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Midnight Sun by Stephenie Meyer

118 reviews

ee1000's review against another edition

adventurous tense medium-paced

Plot- or character-driven? Character
Strong character development? It's complicated
Loveable characters? Yes
Diverse cast of characters? No
Flaws of characters a main focus? Yes

3.5

Wow it’s been a while since I visited the world of Twilight. When I was a teen and at the height of Twilight mania, the first few chapters or Midnight Sun were posted online. I remember reading them with my friends and it’s wild that now, 15 years later, I’m reading that finished book.

Returning to Twilight as an adult is wild. I remember the story and the plot but some of the dialogue and the decisions the characters make now really threw me looking at things from the perspective as an adult. Edward and Bella are written like middle aged adults. It’s something that I didn’t really notice as a kid, but now I did laugh a few times wondering why these two have the most generic answers for their favorite things.

I liked seeing more of Alice and the rest of the Cullen’s in this book, that was the best part of the story.

Edward though, is unhinged. The amount of murder and soul contemplation in this book is so much higher than I’d expected. It made me cringe a bit.

I wasn’t really surprised by any of the events of this book, but it was a nostalgic trip back to my childhood. There’s plenty of laughs and WTF moments in this book to keep a previous “Twi-Hard” entertained for a couple days at least.

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frenchpants's review against another edition

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adventurous dark emotional tense medium-paced

Plot- or character-driven? Plot
Strong character development? Yes
Loveable characters? It's complicated
Diverse cast of characters? Yes

2.75

Edward's perspective gives you:
a) more backstory about his past and the Cullen family in general
b) the chance to see Bella as more than a generic MC (as helpless as she continues to be...)
c) more information about the thoughts/feelings of unimportant side characters
d) regret for ever being Team Edward

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irislovescats's review against another edition

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adventurous dark tense medium-paced

Plot- or character-driven? A mix
Strong character development? Yes
Loveable characters? Yes
Diverse cast of characters? It's complicated
Flaws of characters a main focus? Yes

4.5

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cayleybp's review against another edition

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adventurous dark emotional mysterious medium-paced

Plot- or character-driven? Character
Strong character development? Yes
Loveable characters? Yes
Diverse cast of characters? Yes
Flaws of characters a main focus? Yes

4.0

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jerbarger's review against another edition

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dark emotional sad tense medium-paced

Plot- or character-driven? A mix
Strong character development? Yes
Loveable characters? Yes
Diverse cast of characters? No
Flaws of characters a main focus? Yes

3.75

Was this totally unnecessary? Like, yeah, probably. But I enjoyed it so much. It’s worth it, just to see Edward’s POV, especially in regard to how he interacts with his family and the extent of what his powers can do. That car chase scene? Epic. If they do make the TV show (I hope they don’t), then they totally need to draw from MIDNIGHT SUN. I’d only recommend this if you’re already a huge TWILIGHT fan.

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l0rdmomo's review against another edition

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dark funny mysterious tense medium-paced

Plot- or character-driven? Plot
Strong character development? No
Loveable characters? It's complicated
Diverse cast of characters? No
Flaws of characters a main focus? No

3.5

An interesting look at the other (much more informed) side of the story presented in Twilight. I found it more engaging than the original, purely for the depth of information available to the narrator. It doesn't fix the flaws of the original viewpoint (it is, after all, telling the same story) but it does flesh the world around the main characters out and that is what I was here for.

Slightly more nutritious junkfood, but literary junkfood nonetheless.

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mousecat's review against another edition

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dark emotional fast-paced

Plot- or character-driven? Plot
Strong character development? No
Loveable characters? It's complicated
Diverse cast of characters? No
Flaws of characters a main focus? Yes

3.25

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el_wheel's review against another edition

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challenging dark emotional tense medium-paced

Plot- or character-driven? Character
Strong character development? It's complicated
Loveable characters? It's complicated
Diverse cast of characters? It's complicated
Flaws of characters a main focus? Yes

4.0

Is it a bad book? Yeah. Is Twilight terrible as a whole, more so now than when I was younger? Oh yeah. Was Edward insufferable, angsty, and unintentionally hilarious at times? Definitely. Did I still enjoy it? Absolutely.

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startjpw23's review against another edition

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dark emotional slow-paced

Plot- or character-driven? A mix
Strong character development? It's complicated
Loveable characters? It's complicated
Diverse cast of characters? No
Flaws of characters a main focus? Yes

2.0

This book is a Twilight retelling from Edward's perspective. It is told in first person. Edward is a vampire who is part of a vampire family who get their sustenance from animal blood instead of human blood. They are not a family by blood, but by their shared desire to not harm humans. To pass as human, Edward and his sisters and brothers attend a local high school. Early in the book, Bella, a teen girl, moves into town (Forks, Washington) to stay with her father who is the local sheriff. Bella starts as a student at the high school that Edward and his siblings also attend. When Bella joins a class that Edward is in, Edward has a strong reaction to the aroma of Bella's blood. It triggers an intense hunger reflex in him. The story goes on from there. I read and loved the Twilight books and movies when they came out. I recognized that they weren't the most well written books. Despite this, I found them very entertaining. I enjoyed the first half of Midnight Sun fairly well. Then Edward took Bella to a field in the wilderness to show her an aspect of vampires. This part of the story almost put me to sleep. I mean this literally. I had trouble keeping my eyes open. There was so much poorly written dialog. And the dialog kept on going and going. I had difficulty getting through the rest of the book. When Edward and Bella weren't endlessly talking in cringey dialog, we read what Edward was thinking. What he was thinking a lot of the time is what an awful being he was. I can't recall ever reading a character who was as self-loathing as Edward. There is actually a decent story in this book. But there is not 662 pages (the length of the book) of story. The premise of a different type vampires is clever. I liked the characters and their variety, both the vampires and the humans in Edwards and Bella's orbit. The plot is decent. A lot of the dialog and Edwards inner monologue should have been cut out. The other issue is that most people who read this book have previously read Twilight. I knew generally what was going to happen. I can only recommend this book to people who read Twilight recently and liked it. They would be okay with the poor writing. And to people who know nothing of Twilight. There would be a lot of thrills for the second group. They wouldn't know what was going to happen. Perhaps they could overlook the poor writing.

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stindex's review against another edition

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dark

Plot- or character-driven? A mix
Strong character development? No
Loveable characters? No
Diverse cast of characters? No

0.25

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