I admit that I glossed over the original post, and read that as "She reversed the genders of Twilight Princess and made a book out of it".. I just had images of Link being captured by Zant and Zelda having to take up arms to save him.
The only twilight thing I've ever seen is them playing baseball and then Edward driving all crazily, so while this isn't for me and I won't read it I still think this is kind of interesting? Like, it just seems like a neat new thing to have for an anniversary for fans of that series.
If on the 30th anniversary of the first Harry Potter book JK Rowling released some weird gender bent version of that I'd lose my shit tbh. I bet for fans of Twilight this is real exciting
@tiffanytryhard: I mean, if people buy it then it means they want it, and everybody wins... right? Now what will be funny is if this flops to the nth degree.
I don't want to work in libraries anymore. Stephanie Meyer has killed it for me. I'm going to curl up under my desk and weep softly into a copy of Cannery Row.
Meyer explains in her foreword to the anniversary edition of the novel that she decided to go with the gender bending to underscore her position that Bella isn’t a “damsel in distress” as certain critics have charged.
Maybe I'm off but gender swapping after the fact doesn't seem like it really addresses those claims.
I read the first book when my girlfriend at the time asked me to. I thought it was pretty bad back then. Out of a sick curiosity to see how this turned out, I read the first 2 chapters thanks to the kindle sample... It's worse than Twilight. At least with Twilight Meyer could put herself in a teenage girl's shoes and kind of SOUND like a teenaged female. She thanks her sons in the book for letting her into their world... if DudeBella is based on them, they're the most awkward and dumb guys ever.
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