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Beau did SO many things that would make sense as a girl (aka as Bella), but since he was a man, those actions no longer made sense. TheDarkSorceress666 Fandoms: The Vampire Diaries (TV), The Originals (TV), Legacies (TV 2018), American Horror Story, American Horror Story: Coven, Teen Wolf (TV), Vampire Chronicles Series - Anne Rice, The Lives of the Mayfair Witches - Anne Rice, Interview with the Vampire (TV 2022), Mayfair Witches (TV 2023), The Craft (Movies 1996 2020), The Covenant (2006), The Huntsman (Movies), The Conjuring (Movies), The Witch (2016), Hereditary (2018), The Ritual (2017), Twilight Series - Stephenie Meyer, Life and Death - Stephenie Meyer, Multi-Fandom, Millennium Of Hellfire-Original Series, Suspiria (2019) In Life and Death the threat of sexual violence is gone altogether. Beau is cornered by a group of thugs (both male and female) who believe him to be an undercover cop and pull a gun on him. They threaten to rob and shoot him, but any indication of sexual violence is nonexistent. Edythe comes to the rescue, and like Edward, she too is furious at what almost happened, but her fury seems to be more easily "contained" and "calmed" by Beau, rather than Edward who can't stop muttering about the "filthy things they were thinking".

Matthias Jameson is brilliant but free-spirited.A lover of history,misunderstood by his loved ones.But after losing his grams,dark forces manifest within him which causes the world of creatures to stir.As he uncovers the secrets of his line and powers,blood-curdling horrors converge on Beacon Hills threatening to consume it,forcing him to ally with others in hopes of killing the sinster forces that have haunted his line for generations by lurking in the shadows. Charlie is one of my favorite characters of the series. I enjoyed him a lot and I really had hope when I figured “hey, if everyone switched genders, it’ll be cool to see woman!Charlie and man!Renée” but nope. That made me so incredibly angry and her excuse for it? It wasn’t realistic. REALLY, STEPHENIE, REALLY? So you go and write and Paranormal teenager romance book, then you re-write said book but changing the genders and you couldn’t make the father have the custody because ”Here’s the reason for that: Beau was born in 1987. It was a rare thing for a father to get primary custody of a child in those days—even more so when the child was just a baby. Most likely, the mother would have had to be proven unfit in some way. I have a really hard time believing that any judge at that time (or even now) would give a child to a transient, unemployed father over a mother with a steady job and strong ties to her community.” It’s your WORLD, Stephenie. If you really wanted to make it rain blood, you could have done it. That’s just you being lazy, and I’m not sorry to say it. It’d be great to see a female Charlie being chief police and her being taciturn and not some homely just like male Charlie and what about a carefree male Renée? I mean, that could have been good but no. Ugh. Unhealthy, as in for majority of women, this is an unattainable beauty standard. Apologies if that came off as body shaming women/girls where that is their healthy. I'm speaking specifically about society's constant pressure on women and girls to be as thin as possible, many times to the detriment of their physical and emotional health. When Beau describes Edythe, he focuses so heavily on the sharp angles of her bones and it perpetuates the idea that these characteristics make her more beautiful than others. I find these descriptions irresponsible and feel there could have been a better way to describe her. Roberto "Robbie" Reyes is a teen possessed by the spirit of his satanic serial killer uncle, Eli Morrow, who gives him supernatural powers. After earning enough money, he, along with his younger brother, move to forks, Washington. His life takes a turn when he encounters a strange girl named Edythe Cullen. Language: English Words: 18,024 Chapters: 5/? Comments: 7 Kudos: 7 Bookmarks: 6 Hits: 163 To me, this ending was a fun What If story. If she could have re-imagined the whole thing, instead of just (mostly) changing pronouns, I would have been happy.username29188 Fandoms: Ghost Rider (Comics), Life and Death - Stephenie Meyer, Twilight Series - All Media Types, Twilight Series - Stephenie Meyer, Ghost Rider - Fandom I will give Meyer this, she is right that Bella is not simply a damsel in distress because my goodness, the awkwardness/klutziness of Beau (Bella's male counterpart in Life and Death) is every bit as clumsy as Bella...if perhaps more so. Granted, I admit, it's been ten years since I read Twilight, however I can't help but feel that Meyer really went out of her way to "prove" her point about Bella/Beau being identical in terms of their "fragility" when next to Edward/Edythe. In other words, I found the emphasis on Beau's human frailness to be more pronounced, with Meyer hitting us over the head every other paragraph by reminding us how "awkwardly human" Beau is, compared to the "perfection" of Edythe. And speaking of that "perfection", the detail Meyer would go into to describing the "beauty" of the Edythe and the rest of the Cullens, in particular the female versions of Edward, Jasper, and Emmett, was a bit...over zealous. What was a few simple sentences in describing their inhuman beauty in Twilight becomes several paragraphs. TheDarkSorceress666 Fandoms: Millennium Of Hellfire-Original Series, American Horror Story, American Horror Story: Coven, The Vampire Diaries (TV), The Originals (TV), Twilight Series - Stephenie Meyer, Life and Death - Stephenie Meyer, Vampire Chronicles Series - Anne Rice, Interview with the Vampire (TV 2022), The Lives of the Mayfair Witches - Anne Rice, Mayfair Witches (TV 2023), Teen Wolf (TV), The Witch (2016), The Ritual (2017), Suspiria (2019), The Conjuring (Movies), Multi-Fandom So when I heard of Life and Death, literally the day it released, I knew I'd buy it. No questions asked. I was hoping many of the issues I had with Twilight would be corrected with this version. It had so much potential to be great! I never expected there to be huge drastic changes to the story -- I did expect it to be pretty much the same as Twilight, so believe me when I say that was the least of its problems.

