"Twilight" author Stephenie Meyer published a new book in honor of the 10th anniversary of the best-selling saga. However, the new book is a little different from the original.
In the new novel "Life and Death: Twilight Reimagined," the Bella character was made into a male named Beau and the character of Edward is now a girl named Edythe. Meyer even switched the gender of Jacob and renamed her Julie, according to Variety.
In the foreword of the 422-page book, Meyer explained that she decided to change the gender of the characters so that Bella was no longer a "damsel in distress" like many critics called the character, according to Entertainment Weekly. Meyer also said she took issue when critics said Bella was "too consumed with her love interest, as if that's somehow just a girl thing," so she decided to make the vampire a woman and not a man for the 10th anniversary.
"The further you get in the more it changes because the personalities get different," explained Meyer, according to USA Today. "It's just a love story, it doesn't matter who's the boy and who's the girl."
Almost all of the characters in the book have their genders swapped except Charlie and Renee, Bella/Beau's parents.
"Life and Death: Twilight Reimagined" is now available in bookstores. The original series consisted of four books ("Twilight," "New Moon," "Eclipse" and "Breaking Dawn") that each became No. 1 bestsellers, and the series produced five movies that starred Kristen Stewart and Robert Pattinson.
