I Just Read ‘The Short Second Life of Bree Tanner’ while sitting on the Beach…

July 1, 2010 by Nicole · Leave a Comment
Filed under: Entertainment

This is an image of the book from Amazon

Have you read the Twilight books? And no, I’m not explaining what the books are about,

If you don’t know, you’ve been living under a rock,

or you don’t want to know, and I will respect that.

With that said, you’re probably reading this because YOU HAVE read the Twilight books, and you’re probably a mom, because this is a mom blog. You may or may not know (because you’re not 16 and you have children to take care of and nurture) about the new Stephenie Meyer Novella out-

The Short Second Life of Bree Tanner.

This is an account of 1 of the ‘newborn vampires’ that is wreaking havoc on Seattle, in the Eclipse Book.

Bree is the last of the newborns to be killed in Eclipse and she only lives for 5 minutes in that book.

So why should you care about Bree? Why should I? Good question.

I really didn’t care about Bree when I read Eclipse. She was a ‘bad newborn vampire’… right? Well, Maybe not.

And anyway, I knew we were going to the beach the week after it was released, and I needed a good ‘Beach Read’,

so, I ordered the book and took it to the beach. While my husband and son played in the waves,

I sat on the beach, and read about Bree Tanner. After all, as the author herself says, ‘There are two sides to every story.’

My Review? I doubted I would care about Bree, but like I said,

everyone wants a good Beach Read…

and,

I was mistaken. I DID care about Bree. I cared for a lot of the ‘newborns’, who were lied to and confused and not ‘taught’ how to be vampires. I really got-a-hand-it to Stephenie Meyer. She makes all of this complete-fantasy world real for the moments you’re reading it. She has the whole suspension-of-disbelief thing down.

I thoroughly enjoyed this book, even though I knew the ending… anyone who has read Eclipse knows the ending. It’s not good for Bree. But to read about how she came to that moment,

and want more for her, is what a good book does… And it did.

**You can read the book for free online at Bree Tanner until July 5th. Or you can buy the book indefintely, for under $10 and $1 from EVERY BOOK SALE goes to the American Red Cross!

Only a Mom (Stephenie Meyer) would think of this!

Woot! Woot! Mom Power!