Sorry peoples but the word I use for “The Short Second Life of Bree Tanner” by Stephanie Meyer has to be disappointing. Actually I do love the name, I think it it clever and if you hadn’t read or heard about – I’d go as far as to say impossible – the Twilight series, I think the mere name of this book would catch your interest enough to pick it up and read the back anyway!
This book tells the story of one of the vampires turned by Victoria to join the army she is creating to destroy the Cullens. I think the premise is excellent and it could have been great but she forgets – in my opinion – that Bree is now a vampire and leaves her still with human feelings and no bloodthirstyness, facts all explained away in the book but factors which made me feel she was just cashing in on an already huge franchise. Much has been made of the fact that she released the story on free down-load so she isn’t making money but there is no such thing as bad publicity is there???
All that said, I think there are a million girls, boys and wanna-be vampires out there who will love this book and indeed, bar staff of pubs in Ireland (I met one about two weeks ago!!) who will love this book and will have paid for the book because they couldn’t wait for the free download date and I hope the book for them was all they hoped for and more. Me? A little bit too much pandering to the “fans” in my opinion and not enough staying true to her original premise…
Maeve works for the local County Council.
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