Another twilight?

[Katelyn]

Can you tell me how this is different from any other vampire/monster-in-the-modern-day book. How is this different than Twilight?

[Jake]

That's easy. Twilight (and other takes like 'True Blood')seem to go out of their way to romanticize their 'monsters'. In most depictions, the creatures we're all supposed to fear have it 1,000 times better than we ever will... and I think there's something inherently wrong about that. These 'things' shouldn't be envied. You shouldn't WANT to be one of them. They're not super heroes or demi-Gods... they're cursed. In 'The Life He Knew' my 'monsters' aren't super human in the slightest and, in an even further departure all those Twilight-like depictions out there, every last one of them would give anything to be just like you and me. They're victims of circumstances beyond their control and there's nothing enviable about their fate.