Life and Death: Twilight Reimagined

Life and Death: Twilight Reimagined
Written by Stephenie Meyer

Originally published in 2015

About 390 pages

Rate 4/5

I have a hard time justifying rereading a book, though I have done it once before with The Great Gatsby. So that's why I think reading this alternate version of Twilight was worthwhile. I wanted to reread Twilight, I still could, but reading Life and Death sufficed.

I really enjoyed the Twilight saga, it remains one of the only book series I have completed aside from The Hunger Games. The character's personalities mostly remain the same, their genders are just swapped. Reading Twilight with the genders being reversed wasn't astonishing, however, the last couple of chapters differ from the original plot of the story and that was intriguing. This alternate ending with Beau was distressing compared to the way things played out for Bella in the original story.

In reality, I think the only people who might enjoy this book would be people who want to reread Twilight with a twist or people who aren't familiar with the series at all. Stephenie Meyer had time to revise her word choices and such so it might be a "better" version of Twilight in that way, but I do prefer the original over this.

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