In Which Meyer should have hired a Biologist
New arrival Leah is now in Jacob and Seth's heads. She's Seth's sister and has joined their pack. Why? She loves Sam, he's imprinted on Emily, she has to live in his head whenev she goes wolf, it sucks. Plus she's Seth's sis, so she's all protective.
There, saved you six tedious pages. The idea is great. It makes sense. Gods does it take forever to pry it out of Leah.
Leah fills them in: no attack is coming as Sam sort've figures out what the heck is going on. The new threesome dash off to fill the Carlisle in on the happs. This leads to a conversation about the medical situation of Vampires.
We learn Vamps have 25 chromosomes. You know why? I don't either. Neither does Meyer. It doesn't make sense biologically as you're born with 23 pairs and I assume that by 25 Carlisle means 25 pairs. Werewolves have 24. This means that human and vampire babies shouldn't be biologically possible. Or Human and Werewolf ones, for that matter. Do you grow extra pairs when you're bit? That makes no sense... you know what, she just stuck this in there as medical jargon and I don't care.
Edward is listening in and has an idea, if the baby is vamp, then it probably wants blood. So feed Bella blood and baby will be okay. Cue tons of setup. Cue Bella drinking blood (of unidentified type) through a straw. OH GOD WILL IT WORK?!?!?!?
SumUp C+
It isn't a bad chapter at first but all the stupid science drags it down. Why would Bella drinking blood help the baby? It'd go into her stomach and get processed, then into her intestines, then her bloodstream, then through the (I assume) placental barrier and then into the baby. Why wouldn't the baby just tap into Bella's blood instead? It's so you can have a scene with Bella sipping Chateau du AB Positive from a straw, that's why. I'm not even going to go into how blood banks work and why I can't see Carlisle having seven million units of whole blood on tap.
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