The Short Second Life Of Bree Tanner is a fantasy novella by author Stephenie Meyer. The book is published in 2010. It tells about a newborn vampire, Bree Tanner, who also performs in the third book of Twilight, Eclipse. She is the narrator of the book, so it is written from the viewpoint of Bree. The novella follows her on the road to her death.
Bree was fifteen years old girl when she became a vampire. Riley found her living in the streets. He offered help and took her to his leader Victoria, who turned her into a vampire. Victoria was planning to create an army of newborn vampires to destroy Bella and the Cullens, who killed her lover. Bree and the other newborn vampires were living in a cave. They were told lies about vampires and they didn’t knew what Victoria was up to. Later Bree fell in love with Diego, an older vampire of the Riley’s vampire gang. Bree tried figure out Victoria’s true plans with Diego. Soon they realised that Victoria had been lying to them about everything. They decided to run away from the army with Bree’s other vampire friend, ’Freaky’ Fred, but Diego wanted to tell Riley that Victoria had been lying to him. He didn’t return from his meeting with Riley. Bree was told that Diego was joined in to their army. When the battle with The Cullens began Bree realised that Diego has probably been killed by Victoria and Riley. She surrendered to the Cullen’s, but in the end the Volturi destroyed her.
The main theme of this book is friendship. The characters have to solve who they can trust and who they can’t, who truly is their friend and who isn’t. Other themes is, for example, revenge and war.
I really like the Twilight, The Vampire Diaries and all the other vampire series but this book wasn’t that good. This was too confusing and not so interesting like the others. I expected a little bit more.