The Short Second Life of Bree Tanner

[Aradia Helevorn]

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Aradia Helevorn

Hmm interesting idea... I mean it worked for Anne Rice but if the writing and concepts arn't origonal or different it's going to be a flop. I'll check it out but I don't know if I'll buy it unless I come across it at Half priced books. ^ ^

and as for thinking about all but blood... Bella didn't so it's possible that the urge may be different in others. Still I really hope she avoids the tackiness and comes up with something new and fresh otherwise I'm not going to care. Twilight is already over done. I love Vampire novels, and they can be done in so many different ways but I'll be sad if it's just a thrown up version of Midnight Sun since she didn't publish it.

I have a feeling thats just what it's going to be though, she didn't want that work to go to waste and all the crazy little fan girls will buy it on sight just cause it has her name on it and vampires. Quick and easy money. Value pry not too much.

I think she's aware that it's going to look like a money-making move. That's why, if you look on her website, it says that the story will be available online for free for about a month, and some of the money that comes from people who buy the book anyway will go to charity. That's really nice of her, I think. Still, there's no doubt that she will make lots of money off of it. Only money from the first 1.5 million books goes to charity, and the book won't be online forever. After that, people will have to buy it to read it.

I'm not sure what you mean by "thrown up version of Midnight Sun" and "she didn't want that work to go to waste." This isn't MS at all, it's a completely different story. It's not like she's trying to paraphrase MS and call it something different. From what I understand, this books will be almost exclusively about life in Seattle. Bella and Edward's story will probably be only mentioned.

What I mean by a thrown up version and not letting her work go to waste is that she might take midnight sun, knowing it's popularity and use it's themes, expressions and experiences and will use the idea for another person's perspective.

thrown up I mean like puking. some things are desolved, some new things are added and mixed around and what comes out is obviously the conclusion. thats my meaning.  

[.Bucket.of.Joy.]

I'll probably end up reading it one day when I'm really bored. I'm definitely not buying, though. Much like a few others here, I never felt an overwhelming desire to know what was going on with the newborns. It felt like the type of treatment the would have received would be much like what Jasper described in his very long monologue.

This novella is probably just her milking more out of the ever popular Twilight franchise. It is time for her to move on with her life, maybe write something new and unrelated. Twilight is just so overdone.

 

[Aradia Helevorn]

.Bucket.of.Joy.

I'll probably end up reading it one day when I'm really bored. I'm definitely not buying, though. Much like a few others here, I never felt an overwhelming desire to know what was going on with the newborns. It felt like the type of treatment the would have received would be much like what Jasper described in his very long monologue.

This novella is probably just her milking more out of the ever popular Twilight franchise. It is time for her to move on with her life, maybe write something new and unrelated. Twilight is just so overdone.

Amen to that!!!  

[short pixie]

i read the book and personally i love it. it gives a good inside look on bellas process on being a newborn and a really good look at the vulturi  

[Glitterbean]

I bought the book and read it. I didn't love it, but it was interesting. I agree that it gave even more insight into the Volturi. We already knew that they were hoping the newborns would take out some of the Cullens, but (spoiler) the fact that they actually went to Victoria and talked about it and gave a deadline and everything...Wow.

I also loved the ending. I mean, not what happened, obviously, but (another spoiler) how when I read Eclipse, of course I assumed that Edward was talking to Bella when he said "Don't watch." The fact that he really could have been talking to both Bella and Bree...it gave me chills when I read it. I like how Bree figured out how Edward was the mind reader and she got to have the silent conversation with him. I also liked how Fred got away, and maybe Shelly and Steve, too.

It would have been interesting if Jane had let the Cullens take Bree in. I think she would have been a good fit with the family. It was interesting to see what exactly happened when she surrendered, how Esme and Carlisle and Jasper worked it out. And then, we also got brief "glimpses" of things that happened in the clearing that Bella missed. It was interesting.