Talk:The Short Second Life of Bree Tanner/@comment-68.73.103.78-20120712185226/@comment-7600752-20140105031154

The book was written to be a part of an anthology of Twilight. However, it was so long that Meyer decided to make it into a short-story. It basically covers ECLIPSE from the point of view of the Newborns in Seattle. There were parts of it that I liked...some parts were hard to deal with. One example was how ruthlessly the newborns killed humans. There was one part when they snuck onto a ferry at night while it was crossing a river. The vampires where practically obscene. Anyone with an ounce of humanity would have been revolted by this. The vampires were pulling victims from their cars to drink them. These victims included men, women...and even children. Even humans who jumped the ferry and tried to swim for shore were killed and drank by the newborns. Perhaps this book was written to see a vampire's perspective in order for us to glimpse how vampires act and react to different situations. We learn that for the most part, most vampires have no ethics with killing a human being. Perhaps this is why you didn't like the story. I did enjoy the story, although certain aspects did bother me. However, it also helped me to like the Cullens much better. They try not to hurt humans...but they sure cleaned the place out when the newborns arrived.