Fans of The Twilight Saga will be enthralled by this riveting story of Bree Tanner, a character first introduced in Eclipse, and the darker side of...
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Jan 28, 2012
Tatiana
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To be fair, I think if you are a fan of Stephenie Meyer and all her books (including The Host and Breaking Dawn), you will enjoy this novella too. Alas, I am not. Gone are the days when I used to be entranced by the Twilight Saga. I have to give credit to SM for introducing me to the genre of paranormal fiction, but as I read more and more of it, it is getting more obvious how subpar her writing is.
I didn't finish this novella. I abandoned it because it was boring, one-note, lacked More...
I didn't finish this novella. I abandoned it because it was boring, one-note, lacked More...
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Sep 13, 2010
Dana
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Jun 20, 2011
Sparrow
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I know, I know. This book had police caution tape all around it warning me not to read. I wasn’t surprised that it was as bad as it is. Actually, I think that this book provides a good example of one of the central weaknesses of Stephenie Meyer’s books. I heard someone say the other day that the purpose of art is to make people feel. I know, doi, but I had never looked that one in the face before. Meyer spends most of her time, in all of her books, trying to cushion the reader from really
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May 04, 2011
Buggy
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Opening Line: "The newspaper headline glared at me from a little vending machine: SEATTLE UNDER SEIGE--DEATH TOLL RISES AGAIN.
I was surprised by how much I enjoyed this, I mean Bree's character only has a tiny part in Stephanie Meyers Twilight world so she and the rest of the newborns can’t really have much of a story to tell can they? Well as it turns out the answer is Yes. At 178 pages this novella manages to also give up some new revelations regarding Jane and the dark cloak More...
I was surprised by how much I enjoyed this, I mean Bree's character only has a tiny part in Stephanie Meyers Twilight world so she and the rest of the newborns can’t really have much of a story to tell can they? Well as it turns out the answer is Yes. At 178 pages this novella manages to also give up some new revelations regarding Jane and the dark cloak More...
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Oct 31, 2011
Jillian -always aspiring-
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Everyone who has read Eclipse, the third book in The Twilight Saga by Stephenie Meyer, knows the fate that Bree Tanner -- newborn vampire -- met by the hands of the Volturi. . .and this is the tale recounting her last five days of her second life as a vampire.
Bree's story is much different from Bella's, I must admit that. Where Bella's world always seemed muted because she was shielded from much of the violence throughout the series, Bree sees and experiences violence on a day-to-da More...
Bree's story is much different from Bella's, I must admit that. Where Bella's world always seemed muted because she was shielded from much of the violence throughout the series, Bree sees and experiences violence on a day-to-da More...
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Sep 04, 2010
UniquelyMoi *~*Dhestiny*~*
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3.75/5
I want to say, right up front, that I hadn’t planned to read this book because those of us who read the entire Twilight Saga already know that things don’t turn out well for Bree Tanner. She played a very, very minor role in the book, Eclipse - I don’t even think she appeared in more than 2 pages - So, why read something about a character I cared very little about and already knew the outcome of?
Well, one day I went to my mailbox and there was a package from my dea More...
I want to say, right up front, that I hadn’t planned to read this book because those of us who read the entire Twilight Saga already know that things don’t turn out well for Bree Tanner. She played a very, very minor role in the book, Eclipse - I don’t even think she appeared in more than 2 pages - So, why read something about a character I cared very little about and already knew the outcome of?
Well, one day I went to my mailbox and there was a package from my dea More...
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Jul 24, 2010
Kristen "Kirby"
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Short Second was like a so-so fanfiction that let allowed readers to jump back into a generic form of Twilight. You have barely constructed main characters, who in this case were Bree, newborn vampire of a couple months, and Diego, the obvious nomination for Bree’s love interest and companion. Is Diego Mexican? Does he speak Spanish? Did the author even pause to think that maybe, just maybe, readers would want to know a bit about the characters personalities, backgrounds, APPEARANCE? How More...
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Jun 30, 2010
Shawna
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4 stars – Vampire/Young Adult
This provided a nice Twilight Saga fix while waiting impatiently for the "Eclipse" movie to come out, and I enjoyed Bree's alternate viewpoint and insight into the army of newborn vampires that battle against the Cullens.
But I think I speak for a large majority of Twilight fans that what we really want is for Ms. Meyer to move past her hurt feelings and wounded pride and just finish Midnight Sun, darnit! Seriously, the Meyer the Mar More...
