New Moon (#2 of Twilight series) ***
By Stephenie Meyer
**SPOILERS** In this second installment, Vampire Boy ditches Human Girl, and she finds solace in Wolfman for the first two-thirds of the book.
If you've read the first book in this series, you already know who Wolfman is, but it takes Human Girl SO many pages to figure it out that it's painful. I mean, if you already know there are vampires out there and have one for a boyfriend, is it REALLY that much of stretch to conclude that some of your other friends could be werewolves?
Characters don't get a whole lot more depth, but Human Girl does some interesting meditations on how her situation compares with Shakespeare's "Romeo and Juliet." She not only explores the "what ifs" of some of the Bard's minor characters, but also riffs on teen suicide in a way that's more realistic and sobering than Shakespeare's romantic take on love and death.
Exciting final third of the book in which Human Girl saves Vampire Boy from the head vampires (think Borgia Popes) who live in Italy and feed on American tourists, which may or may not be intentionally funny (I laughed out loud).
Less smoldering foreplay in this book, what with the disappearance of Vampire Boy for most of the story, though things heat up a bit at the end. Chastely, of course.
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