You've got your work cut out for you when you're Stephenie Meyer. When you dare
to write an in-between novella, the same people who criticized your
doorstopping tomes of old now complain that you're holding out on them
by penning a 168-page glorified short story. The people who got angry
that there was too much of the Edward-Bella-Jacob love triangle in Eclipse
now rant that The
Short Second Life of Bree Tanner: An Eclipse Novella doesn't
have enough of their lovelorn woes. And everybody assumes it's all just a
marketing ploy to promote the Eclipse movie,
which hit theaters yesterday with the
largest-ever midnight launch in history. In short, you just can't
win.
I'm sorry to add to the criticisms because I hope that Meyer will
continue writing about this fascinating world she has created, and I
don't want to be that vampire whose special superpower is whining. The
Short Second Life of Bree Tanner is okay. But I have to say, I was
hoping for more.
Bree Tanner is a don't-blink-or-you'll-miss-it character in Eclipse,
whose story intersects with Bella's in the final battle scene.