Reviews tagging 'Blood'

Midnight Sun by Stephenie Meyer

130 reviews

annadelreads's review against another edition

emotional reflective tense slow-paced

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

2.5

“My life was an unending, unchanging midnight. It must, by necessity, always be midnight for me. So how was it possible that the sun was rising now, in the middle of my midnight?“

2023 review:
DNF'ed after sitting around in my Currently Reading space for mooooooonths. I was half-way (?) through and I'm just done. It made me stop reading for a while too ugh. Edwards fucking thinks a lot. That's all I'm gonna say.

2024 review:
It was nice way to end the Twilight saga - by seeing and understanding Edward’s POV. 

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Blood

ecravens's review against another edition

dark emotional funny mysterious medium-paced

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

3.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Body horror, Death, Physical abuse, Violence, Blood, Grief, Medical trauma, Murder, and Injury/Injury detail

sav_22's review against another edition

adventurous mysterious reflective fast-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

3.0

I actually had so much fun with this lol. I found it loads more entertaining than the actual original novels. I doubt this was the intention of Meyers, but this made Edward even more deranged, weird, creepy, which as a result makes him actually more interesting than he ever was before. It’s very fun, especially if you don’t take it seriously and are coming from a place of love-hate for the series. 

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Animal cruelty, Animal death, Body shaming, Bullying, Death, Emotional abuse, Mental illness, Suicidal thoughts, Toxic relationship, Violence, Blood, Medical content, Kidnapping, Stalking, Car accident, Death of parent, Gaslighting, and Injury/Injury detail

boatjo's review against another edition

This just sucked so bad. I tried to sit down with it several times and couldn’t get past a few pages at a time. It’s SO repetitive, and offers almost nothing to the original story except to reiterate how much Edward hates himself. All around not enjoyable to read. 

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Content Warnings

Moderate: Violence and Blood

brandie_abbie19's review against another edition

dark emotional 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

5.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Animal death, Death, Panic attacks/disorders, Rape, Sexual assault, Sexual violence, Violence, Blood, Medical trauma, Stalking, Car accident, Murder, and Injury/Injury detail

Moderate: Suicidal thoughts, Forced institutionalization, Suicide attempt, and Death of parent

crochevy's review against another edition

dark emotional mysterious slow-paced

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

3.0

Great for nostalgic value, but otherwise rather boring. Edward's long thought monologues make the book way longer than it should be.

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Stalking

Moderate: Violence and Blood

darkefyres's review against another edition

emotional slow-paced

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

2.5

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Blood

Moderate: Violence, Fire/Fire injury, and Injury/Injury detail

Minor: Animal death, Confinement, and Death of parent

robertjspradlin's review against another edition

challenging slow-paced

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

1.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Body horror, Gore, Torture, Violence, Blood, Kidnapping, Stalking, Murder, and Injury/Injury detail

Minor: Fire/Fire injury

sydneynorman's review against another edition

dark emotional mysterious 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

4.25

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Blood and Gaslighting

bashsbooks's review against another edition

dark emotional slow-paced

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

2.25

Midnight Sun is not what I would call a great book, but it is a fascinating one. If you can get past all of Edward's self-loathing and inability to do anything right (which is extremely hard), there are a few interesting tidbits to mull over. I think one of my main gripes with the Twilight saga in general is that every now and then Meyer touches on something compelling and then zooms right past it for the angsty romance factors.

1. Edward's relationship to Rosalie is so strange and captivating. He loathes her, but he thinks about her the most out of all his family members. Obviously, Rosalie was Bella's foil in the main series, but I never gave much thought to how that impacted Edward's perspective of her.
2. The deeper depiction and explanations of Alice and Jasper's abilties were cool. 
3. I despise the way Edward's mind-reading is depicted. I think it falls into many of the pitfalls that make me dislike most mind-reading characters. The apathy, the loathing for what people think in the privacy of their own heads, the lack of any personal ethics, the fact that he is not impacted at all beyond annoyance... that's a little too flat and Christian for my mind-reading opinions. That said, there is a great moment where Edward uses Emmett and Jasper's minds as his rearview mirrors. This is the ONLY good thing Meyer wrote about Edward's mind-reading.

But those things aside, this book is a slog. Edward's angst is overwrought and hard to read. Add in the Cullens' holier-than-thou vibes and it's just. none of the fun that vampires usually are.

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Toxic relationship, Violence, Blood, Medical content, Grief, Stalking, and Injury/Injury detail

Moderate: Gore, Racism, Murder, and Cultural appropriation

Minor: Cursing, Drug use, Pedophilia, Rape, Kidnapping, and Fire/Fire injury

-Racism & cultural appropriation tags are more about how fucked up Meyer's portrayal of the Quileute Tribe than anything that happens in-book (though Edward is hostile toward them).