Hmm okay, so I think my problem with Life and Death is that the Edythe-Beau relationship seems a bit too forced. In Twilight and Midnight Sun I felt the relationship forming between Edward and Bella in a very natural way. In Life and Death it just seems like "this is what's supposed to happen so it's going to happen". I don't feel like Edythe and Beau are as compatible as Edward and Bella. And in Twilight we already have a couple where it was the female vampire falling for a male human & saving the human with Rosalie and Emmett. Although different and much shorter, Rosalie was the stronger party at first when she found Emmett, so if SM wanted to make a point about feminism I don't know why she just didn't explore Rosalie & Emmett in more detail. I'm approaching life and death as its own thing and trying not to compare it to Twilight and I just feel that as its own story, the relationships and the character development don't really make that much sense.