Done Before the Deadline

I must say, I'm pretty proud of myself. I finished the third Dark Visions book well ahead of my deadline! I actually finished it yesterday and have already begun reading Stephenie Meyer's The Short Second Life of Bree Tanner. But before I begin talking about that, I need to wrap up my feelings on the Dark Visions trilogy. Overall, a very interesting story. There were enough twists to keep you guessing, but it all resolved itself very nicely. I felt like everyone's story ended the way it needed to. The idea of psychic vampires is very interesting, and I liked the way the book treated it as if it were probably the origin of all the vampire myths. People just confused "life energy" to mean "blood" instead of literal energy. Speaking of vampires, in The Short Second Life of Bree Tanner, Stephenie Meyer introduces us to some vampires who are very different from the one's we are used to seeing from her. These are vampires in their truest sense. Wild and bloodthirsty, something we've only had glimpses of in her world before. I'm less than 30 pages into the novella and I have already seen some incredibly crazy vampires and learned that these vampires haven't really been clued in to the facts about their existance. For example, the main character Bree, thinks that sunlight will burn her to a crisp. However, if you've read any of Stephenie's books you know that her vampires do not burst into flame or turn to dust if exposed to sunlight. They merely sparkle. Bree has yet to learn that fact about her kind, and it's my understanding that she and the other newborns have been led to believe that the sun is a danger to them. I know how this story will end, but that doesn't make me want to read it less. In fact, it makes me more curious to find out how exactly she ended up in the clearing with the Cullens on that fateful day. Why did she surrender? What were her thoughts upon seeing Bella, a human, surrounded by vampires? What was her last thought as she watched the Volturi guard close in on her in her final moments?