Euphoria and Agony is a project of the Three Books One Plot podcast. New excerpts posted every other Monday! Series Alrighty, I said all that to say this: I'm not a hater. I do realize that these books aren't exactly perfect, but they certainly aren't the worst things ever written. If you think that, then you obviously haven't read some of the true garbage that's out there. There are so many romances out there that are actively terrible that there's no way I can lump this book in with them. And there are so many bloated, boring, unedited crap novels floating around, that I honestly can't understand all the hate this book gets. Is it simply because a lot of people liked it, and it pisses off those who didn't? I thought about falling to my knees on purpose. This was the kind of beauty you worshiped. The kind you built temples for and offered sacrifices to...what would a goddess want from a mediocre mortal like me? BWAHAHAHA....wait....she actually published this? Anyway, despite some obvious flaws, by the time Edythe was rescuing Beau from being shot in Port Angeles, I was fully invested and enjoying the shifting character dynamics. Life and Death was shaping up to be a four star read. Stephenie Meyer Announces New Gender-Swapped 'Twilight' Book". The Hollywood Reporter. Valence Media. October 6, 2015 . Retrieved March 27, 2019.But I’ve always maintained that it would have made no difference if the human were male and the vampire female— it’s still the same story. Gender and species aside, Twilight has always been a story about the magic and obsession and frenzy of first love."

Well, it kind of means that this book has exactly the same problems as the original. The biggest ones being that no issues of gender roles are fixed, merely further highlighted, and the relationship between Beau and Edythe is just as unhealthy as Bella and Edward's. Meyer, by the way, failed to comment in her opening about the criticisms the book received because the relationship it portrays is downright abusive, but you can be damn sure that flipping the genders did nothing to fix that. With a foreword and afterword by Stephenie Meyer, this compelling reimagining of the iconic love story is a must-read for Twilight fans everywhere. Another example of Meyer playing the game of "gender stereotypes" is when Beau reveals that the ballet studio that "Archie" (Alice's male counterpart) sees in his vision was where his mother once taught dance classes. In Twilight, Bella reveals that when she was a little girl, she took ballet lessons at this studio. Beau, however, met his mother at this studio after school, because apparently "boys taking ballet isn't *manly*" or that's certainly how it comes across. Beau can't be a klutz without a medical reason, and he can't at one time have taken dance lessons, unlike his female counterpart. If these things are seen as a punch to Beau's masculinity, then why on earth did Meyer choose to have Beau also bad at sports? To know nothing about cars and how to fix things, unlike "Jules" (the female counterpart to Jacob). And yes, no fixed gender roles. Do you remember the scene in Twilight in which Bella is almost sexually assaulted? Changed to being held at gunpoint in this book because Beau is a boy. Oh, and you won't forget he is either, because the characters are constantly reminding us of the flipped genders.

TEEN WOLF REWRITE:Beacon Hills becomes the home to an exceptional young witch,who unearths the deeper truths hidden within the dark as his powers grow⛥ I saw this book on the shelves just after it was released in 2015, but at the time I wasn't able to buy it. I was finally able to read it this year, though, and as an ex-Twihard (sigh) I thought it would be an interesting experience.

And yet, everyone else in the book looks around and goes, "yup. That's a dog, you can tell by the meows." The other characters were pretty much just as they were before, though I REALLY liked Archie, the male version of Alice. He was honestly pretty great. Simplybabbling Fandoms: Twilight Series - Stephenie Meyer, Twilight Series - All Media Types, Life and Death - Stephenie Meyer Even Rosalie/Royal still had that whole jealous petty cat fight relationship going on with Bella/Beau... complete with Beau constantly noticing Royal's hotness (and then getting all down because he'll never be so hot.) Edythe and Beau's relationship grows over time and they fall in love. Their foremost problem is that to Edythe, Beau's scent is a hundred times more potent than any other human's, making Edythe struggle to resist her desire to kill him. However, despite this, they manage to stay together safely for a while.Eleanor Cullen: Edythe, Archie and Jessamine's adoptive sister and Royal's mate. Unlike her mate Royal, Eleanor doesn't hate Beau but instead takes a liking to him. Second, there was a part of him—how potent that part might be, I don't know—that thirsted for my blood. Bella swings by Edythe's house to get some help with dancing, only to run into her long-time crush and Edythe's older sister, Carine. Fortunately for her, Carine is very willing to help her out. Series

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