My main complaint with this book is related to its core premise. Any reader who doesn’t want to read something so similar has the perfectly acceptable option of not picking it up.Īnd actually, the plot of Life and Death is not *exactly* the same as Twilight– there’s a big plot twist at the end that’ll intrigue long-time Twilight fans! This complete divergence from Twilight canon was one of the few things I actually enjoyed about Life and Death.īut that’s the only praise you’re going to hear from me here today. As long as it’s clear up front (which this book is, both in the jacket copy and the book’s introduction), I really see no reason to mind the repetition. For someone who hates predictability in books, I am surprisingly okay with literary echoes and experiments of perspective- Midnight Sun also repeats the same plot and dialogue as Twilight to a large extent, and I had no problem with that either. The obvious parallels are not what bothered me here. The only difference is that everyone’s genders have been switched, with the exception of Charlie and Renee, Beau’s parents.

Sound familiar? If you’ve heard anything about Twilight in the last fifteen years, it probably does- this is the same story as Twilight, complete with similar (in some cases exactly the same) dialogue, plot, and commentary from the main character. But it’s too late to be horrified Beau’s already in love. At first she looks like she wants to murder him, followed by a pointed absence from school, then she ignores him completely, and finally the two strike up a friendship and Beau begins to get some answers- namely, that Edythe is a vampire. There’s one in particular, a girl named Edythe, who sits next to him in biology. They stand out, and Beau can’t help but notice. Most of the local kids are used to the weather, but for the Cullens it’s more than that. But you know who doesn’t hate the lack of sun? The Cullens. He’s a good (if clumsy) seventeen year-old kid who wants to give his mom a chance to travel with her new husband, even though he hates the cold, wet weather of Washington. In the novel, Beau Swan has just moved into Forks, Washington to live with his dad the police chief.

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