147. Title & Author: The Short Second Life of Bree Tanner: An Eclipse Novella by Stephenie Meyer (178 pages)Genre: Fiction--Fantasy
Completed: 8 June 2010
Summary & Review:
Bree Tanner was a starving runaway when a handsome young man named Riley took her under his wing and changed her life forever. After enduring the burning torture of becoming a vampire, Bree awakens to a world of new possibilities and new priorities. Just one priority, to be exact: to satiate her thirst with as much human blood as possible. Her life is hectic and dangerous as the coven of young vampires she lives with fight and kill one another in mindless bloodlust. Only when she meets Diego, a slightly older and more level-headed vampire, is she able to see there is more to her life than hunting, and more to her seemingly benevolent creator than meets the eye.
This was a very quick read, but overall it was an entertaining addition to the Twilight Saga. Its main weakness was that it had nothing to do with Bella, Edward, Jacob, or the residents of Forks. I'm not sure about other Twilight fans, but I didn't read the books because I am obsessed with vampires and the occult. In fact, I read the books in spite of those things (I mean really, vampires fighting werewolves?!). So, to read an entry, albeit a tangential one, in a series based around a very concrete nucleus of characters with barely a cameo from those characters and their stories, the very stories that have drawn so many people to Twilight, feels a little empty.
Rating: 7.0
2 comments:
you write good
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but really, i couldn't have said it any better myself. i concur with everything you think about it.
I was wondering about this book. As soon as I heard that Stephenie was writing this story, I thought it odd. I really have no desire to read about Bree Tanner because I can't even remember who she is without someone explaining to me where she fit into the Twilight story, and then I'm like, "who cares?"
I'm glad it was at least somewhat interesting though. A 7/10 isn't bad.
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