This provided a nice Twilight Saga fix while waiting impatiently for the "Eclipse" movie to come out, and I enjoyed Bree's alternate viewpoint and insight into the army of newborn vampires that battle against the Cullens.
But I think I speak for a large majority of Twilight fans that what we really want is for Ms. Meyer to move past her hurt feelings and wounded pride and just finish Midnight Sun, darnit! Seriously, the Meyer the Mar More...
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Dec 21, 2011
Leanne
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Attention trolls and review spammers: The risk of giving you an open line to attack was wholly self-inflicted. Therefore, if you feel the urge to spam my review, and if you decide that my criticism/ bullshiting towards Stephanie (ahem...Stephenie) Meyer is unjust, biased, and cruel, thinking you not only have the opportunity but the obligation to report my review as "abuse", all I'm saying is <strike>fuck you assholes</strike> that my review expresses my honest (ver More...
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Jul 17, 2010
Lady Jayne *~*The Beach Bandida*~*
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(This review assumes one has read Eclipse)
I actually liked this a lot more than I thought I would! It certainly kept me engaged and was a quick read.
I am most definitely a fan of the Twilight series and the books will always be special to me. I have to say, though, that I wasn't super excited to read this novella by Stephenie Meyer on The Second Short Life of Bree Tanner, when I first heard about it. One, because I know how it ends…and well, it’s not More...
(This review assumes one has read Eclipse)
I actually liked this a lot more than I thought I would! It certainly kept me engaged and was a quick read.
I am most definitely a fan of the Twilight series and the books will always be special to me. I have to say, though, that I wasn't super excited to read this novella by Stephenie Meyer on The Second Short Life of Bree Tanner, when I first heard about it. One, because I know how it ends…and well, it’s not More...
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Jun 26, 2010
Annalisa
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Okay, I'm no longer curious. I'm bored out of my mind. I can't force myself to finish this novella before the movie.
New SM promise: I will not watch either Breaking Dawn movie.
Um, in the movie theater.
Unless someone makes me.
And I promise to put up a fight.
At least in my head.
And by making, I mean asking.
So... who's going to ask me?
I mean, it's got to be so bad it's good, right?
I am so morbidly curious about that one.
New SM promise: I will not watch either Breaking Dawn movie.
Um, in the movie theater.
Unless someone makes me.
And I promise to put up a fight.
At least in my head.
And by making, I mean asking.
So... who's going to ask me?
I mean, it's got to be so bad it's good, right?
I am so morbidly curious about that one.
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Jan 11, 2011
Terry (Ter05 TwiMoms/ MundieMoms)
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As a Twilight fan, this book was a fun read and added dimension to the story. However, I had to rate it on the same level I try to rate any book and could not give it more than three stars. I have read some incredible books within a series but given the ones I liked a little less three or four stars because they didn't come up to the other(s) even though they were outstanding. This is a novella and must be rated as such, but it was just a nice little story to me. I wish I had read it online
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Jun 09, 2010
AH
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OK. If you like the Twilight Saga, you will probably like this book.
The Short Second Life of Bree Tanner: An Eclipse Novella is a short book. 192 pages, double-spaced. It is a quick read. However, there are no chapter breaks, no breaks whatsoever.
We know how the story ends. This book tells us how it began.
Bree Tanner's story gives us insight as to what was happening in Seattle when Victoria and Riley were building their vampire army. Bree is one of the smarte More...
The Short Second Life of Bree Tanner: An Eclipse Novella is a short book. 192 pages, double-spaced. It is a quick read. However, there are no chapter breaks, no breaks whatsoever.
We know how the story ends. This book tells us how it began.
Bree Tanner's story gives us insight as to what was happening in Seattle when Victoria and Riley were building their vampire army. Bree is one of the smarte More...
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Jul 13, 2010
Nicki
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I think I'm going to read this. Hearing this from Bree's perspective should prove interesting. I wonder if Meyer will talk about what happens when Bree dies, as in if vampires are really damned in the world Meyer has created or if they go to heaven or if there isn't anything after that, there's just death.
Anyway, can't wait (well, I probably can wait) for the novella to come out. I hope it'll be worth the wait.
Anyway, can't wait (well, I probably can wait) for the novella to come out. I hope it'll be worth the wait.
Apr 16, 2011
Lexi (The Literature Lion)
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Great story, and I was on the verge of tears near the end. I love the last line, and SM has a way of capturing other characters as well as Bella. Great plot and idea and I now think that Riley is very arrogan! :D
Oct 06, 2010
Brandi
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just picked it up, excited to crack it open...oh how I miss my Twilight books!
