We all loved reading about Edward Cullen and Jacob Black as they fought over Bella Swan in the original “Twilight” novel, and now author Stephenie Meyer is changing up the genders of the main characters for a whole new spin on the popular narrative.
Meyer’s new cast includes Edythe, Julie and Beau and it’s all included in the 10th Anniversary Edition’s bonus 400-page story “Live and Death: Twilight Reimagined.”
Stephenie explained, “I wanted to do something fun for the 10th anniversary and the publisher wanted, like, a foreword and I thought, ‘Well, maybe something more interesting.’ It’s always bothered me a little bit because anyone surrounded by superheroes is going to be…in distress. We don’t have the powers. I thought, ‘What if we switched it around a bit and see how a boy does,’ and, you know, it’s about the same. 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, it still works out.”
