Why the Gender Swapped Twilight is an Amazing Idea

Andrew Sims over at Hypable has written a really great piece on what makes the new Twilight novel Life and Death a great idea. Andrew writes,

“Upon reading the news of Stephenie Meyer’s gender-swapped Twilight Tuesday morning, I screamed “WTF” like everyone else. But the more I thought about it, the more I liked it.

The 10th anniversary edition of Twilight is actually two books in one. On one side of the book you’ll find the original version of Twilight. Flip the book over and you get Life and Death: Twilight Reimagined.

Many are chastising Stephenie for not only gender-swapping the characters (every character has been switched except for Charlie and Renee) but for also publishing the darn thing. Most of the negative remarks stem from the fact that this type of gender-swapping is what fan-fiction writers do.

But I think this decision should be welcomed, not put down.”

Check out Andrew’s reasons on Hypable.