It was fun to jump back into a world I love so much, Twilight. It was like a nice little treat that reminded me how much I love this series. I miss my TW books. I miss SM. And now my hunger is ignited again and I want more. I didn't have very many expectations for this book, I don't think anyone did. I mean Bree? Really? Why do we want to know more about her. But I will take ANYTHING I can get in t More...
It was fun to jump back into a world I love so much, Twilight. It was like a nice little treat that reminded me how much I love this series. I miss my TW books. I miss SM. And now my hunger is ignited again and I want more. I didn't have very many expectations for this book, I don't think anyone did. I mean Bree? Really? Why do we want to know more about her. But I will take ANYTHING I can get in t More...
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Dec 30, 2011
Traci
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Say what you will about Stephenie Meyer, but she obviously has SOME sort of talent/method/magical fairy dust in order to write stories that get people hooked and make them react (whether positively/negatively doesn't really matter -- her stories garner very intense reactions). I fell in love with the Twilight books and harbored a cheesy adoration of the movies as well, though my fangirlishness came a little late to the game as I'd been turned off of vampire lore by all the Anne Rice books (happ
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Aug 30, 2010
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Feb 14, 2011
Joyzi
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This book is okay, it's not really exciting and there's not really much happening that would keep you from the edge of your seat or something like that. The romance is also pretty subtle. I'm not really recommending to read this if you don't like twilight and if you like twilight it's a nice short filler to read.
I think that the story is not really that gripping and my fave parts are mostly when Diego and Bree are together but it was lost I think in the middle of the book when Diego wa More...
I think that the story is not really that gripping and my fave parts are mostly when Diego and Bree are together but it was lost I think in the middle of the book when Diego wa More...
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Nov 27, 2010
Kristen "Kirby"
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Introduction (that really isn’t essential towards my review, but I included anyway…)
The Short Second life of Bree Tanner. Ah…When I first saw this book on Goodreads, I thought to myself, well, the title is pretty unimaginative and slightly cheesy, but Stephanie Meyer wrote this. Sure, she can’t actually write well, but her story lines are soo absorbing.
Just look at Twilight. I was like a little Edward fangirl in Middle School. I was tamer about it then those obnoxious girls th More...
The Short Second life of Bree Tanner. Ah…When I first saw this book on Goodreads, I thought to myself, well, the title is pretty unimaginative and slightly cheesy, but Stephanie Meyer wrote this. Sure, she can’t actually write well, but her story lines are soo absorbing.
Just look at Twilight. I was like a little Edward fangirl in Middle School. I was tamer about it then those obnoxious girls th More...
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Jun 21, 2010
Carla
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I read this story not so much because I gave a tinkers damn about Bree Tanner or that she made any kind of impact on me other than being another smoldering pile of newborn vampire from Eclipse, I read this because it involves the Twilight world (a place I love to go and play) and because I feel like it is a must read if I hope to understand the direction that the film will take.
What I found is that after a slow, sketchy start, once the characters started taking on their individuality - the More...
What I found is that after a slow, sketchy start, once the characters started taking on their individuality - the More...
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Aug 11, 2010
Mandy
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You know what I hate? Fan fiction.
I find it pathetic. Mediocre, amateur authors writing stories about characters that someone else has created. Uhg. It's like watching someone sit in the corner and pick his nose. It's gross. It's not fit for public viewing. It makes you embarrassed for them - because they don't have the social skills to realize this is something that should be kept private - and embarrassed for yourself - because you were unfortunate enough to see it.
Fan fiction. The More...
I find it pathetic. Mediocre, amateur authors writing stories about characters that someone else has created. Uhg. It's like watching someone sit in the corner and pick his nose. It's gross. It's not fit for public viewing. It makes you embarrassed for them - because they don't have the social skills to realize this is something that should be kept private - and embarrassed for yourself - because you were unfortunate enough to see it.
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Aug 30, 2011
Caz
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Stephanie Meyer wrote in this book’s prologue that “no two writers go about things in exactly the same way. We all are inspired and motivated in different ways; we have our own reasons why some characters stay with us while others disappear into a backlog of neglected files.”
Now, if you have read Eclipse, 3rd book in her bestselling Twilight Saga, you would wonder why did she even bother to write about Bree as we all know her fate in the books. But as Meyer says, some characters just take More...
Now, if you have read Eclipse, 3rd book in her bestselling Twilight Saga, you would wonder why did she even bother to write about Bree as we all know her fate in the books. But as Meyer says, some characters just take More...
