what
epiphany meant when some of my friends
didn't. And I used it
way too much. This series has so many
memories for me. We also have another Cullen family
moment because right before the vote is
put towards the family of whether Bella
should become a vampire or not, Edward was like, I've got an idea to thwart
the Volturi. And it's
a very dangerous idea. And it's such a
found family moment when like, all of the
guys -- aka Edward,
Jasper and Emmett are like, yeah, let's do
this,
nice plan. And all of the girls: Rosalie,
Bella and Alice are like:
no, why are they so dumb. And it's just
a little bit cute. And then the vote
happens. So
in reading Eclipse, in my read it
backwards, I was like: what?? Bella had to deal with Carlisle?? But then
I do remember that this vote scene
happens. Especially because the film
drives home
this vote scene for Bella's mortality. So
basically I kind of know all the events
that are going to happen in the twilight
saga but I forget to link them
up with the consequences that the event
has. So I knew the vote was happening and
I knew that Carlisle was going to change her
after graduation in the third book, but I
totally forgot that it's
because of the vote that the other thing
is gonna happen. Which
shows that I can be very forgetful. Okay,
Edward's proposal happens in this book.
And I really was trying to remember when
Edward proposed to Bella
and I couldn't remember. I thought it was
in a field at some point. Especially in
the later books because she keeps
denying him
and I was like, where's the
proposal? When does that happen?
It happens at the end of New Moon
literally just after they reunited
from a breakup. But Edward's proposal is
just
a little bit cute. I also need to mention
that Edward throws out that he's 110.
I don't know why I'm always shocked by
the ages but I think this is the first
time
in the read it backwards series that I
get to fully see how old Edward is. Like,
you know that it's some time around the
spanish influenza but he's like,
well I'm 110. And I'm just like, you're so
old. And last but not least in the
video backwards for Eclipse I was like,
why is Jacob so against Bella? I was
trying to think
of what conversation they had to lead to
them not being good friends by the
beginning of the third book. And it's
basically just as simple as
Bella's back with Edward. Edward is a
vampire. Werewolves and vagpies don't mix.
So there was no complicated answer to
that. It was just
because Jacob feels like he can't be
friends with Bella who is a vampire
and knowing that Bella eventually wants
to become one as well.
So there was no complication for that. That
is all of my thoughts for New Moon. Like,
my tabs... there's so
few. I didn't really have that much to
tab. I didn't even use my fourth colour. I
just wasn't really
feeling this book. But I'm all the way
through it and now I get to go into my
favourite one of the series
which is actually the first one. That is
my favourite one. And I cannot wait to
read that one. And then
start reading backwards another series.
So if I had to rate this one I would
rate it three stars just because
it's not really the worst thing ever. Edward does come back in the end
Edward's there for a little bit in the
beginning. But it's just not entertaining
for me. It's not interesting for me. And I prefer to skip over it in my
rereads. So
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