Some people say you have to either passionately love or hate the Twilight saga, but I am lukewarm. I got this book because it looked like an interesting new way to look at the story in Eclipse, and it didn't let me down, but it didn't shock me either.
Running off the success of the Twilight series, Stephenie Meyer released this book, marketed as an 'Eclipse novella' earlier this year. Although it did not have much publicity in Australia, the book has sold over 1.5 million copies. It is called a novella, however it's a long novella, almost the length of a novel. Though compared to the other Twilight books, which are roughly the same size as large bricks, I guess it is a novella!
The book is the story of Bree Tanner, a newborn vampire involved in the army of Riley, who is a slave of Victoria. Twilight readers (or movie-goers) will know Victoria as the redhead vampire who is out to get Bella, the narrator of all the other Twilight books. Bree is a young vampire, but she strangely has more control over her senses than the other vampires. She meets up with Diego, another newborn, who also has more control than the others, and they try and find out why Riley created them and what they are being kept for.
Overall, the book was... average. The story was, like the other Twilight books, could have been condensed into a much shorter format, and Bree was a lot like Bella. Diego was a lot like Edward. There wasn't much that was new, except that the violence was more graphically described, sometimes to the point of being actually quite disturbing.
I think next time Stephenie Meyer should try a new story. There are only so many spin-offs she can write and while this was good it also hinted at the fact that she was a bit over the characters. I could be wrong, though.
Butterflies: 6.5 out of 10 (sorry Twihards)
Recommended for: teenagers who have read the Twilight series. Or, if you want to just get a taste of Stephenie Meyer before plunging in to all the books, I guess you could read it, though you might get confused and it will spoil the story of Eclipse
Warnings: vampire violence (it's from Bree's perspective so it's a lot more graphic than the other Twilight novels)
Sounds interesting, but it's a long time since I read the books so I'd probably be confused at who all the characters are haha! What books's next??
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