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3.52 AVERAGE
3.52 AVERAGE
relaxing
sad
medium-paced
SIMPLEMENTE, ERA NECESARIOOOOO, leer toda la perspectiva de Edwar fue magnífico, no me intereso la escritura o la narrativa que le diera la escritora, simplemente lo necesitaba.
adventurous
dark
emotional
funny
hopeful
relaxing
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
I think it's time for me to officially let go of the Twilight series. While this series may have served its purpose while I was a college student in the middle of finals, it is no longer serving me as a thirty-something mom of two.
I honestly just don’t care to hear the story from Edward’s perspective. I found him to be melodramatic, and the writing was long-winded and repetitive. I am unabashedly Team Edward (come at me!), but I feel like if I continue I will end up on Team Nobody. Plus, I found that as I got increasingly annoyed, the narrative reading voice in my head sounded more and more like a cross between a bad soap opera actor and a stereotypical emo kid and I was starting to annoy myself.
I honestly just don’t care to hear the story from Edward’s perspective. I found him to be melodramatic, and the writing was long-winded and repetitive. I am unabashedly Team Edward (come at me!), but I feel like if I continue I will end up on Team Nobody. Plus, I found that as I got increasingly annoyed, the narrative reading voice in my head sounded more and more like a cross between a bad soap opera actor and a stereotypical emo kid and I was starting to annoy myself.
I realized I don't have it in me to reread such a dense book rn. Also probably shouldn't have watched the movie before starting this lol.
I'm off to read another book with vampires in it!
I'm off to read another book with vampires in it!
dark
mysterious
medium-paced
Plot or Character Driven:
Plot
Strong character development:
No
Loveable characters:
Yes
Diverse cast of characters:
No
Flaws of characters a main focus:
No
I’m giving this book 5 stars for nostalgia’s sake. It is a solid 4 stars, but there was something so remarkably comforting about this book. Like putting on an old, soft favorite sweater, going back to Forks was just what I needed during this unprecedented time of confusion, uncertainty and solitude.
I was so proud of Stephanie for completing this book. It was a painful reminder of intimate betrayal, but she turned it around and made it a victory, that takes real bravery.
I did read the pages of Midnight Sun that she released so many years ago and loved Edward’s POV.
Let me tell you, I was the hardest Twi-hard you had ever met. These books sparked a transition resulting in a hunger for better in my life. It also created great resilience in my children who had to fend for themselves when I would spend hours inhaling the latest Twilight book!
I remember feeling like I was dropped on some alien planet in a strange time when I would surface from reading one of the books. I would find myself blinking and looking around trying to reorient myself to the present place and time- the real world as it were.
Stephanie is not a sophisticated or complicated writer. She doesn’t ponder the deepest thoughts of man nor delve into the meaning of life. But, she is a hell of a storyteller.
I find her books highly readable others call that page-turning or a quick read. Well, if you want to call 600 pages a quick read! We all know 200 pages can feel like an eternity with the wrong author, but 600 in the hands of an expert storyteller like Stephanie feels like a whisper.
So, back to Forks I went. Perhaps I have grown as a reader- it has been a long time since I’ve spent time with these characters or maybe it was because it was a retelling of a story I’d already read many, many times, but at times I felt being inside of Edward’s head a little tedious. There were pages that seemed a repetition of the same thoughts and frankly I shut the book because the fixation on Bella was just becoming a bit one-note and more than just a little neurotic. But, that is who this character is- Edward is obsessive and neurotic and I appreciated that Stephanie did not try to mask it or romanticize it. I rather enjoyed not loving everything about Edward. This book pulled back the layers of his character and we were able to see him through a lens very different from Bella’s dreamy, rose-colored perfection.
But, and here is a big BUT, rehearing the story through Edward’s experience lent so much understanding to the story- all of the story- all 4 books. There were times when I stopped and really let what I read swivel around my mind a bit as it deepened or illuminated parts of the story in a way I had never thought about.
Stephanie also did a fabulous job of revealing more about the characters in this book. I found that I really enjoyed experiencing people through Edward’s ability to hear everyone’s, sans Bella’s, thoughts.
Even though it was a re-telling of the story of Twilight and Stephanie quite expertly brought us back to the warm familiar, she also infused it with new revelations that created more depth to the story and the characters.
Midnight Sun stands on its own as the 5th book in this series and I won’t lie to you, if she writes the other three from another POV- Edward’s or otherwise, I will be more than happy to pack my bags and buy a ticket back to Forks.
I was so proud of Stephanie for completing this book. It was a painful reminder of intimate betrayal, but she turned it around and made it a victory, that takes real bravery.
I did read the pages of Midnight Sun that she released so many years ago and loved Edward’s POV.
Let me tell you, I was the hardest Twi-hard you had ever met. These books sparked a transition resulting in a hunger for better in my life. It also created great resilience in my children who had to fend for themselves when I would spend hours inhaling the latest Twilight book!
I remember feeling like I was dropped on some alien planet in a strange time when I would surface from reading one of the books. I would find myself blinking and looking around trying to reorient myself to the present place and time- the real world as it were.
Stephanie is not a sophisticated or complicated writer. She doesn’t ponder the deepest thoughts of man nor delve into the meaning of life. But, she is a hell of a storyteller.
I find her books highly readable others call that page-turning or a quick read. Well, if you want to call 600 pages a quick read! We all know 200 pages can feel like an eternity with the wrong author, but 600 in the hands of an expert storyteller like Stephanie feels like a whisper.
So, back to Forks I went. Perhaps I have grown as a reader- it has been a long time since I’ve spent time with these characters or maybe it was because it was a retelling of a story I’d already read many, many times, but at times I felt being inside of Edward’s head a little tedious. There were pages that seemed a repetition of the same thoughts and frankly I shut the book because the fixation on Bella was just becoming a bit one-note and more than just a little neurotic. But, that is who this character is- Edward is obsessive and neurotic and I appreciated that Stephanie did not try to mask it or romanticize it. I rather enjoyed not loving everything about Edward. This book pulled back the layers of his character and we were able to see him through a lens very different from Bella’s dreamy, rose-colored perfection.
But, and here is a big BUT, rehearing the story through Edward’s experience lent so much understanding to the story- all of the story- all 4 books. There were times when I stopped and really let what I read swivel around my mind a bit as it deepened or illuminated parts of the story in a way I had never thought about.
Stephanie also did a fabulous job of revealing more about the characters in this book. I found that I really enjoyed experiencing people through Edward’s ability to hear everyone’s, sans Bella’s, thoughts.
Even though it was a re-telling of the story of Twilight and Stephanie quite expertly brought us back to the warm familiar, she also infused it with new revelations that created more depth to the story and the characters.
Midnight Sun stands on its own as the 5th book in this series and I won’t lie to you, if she writes the other three from another POV- Edward’s or otherwise, I will be more than happy to pack my bags and buy a ticket back to Forks.
my suffering has finally been eased :’-) let me be clear: I only read this book for a book club where the sole motivation was being a hater