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A review by dylanhenning
Life and Death: Twilight Reimagined by Stephenie Meyer
adventurous
emotional
tense
medium-paced
- Plot- or character-driven? A mix
- Strong character development? Yes
- Loveable characters? Yes
- Diverse cast of characters? It's complicated
- Flaws of characters a main focus? Yes
3.0
Life and Death, if you don’t know is a gender swapped Twilight. I knew that going into it hoping to find some interesting insights on how the story might be different with different gender dynamics.
What I came away with was a book that was largely the same as what I remember reading in High School with the original Twilight, just with a changed ending that felt it was only there so Stephanie Meyer could justify the existence of this blatantly obvious cash grab.
The book itself had some interesting parts when Meyer was fleshing out the lore of the vampires and werewolves in her story (although there was a massively disappointing lore dump towards the very end of the book that felt like it would be very overwhelming to new readers coming to this world for the first time).
The romance plot was often extremely cringy even by teenage romance standards and was even borderline toxic at times. The conversations between Edythe and Beau about their feelings towards one another often pulled me out of my immersion because I would sit there and think “teenage couples don’t talk like this.”
Overall the book is fine but if you’ve already read the main Twilight series I can’t justify why you should invest your time in this book.
What I came away with was a book that was largely the same as what I remember reading in High School with the original Twilight, just with a changed ending that felt it was only there so Stephanie Meyer could justify the existence of this blatantly obvious cash grab.
The book itself had some interesting parts when Meyer was fleshing out the lore of the vampires and werewolves in her story (although there was a massively disappointing lore dump towards the very end of the book that felt like it would be very overwhelming to new readers coming to this world for the first time).
The romance plot was often extremely cringy even by teenage romance standards and was even borderline toxic at times. The conversations between Edythe and Beau about their feelings towards one another often pulled me out of my immersion because I would sit there and think “teenage couples don’t talk like this.”
Overall the book is fine but if you’ve already read the main Twilight series I can’t justify why you should invest your time in this book.