OK, I Read It

Helloooo??? What up, friends? I'm back from my little hiatus. What did I do while I was gone (besides drink)? Well, for one thing, I read this:
That's right. I bought it yesterday and it took two uninterrupted hours for me to read it today. Because that's how I read Twilight stuff: in one big binge.

OK, so here I am to tell you what I thought. I would say "spoiler alert," except we all know what happens in the end, don't we? I won't blame you if you want to stop reading until you've read the story, though, just to be on the safe side.

It was alright. I mean, for a story about a character I don't care about and never wondered about, it was as good as it could have been, I guess. The part at the end that meshed with what happens in Eclipse worked well enough, I suppose (I had to go back and re-read the actual part in the book to make sure), but I sort of felt like it was rewriting history in a way for this character. Like, Stephenie Meyer just had to make her character sympathetic. I don't know, it fell a little flat for me.

I liked Freaky Fred. I would actually like to read a story about him, and he wasn't even in the actual saga at all. So, way to make me interested in a trivial character in your trivial novella, SM. I'm curious what Carlisle would have made of Fred's "ability," you know? Like, it seemed sort of similar to Jasper's, except Fred was always projecting the one emotion, and it seemed similar to Bella's in that he could extend it away from himself to include her.

I don't know, have you read it? Tell me what you thought, as always, in the comments!

Oh, and also, did anyone see the Eclipse sneak peek at the MTV movie awards?? TH got bored with the basketball playoffs and turned it on just in time for me to catch it (he's the best, even just coincidentally), and I don't know what to make of the parking lot scene. I think I need to let it settle. Here it is, in case you missed it:

Thoughts on that in the comments, too, please!