The Short Second Life of Bree Tanner - Stephenie Meyer

*New York Times Bestseller
*New York Times Bestselling Series
* #1 New York Times Bestselling Author

If you have not read Eclipse, read at your own risk, this contains spoilers!

The Gist

Eclipse Novella
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 Bree Tanner was a starving girl living on the streets of Seattle before Riley found her. Or, more importantly, before Riley changed her. Before Riley brought Bree to her, she was nobody. Loving no one and being loved by no one. But that’s the way it was as a dreg child – a teenager of the streets kept to themselves or was sucked into gangs or worse. But now she’d changed. Now she’s super fast and strong. And constantly thirsty for human blood. She lives in the basement of one of Riley’s houses, fearing the sunlight that came every morning and hunting by night to keep her thirst at bay. The cruel female vampire that was the one to change Bree has yet to show her face to any of the newborns once she’s changed them…and they live in fear of her, only following Riley’s rules because they all know she’s behind him. Bree’s “coven” is ruthless and hardly united. In fact, they take every opportunity to tear each other apart - literally – and burn the pieces. Things change when Bree is sent out on a hunting trip with three other vampires whom she doesn’t trust. Kevin – stupid but fierce – is in alliance to one of Bree’s enemies (Raoul, who constantly threats every vampire in their coven), making him an enemy, too. A blond boy whose name she doesn’t know is also on the hunting trip. But he’s also a groupie of Raoul’s, so trusting him is out of the question. And then there was Diego - basically Riley’s right-hand man, who Bree wants to trust the least. Wants to, but is forced to team up with him when Kevin and the blond are unable to be around. While being forced to hunt with Diego alone (they left Kevin and the other vampire behind) Bree is a little on edge, until she begins to realize that Diego is different. He’s older (eleven months over her three as a vampire) and less hostile than the others. Over a quick hunting trip, Bree decides that Diego can be trusted - can be her friend – despite what others say about him. They go back to the house and find it destroyed. As they search for their new home they grow closer through their discovery that the sun can’t actually burn them.  Together, Bree and Diego find out that being a vampire is different then they thought and that maybe not everything Riley told them had been completely truthful. 


What We Think

Reviewed  by Dream Catcher

Number of Pages: 178

Remarkably, I think I liked this book better than Eclipse. I find that fact kind of sad, considering this is an Eclipse novella. But I guess that’s beside the point. The whole plot was basically the same as Eclipse, but from a different point of view. From the point of a vampire. A newborn, no less! It was really different, because I knew what the ending was, and what exactly was going to happen, because I’d already read Eclipse. But even though I knew basically everything that was going to happen, I felt the need to keep reading. There really wasn’t a boring part of the book. Some parts with a lot of description, or long sections with no dialogue dragged a bit for me, but there really weren’t that many parts like that.  It was kind of sad to know that Bree wouldn’t survive in the end, but it didn’t stop me from liking her as a character. She was just a good character. They say that newborns are supposed to be mindless and bloodthirsty. She was indeed bloodthirsty, but she didn’t exactly like that fact. She’d come to terms with it, I guess. But even though she was a newborn, she forced herself to think logically. And Diego helped her think, too, which I loved. They were really cute as friends. She hadn’t trusted anyone before and she sincerely trusted everything he said after only knowing him for one day. It was like their friendship was effortless, and it added something light and happy to the otherwise sad life of Bree Tanner. What was also different was the tone of the writing. It was a lot younger sounding, because the narrator was Bree instead of Bella. Yeah, Bella’s only two or three years older than Bree, but there’s more maturity and clarity in her thoughts when compared with Bree’s. But I really liked Bree as the narrator; it was nice to not read entire paragraphs dedicated to Edward’s beauty (which are included in all of the books where Bella is narrating). Overall, it was good writing, likeable characters, and a predictable but somehow still interesting plot. I would definitely recommend this to all Twilight readers. I didn’t think I was going to like this little add-on to the series, but I really thought it was a great little addition to the saga. I, personally, would have waited for it to come out in paperback, because I feel that fourteen dollars is a little much for a 178 page book. But my sister bought it, so I just borrowed it from her…so I don’t know what the point of that sentence was. But, overall, I thought it was worth reading.

Real Teen Rating~ A- : Read it!