‘The Short Second Life of Bree Tanner’ Review

This novella (a story too long to be a short story, but too short to be a novel) is a story about Bree Tanner. This book was written by Stephenie Meyer, the bestselling author of the Twilight Saga. This story acts as a complimentary story to the Eclipse novel. Bree Tanner is a newborn vampire who was created by Victoria to attack the Cullens. It tells us about what the newborns were doing, and how they were dealing with their new life. The novel is written from Bree's point of view, and she takes us through the last couple of weeks of her life, right before the battle in the clearing.
We start during a hunt where Bree and other newborns are feeding. The other newborns act recklessly and Bree flees the scene behind another vampire, Diego, much older and wiser. They end up hunting together and they find that the sun is coming up, so they return home. They find their house to be destroyed again by the other vampires constantly fighting, and they quickly hide in a cave. They had been taught by Riley that the sun burns vampires, but while in the cave, some light comes in and they find that they just shine beautifully. They start to question everything they have been told, and start to wonder what their true purpose was. Then they find out everything too late, and they don't know what to trust.
This book was released on the 5th of June 2010 worldwide. Stephenie had decided, as a gift to her fans and readers, that she would allow a free copy of the book available to be read on this website: www.breetanner.com
The online version is not for downloading or printing, only to read online, starting from the 7th of June. The offer lasts until the 5th of July. However, with only two days between the printed copies and the free online version, this book still became a bestseller in less than 24 hours, hitting number one in USA and UK sales charts, even if the buyers knew they could read it for free just two days later. Another interesting detail about this book is that whenever a copy is bought in the USA, one dollar goes to the American Red Cross for funds towards Haiti and other countries in need. I say American Red Cross is getting lots of dollars with all those copies still being bought .

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