During a phone conversation with Alice Cullen, Alec offers a disturbingly alternate view of the Cullen family that depicts them as a cult pretending to be a family whose love and acceptance is entirely dependent on their members' obedience to their diet and human-friendly philosophies.Hannibal Lecture: On multiple occasions Alec deconstructs the Cullens' value of human life and their desire to imitate it in ways that make them appear far less noble and benign than portrayed in the book series.Gilded Cage: AKA Volterra if Alec gets his way.Fully-Embraced Fiend: According to Bree, Alec is a "sweet sociopath".She works for the Volturi and drinks human blood but doesn't like making them suffer so much so she'll twist Alec's arm into using his talent to avoid causing her meal fear and pain. Friendly Neighborhood Vampire: A work in progress.Just because you're a remorseless killer, a stalker and a kidnapper doesn't mean you're also a sex offender. Clingy Jealous Girl: Guy in this case Alec's talk with Seth over Bree's phone REEKS of Murder the Hypotenuse.īree: Okay, I'm sorry I implied that.Brother–Sister Team: Jane and Alec make one of the deadliest.Boring, but Practical: Bree's vampire power is to be able to sense intentions and to be believed when she telling the truth or certain truths.Ooh, Shiny!: Santigo, but he uses it to his advantage, organizing documents, operating computers, locating vampire law infringers, monitoring the world, playing Video Games, shopping online, and falsifying international information with one hand, and solving a Rubix Cube with the other. Sometimes he's a little ::too proud:: of himself.At Least I Admit It: Alec is pretty comfortable with who he is and makes no apologies for it.Subverted because he is most likely going to get the girl in the end.Affably Evil: Alec at one point kidnaps Bree with his powers, tries to tempt her back into human blood, insults her coven openly, chases her all the way from Sibiu to Cluj-Napoca and then tries to get her to talk about common interests with him.Abduction Is Love: Alec paralyzing and abducting Bree from her hotel room to "have a conversation" with her.The (Not So) Short Second Life of Bree Tanner.Its companion story expands on the Volturi with the ironically humorous Alec narrating the same story, but with much more insight on the other side of things.
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And from there the series spirals out relying on Rule of Fun, Rule of Cool, as well as characterization for everyone. The story opens when Jane, the Walking Agony Beam, lets Bree live in a attempt to implicate the Cullens out of spite and in hope that Bree will attack Bella and give her an excuse to kill Bree anyway. This may not be the most important work within the Twilight series, but it is a surprisingly satisfying addition.The Not So Short Second Life of Bree Tanner and its companion, Ashes through an Hourglass ( Oy Angelina ), are the metaphorical jackpot for anyone looking for a Good Twilight fanfiction.
Other character voices aren't quite as well established, but this doesn't take anything away from the experience to any great degree. The narrator does a very good job with Bri's and Diego's voices and the overall tone. In fact, I became more interested than I would have expected in learning even more about the characters we glimpsed so briefly. I personally think that Meyer's writing is better in this short story format so that the action and emotion build quickly without the writing becoming tedious. And yet, like Romeo and Juliet, the very fact that we know in advance that they are doomed becomes what touches us. Like reading Romeo and Juliet for the second time, we already know the hopeless fate of Bri and anyone she might care about and don't expect to be drawn in or touched by the fates of those we already know to be doomed.
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Given that it is essentially a short story it cannot be expected to have the kind of development of a full novel, yet this story manages to establish understanding and sympathy for the main character Bri plus the beginnings of a tragicly shortened budding romance between two characters who deserve better than they've been getting. As a big Twilight series fan I of course had to read this novella but wasn't overly excited about the subject of the story.
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