TA BOOK CLUB: ‘NEW MOON’ CHAPTER FIVE AND SIX – CHEATER AND FRIENDS

The TA Book Club is back! We have a new and improved book club to bring you as we open up with New Moon. Every Saturday we’re going to bring you a chapter or two of New Moon complete with a brief summary, a quote, some thought-provoking questions, a song and even a little book and movie comparison. So tell your Twilight friends and come re-read New Moon with TA!

Hikers come into the store where Bella and Mike are working and report sighting an enormous, pitch black animal in the woods. That night, Bella dreams she is searching in the woods and finds nothing. With Edward’s absence, there is no longer anything to search for. When she wakes up, Bella fears the hole in her heart is never going to heal even though Edward had promised it would be as if he never existed. Since he cheated on his end of the promise, Bella decides she is going to cheat on her end too. Bella finds some motorcycles headed for the dump. Remembering Jacob Black’s mechanical skills, she takes the bikes out to La Push to see if her old friend can help her. Jacob is all too eager to help Bella out. This kind of recklessness is something Bella knows would upset Edward. It also might be the exact amount of danger she needs to see her vision of Edward again.

Jacob’s friends Quil and Embry show up at the shed where Bella and Jacob are working on the motorcycles, and start teasing them about dating. This makes Jacob nervous, and it’s clear that the friendship means more to him than it does to Bella. Although Bella doesn’t reciprocate the romantic feelings, she starts enjoying herself more and more around Jacob. For the first night since Edward left, Bella sleeps without nightmares.

Later on, Billy invites a large group of people, including Charlie and Bella, for dinner at his house. Bella enjoys being around the Quileute gathering, and meets many other people from the reservation. That night Bella dreams about Sam Uley in the woods. His form is fuzzy and unclear and he appears to be changing.

As Bella continues to emerge from her depression, she attempts to reconnect with some of her old friends at school. Angela and Mike are the only two who are readily willing to forgive her. Angela tells Bella about a large, black animal she saw in the woods similar to the story the hikers reported at the store. Angela also reminds Bella that she has now been in Forks a full year. In one year, Bella realizes she has come full circle from the way things were when she first arrived. Once again, she is starting new without Edward.

Come and check out the full details from the chapter including quotes and songs here. And remember Chapters 7 and 8 – Repetition and Adrenaline will be back on January 2nd, so read up!