The Short Second Life of Bree Tanner- Stephenie Meyer

This book has had a massive build up becuase of the popularity of the Twilight Saga. I have read the other books, and enjoyed them, so I thought I should read this one. My expectations were quite low becuase I thought the author might have just been publishing this one for the money, without really adding anything to the storyline, but I was pleasantly surprised. I don't think this book was really necessary to enhance the series, but it did add a bit of information and a new insight.
  Bree is part of the newborn vampire army that Victoria has been creating through a vampire called Riley to avoid detection from the Cullens. The army has always been given a set of rules to follow- be back by sunrise or you will be burnt to ashes, be discreet with disposal of prey, don't fight- and they have never questioned them. Bree is out hunting when she meets Diego, and older vampire who is quite close to Riley. Bree has always tried to avoid being noticed by the other vampires and doesn't know much about them. Diego is different to them, and doesn't seem menacing and is willing to share his prey with her. He makes her question what Riley has always told them and a friendship starts to form as the vampire army is being prepared for battle.
  The start of the book was rather dull and difficult to get into, too many insignificant characters involved, but I pressesd on and managed to get into it. It was interesting how Diego brought up so many seemingly obvious questions that Bree had ignored. He gave her a whole new insight into Riley's intentions and had discovered so many things he had managed to keep secret. The book is very short and the story moves quickly, but if it had been any longer, it would have got tiresome and unenjoyable.
 If you persevere past the start of the book (which i suppose is only a couple of pages) you can get into the story. I grew to really like Bree and her loathing of the other vampires she lives with, and their childish behaviour. Despite knowing she was going to die, I sort of managed to convince myself that she wasn't. She does though. The book gave you a chance to see what life is like for proper newborn vampires, as Bella sort of skips that bit SOMEHOW, in Breaking Dawn. You get to know their thirst for humans and how little we mean to them. Bree just seems to accept this even though she can still vaguely being a human herself. In fact she says she's glad she has been 'enlightened'. The book, on a whole was enjoyable, but not brilliant, it did not dissapoint as my expectations were quite low. Don't read before you have read Eclipse though, it won't really make sense. It adds some little twists to the whole story, makes it a bit more interesting, I recommend it to you if you have read and enjoyed the others, just for the new point of view.  Enjoy!