'Sparkle Family Reunion Tour 2020' Reread

Yeaaaahh. My feelings about this series, twinkies, loving the Cullens, the writing playlist, and side-eying a whole lot of SM have pretty much not changed in the past decade.

SO! Apparently, I never wrote a review for Bree in 2010 when it happened and its a decade later. I have a lot more sympathy for Bree's story now than I did a decade ago, and I'm still pretty much of the opinion if we could change the battle outcome where Bree dies to the one where Bree doesn't die, she gets brought home, and she remains the new vampire in the house (and Ness never happens), is pretty much how I will myself to remember this story actually happened and ended.

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(2008 Reviews / Continued Across all four books / all read in less than 53 hours
Just going to copy these over from the lolarious mass-review I did in 2018)

Let me start this out with saying, I'm sure if I tried I could take these books seriously and in doing so I would abhor Stephenie Meyers with the utter damnation burning hate in ground into me by five years of being an English major, but honestly, I'm not sure how anyone could go into these books expecting (or wanting to expect) more than fanfic-esque fourteen-year-old-wish-fulfillment. Which is what I did and likely why I was willing to roll with it, because lets just start with the bare minimum that I knew before I started reading.

We have a protagonist girl, who comes from a broken home, who's paler than anyone else who's human and blushes as often as the wind blows, who's never been interested in a boy seriously before, with extremely low self esteem, who is the worlds biggest cultz, who attracts danger like she's got a beacon on her head saying come and get it, who is all helplessly weak and who can not be touched, read, or effected by any type of mental magic.

She is paralleled by the boy protagonist, who just happens to be a one hundred and eight year old vampire with the most well adjusted family of Brandy-style vampires, who doesn't drink human blood, with the one-way power to listen to other people's thoughts, who looks like a runway model or God, has never considered any other woman seriously before in his life and unlife, and has to be broody/moody/strong enough to resist killing her every moment he's near her because she's the one thing in the world he'd best love to do that to out of no fault of their own but fate.
I mean, c'mon, Anita Blake wasn't even that flagrantly Mary Sue-Fan Fic-ish until she became the Whore of Babylon. Thus I went into it expecting fourteen-year-old-wish fulfillment and lo and behold I was not surprised or disappointed when I found it there.

I think Cleolinda said it best:

A lot of people are really passionate about these books. Some of them love and defend them passionately; others... well. I'm not going to defend them anymore than I'm going to defend Twinkies--you go and get yourself a Twinkie when you have a very specific kind of craving. If you want a gourmet pastry or even a homemade cake, you know where to get that. If you're eating a Twinkie, you clearly know what you want and why you're eating it, and you know that it's not good to eat very many of them, but... you know... sometimes you just want one.

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La novela recrea el nacimiento del nuevo ejército de vampiros que tiene como única misión ir al encuentro de la indefensa Bella Swan y de la indestructible familia Cullen.

I really enjoyed this book, despite me not knowing what to expect. I was surprised to find that it was really short, but I guess that makes sense because Bree was never a vampire for very long. I was also surprised by how intuitive she was. She’s very cunning and very brave. I really fell in love with her. It’s a shame that she couldn’t stay with the Cullens; I think she would’ve been a good asset to the team. I wonders what would’ve happened if she could’ve stayed with them. Anyway, I always love reading more of the Twilight series. Stephanie Meyer is such a lovely writer; I always love reading her books. Definitely a novella worth reading! ( )

Bree Tanner mal se recorda da vida que tinha antes de descobrir seus sentidos extremamente aguçados, os reflexos sobre-humanos e a força física sem precedentes. A vida antes da insaciável sede de sangue... Antes de ser uma vampira.O que ela sabe é que a rotina em um bando de recém-criados é de poucas certezas, e de ainda menos regras: fique alerta, não chame atenção para si mesmo e, acima de tudo, volte para casa antes do nascer do sol, ou será destruído. O que ela não sabe: seu tempo como imortal está se esgotando. Depressa. Bree encontra em Diego um amigo inesperado, outro jovem vampiro atormentado pelas dúvidas a respeito do monstro que os criou – alguém que conhecem simplesmente por Ela. Quando os dois percebem que são apenas peões em um jogo cujas proporções jamais imaginaram, é preciso descobrir em que acreditar. Mas se tudo o que você sabe sobre sua espécie é uma farsa, onde estará a verdade? Combinando romance, horror, ação e mistério, a trama de Stephenie Meyer mergulha na trajetória de devastação do bando de recém-criados enquanto eles se preparam para o confronto definitivo.

The Short Second Life of Bree Tanner:An Eclipse Novella is a new novella in the Twilight series by Stephenie Meyer. I stumbled upon it at Barnes and Noble and had to get it (of course.) It was a fast read, and although interesting I wouldn't say it was as fun a read as any of the Twilight series books. I did like the thought process that Meyer goes through to explore her characters, and wanted more of some of them (Diego, Fred.) Bree Tanner, a newborn vampire who is just briefly introduced in Eclipse, is the main character in this book (of course.) Her newborn character is interesting, and the tale from her perspective is a sad but enjoyable one. A quick summer read.

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