Reviews tagging 'Stalking'

Midnight Sun by Stephenie Meyer

72 reviews

hbella's review against another edition

emotional reflective slow-paced

3.5

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Content Warnings

Moderate: Stalking and Blood

Minor: Medical content

things100's review against another edition

adventurous dark emotional mysterious tense 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? Yes

4.75

Loved how this book is clearly made for Stephanie’s grown up fans and how it fills in some of the plot questions from the first movie. I loved Edwards perspective almost made me reread the entire series

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Blood, Body horror, Gore, Injury/Injury detail, Medical content, and Violence

Moderate: Stalking and Torture

bethaniesherwood's review against another edition

dark 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? Yes

1.75

The concept here seemed intriguing. Most of my interest stemmed from defining everyone’s powers and the theory that this story line might be better from the POV of a character with personality. Somehow it still missed the mark. I’ve heard a lot of people giving Meyers grief because of the long, drawn out inner monologue of Edward Collin. Personally I liked this (with some exceptions) but even this still somehow didn’t play into the plot or do much character building, which was a missed opportunity to say the least. 

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Stalking, Domestic abuse, and Murder

Vampirism; lust; infatuation

beereads27's review against another edition

Boring. Not worth it. 

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Content Warnings

Moderate: Stalking, Gaslighting, and Blood

megselyane's review against another edition

challenging tense 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

2.75

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Toxic relationship, Blood, Sexism, Stalking, Torture, Toxic friendship, Violence, Animal death, Car accident, Injury/Injury detail, and Suicidal thoughts

Moderate: Abandonment, Adult/minor relationship, Cultural appropriation, Death, Emotional abuse, Gaslighting, Kidnapping, Racism, Medical trauma, and Medical content

Minor: Bullying, Fatphobia, Suicide attempt, Ableism, and Addiction

trinidaddy's review against another edition

It was twice as long as Twilight where Edward had nothing substantial to say to accommodate that length. Edward rambles and says the same thing within pages as a narrator. A lot could have been cut from this book for it to make sense. Plus Edward is a creep. The end.

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Stalking and Racism

meibles's review against another edition

slow-paced

• Diverse cast of characters? No
• Flaws of characters a main focus? Yes

I hate Edward and this didn't help.

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Blood and Stalking

Moderate: Rape and Sexual assault

refrejarator's review against another edition

dark mysterious sad slow-paced

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

2.75

Edward is so boring and angsty, at first it was great because it was a much darker read than Twilight, but it got old very quickly. It was a very slow read up until the final few chapters, where a lot happens at once. 

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Content Warnings

Minor: Colonisation, Death, Murder, Rape, Stalking, Medical content, Sexual harassment, Torture, Blood, Violence, Animal death, and Child death

ahopper7's review against another edition

adventurous medium-paced

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

3.5

I have zero shame in saying that I’ve been a Twilight fan since day one. Although I don’t love Stephanie’s writing style, the story has its own magic that I’ve always loved. When the original series was first out, and this book was leaked and then all the drama about Stephanie not finishing it, I was so bummed. So when this was released, I was so excited. But honestly I think I could have done without it.

Edwards perspective just made the dynamic with him and Bella weird for me. And comparing this to more recent YA books over the last couple of years, it’s so obvious how screwed up their relationship is in versus when I read the original series so many years ago. With that said, overall, as such a big fan of the original series and the movies, this was a nice nostalgic read for me. And my favorite part was seeing Alice’s vision through Edward, I could honestly read a whole sub-series of just Alice, she was always my favorite character. 

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Death, Animal death, and Medical content

Minor: Stalking and Suicidal thoughts

wallflovver's review against another edition

reflective tense

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

3.0

i really enjoyed getting the extra lore, history and scenes missed out in bella's account.

edward's relationship with the olympic coven is by far the biggest seller on this book for me

the biggest drawback is the insanely slow pace, i don't see myself reading this a second time and im a big rereader! this book took so long to get through. 

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Stalking, Injury/Injury detail, Violence, Blood, Death, and Gore

Minor: Gaslighting and Medical content