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Meyers chose to do more than just switch the genders of Edward and Bella, she opted to make every male into a female and vice versa. It confuses the story and she didn't attempt to have the characters relate in New ways. Take Billy, now Bonnie, Black, for example: By changing this character, Meyer has altered the lineage of the entire Quiluette tribe. The elders are all women and the wolves are too. However, to explain away the physical differences, these women look and act like men but are now stuck in typical gender roles. Bonnie doesn't fish like Billy did but the love of tv sports was retained. Bella interacted with her peers from a desire not to be lonely but remain aloof whenever she chose. She was baffled, not manipulative, by the boys interested in her. Beau is supposed to be Bella but all of the traits that make her so relatable are gone. Meyer rushed through the character conversions and development. The consequence of her cutting corners is readers aren't emotionally invested. Another point of contention is the wholesale surrender to any measure of a smooth transition between the names, so not one nickname could be left intact either- Rosalie became Royal, not Ross. Alice became Archie, not Allen. Emmet became Eleanor, not Emily. Jasper became Jessamine, not Jasmine. Even the minor characters conversions were not logical or natural progressions from one gender to another. Mike became McKayla, not Michelle. Angela became Alan, not Andrew. A few did survive in a way that makes sense as Eric is now Erica and Tyler is Taylor. The cringing is minimum for Carlisle now being Carine. However turning Esme into Earnest is unforgivable, when Ezra was an option. But the sheer abandonment of phonetics to familiarity was complete with Jacob Black now being Julie or Jules, instead of Jacqueline or Jackie. Isabella is a lovely name so to murder it with Beaufort, I was predisposed to not like anything based on that alone when the better option would have been Beauregard. Or Meyer could have stuck with the origin name and nickname, Abell or Bellamy or Campbell would have sufficed nicely. Edythe is the worst, no on fantasized about an Edith. Edward should have transformed into Edin or Edelyn. Lastly, the author was so determined to use specific physical stereotypes that all the supernatural, girls included, are 6' tall with builds associated with men. Androgynous characters were never in the lore and to abandon so much of who these characters are, the reader can't engage with them, can't root for them, and generally could care less who lives and dies. In this case, that 100% applies to Beau and Edythe. Meyer forgot the biggest rule when writing a romance, you have to woo the reader to fall in love alongside the characters. This new rote style convinces no one. I don't believe they're in love, I can't relate to anyone in the book, and I could care less what happens next. Meyer has butchered the story of Twilight at a level to be beneath average fan fiction.