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Jun 14, 2010
Before I started this book I had read some negative reviews about it and Stephenie Meyer's writing. So I went in with a bad taste in my mouth (because I believe everything I read, resulting in a confused mind). There were a few things I wanted to be critical about, but in the end I was glad I read it and it got me excited for the movie, Eclipse. Then as I thought about the book over the next few days I realized there was a lot more that I liked about the book. It was short, first off, thus I did
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Jun 09, 2010
chucklesthescot
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RIP OFF! This was without doubt a cheap ploy to fleece money out of Twilight fans by throwing together some utter drivel about characters you don't give a rats ass about. The only interesting character was Fred, and the rest were a waste of space. Bree is nothing like the way newborns are talked about in the Twilight Saga(magically of course she is more restrained than they are...uh huh...). The so-called love story never even starts and the end scenes where Bree faces the Cullens is piss poor,
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Aug 20, 2010
Lauren
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I enjoyed reading this book and like other readers, wanted to go back and read Eclipse. A part of me wishes Bree's life had been spared because I think she would have made a great additon to the Cullen clan. However, that was not meant to be. I liked hearing from her point of view as a newborn-life was tough for her!
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Jun 05, 2010
Sabrina
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Ich habe Bree Tanner in mein Herz geschlossen, anders kann ich es nicht sagen. Ich hätte es ja nicht für möglich gehalten, aber Stephenie Meyer hat wieder einmal einen wunderbaren Charakter heraus gearbeitet.
Es war sehr interessant zu erfahren, wie die "Neugeborenen" leben, wie sie "hinters Licht" geführt werden und vor allem die winzige Romanze zwischen Diego und Bree, die um so trauriger erscheint, wenn man das Schicksal der beiden kennt.
Allerdings hat m More...
Es war sehr interessant zu erfahren, wie die "Neugeborenen" leben, wie sie "hinters Licht" geführt werden und vor allem die winzige Romanze zwischen Diego und Bree, die um so trauriger erscheint, wenn man das Schicksal der beiden kennt.
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Jul 15, 2010
Stray
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Book Name: A Breve Segunda Vida de Bree Tanner: Uma novela de Eclipse
Original Title:The Short Second Life of Bree Tanner: An Eclipse Novella
Author/s: Stephenie Meyer
Publisher, year: Gailivro, 2010
Page total: 157
Date Read: 10 June 2010 (read in one day)
Genre/s:YA, vampires, romance, fantasy
First line of Book: (from my english edition) "The newspaper headline glared at me from a little metal vending machine: SEATTLE UNDER SIEGE-DEATH TOLL RISES AGAIN More...
Original Title:The Short Second Life of Bree Tanner: An Eclipse Novella
Author/s: Stephenie Meyer
Publisher, year: Gailivro, 2010
Page total: 157
Date Read: 10 June 2010 (read in one day)
Genre/s:YA, vampires, romance, fantasy
First line of Book: (from my english edition) "The newspaper headline glared at me from a little metal vending machine: SEATTLE UNDER SIEGE-DEATH TOLL RISES AGAIN More...
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Aug 23, 2010
Arlene
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Well, it was a quick and slightly entertaining read if nothing else. Finished it in a couple of hours and was glad I didn't pay a dime for it because I know how Bree's story ends.
It was mildly interesting to read Meyer's vampire world from a different perspective, but I still would have preferred that she finished Midnight Sun rather than this novella.
I want to say this story makes me miss Twilight, but when you know where the story is eventually going to head, I just More...
It was mildly interesting to read Meyer's vampire world from a different perspective, but I still would have preferred that she finished Midnight Sun rather than this novella.
I want to say this story makes me miss Twilight, but when you know where the story is eventually going to head, I just More...
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Aug 11, 2011
Jessica
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Finally finished all the Twilight things out there.
You know, I'm not going to be that person that hates the series. Obviously, I love it and once, I was a little obsessed way passed the creepy point (I have Twilight in Thai, Italian, French, Russian, Spanish, and German. I have the original printings, all the "Behind Twilight" books, the Guide and the Unoffical Guides, the movie picture books, graphic novels, two movie posters and Breaking Dawn signed. I met her. Needless More...
You know, I'm not going to be that person that hates the series. Obviously, I love it and once, I was a little obsessed way passed the creepy point (I have Twilight in Thai, Italian, French, Russian, Spanish, and German. I have the original printings, all the "Behind Twilight" books, the Guide and the Unoffical Guides, the movie picture books, graphic novels, two movie posters and Breaking Dawn signed. I met her. Needless More...
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