New Moon Chapters 7 and 8

Chapter 7- Repetition

This chapter of the pdf appears to have no periods. This is going to be annoying.

Bella's going to Edward's house so that she can hear his voice again. It takes like five pages to say she drives to his house and doesn't hear his voice. Then she goes to Jacob's house. Jacob is sad because the bikes are done and he can't hang out with Bella anymore, but God knows why he wants to be with her. Anyway, she says she'll keep coming over so they can hang out.

I made a gesture indicating the two of us as a single entity. I wish she would be more specific. What hand gesture would that be?

She gets an email from Renee, blah blah. I hate how she refers to her parents by their first names. It was okay when Eustace Scrubb did it because that's the way his family was. They were purposefully weird. When Bella does it it's just annoying.

Mike asks Bella out.

Jacob finished the bikes and Bella is going to go over to ride them. They're driving out to a remote spot to try them out and they find some people cliff diving. Exposition about the La Push gang who are more like a group of guys who keep the peace. Jacob doesn't like them because they're annoying and superior. And Sam keeps looking at Jacob as if he's waiting for something. He's planning out when he's going to rape him, duh.

"You've been hanging out with me a lot," I reminded him, feeling selfish. I'd been monopolizing him. I hate how she blames herself for everything, even when it's not her fault.

Jacob is sure something is wrong because Embry is acting weird and someone else acted weird and suddenly they're hanging out with Sam a lot out of nowhere. Anyway, Jacob almost cries like a little bitch and Bella hugs him out of nowhere and he touches her hair and Bella has to nip THAT in the bud right away.

Chapter 8- Adrenaline

Jacob is teaching Bella how to ride a motorcycle. Hell, you don't need a license!

And just as she starts moving...she hears Edward!

"This is reckless and childish and idiotic, Bella," the velvet voice fumed. Gah, STOP TELLING HER WHAT TO DO. She's eighteen and she can ride a motorcycle. They aren't dangerous. I ride them all the time. But I like how when Smeyer has Bella start to do reckless, suicidal things, "motorcycle" is the first thing that comes into her mind.

"Do you want to kill yourself, then? Is that what this is about?" the other voice
spoke again, his tone severe.
I smiled tightly—it was still working—and ignored the questions. Jacob wasn't
going to let anything serious happen to me.
"Go home to Charlie," the voice ordered. The sheer beauty of it amazed me. I
couldn't allow my memory to lose it, no matter the price.

This just RANKLES me. He tries to control her all the time. I get the admonishments for when she eventually goes cliff diving (come on, it was HEAVILY foreshadowed) but motorcycles? Motorcycles are nothing.

Anyway, stupid Edward's voice distracts her and she falls to the ground with the motorcycle on top of her. I wish I could think of a nickname for Edward, but I already used Pedobear. Jeffery Dahmer, maybe? Too long though. Oh well, Edward it is.

This had to be it, the recipe for a hallucination—adrenaline plus clanger plus stupidity. What the hell does "clanger" mean? Also, "My boyfriend left, let me do suicidal things to hear his voice chastise me again! This is completely healthy!"

"I'm great!" I enthused. I'm fairly certain that you can't use "enthused" in that way. Does anyone edit her work, seriously? Because I've found a ton of spelling and grammatical mistakes.

She has a gash on her forehead and she doesn't want Charlie to know that she's grievously hurt. Why? Who knows? I don't.

"But do I look like I tripped in your garage and hit my head on a hammer?" Tripped and hit her head on a hammer? If the hammer was lying on the floor, that wouldn't work. If it was randomly sticking out of the wall, MAYBE this excuse would make sense, but a hammer sticking out of the wall doesn't make sense. I thought you made excuses for your injuries ALL THE TIME. You'd THINK you'd be good at it by now.

His skin was such a pretty color, it made me jealous.
Jacob noticed my scrutiny.
"What?" he asked, suddenly self-conscious.
"Nothing. I just hadn't realized before. Did you know, you're sort of beautiful?"

This whole scene is just inane and it makes me nauseous. Why do all the guys have to be beautiful? And why would anyone want a man that you could describe as beautiful? They'd either be Bakura or RuPaul or something, and neither of those people are attractive to me.

I'd had the most amazing hallucination today. My velvet-voiced delusion
had yelled at me for almost five minutes before I'd hit the brake too abruptly and
launched myself into the tree. Why would you want to have a five minute hallucination of your
boyfriend yelling at you? WHY?

"Oh, the big bear," I said with sudden comprehension. "Yeah, some of the hikers
coming through Newton's have seen it. Do you think there's really some giant
mutated grizzly out there?" Okay, so we know this bear is a werewolf. Would it really be bigger than a grizzly bear?

So Charlie's getting suspicious and Jacob and Bella decide to just forgo the bikes for a while, but Bella needs some other way to put herself in danger to get hallucinations of a marble statue nagging her. She's planning on going back to that fateful meadow to do something dangerous, but as of yet we don't know what that is.

I don't know if this is Smeyer or the e-book, but "dangerous" is misspelled as "cangerous".

I don't know what Bella was planning on doing but it took like ten pages to say they were walking through the forest. Nothing happened.