Words I Write Crazy: Week 33 Reviews: Twilight, New Moon, Eclipse, The Second Short Life of Bree Tanner, Breaking Dawn

Saturday, August 15, 2020

Week 33 Reviews: Twilight, New Moon, Eclipse, The Second Short Life of Bree Tanner, Breaking Dawn

From Goodreads:
About three things I was absolutely positive.

First, Edward was a vampire.

Second, there was a part of him—and I didn't know how dominant that part might be—that thirsted for my blood.

And third, I was unconditionally and irrevocably in love with him.

In the first book of the Twilight Saga, internationally bestselling author Stephenie Meyer introduces Bella Swan and Edward Cullen, a pair of star-crossed lovers whose forbidden relationship ripens against the backdrop of small-town suspicion and a mysterious coven of vampires. This is a love story with bite.

From Goodreads:
I knew we were both in mortal danger. Still, in that instant, I felt well. Whole. I could feel my heart racing in my chest, the blood pulsing hot and fast through my veins again. My lungs filled deep with the sweet scent that came off his skin. It was like there had never been any hole in my chest. I was perfect - not healed, but as if there had never been a wound in the first place.

From Goodreads:
"BELLA?"

Edward's soft voice came from behind me. I turned to see him spring lightly up the porch steps, his hair windblown from running. He pulled me into his arms at once, just like he had in the parking lot, and kissed me again.

This kiss frightened me. There was too much tension, too strong an edge to the way his lips crushed mine - like he was afraid we had only so much time left to us.

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As Seattle is ravaged by a string of mysterious killings and a malicious vampire continues her quest for revenge, Bella once again finds herself surrounded by danger. In the midst of it all, she is forced to choose between her love for Edward and her friendship with Jacob - knowing that her decision has the potential to ignite the ageless struggle between vampire and werewolf. With her graduation quickly approaching, Bella has one more decision to make: life or death. But which is which?

From Goodreads:
Fans of The Twilight Saga will be enthralled by this riveting story of Bree Tanner, a character first introduced in Eclipse, and the darker side of the newborn vampire world she inhabits.

Bree Tanner can barely remember life before she had uncannily powerful senses, superhuman reflexes, and unstoppable physical strength. Life before she had a relentless thirst for blood...life before she became a vampire.

All Bree knows is that living with her fellow newborns has few certainties and even fewer rules: watch your back, don't draw attention to yourself, and above all, make it home by sunrise or die. What she doesn't know: her time as an immortal is quickly running out.

Then Bree finds an unexpected friend in Diego, a newborn just as curious as Bree about their mysterious creator, whom they only know as her. As they come to realize that the newborns are pawns in a game larger than anything they could have imagined, Bree and Diego must choose sides and decide whom to trust. But when everything you know about vampires is based on a lie, how do you find the truth?

In another irresistible combination of danger, mystery, and romance, Stephenie Meyer tells the devastating story of the newborn army as they prepare to close in on Bella Swan and the Cullens, following their encounter to its unforgettable conclusion.

From Goodreads:
WHEN YOU LOVED THE ONE WHO WAS KILLING YOU, IT LEFT YOU NO OPTIONS. How could you run, how could you fight, when doing so would hurt that beloved one? If your life was all you had to give, how could you not give it? If it was someone you truly loved?

To be irrevocably in love with a vampire is both fantasy and nightmare woven into a dangerously heightened reality for Bella Swan. Pulled in one direction by her intense passion for Edward Cullen, and in another by her profound connection to a werewolf Jacob Black, she has endured a tumultuous year of temptation, loss, and strife to reach the ultimate turning point. her imminent choice to either join the dark but seductive world of immortals or pursue a fully human life has become the thread from which the fate of two tribes hangs.

Now that Bella has made her decision, a startling chain of unprecedented events is about to unfold with potentially devastating and unfathomable consequences. Just when the frayed strands of Bella's life - first discovered in Twilight, then scattered and torn in New Moon and Eclipse - seem ready to heal and knit together, could they be destroyed...forever?

My first review of Twilight, New Moon, Eclipse, The Second Short Life of Bree Tanner, Breaking Dawn

My second review of Breaking Dawn
My Review:
Reading this series again was strange. Because I just read Midnight Sun, so I knew what Edward was thinking, and all the stuff that I mentioned in that review, like how Alice's visions were affecting what was happening. And I just had to reread this series, even though it's ARC August, and I obviously didn't get any of these books as ARC's (I didn't start blogging until 2011, and the last two books didn't even get ARC's, I believe) so they don't count for that. I really shouldn't have read this just now, but I felt the need to, so I did. And it really only took me 2 days, since I started around 5 pm on Monday, and finished before 12 pm on Wednesday. Yeah, I just devoured these books !

I am going to start off with, I know that this series has issues. That the Quileute's are a real tribe, that's not good. And neither is the whole stalking thing. When I've previously read these books, I didn't really know about the former, and the later, well, Bella didn't really care, and we were in her head, so I didn't, either. It's only with being outside the book, and someone talking about it that I got that that it was wrong. That's something about me that I have with books, I don't have a lot of outside critical thinking, you know?

OK, I have the same questions as last time, ish. Like the one about Embry's father, well, on Stephanie Meyer's site, she explains that since she hasn't had to explore that for a book, she doesn't know. So there's that. I still have the question about why didn't Edward mention the whole thing about Victoria and Jane. Or go looking for Fred. I wish that'd happened!

One thing that I thought of, is how come Edward beat Bella and Alice to Volterra? I looked it up, and flights from Rio to Florence (guessing here, since this is the city that the ladies went to) the shortest time is currently just under 15 hours. Flights from Seattle to Florence that seem to be the same airline for shortest, is just over 13 hours. Even with a slight head start, how did he beat them there, let alone have the Volturi decide not to end him, resulting in the time needed to get Bella to Edward?

I'm so confused! Maybe the drive to Seattle? But still, that's apparently just over 3 hours, and given that Alice and Jasper made the drive from Forks to Phoenix and condensed a 3 day trip into 1, I think she'd be in Seattle quickly. Bah, this is going to drive me nuts!

Loved reading this series, it's just a fun nostalgic read, and it's just so quick and easy!

Author: Stephenie Meyer
Series: Twilight #1, 2, 3, 3.5, 4
First Read: 2008, 2008, 2008, 2010, 2008
Second Read: January 4th, 6th, 7th, 7th, 2016, November 10th, 2012
Third Read: January 7th, 2016
Read: August 10th, 11th, 11th, 11th, 12th, 2020
Source: Own
Reason Why: Rereading, because I read Midnight Sun, this time! And they're Prequel & Sequel Challenge 2020 Books, and Breaking Dawn is a End of series 2020 Book!
Publisher: Little, Brown and Company
Published: October 5th 2005, September 6th 2006, August 7th 2007, June 10th 2010, August 2nd 2008

Twilight: