The short second life of Bree Tanner: an Eclipse novella

✍ Scribed by Stephenie Meyer

• Publisher: Alfaguara
• Year: 2008;2010
• Tongue: English
• Weight: 78 KB
• Category: Fiction
• ISBN: 031612558X

✦ Synopsis

This novel has been for me a big surprise to everyone. When I started working on it, my idea was to make a simple exercise to help me consider the other side of Eclipse, which was currently editing. While writing this little story, it struck me that my site could include as a gift for all fans. Then, once I started working in Twilight Saga: The Official Guide Fan, I thought it would be a good material for this book. Finally, the new vampire story took too long making it a novel. Stephenie MeyerThe second life of Bree Tanner is the fascinating story of the vampire and the dark side of the world we inhabit. The novel recreates the birth of the new army of vampires whose only mission by meeting the defenseless Bella Swan and the Cullen family indestructible.Bree Tanner is not only a prominent figure in the Book of Eclipse, but so is the film based on the volume of the Twilight Saga, produced by Summit Entertainment. Stephenie Meyer was very generously allowing me to read the excerpt of the novel while preparing the film, says director David Slade. Thoroughly enjoyed this novel, which also served us as a source of inspiration to find the locations of the scenes and started filming. I think fans will delight in the birth of a vampire, its characteristics and its own fascinating history.In less than 5 years, Stephenie Meyer has become a worldwide publishing phenomenon. Translation rights of Twilight have been sold to over 50 countries and has sold over 100 million copies worldwide.

Review

Brace yourself, Twilight fans. A new book from Stephenie Meyer is on the horizon. The Short Second Life of Bree Tanner: An Eclipse Novella will be released at 12:01 a.m. June 5.The 192-page story [232 pages in the Spanish edition], an offshoot of the third novel in Meyer's best-selling vampire Twilight saga, is the first new Twilight title since Breaking Dawn, Book 4, was published two years ago.The new novella is told in the voice of Bree, a newborn vampire whom we meet on page 569 in Eclipse. Ten pages later, she's dead.I started writing this a long time ago, Meyer said in an exclusive interview with USA TODAY. It was when I was editing Eclipse. It was more of just an exercise so I could be clear about what was going on in the story. The Twilight novels are told from the perspective of Bella, who falls in love with the vampire Edward Cullen. There's only so much stuff you can tell when what Bella sees and hears is all you can tell, Meyer says. Bree is part of an army of newborn vampires created by Cullen family nemesis Victoria. Thirsty for revenge after the Cullens kill her vampire lover James, Victoria's plan is to use her army to kill the Cullens and Bella. The Short Second Life of Bree Tanner is pretty much contained in the last week of the newborns' existence before the big fight (between the Cullens and the vampire army) in the meadow in Eclipse, Meyer says. It's the last week before Bree dies.In the novella, Meyer says, Bree has been a vampire for about three months. No other details are being released. But some plot points from the novella have made their way into the Eclipse film, starring Robert Pattinson and Kristen Stewart, which opens June 30. Meyer gave David Slade, the film's director, a draft to read during production. The character of Bree is played by Canadian actress Jodelle Ferland. --Carol Memmott, USA TODAY