Stephenie Meyer’s newest novella, The Short Second Life of Bree Tanner,was released yesterday and some fans lined up for the midnight release. The book has been reviewed by some news organizations such as the UK’s The Guardian and Washington Post. Here are an excerpt:

UK’s The Guardian:

One of Meyer’s notable weaknesses is that she can’t bear any of her narrators to have pasts or morals blacker than dove-grey. We’re promised a wild, amoral, bloodthirsty teen protagonist, but what we get is Bree. Despite a few gritty touches, there’s never any danger she’s going to get into real trouble after running away from an abusive father in her early life. While starving on the streets she carefully avoids becoming a “junkie ho” before getting suckered by the promise of a cheeseburger, and subsequently being turned into a vampire. OK, she exsanguinates a prostitute here and there, but she spends most of the novella offering her new vamp boyfriend, Diego, high fives and double-wrapping the books with which she whiles away the daylight hours, because she “hates water-damaged pages”. In fact, Bree is a thinly-disguised, bloodsucking version of Meyer’s first Twilight heroine, Bella Swan – geeky, dependent on males to protect her and think for her, and utterly devoid of black-hearted, kick-ass joie-de-vivre.

Washington Post:

This, it turns out, is the problem. Fans do not come to Stephenie Meyer for reality. We come to her for passion, for yearning, for adoration mixed with anguish and shaken to a tizzy. We want her characters to vow, “I would rather die than be separated from you,” the way Edward and Bella do every time they meet, rather than, “He’s kind of my friend. I mean, not like you’re my friend,” as Diego tells Bree.

Er, thanks.

It’s disappointing — but perhaps expected — that “Bree” feels its fullest and most compelling in the last 30 pages, when the Cullens finally show up as Bree’s would-be saviors. Bree fails to notice, even once, how chiseled and godlike Edward is, which feels truly bizarre to fans who have known only Bella’s point of view.

We are left staring longingly after our familiar friends, wishing we could go home with them instead. You seem like a lovely girl, Bree, but you’re blocking our view of the action we care about. If you could just move to the — Thanks.

MTV has also written an article where fans line up to get the latest book.

There were no special concerts, no multi-city publicity tours and no camera crews this time. Stephenie Meyer wasn’t sitting at a table waiting to sign copies. But to the 20 or so Twilighters lined up outside the Borders at Penn Plaza, the midnight release of “The Short Second Life of Bree Tanner” was still a pretty big deal. And instead of all the fanfare that had surrounded the release of “Breaking Dawn” almost two years ago, they had a couple of quiet, muggy hours in which to make new friends.

At 10 p.m., closing time for the bookstore that shares the block with Madison Square Garden and sits atop the chaos of Penn Station, fans were asked to wait outside the door. At the front of the line were two unlikely Twi-hards: big, burly men in their 20s, who decided to surprise their girlfriends with copies, since they hadn’t been able to come out themselves.

“She was so disappointed she couldn’t come,” Ricardo Ortiz said of his “obsessed” girlfriend. He came up with the idea and brought along his friend, who chose to remain anonymous in this romantic gesture.

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