Life and Death: Twilight Reimagined

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And because there was no "preparation" given to this rash decision of Beau becoming a vampire, therefore the hard reality of what this means for everybody else comes crashing down. Charlie, Renee, and everybody else in Forks believes that Beau died in a car accident. Beau can never see or speak to his parents or school friend again, including Jules. What made this especially depressing for me is the understanding that the last words Beau said to Charlie were the words Bella said to him before she left Forks, hurtful words that were meant to stun him and keep him from following her. The fact that this will be the memory Charlie will forever keep of his final moments with his son makes it impossible for me to see any "happiness" of the situation for Beau and Edythe. And it angered me that Edythe seemed more upset by this than Beau did. Beau didn't even seem all that sad or bummed when he watched his own funeral from several miles away, and took in the sight of his mother and father, looking frail from their grieving; he says he's sad but I had hard time believing it. And what's to stop poor Charlie from slipping into a serious depressive state? Renee at least has Phil by her side, but who will help Charlie during these moments? And again, Charlie was the last person who spoke to Beau before his "death"; OF COURSE he's going to blame himself! I would expect Beau to be a little more cut up by all this, but I'm not buying it when he mentions (like it's a passing thought) that he's aware this was their final exchange. But oh well, who cares about his father's depression? HE'S A VAMPIRE WITH EDYTHE NOW! So what is the problem here? It's not a unique problem to Stephanie Meyer, and it's one that far too many authors, male and female, fall prey to: the use of sexual violence as a means to create "peril" for female characters, when in truth, it is unnecessary. How can I say that? Because Meyer proves it when she rewrites her story and turns her female characters into male characters. Suddenly sexual violence is unnecessary. Peril is easily as created for her characters without the "necessity" of having their bodies violated, be it by thought or deed. Far too often, authors/creators thrust their female characters into violent situations as a means to "move the plot" and 9 times out of 10 it seems these violent situations are "sexual" in nature. What makes this even more problematic is that the emphasis of the sexual assault is put on the sexual, not simply on the assault. People still struggle in both film and literature to not make rape seem "sexy", but this is exactly what happens when the suggestion of sexual violence is only presented when a female character is in peril. Meyer and others may not mean to "sexualize" rape, but that is what they do when they provide that as the only option of peril for their female characters, but shy away from it with their male ones. Now, something that absolutely pissed me off what how she changed Rosalie’s rape for a beating for Royal. Oh, and that scene when Bella was almost sexual assaulted? Nope, Beau was mistaken for a police officer and they almost beat the shit out of him. What? Don’t men get raped? I don’t know (more like I don’t want to assume) why she did change that. She’s a Mormon and I honestly don’t know anything about that religion so I can’t shit about it but did that have anything to do with this? Do they or does she think guys cannot be victims of sexual assaults? If so, that’s just wrong. There went another missed opportunity. People do not want to just read Meyer's books; they want to climb inside them and live there." -- Time

I thought about falling to my knees on purpose. This was the kind of beauty you worshiped. The kind you built temples for and offered sacrifices to...what would a goddess want from a mediocre mortal like me? BWAHAHAHA....wait....she actually published this? I wanted to give this book or whatever, the chance I felt it deserved. See, Twilight was the catalyzer of my reading life. It was Twilight who introduced me to YA and that helped me find this community. It was because of Twilight and its movies that I found a lot of things and people I love till this day so having this book released, in honor of the tenth year anniversary? It was a must read against my best judgement. Eleanor Cullen: Edythe, Archie and Jessamine's adoptive sister and Royal's mate. Unlike her mate Royal, Eleanor doesn't hate Beau but instead takes a liking to him.TheDarkSorceress666 Fandoms: Millennium Of Hellfire-Original Series, American Horror Story, American Horror Story: Coven, The Vampire Diaries (TV), The Originals (TV), Twilight Series - Stephenie Meyer, Life and Death - Stephenie Meyer, Vampire Chronicles Series - Anne Rice, Interview with the Vampire (TV 2022), The Lives of the Mayfair Witches - Anne Rice, Mayfair Witches (TV 2023), Teen Wolf (TV), The Witch (2016), The Ritual (2017), Suspiria (2019), The Conjuring (Movies), Multi-Fandom Life and Death: Twilight Reimagined is a young adult vampire- romance novel by Stephenie Meyer. The story is a gender-swapped retelling of the first book in the Twilight series, and introduces Beau Swan and Edythe Cullen in place of Bella and Edward. [4] The book was originally published on October 6, 2015 as part of an "oversized flip-book pairing" with Twilight to celebrate the original novel's tenth anniversary. [5] An audiobook ( CD) was released by Penguin Random House on the same day. [6] Plot [ edit ] In the afterword of Life and Death, Meyer said the new novel is not just about changing Bella’s gender to become a male. She said she wanted to see what would happen if the series had ended with the first Twilight book and if the timing of the plot had been different. A fandom-blind friendly fic set along Apricity's timeline, set in the immediate future. It starts right after the Seattle trip and continues through the summer before the next school year begins.]

Even Rosalie/Royal still had that whole jealous petty cat fight relationship going on with Bella/Beau... complete with Beau constantly noticing Royal's hotness (and then getting all down because he'll never be so hot.)

I could definitely have seen this book as a really great way to play on everyday bias present in society but it just wasn't handled with the finesse needed for such a wild and broad concept. The truth is, Meyer's point to try and say that "these characters are exactly the same, regardless of gender" falls a little flat. In her attempts to make gender a non-issue in some cases...she makes it an issue in others, and to me, this is perhaps the most blaring issue with Life and Death. So, I reread the entirety of Twilight in preparation for this novel. I really shouldn't have. Twilight was not re-imagined... this was literally the same book. So when I heard of Life and Death, literally the day it released, I knew I'd buy it. No questions asked. I was hoping many of the issues I had with Twilight would be corrected with this version. It had so much potential to be great! I never expected there to be huge drastic changes to the story -- I did expect it to be pretty much the same as Twilight, so believe me when I say that was the least of its problems. And yet, everyone else in the book looks around and goes, "yup. That's a dog, you can tell by the meows."