Isabella Swan is a vampire-human hybrid. Raised by her vampire father Charlie, Bella has lived in the world of the supernatural and has spent very little time amongst humans. That is until James and Victoria murder Charlie and force Bella to go on the run. Now in hiding in Forks, Washington Bella finds new allies in the form of the Cullen family. Especially in one Edythe Cullen. Language: English Words: 20,699 Chapters: 7/? Comments: 8 Kudos: 30 Bookmarks: 12 Hits: 590 I didn't question that choice when Esme wanted to live in a small town but I paused a bit when Ernest voiced that opinion. Let’s talk about Beaufort Swan. I think Beau’s the main reason I had trouble with the beginning. I’m not going to lie – I found it hard to get on-board with his character. Beau just came across as a Sad Boi™. But, as the story progressed I noticed that, unlike Bella, Beau’s a little more self-aware. He didn’t tolerate any crap from the cafeteria crowd, especially from Jeremy/Jessica. Actually, Jeremy/Jessica was a lot less civil in Life and Death and Logan/Lauren was a straight-up savage but we always hated her. I also appreciated that Beau was more aware of his obsessive infatuation with Edythe. Mirroring the plot of Twilight, Life and Death: Twilight Reimagined follows 17-year-old Beaufort Swan as he leaves the sunny environment of Phoenix, Arizona, where he has spent most of his life with his mother, Renée Dwyer, to the gloomy town of Forks, Washington, to spend the rest of his high school career with his estranged father, police chief Charlie Swan. One could argue that Meyer wrote a more progressive version of Twilight with Life and Death and that's partly true to an extent. Edythe does appear to try to make her relationship with Beau as equal as possible. But there are constant references to the gender changes as if Meyer is trying to prove something to the reader, and they only seemed to further resign me to the fact that Meyer has no idea what she's doing. (Bold is mine.)

But since Beau was immediately made into a vampire, there was no need for any sort of confrontation. Edythe (in her one funny moment) points out that she doesn't think having a showdown with them would go very well.

Stephenie said she was given green light to do anything she wanted with this project and after she complained about how some things in Twilight weren’t her decision (which we all know but it totally paid your bills so why complain about it?) so this was what? Stephenie’s opportunity to try to make the world stop hating Bella and Edward? IT FAILED. This was the same romance, somehow less appealing and totally full of bullshit.

Warning: This is a negative, rant-y review and there are mean things about this book and series in it. Also, probably, curse words. If you're sensitive to people hating on a book you love and you're a fan of Twilight, do not keep reading. Not if it means that you'll be insulting me in the comments by saying my opinion is wrong. Thanks in advance. Female Edward, aka Edythe (because it isn't a YA book if there isn't a name with an unnecessary Y), was nice. I liked her. She felt just like a slightly less horrible version of Edward, which she was by all means, a lot of the time. pommyganny Fandoms: Twilight Series - Stephenie Meyer, Twilight Series - All Media Types, Twilight (Movies), Life and Death - Stephenie Meyer She's also criticized for being too consumed with her love interest, as if that's somehow just a girl thing. (That's NOT what we said, Meyer.) But I've always maintained that it would have made no difference if the human were male and the vampire female - it's still the same story. Gender and species aside, Twilight has always been a story about the magic and obsession and the frenzy of first love. So I thought to myself, Well, what if I put that to the test?" Beau decides to become a vampire so he can be with Edythe, and as he’s turning he gets the full rundown on the Cullen’s and Hale’s family vampire history. He also learns that Julie’s (the female version of Jacob) great-grandmother was a werewolf. In the original series, Jacob doesn’t turn into a wolf until New Moon, the second novel. That is also when he becomes one of Bella’s love interests. In the new book, there is not really a love triangle between Beau, Edythe and Julie and Julie never becomes a wolf.So, I reread the entirety of Twilight in preparation for this novel. I really shouldn't have. Twilight was not re-imagined... this was literally the same book. username29188 Fandoms: Ghost Rider (Comics), Life and Death - Stephenie Meyer, Twilight Series - All Media Types, Twilight Series - Stephenie Meyer, Ghost Rider - Fandom But in all fairness, you are not only getting this (admittedly weird) re-imagining of Twilight but the real book, as well. For those of you with a copy of the original, that isn't much of a selling point, but since I didn't have Twilight in my personal library... *shrugs* Stephenie Meyer was supposed to swap the genders, not turn Beau into a girl. Ctrl+F "She" replace with "He" In addition, I had a pretty big issue was the amount of reused material. I will give Meyer this, she is right that Bella is not simply a damsel in distress because my goodness, the awkwardness/klutziness of Beau (Bella's male counterpart in Life and Death) is every bit as clumsy as Bella...if perhaps more so. Granted, I admit, it's been ten years since I read Twilight, however I can't help but feel that Meyer really went out of her way to "prove" her point about Bella/Beau being identical in terms of their "fragility" when next to Edward/Edythe. In other words, I found the emphasis on Beau's human frailness to be more pronounced, with Meyer hitting us over the head every other paragraph by reminding us how "awkwardly human" Beau is, compared to the "perfection" of Edythe. And speaking of that "perfection", the detail Meyer would go into to describing the "beauty" of the Edythe and the rest of the Cullens, in particular the female versions of Edward, Jasper, and Emmett, was a bit...over zealous. What was a few simple sentences in describing their inhuman beauty in Twilight becomes several paragraphs.