I admit I am jaded when it comes to New Moon the book. After devouring Twilight the movie and book I went online and studied up on Stephenie Meyer. I read how there were originally 2 books Twilight and Forever Dawn, which presumably to me meant...They meet in Twilight and fall in love and in Forever Dawn Bella became a vamp and they lived happily ever after. Stephenie's book deal "allowed" her to expand the series. Enter a bigger presence of Jacob Black and a longer absence of Edward. I watched how Stephenie spoke in her interview all smitten saying, "Awwww I love Jacob." After falling in love with Edward, this Stephenie backstory just fueled my annoyance with Jacob Black.
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Here are 6 beefs I have with New Moon (book) other than the fact that Edward leaves and Jacob moves in on Bella. And no offense to Stephenie Meyer because she brought us Edward to begin with, but I figure it's my blog and I can bitch be critical and open a can of whoop-ass give my opinion if I want to in honor of my English professors in college who encouraged me to look at a piece of work critically and question the answers.
So please tell me how do you expect me to believe these...
1. Alice...Miss Queen of visions. Miss you can't play chess with her because she has visions of the moves as told by Edward in Midnight Sun. Miss reports every detail of Edward's movements in Italy to a "T." Miss I can see the future of those I am most attuned to...um like maybe your soulmate Jasper? And yet she HAD NO FREAKIN' VISION ABOUT JASPER TRYING TO ATTACK BELLA?
2. Bella gets a papercut and just lets the blood drip. Everyone knows when you get a papercut the first thing you do is yell "SON OF A BITCH" and stick it in your mouth and suck the blood. Then you run to the sink and run cold water over it. It's as basic a human instinct as scratching an itch or running your fingers through your hair. Didn't she go through the whole blood thing already after James bit her? She, of all people, with all her clumsiness should have made rules for herself about what IMMEDIATE measures to take if there was any blood shed around the vampires.
3. Who was that alternate Edward who breaks up with Bella in the forest? Because that surely was NOT the Edward we had already come to know and love. He leaves her there alone after he specifically told her not to go into the forest because he's not the most dangerous thing out there? WHAT? A friend of mine told me this was to introduce the wolves so Sam could find her. So for the purpose of extending 2 books into 4 to introduce wolves I guess that is a reason but it's no excuse. Twilight book/movie Edward would have never have done that.
4. As a doctor, didn't Carlisle have an obligation to follow up his patient, Bella, to make sure her wounds were healing and didn't get infected? Maybe Twilight Cupcake can explain this one to me.
5. Why did Bella allow Jacob to almost kiss her in her kitchen after Alice had arrived? Doesn't Alice's presence CONFIRM THEY DID EXIST?? Shouldn't her head have been really clear at that point and her love she still held in her heart for Edward reinforced? So after months of her saying "no" to Jacob and being motivated to be reckless in hopes of hearing Edward's voice she chooses that moment to suddenly be all confused and starts to give in? MAKES NO FREAKKIN' SENSE TO ME!
6. Why didn't they talk on the plane?
I realize being a writer can be difficult and inconsistency may be inevitable, but to me these were just blaring "but what about..." questions. Maybe Stephenie got too sidetracked with "her Jacob" and extending her books to really $ee any of this from my point of view.
Here's the best little video worth seeing if you only have 1 minute and as long as I can watch it I don't need a caffeine jolt because @33 seconds gets me every single time!!!
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