The best-selling series, Twilight, is being re-imagined. But now, in honour of the original novel’s 10th anniversary, author Stephanie Meyer has done something pretty unbelievable. “We don’t have the powers”, she said.
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Two Twilight characters who escape the gender swap in the new book are Charlie and Renee, the parents of Beau-Bella.
Meyer seems to be on our level too. The further you get in, the more it changes because the personalities get a little bit different, but it starts out very similar and really, it really is the same story because it’s just a love story and it doesn’t matter who’s the boy and who’s the girl.
When Twilight was first released in 2005, the love story of Bella, a teenage girl and the vampire Edward became a worldwide sensation and spawned another three books and five films, despite an initial lukewarm reception from book critics.
Why? Meyer said the notion that Bella was a “damsel in distress” didn’t sit well with her. “I thought, “What if we switched it around a bit and see how a boy does, ‘ and, you know, it’s about the same”.
When asked if she would like to see the new version of her brainchild, she simply said: “I don’t really see that happening”.
The dual publication of Twilight Tenth Anniversary and Life and Death is launched on 6 October. The book was in the top 500 on Amazon.com’s best-seller list.
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The “Twilight Saga” author is set to promote her new project at the Barnes & Noble on Broadway and West 82nd Street on Tuesday and at New York Comic Con in the Jacob K. Javits Convention Center in Manhattan on Thursday.
