You might have thought it wasn't possible, but you were wrong - Stephanie Meyer has written something even worse than the Twilight series.
The Short Second Life of Bree Tanner is written as a new, vampire perspective on the same story, aiming to show another, more monstrous side to the hugely popular saga. Or, in other words, Meyer is using the Twilight franchise for absolutely all she can. The protagonist is 15 year old Bree Tanner who is turned into a vampire after running away from home. The by-line 'There are two sides to every story" implies that this "novella" might be a less sookie version of events, as instead of being from the point-of-view of the nauseatingly in love Bella its the perspective of a supposed killer, but I had far too high expectations. Meyer basically uses the exact same character as Bella Swan, but gives her fangs (Wait a second, she doesn't even do that - Meyer's vamps don't have fangs!). The two girls are equally clueless and utterly dependent on their male counterparts and Bree knows her "boyfriend" for only one day before she's willing to die rather than be without him. It's disgustingly familiar. At least Bella was stalked by Edward for a little while before she was completely infatuated with him, but both know barely anything about their respective vampire suitors before being totally "in love" with them. Uhhh, and don't even get me started on the oh-so-repetitive and not-so-subtle Mormon references (only "bad" people like prostitutes and bums get attacked by vampires?).
I'm glad this is a free e-book, because it's definately not worth money. And I'm also glad that I'm not the only person in the entire world who finds the whole thing really off-putting. This makes me feel so much better:
